Dr. Florin Felix NICHITA

Address:

• Institute of Mathematics "Simion Stoilow" of the Romanian Academy
  P.O. Box 1-764, RO-70700, Bucharest, ROMANIA

Current Institutional Affiliation:

• Institute of Mathematics "Simion Stoilow" of the Romanian Academy (IMAR)

Primary Interests:

• Quantum Groups, Hopf Algebras and Yang-Baxter equations
• Topology
• Non-commutative Geometry

Education:

• 1994 - 2000: graduate student, Mathematics Department, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.
* My Ph. D. Thesis: Non-linear Equations, Quantum Groups and Duality Theorems, under scientific supervision of Prof. Dr. Samuel D. Schack.
• 1989 - 1994: undergraduate student, Mathematics Department, University of Bucharest, Romania.
* My License Thesis: Hopf-Galois Extensions, under scientific supervision of Prof. Dr. Constantin Nastasescu.
• 1984 - 1988: High-School "Mihai Viteazul", Ploiesti, Romania.

Employment:

• 2006 - present: Scientific Researcher II, Institute of Mathematics "Simion Stoilow" of the Romanian Academy (IMAR researcher since 1998).
• 2006 - 2008: Assistant Professor / Associate Professor, Mathematics Department, American University of Kuwait.
• 2005 - 2006: Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, Petroleum-Gas University from Ploiesti, Romania.
• 2003 - 2005: Marie Curie Research Fellow, Mathematics Department, University of Wales Swansea, UK.
• 2000 - 2002: Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA.
• 1994 - 2000: Teaching Assistant / Lector, Mathematics Department, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.

Selected Talks, Posters & Conferences:

• National Conference on Theoretical Physics, NCTP 2010 - fourth edition, June 23-25, 2010, Iasi, Romania.
• Understanding Intelligent and Complex Systems, Petru Maior University, Targu Mures, Romania, 22 - 23 October 2009.
• Swansea University, 8 October 2009, Swansea, UK.
• CNF 2008, Bucuresti - Magurele, 10 - 13 September 2008.
• The Third National Conference on Theoretical Physics, Busteni, 10 - 13 June 2008.
• 6-th Congress of Romanian Mathematicians, Section 1B: Algebra, Bucharest, 28 June - 4 July, 2007.
• Trends in Non-commutative Geometry, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK, 18 - 22 December 2006.
• Mathematics Colloquium, Gregynog, UK, May 23 - 25, 2005.
• University of Wales, Swansea, UK, February 22, 2005.
• American Mathematical Society meeting # 1003, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, January 5 - 8, 2005.
• Workshop on Hopf Algebras, University of Wales, Swansea, UK, June 24 - 26, 2004.
• UNESCO, Bucharest, November 2002.
• ICTAMI, "1 Decembrie 1918" University, Alba Iulia, Romania, October 2002 & September 2005.
• University of Notre Dame, USA, March 2002.
• IMAR, Bucharest, July 2001.
• SUNY New Paltz, USA, March 2001 & April 2002.
• American Mathematical Society meeting # 943, SUNY Buffalo, USA, April 24 - 25, 1999.
• Sigma - Xi 1998, Student Poster Competition, SUNY Buffalo, April 1998.

Selected Refereeing Activity:

• Communications in Algebra
• Journal of Linear Algebra and Its Applications
• Axioms
• Symmetry

Some Selected Papers:

• Hopf Algebras, Quantum Groups and Yang-Baxter Equations, Special Issue reprint book, (http://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1119), ISBN 978-3-03897-324-9 (Pbk); ISBN 978-3-03897-325-6 (PDF) https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-03897-325-6, 2019, 238 pages.
• Unification Theories: Examples and Applications. Axioms 2018, 7, 85.
• Open problems in geometry, Encyclopedia, MDPI, https://encyclopedia.pub/64
• Poezie si Matematica. Nichita Stanescu si Solomon Marcus. Intalniri / Poetry and Mathematics. Nichita Stanescu and Solomon Marcus. Meetings, Caiete Critice, 3 / 2018, 23--26.
• On the (Colored) Yang-Baxter Equation, BRAIN. Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience, ISSN 2067-3957, Volume 1, July 2010, 33 - 39 (with David Hobby and Barna Laszlo Iantovics).
• Inequalities and elements of sequences theory (in Romanian), Mathematical Gazette, Series A, No. 3 / 2009, 214-216 (with Petru Ivanescu).
• Knowledge-Based Mobile Agents, Proceedings of the International Conference "European Integration between Tradition and Modernity", 3-rd edition, 22-23 October 2009, Petru Maior University Press, Targu Mures, 2009, ISSN 1844-2048, 1061-1069 (with David Hobby and Barna Laszlo Iantovics).
• Entwined Bicomplexes, IMAR preprint nr. 6 / 2009; Bulletin Mathematique de la Societe des Sciences Mathematiques de Roumanie, Tome 52(100), No. 2, 2009, 161-176 (with Calin Popescu).
• Coloured bialgebras and nonlinear equations, Proceedings of the Sixth Congress of Romanian Mathematicians, Bucharest, 2007, Editura Academiei Publishing House, vol. 1, 65-70, 2009 (with Deepak Parashar).
• Some results on the Yang-Baxter equations and applications, IMAR preprint nr. 11 / 2008; Romanian Journal of Physics, Volume 53, Number 9-10, 2008, 1177-1182 (with Bogdan P. Popovici).
• New constructions of Yang-Baxter systems, AMS Contemporary Mathematics 442 (2007), 193-200 (with Deepak Parashar).
• On some remarkable limits of functions (in Romanian), Mathematical Gazette, Series B, No. 1 / 2007, 2-6.
• Spectral-parameter dependent Yang-Baxter operators and Yang-Baxter systems from algebra structures, Communications in Algebra, vol. 34(8), 2713-2726, 2006 (with Deepak Parashar).
• New solutions for Yang-Baxter systems, Acta Universitatis Apulensis, No. 11 / 2006, 189-195.
• Yang-Baxter systems and entwined structures, Communications in Algebra, vol. 33(4), 1083-1093, 2005 (with Tomasz Brzezinski).
• Yang-Baxter operators derived from algebra structures and the Alexander polynomial of knots, Communications in Algebra, vol. 33(7), 2375-2385, 2005 (with Gwenael Massuyeau).
• The duality between algebras and coalgebras, Ann. Univ. Ferrara - Sez. VII - Sc. Mat., vol. LI, 173-181, 2005 (with Samuel D. Schack).
• An extension for the Stone duality in the finite case, Bulletin of the Petroleum-Gas University from Ploiesti, No. 1 / 2005, 39-41 (with David M. Clark).
• On The Set-Theoretical Yang-Baxter Equation, Acta Universitatis Apulensis, No. 5 / 2003, 97-100.
• Some Problems On Combinational Logical Circuits, Acta Universitatis Apulensis, No. 4 / 2002, 139-144 (with Ion M. Nichita).
• Non-linear Equation, Quantum Groups and Duality Theorems, Ph.D. Thesis, SUNY at Buffalo (2001); VDM Verlag, 2009.
• Self-Inverse Yang-Baxter Operators from (Co)Algebra Structures, Journal of Algebra 218, 738-759 (1999).
• Yang-Baxter Operators Arising from (Co)Algebra Structures, Communications in Algebra, Vol. 27 (12), 5833-5845 (1999) (with Sorin Dascalescu).