Updated: July 2009
- Personal
- Education
- Academic Experience
- Visiting Positions
- Activities at The Open University of Israel
- Other Professional Activities
- Journal Referee
- Major Conference Presentations
- List of Publications
- Associate Editor, Computational Methods and Function Theory (2001- )
- Referee of M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses in Mathematics
- Referee for BSF (United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation) research proposals
- Journal of Approximation Theory
- Constructive Approximation
- Journal d'Analyse Mathematique
- Numerische Mathematik
- SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis
- Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
- Real Analysis
- Journal of Numerical Analysis, Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Personal
Tel: 972-9-778-1429
Fax: 972-9-778-2631
E-mail: elile@openu.ac.il
Education
| 1966 | M.Sc., Mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Moscow State University |
| 1970 |
Ph.D., Mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Moscow State University. Dissertation: Approximation by Rational Functions in the Complex Plane Supervisor: Prof. V.M. Tikhomirov |
Academic Experience
| 1966-1970 | Assistant, Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Moscow State University. |
| 1970-1973 | Senior Researcher, Optimization Department, Institute for Development of Medical Equipment, Moscow. |
| 1973-1979 | Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Israel Institute of Technology - Technion, Haifa. |
| 1979-1986 | Senior Lecturer, Mathematics Division, The Open University of Israel. |
| 1986-2000 | Associate Professor, Mathematics Division, The Open University of Israel. |
| 2001- | Professor, Mathematics Division, The Open University of Israel |
Visiting Positions
| Visiting Scientist, National Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, CSIR, Pretoria, 1984, 1987 |
| Visiting Researcher, University of South Florida, Tampa, 1986 |
| Adjunct Professor, University of South Florida, Tampa, 1989, 1992, 1996, 2000 |
| Visiting Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 |
| Visiting Professor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 2005 |
Activities at The Open University of Israel
Participation in the Writing of Academic Courses
| Calculus II, 1978-1979 |
| Linear Algebra, 1979-1980, Head of development team |
| Differential Equations, 1980-1981, Head of development team |
| Linear Algebra II, 1981-1982 |
| Calculus I (unit on Methods of Integration), 1983 |
| Calculus III, 1983 |
| Complex Analysis, 1983-1985, Head of development team |
| Measure Theory, 1998-2001 |
| Functional Analysis, 2003-2006, Head of development team |
Supervision of Special Courses and Seminar Papers (1985-present)
Administrative Activities
| Chair, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (2001-2006) |
| Member of the Subcommittee for Mathematics (1979-present, Head of the Committee since 1988) |
| Member of the Study Program Approval Committee (1981-1983, 1988-present) |
| Member of the Senate (1982-1983, 1986-present) |
| Member of the Accreditation Committee (1980-1981, 1983, Head of the Committee 1986-1988) |
Other Professional Activities
Journal Referee
Major Conference Presentations
| Fifth International Symposium on Approximation Theory, Texas A&M University, January 1986 |
| Constructive Function Theory - 86, Edmonton, July 1986 |
| International Conference on Constructive Theory of Functions, Varna, May 1987 |
| Fourth Meeting on Constructive Methods in Complex Analysis, Oberwolfach, August 1987 |
| Constructive Approximation Theory and Application, joint US-Israel Workshop, Jerusalem, May 1988 |
| US-USSR Conference on Approximation Theory, Tampa, FL, March 1990 (main speaker) |
| International Conference on Approximation Theory, Keczkemet, August 1990 |
| US-USSR Conference on Approximation Theory, Leningrad, May 1991 |
| Seventh Texas International Symposium on Approximation Theory, Austin, Texas, January 1992 |
| Nonlinear Numerical Methods and Rational Approximation, Antwerp, September 1993 |
| Eighth International Symposium on Approximation Theory, Texas A&M University, January 1995 |
| Sixth Meeting on Constructive Methods in Complex Analysis, Oberwolfach, March 1995 |
| Computational Methods and Function Theory 97, Nicosia, October 1997 (invited speaker) |
| Workshop on Minimal Energy Problems, Hong Kong, November 1999 |
| Computational Methods and Function Theory 2001, Aveiro, Portugal, June 2001 |
| Advances in Constructive Approximation, Nashville, TN, May 2003 |
| Constructive Functions - Tech 04, Atlanta, GA, November 2004 (invited speaker) |
| Annual Meeting of the Israel Mathematical Union, Beer-Sheba, May 2007 (invited speaker) |
| Extremal Problems of Real and Complex Analysis, Moscow, May 2007 |