Bio
Maria graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia, with a Master’s degree, and then earned her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2007. Her thesis advisor was James Sethian. After her graduation, Maria took a Courant Instructor position in NYU, and then joined the University of Maryland as a faculty in 2010.
Research
Maria’s research is devoted to the development of numerical methods for solving mathematical problems arising in natural sciences including geophysics, chemical physics, and biology. Her main focus has been split between Hamilton-Jacobi solvers for nonlinear PDEs and greedy graph algorithms for analysis of complex networks. Personal web page: https://www.math.umd.edu/~mariakc/