Przemyslaw Bogacki

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Old Dominion University

1986: Master's degree in mathematics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
1990: Ph.D. in mathematical sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

Office:	ECS 2220
Phone:	(757) 683-3262
E-mail:	pbogacki@odu.edu (unless your message contains a meaningful subject line, it will not be read)

Research areas of interest:
- computer-aided geometric design
- numerical solution of initial-value problems for ordinary differential equations
Teaching and Course Development:
- Precalculus (Math 163)
- Calculus (Math 211/212/312)
  - Calculus Animations
  - Calculus Interactive Tutorials and Tests featuring the Infinite Series Tutorial and the Integration Test
  - Older materials related to the Computer-based calculus project at ODU.
- Linear Algebra (Math 316)
  - Linear Algebra Toolkit
- Numerical Methods and Numerical Analysis (Math 408/508/621)
  - Visual Demonstrations of Numerical Methods
- ODU College of Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award 2007-08
Other activities:
- Calculus Moderator at the Mathematics Archives
- Editor and Managing Editor of the Electronic Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics (ICTCM)
- Editor of the Electronic Proceedings of the Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics (CTM)
- Co-director of the Mathematics and Statistics Computer Lab at ODU.
Selected publications:
- L.F. Shampine and P. Bogacki, The Effect of Changing the Step Size in Linear Multistep Codes, SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computation, 10 (1989), pp. 1010-1023
- P. Bogacki, G. Melrose and P. Wohl, The Old Dominion University Calculus Project, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, November 1993, Whippany, New Jersey, pp. 54-64
- P. Bogacki, S.E. Weinstein and Y. Xu, Degree Reduction of Bčzier Curves by Uniform Approximation with Endpoint Interpolation, Computer Aided Design, 9 (1995), pp. 651-661
- P. Bogacki, A Family of Parallel Runge-Kutta Pairs, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 31 (1996), pp. 23-31
- P. Bogacki, S.E. Weinstein and Y. Xu, Distances Between Oriented Curves in Geometric Modeling, Advances in Computational Mathematics, 7 (1997) 4, pp. 593-621
- P. Bogacki, Exploring Numerical Methods with Mathcad, Electronic Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching , September - October 1997, Koblenz, Germany, (1998, CD-ROM)
- P. Bogacki and S.E. Weinstein, Generalized Frechet Distance Between Curves, in Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces II, M. Daehlen, T. Lyche, L.L. Schumaker (eds.), Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville (1998), pp. 25-32
- G. Melrose and P. Bogacki, Creating and Using Electronic Books with Mathcad, Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, November 2000, Atlanta, Georgia, pp. 242-245
- P. Bogacki, HINGES - An Illustration of Gauss-Jordan Reduction, Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications, 5 (2005), http://www.mathdl.org/mathDL/4/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=580
Selected presentations:
- Parallel Implementation of Interpolants for Explicit Runge-Kutta Pairs, International Conference on the Numerical Solution of Volterra and Delay Equations, held May 25-28, 1990 at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
- Determining the Distance Between Two Parametric Curves, Third SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, held November 1-5, 1993 in Tempe, Arizona
- Mathematics Archives: The Gateway to Teaching Materials on the Internet, workshop conducted at the Meeting of the MD/DC/VA Section of MAA, held November 3-4, 1995 in Washington, D.C
- Algorithms for Calculating Distance Between Curves, Sixth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, held November 2-5, 1999 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Interactive Modules for Differential and Integral Calculus of Functions of Many Variables, minicourse presented with G. Melrose at the Sixteenth International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, held October 2003 in Chicago, Illinois