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Olena Ostapyuk  

Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Ph.D.,  Kansas State University, August 2011; Ph.D. advisor: Pietro Poggi-Corradini.

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Department of Mathematics
College of Humanities, Arts and Sciences
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614-0506
Research interests:
Geometric function theory
Complex dynamics


Contact
Office: WRT 305

Phone: 319-273-2432

Office hours (Spring 2018):
Wednesday 11 - 11:50 am and 1 - 1:50 pm; Friday
11 - 11:50 am or by appointment


e-mail: ostapyuk@math.uni.edu
Research
Research statement: (pdf)

Brief and less technical version: (pdf)
Teaching


Spring 2018
MATH 3410/5410 Dynamical Systems: Chaos Theory and Fractals
STAT 1772 Introduction to Statistical Methods (section 03) - check eLearning for class information

Fall 2017
MATH 6460 Complex Analysis I  (graduate)
STAT 1772 Introduction to Statistical Methods (sections 05 and 07) - check eLearning for class information

Spring 2017
MATH 4420/5420 Advanced Calculus II
STAT 1772 Introduction to Statistical Methods (sections 02 and 05) - check eLearning for class information

Fall 2016
MATH 4420/5420 Advanced Calculus I
STAT 1772 Introduction to Statistical Methods (sections 06 and 07) - check eLearning for class information

Spring 2016:
MATH 6461 Complex Analysis II  (graduate)
MATH 3410/5410 Dynamical Systems: Chaos Theory and Fractals
MATH 1420 Calculus I (sections 03) - check eLearning for class information

Fall 2015
MATH 6460 Complex Analysis I  (graduate)
STAT 1772 Introduction to Statistical Methods (section 12) - check eLearning for class information

Spring 2015
MATH 4421/5421 Advanced Calculus II
MATH 1421 Calculus II (sections 02 and 03) - check eLearning for class information

Fall 2014:
MATH 3530/5530 Combinatorics
MATH 4420/5420 Advanced Calculus I
MATH 1421 Calculus II (sections 03) - check eLearning for class information

Spring 2014:
MATH 6461 Complex Analysis II  (graduate)
MATH 3430/5430 Partial Differential Equations
MATH 3410/5410 Dynamical Systems: Chaos Theory and Fractals

Fall 2013:
MATH 6460 Complex Analysis I  (graduate)
MATH 2500 Linear Algebra

Spring 2013:
MATH 1420 Calculus I (sections 02 and 03)
MATH 4421/5421 Intermediate Mathematical Analysis II

Fall 2012:
MATH 1421 Calculus II (sections 02 and 03)
MATH 4460/5460 Introduction to Complex Analysis

Spring 2012:
MATH 6460 Complex Analysis I  (graduate)
MATH 3430/5430 Partial Differential Equations

Fall 2011:
MATH 1420 Calculus I (sections 04 and 05)


List of  courses taught at Kansas State University

Teaching statement: (pdf)



Undergraduate research projects

Spring-Fall 2014:
Mark Ronnenberg, Discrete Dynamics on the Graphs



Summer programs (REU)

Previous REUs at Kansas State:
SUMaR 2011
SUMaR 2010
2008
2007

Prints

Backward iteration in the unit ball (preprint, pdf), Illinois Journal of Mathematics, vol. 55, N. 4, Winter 2011, pp. 1569-1602.

On convergence to the Denjoy-Wolff point in the parabolic case (preprint, pdf), in In the Tradition of Ahlfors-Bers, VI, Contemporary Mathematics, vol. 590, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2013, pp. 153-159.

Discrete Dynamics of Contractions on Graphs (preprint, pdf), with Mark Ronnenberg, to appear in Involve - a Journal of Mathematics.
Incoming talks

Past talks

October 24-25, 2014: Iowa sectional MAA meeting, Clarke University,  Dubuque, IA

August 6-10, 2012: Workshop on Carpets, CLE and Dessins, University of Washington, Seattle, WA  
(notes, pdf)

March 30 - April 1, 2012
: AMS Spring Central Sectional Meeting, University of Kansas, Lawerence, KS
Special Session on Complex Analysis, Geometry and Probability
(beamer, pdf)

March 24-27, 2011 5th Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium, Rice University, Houston, TX

November 23, 2010 Analysis/PDE Seminar, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX   (beamer, pdf)

October 29-30, 2010: Prairie Analysis Seminar Lawrence, KS

October 2-3, 2010: AMS Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting,  Syracuse, NY  (beamer, pdf)

May 21-23, 2010Conference on Complex Analysis,  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (Beamer, pdf)

April 17-18, 2010: AMS Spring Western Sectional Meetings,  Albuquerque, NM Backward iteration in the unit ball (Beamer, pdf)

January 13-16, 2010: AWM workshop at the Joint Mathematics Meetings,  San Francisco, CA  Backward-iteration sequences and boundary repelling fixed points in higer dimension (Poster, pdf)

December 4-6, 2009: RTG Workshop on Complex Dynamics,  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI   Backward iteration in the unit ball (slides, pdf)

April 23-25, 2009: 12th New Mexico Analysis Seminar,  University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

March 27-29, 2009:
 Spring Central Sectional Meeting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL   Convergence of backward iteration sequences with bounded hyperbolic step in higher dimension (slides, pdf)