I am Ivan Christov (the one whom this web page is dedicated to). I have created this web page as a small expo of myself; it contains my C.V., some projects, and other random bits of information that characterize me. Feel free to browse through the pages using the menu on the left and leave me any comments you may deem necessary.

I am originally from Bulgaria but I moved to the United States over a decade ago. I completed my bachelor's degree (S.B.) in (applied) mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, then, my master's degree (M.S.) in mathematics at Texas A&M University. Currently, I am a graduate student, pursuing a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in applied mathematics, at Northwestern University. I am studying mixing and segregation of granular matter in The Laboratory for Complex Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics in Fluids and Granular Materials, at the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, under the supervision of Profs. J.M. Ottino and R.M. Lueptow.

More generally, my research interests lie in mechanics of nonlinear continua and complex systems. At the forefront of my current work are the theory of dynamical systems and deterministic chaos as applied to the latter. Another large part of my scientifict research has focused on computational fluid dynamics and nonlinear waves (in particular, the physics and numerical simulation of shock formation in fluids, solitons & their particle-like interactions and nonlinear Fourier analysis) and numerical analysis (in particular, Godunov-type finite volume schemes for conservation laws with applications to reservoir simulation and wavelet-Galerkin methods for nonlinear partial differential equations). Some other areas I have also dabbled are wavelet methods in image processing, classical mechanics and control theory, amongst other things.

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