Dr. Barbara Zubik-Kowal is an Associate Professor with the Department of Mathematics. Dr. Zubik-Kowal earned her Ph.D. from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, in 1996. Since coming to Boise State in 2002, Dr. Zubik-Kowal has been active in teaching, research, and serving both the University and the larger mathematics discipline. Her activities have included serving on the Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed journal, Scholarpedia: Numerical Analysis Category. Dr. Barbara Zubik-Kowal is an author of 34 papers in the applied mathematics field. Her research results have been also presented at more than 18 international conferences and congresses. In May 2009, Dr. Zubik-Kowal was invited to speak in Beijing, China, at the International Conference on Scientific Computation and Differential Equations, SciCADE09 International Conference. In addition to teaching a variety of math courses, Dr. Zubik-Kowal has also presented several student seminars. Her most recent presentation was for the Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, titled: Parallel Algorithms for Functional Differential Equations. Below are papers for which the publisher's agreement was granted.
Articles
Finite-Difference and Pseudo-Sprectral Methods for the Numerical Simulations of In Vitro Human Tumor Cell Population Kinetics (with Z. Jackiewicz and B. Basse), Mathematics Faculty Publications and Presentations (2009)
Pseudo-spectral approximations are constructed for the model equations which describe the population kinetics of human...
Discrete Variable Methods for Delay-Differential Equations with Threshold-Type Delays (with Z. Jackiewicz), Mathematics Faculty Publications and Presentations (2009)
We study numerical solution of systems of delay-differential equations in which the delay function, which...
Delay partial differential equations, Mathematics Faculty Publications and Presentations (2008)
A delay partial differential equation (DPDE) is an equation which involves: (1) at least two...