Mathematics Deparment

Professor Constantin P. Niculescu

Date of birth: September 21, 1947

Place of birth: Targoviste, Romania

Citizenship: Romanian

Education:

Present position:

  • Professor of Mathematics at the University of Craiova
  • Director, Doctoral School in Mathematics
  • Director, Centre for Nonlinear Analysis and its Applications www.cnaa.ucv.ro
  • Member, National University Research Council’s Committee on Mathematics  and Natural Sciences, http://www.cncsis.ro/comisia_1.php
  • Member, C.N.A.T.D.C.U.’s Committee on Mathematics, http://www.edu.ro/

Experience:

I am currently teaching Advanced Calculus and Convexity and Optimization, but over the years I also gave courses on Chaotic Dynamical Systems, Applied Functional Analysis, as well as on special topics in Operator Theory and Operator Algebras. I am conducting the Doctoral School in Applied Mathematics at University of Craiova and the research activity of the Centre for Nonlinear Analysis and its Applications. Fifteen students got their Ph.D. under my direction. Since 1985, I am conducting also a teaching problem-solving skills seminar for explorations in heuristics.

Research interest:

  • Convexity
  • Ergodic Theory
  • Dynamical Systems

Distinctions. Honors. Awards

  • 1980 -  Prize Gheorghe Lazar of Romanian Academy of Sciences for research in Banach Space Theory
  • 1998 - Prize Simion Stoilov of Romanian Academy of Sciences for the book: Fundamentals of Mathematical Analysis, 1. Analysis on the real line, Ed.  Academiei, Bucharest, 1996
  • 2000 - JIPAM Prize for the paper A new look at Newton's Inequality, published  in Journal of Inequalities in Pure and Applied Mathematics, 1 (2000), article 17

Committees & Professional memberships

    Editorial Board:

    Mat. Inequal. Appl., PanAmerican Math. Journal, Mathematica Balkanica, Mathematical Reports, Journal of Inequalities in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Bull. Soc. Sci. Math. Roum., Analele Universitatii din Craiova (seria matematica-informatica), Creative Math., Gazeta Matematica seria A.

    Member:

    Romanian Mathematical Society. Functional Analysis Board of Romanian Academy, American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Association of America, European Mathematical Society, Soc. Math. Appl. et Industrielle (SMAI, France) and  MASSEE (Math. Soc. of Southern-East Europe)

    Member of the organizing committee:

    Symposium on Functional Analysis and its Applications (Craiova, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1986, 1989), Colloquium on Topological Linear Ordered Spaces (1980, 1981,...., 2001), Workshop on Dynamical Systems (Craiova, October 18-19, 1997), The National Conference on Mathematical Analysis and Applications  (Craiova, 1998, 2001 and 2005), Analysis and control of Differential Systems (Constanta, August 10-15, 1998), 5eme Colloque Franco-Roumaine de Mathematiques Appliquees (Constanta, August 28-Septembre 1, 2000), The Mathematical Year 2000 (Craiova), Inequalities 2001 (Timisoara, 9-14 iulie 2001), Special Session on Inequalities (7eme Colloque Franco-Roumaine de Mathematiques Appliquees (Craiova, 2004)).

    Invited lectures:

    Colloque Franco-Roumain "Interactions entre Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées" Paris, Ecole Normale Superieure, May 2-6, 1994; International Conference on Applied Analysis in the Aegean Archipelagos, July 4-9, 1996, Karlovassi, Samos, Greece; Hebrew University, Jerusalem, November 20-27, 1998; University of Pretoria, May 15-July 4, 1999; The Annual Conference of the Romanian Mathematical Society (Constanta 2000, Brasov 2001, Bistrita 2003); Inequalities 2001, Timisoara, July 9-14, 2001; General Inequalities 8, Nosvaj, September 15-21, 2002; The 6th National Conference on Analysis and its Applications, Cluj-Napoca, November 8-9, 2002; Karlstad University and Uppsala University, November 2003; Cankaya University of Ankara, April 2004; City University of London, May 2004, School of Mathematical Sciences, Lahore, November 2006.

    I also participated to International Congress of Mathematicians, Warszawa 1982 and to International Congress of Mathematicians, Zürich 1994

Monographs:

  1. An Introduction to Banach Space Theory, Ed. Academiei, Bucharest, 1981, 240 pp. (In collab. with N.    Popa) (Romanian)

  2. Fundamentals of Mathematical Analysis, vol.1: Analysis on the real line, Ed. Academiei, Bucharest,1996, 502 pp. ISBN 973-27-0457-8. (Romanian)

  3. Mathematical Analysis on the Real Line.A Contemporary Approach. Universitaria Press, Craiova, 2001. Second ed., 2002. x + 277 pp. ISBN 973-8043-154-4. (Romanian)

  4. The Integral Calculus in Several Variables. Theory and Applications. Universitaria Press, Craiova, 2002. viii + 221 pp. ISBN 973-8043-155-5. (Romanian)

  5. Chaotic Dynamical Systems. An Introduction. Universitaria Press, Craiova, 2002. xvi + 239 pp. ISBN 973-8043-159-9. (In collab. with Marian Gidea)

  6. Convex Functions. Basic Theory and Applications. Universitaria Press, Craiova, 2003. xiv + 185 pp.         ISBN 973-8043-159-9. (In collab. with Lars- Erik Persson)

  7. An Introduction to Mathematical Analysis, Universitaria Press, Craiova, 2005. xii + 348 pp. ISBN 973-742-138-8.

  8. Convex Functions and their Applications. A Contemporary Approach. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2006. xvi + 256 pp. ISBN 0-387-24300-3 (In collaboration with Lars-Erik Persson)

Proceedings:

  1. Mathematical Analysis and Applications, AIP Conference Proceedings Volume 835, pp. 48-57, American Institute of Physics, Melville, New York, 2006 (V. D. Rădulescu and C. P. Niculescu, Editors). ISBN 0-7354-0328-7, http://www.springer.com/dal/home/generic/search/results?SGWID=1-40109-22-173663783-0

Last update: April 2009| Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science