Nikola Petrov

Nancy Hester Presidential Professor
and Chair of Mathematics

Department of Mathematics
University of Oklahoma
601 Elm Avenue
Norman, OK 73019-0315

Office: 1101 PHSC
E-mail: npetrov AT ou.edu

MATH 4163 (Introduction to Partial Differential Equations)
MWF 10:00-10:50 am, PHSC 404

Ph.D., Physics, University of Texas, Austin (2002)
M.A., Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin (2002)
Diploma, Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics, University of Sofia, Bulgaria (1990)

Department Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, Norman (8/2020-present)
Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, Norman (8/2014-present)
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, Norman (8/2009-7/2014)
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, Norman (8/2005-7/2009)
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (9/2002-8/2005)
Postdoctoral Associate, Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (9/2003-8/2005)
Affiliate, Modeling, Algorithms and Informatics Group (CCS-3), Los Alamos National Laboratory, (6/2002-8/2002)
Research Assistant, Space and Remote Sensing Sciences Group (NIS-2), Los Alamos National Laboratory, (5/2001-8/2001)
Lecturer, Experimental Technological School for Electronic Systems, Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria (9/1993-8/1995)
Lecturer (part-time), Department of Physics, University of Sofia, Bulgaria (9/1989-5/1995)

Dynamical systems and their applications to physics.
Applications of differential geometry to physics.
Numerical applications of harmonic analysis techniques to multiscale properties of functions.
Fluid dynamics, turbulence.
Applied stochastic processes.