I'm a member of the mathematics faculty at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Nevada Reno. I graduated from Indiana University Department of Mathematics where I received my PhD under the supervision of Ciprian Foias. After that I was supported by an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with Edriss Titi in the Department of Mathematics at University of Califormia Irvine. My research interests are Navier-Stokes equations, dynamical systems, fractal dimensions and turbulence. Techniques used include functional analysis and large-scale numerical simulation. I'm currently working on the normal form of the Navier-Stokes equations, the Lagrangian averaged Navier-Stokes alpha model of turbulence, numerically determining modes, almost homogeneous spaces and the bioremediation of contaminated soil.

My wife Swatee Naik is also a mathematician at UNR. Her field is knot theory. We have two children, one named Maanasi and the other named Rehana. They are both very cute.

I built a Beowulf cluster called PDEwulf to use in my research.

I taught Mathematics 761 Methods of Applied Mathematics I: Introduction to Partial Differential Equations and Mathematics 430/630 Linear Algebra II Fall semester 2006 at UNR.

I taught Mathematics 762 Methods of Applied Mathematics II: Introduction to Partial Differential Equations and Mathematics 330 Linear Algebra I Spring semester 2007 at UNR.

I taught Mathematics/CS 466/666 Numerical Methods I and Mathematics 310 Introduction to Analysis I Fall semester 2007 at UNR.

I am teaching Mathematics/CS 467/667 Numerical Methods II and Mathematics 311 Introduction to Analysis II Spring semester 2008 at UNR.

For more information you may look at my publications, computer programs, and teaching webpages.

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