CURRICULUM VITAE

C. C. Nenkov

Personal Details

Name :Constantine Christov Nenkov

Contact Address : Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

c/o 177 Chemistry-Physics Building University of Kentucky Lexington, KY. 40506-0055 U S A Home Address: Greg Page Stadium View 294 Commonwealth Dr. Lexington, KY 40503 U S A Telephone : (606) 257-6722 (work) (606) 323-3972 (home) E-mail : nenkov@pa.uky.edu (Internet) WWW-page : http://www.pa.uky.edu/~nenkov/index.html Academic Record: September 91 - Present Research work towards Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physics at the University of Kentucky (approximate date of completion first half of 1998). Field of specializitaion -- Lattice Gauge Theory with strong background in Numerical Methods and Software Engineering. September 82 - July 84 Research work towards M.S. degree in physics with specialization in Meteorology at Sofia University - Bulgaria. September 78 - July 82 Study towards BS degree in physics at Sofia University - Bulgaria; finished with Honor class. Honors and Societies: (1991-1992) Fulbright Fellowship, USA American Physical Society member since 1993 Work Experience: June 92 - August 94, June 96 - Present Research Assistant at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky - specializing in lattice gauge calculations in quantum field theory. Experience with various numerical techniques including Monte Carlo methods, Wavelets and Spectral Decomposition. Work in computational fluid dynamics. Recent work involve ``The Package System'' -- an object oriented design for Lattice Gauge Calculations. September 94 - May 96 Teaching Assistant at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky - teaching recitation of PHY 231-232 (General University Physics for Scientists and Engineers) October 88 - June 91 Research Associate at the Department of Dynamics of the Atmosphere -- Geophysical Instutute/Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Developed a hydrodynamical code in FORTRAN for short-term weather prediction. Worked on IBM 4381 mainframe. Experience with various numerical techniques for solving systems of partial and ordinary differential equations, as well as spectral methods for eigenvalue problems. September 84 - September 88 Research Associate at the Department of Radar and Laser Location of the Environment -- Institute of Electronics/Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Worked involved spectral analysis and modeling of digitized time-series from radar and laser imaging. Statistical Techniques for improving Signal/Noise ratio were the focal point of this research. Experience in electromagnetic wave propagation in random and turbulent media with emphasis on the Earth's atmosphere. Computer Skills: Operating Systems: Windows 95\NT, UNIX, PC-DOS, VM, VMS, MVS, TSO Programming Languages: FORTRAN 90, C\C++, Perl, Visual Basic, DELPHI(Pascal), CANOPY Symbolic Manipulators: Mathematica, MAPLE Text Formatting: LaTeX, AMSTeX, TeX, HTML Web Browsers: Mosaic, Netscape, MS-Explorer Integrated Systems: MS Office, Perfect Office, Sigma Plot Development Environments: MS Developer Studio, MetroWerks CodeWorrior Internet: TCP/IP, Apple Talk Others: Text editors for different platforms (UNIX, PC, Macintosh, VM, MVS), PC-software, Macintosh-software Computer Platforms: DEC, HP, Sun, SGi and IBM6000 workstations; IBM, Convex and Cray mainframe supercomputers Software Development Experience: 10 years of scientific software development in FORTRAN (VMS, JCL, TSO, VM, UNIX and IBM PC environments) 5 years experience in UNIX scientific software development for mainframes using C, Shell scripting and Perl. experience using MS Visual C++ and MFC, as well as MetroWerks CodeWarrior and PowerPlant knowledge of networking protocols like TCP/IP and AppleTalk Programming experience on the CRAY-C90 and CRAY-T3E at Livermore writing codes in Fortran90 and C\C++ Working on parallelizable code for Convex-Exemplar (SPP1200/XA) utilizing the CANOPY programmming environment Visual printer management system for Apple Talk Scientific Software Projects: Lattice calculation of heavy mesons masses (94-95) Nonrelativistic QCD potential model (96) Lattice calculation of glueball matrix elements (97-present) Other Relevant Experience: Presented a talk at the Center for Computational Sciences of the University of Kentucky; Title: ``Monte-Carlo algorithms for Lattice Gauge Calculations.'' Presented a talk at the Center for Computational Sciences of the University of Kentucky; Title: ``NRQCD Approach for Modeling Heavy Meson Physics on the lattice.'' Programming experience on the CRAY-C90 and CRAY-2 at Livermore, writing Hybrid Monte-Carlo and quenched configuration generation code in CRAY-Fortran. Programming in Fortran and C\C++ on UNIX workstations. Working on parallelizable code for Convex-Exemplar (SPP1200/XA) utilizing the CANOPY programmming environment. Conferences, Schools and Workshop Attended: LATTICE 97 - International Conference on Lattice Gauge Calculations; University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK July 21-27, 1997 LATTICE 96 - International Conference on Lattice Gauge Calculations; Washington University, St. Louis Missouri USA, June 4-8, 1996. Workshop on Large Scale Matrix Computations and Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD); Iniversity of Kentucky, Lexington USA, August 31-September 2, 1995. Graduate Parallel Programming Course; Argonne National Laboratory, July 1993. Publications: ``Glueball matrix elements on anisotropic lattices'': S.J. Dong, T. Draper, W.C. Kuo, K.F. Liu, C. Nenkov, M. Peardon, J. Sloan, and B.L. Young. hep-lat/9709160 to appear in Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) ``SU(3) Lattice Gauge Autocorrelations with Anisotropic Action'': Terrence Draper, Constantine Nenkov, Mike Peardon. Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 53, 997 (1997). ``NRQCD and Static Systems - A General Variational Approach'': Terrence Draper, Craig McNeile and Constantine Nenkov. Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 42, 325 (1995). ``Short Term Weather Prediction with Filtered Equations'': Nikola Godev and Constantine Nenkov. Bulgarian Geophysical Journal, 29, 42 (1990). ``Signal to Noise Improvement in Ground-based Lidar Observations'': Ivan Kolev, Christo Stoyanov and Constantine Nenkov. Bulgarian Geophysical Journal, 27, 37 (1988). References: Prof. Terrence Draper Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0055 phone: (606) 257-3413. Prof. Keh Fei Liu Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0055 phone: (606) 257-4849. Prof. Alfred Shapere Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0055 phone: (606) 257-8896. Prof. James McDonough Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0108 phone: (606) 257-5164. Prof. John Sloan Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506-0055 phone: (606) 257-6733. About this document ... Next: About this document Constantine Nenkov Tue Nov 11 10:06:42 EST 1997