Curriculum Vitae of Ivan Slapničar

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Education

• B. Sc. in Mathematics (1984), University of Zagreb, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
• M. Sc. in Mathematics (1988), University of Zagreb, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
  Thesis: Quadratic Convergence of the Falk-Langemeyer Method
  Supervisor: Professor Vjeran Hari
• Ph.D. in Mathematics (1992, dr. rer. nat. with "summa cum laude"), Department of Mathematical Physics, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany.
  Thesis: Accurate Symmetric Eigenreduction by a Jacobi Method
  Supervisor: Professor Krešimir Veselić, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany.
  Referee: Professor James Demmel, UC Berkeley.

Work experience

• 2003 - : Professor, 1999 - 2003 Associate Professor, 1993-1999 Assistant Professor, and 1985-1989 Teaching Assistant,
  all at the University of Split, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture.
• August 2001 - May 2002, Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, Host: Professor James Powell.
• 1990-1992: Teaching Assistant, Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany.

Visits

• Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile, September, 2019, Host: Professor Eric Goles.
• IIT Indore, GIAN Course Modern Applications of Numerical Linear Algebra Methods, June 27-July 5, 2016, Host: Professor Safique Ahmad.
• CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fulbright-Schuman International Educator/Lecturer Grant, August-December 2014, Host: Professor Alan Edelman.
• FG Numerische Mathematik, TU Berlin, FP 7 People "Marie Curie", IntraEuropean Fellowship - IEF, April 2009 - March 2010, Host: Professor Volker Mehrmann.
• Centro de modelamiento matematico, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, March 2004, Host: Professor Eric Goles.
• Fernuniversität Hagen, Department of Mathematical Physics, November 2002, June/July 2000, July 1998 and October 1996, Host: Professor Krešimir Veselić.
• The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, State College, PA, January - April 1997 and August 1993, Host: Professor Jesse Barlow.
• Eidgenoßische technische Hochschule, Institut für wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Zürich, August 15-31, 1994, Host: Professor Peter Arbenz.

Professional positions

• 2002 - 2004: Vice Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture.
• 1999 - 2002: Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Physics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture
• 2000 - : Chair for Mathematics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture

Scientific grants

• Matrix Algorithms in Noncommutative Associative Algebras, Project IP-2020-02-2240 of the Croatian Science Foundation, 2021-2024.
• Optimization of parameter dependent mechanical systems, Project No. 9540 of the Croatian Science Foundation, 2015-2019, PI: Professor Ninoslav Truhar.
• Fast and Accurate Matrix Algorithms and Applications (PI), 2002 - 2013, Project No. 0023002 of the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports
• Numerical Methods of Linear Algebra, 1992-2002, Project No. 037012 of the Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology. PI: Professor Vjeran Hari.

Teaching grants

• Mathematics 1, Internet-based textbook financed by Croatian Academic and Research Network, 2001 - 2006.
• Mathematics 2 and Mathematics 3, Internet-based textbooks financed by the Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology, 2002 - 2006.

Awards

• Fulbright-Schuman International Educator/Lecturer Grant, August- December 2014.
• FP 7 People "Marie Curie", IntraEuropean Fellowship - IEF, April 2009 - March 2010.
• Prize of the Croatian Mathematical Society to the Young Scientist for Outstanding Scientifical Contribution in Mathematics (1996).
• Preis zur Förderung junger Wissenschaftler der Fernuniversität Hagen (1992).
• Graduate Fellowship of the Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology (1990).

Refereeing

• SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX)
• SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC)
• Linear Algebra and its Applications (LAA)
• BIT Numerical Mathematics
• Glasnik matematicki
• Mathematical Inequalities and Applications (MIA)
• Novi Sad Journal of Mathematics (NSJOM)
• Turkish Journal of Mathematics
• Journal of Communications Software and Systems
• Mathematics
• Axioms
• Symmetry

Organizing Committees

• IWASEP Workshops I-X

Memberships

• Croatian Mathematical Society
• Division Split of the Croatian Mathematical Society (President from 1998-1999).
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Association for Computing Machinery
• Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik

List of papers

1. Nevena Jakovčević Stor and Ivan Slapničar, Inverses and Determinants of Arrowhead and Diagonal-Plus-Rank-One Matrices over Associative Algebras, Axioms, vol. 13(6), Article ID 409, 12 pages, 2024, DOI: 10.3390/axioms13060409
2. Thaniporn Chaysri, Nevena Jakovčević Stor and Ivan Slapničar, Fast Eigenvalue Decomposition of Arrowhead and Diagonal-Plus-Rank-k Matrices of Quaternions, Mathematics, vol. 12(9), Article ID 1327, 22 pages, 2024, DOI: 10.3390/math12091327
3. Damir Krstinić, Ana Kuzmanić Skelin, Ivan Slapničar and Maja Braović, Multi-Label Confusion Tensor IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 9860-9870, 2024, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3353050
4. Damir Krstinić, Ljiljana Šerić and Ivan Slapničar, Comments on “MLCM: Multi-Label Confusion Matrix”, IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 40692-40697, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3267672
5. Anita Carević, Ivan Slapničar and Mohamed Almekkawy, Automating Regularization Parameter Selection of the Inverse Problem in Ultrasound Tomography, 2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2022, DOI: 0.1109/IUS54386.2022.9957277
6. Anita Carević, Ivan Slapničar and Mohamed Almekkawy, Solving Ultrasound Tomography’s Inverse Problem: Automating Regularization Parameter Selection, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, Vol. 69, Issue 8, pp. 2447-2461, 2022, DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2022.3182147
7. Jesse L. Barlow, Stanley C. Eisenstat, Nevena Jakovčević Stor and Ivan Slapničar, Deflation for the Symmetric Arrowhead and Diagonal-Plus-Rank-One Eigenvalue Problems, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Vol. 43, Iss.2, pp. 681-709, 2022, DOI: 10.1137/21M139205X
8. Nevena Jakovčević Stor, Ivan Slapničar and Zoran Tomljanović, Fast Computation of Optimal Damping Parameters for Linear Vibrational Systems, Mathematics, vol. 10(5), Article ID 790, 17 pages, 2022, DOI: 10.3390/math10050790
9. Eric Goles, Ivan Slapničar and Marco A. Lardies, Universal Evolutionary Model for Periodical Species , Complexity, vol. 2021, Article ID 2976351, 15 pages, 2021, DOI: 10.1155/2021/2976351
10. Sk. Safique Ahmad, Istkhar Ali and I. Slapničar, Perturbation analysis of matrices over a quaternion division algebra, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis. Volume 54, pp. 128–149, 2021, DOI: 10.1553/etna_vol54s128
11. A. Carević, X. Yun, G. Lee, I. Slapničar, A. Abdou, J. Barlow and M. Almekkawy, Solving the ultrasound inverse scattering problem of inhomogeneous media using different approaches of total least squares algorithms, Proc. Vol. 10580, Medical Imaging 2018: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography / Duric, Neb ; Byram, Brett C. (eds.). - Houston, Texas : Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) , 2018. 10580-10588.
12. X. Yun, J. He, A. Carević, I. Slapničar, J. Barlow and M. Almekkawy, Reconstruction of ultrasound tomography for cancer detection using total least squares and the conjugate gradient method, Proc. Vol. 10580, Medical Imaging 2018: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography / Duric, Neb ; Byram, Brett C. (eds.) - Houston, Texas : Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) , 2018. 10589-10599.
13. N. Jakovčević Stor and I. Slapničar, Forward Stable Computation of Roots of Real Polynomials with Real Simple Roots, Appl. Math. and Inform. Sciences, 11 (2017) 33-41, arXiv:1509.06224
14. N. Jakovčević Stor, I. Slapničar and J. L. Barlow, Accurate eigenvalue decomposition of real symmetric arrowhead matrices and applications, Linear Algebra Appl. 464 (2015) 62-89, arXiv:1302.7203
15. N. Jakovčević Stor, I. Slapničar and J. L. Barlow, Forward stable eigenvalue decomposition of rank-one modifications of diagonal matrices Linear Algebra Appl. 487 (2015) 301-315, arXiv:1405.7537.
16. I. Slapničar, Symmetric matrix eigenvalue techniques, in: CRC Handbook of Linear Algebra, 2nd Edition, Leslie Hogben (ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2013, pp. 55:1-23.
17. I. Slapničar, On the spectra of generalized Fibonacci and Fibonacci-like operators, Operators and Matrices, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2012, pp. 49-62, arXiv:1104.1049
18. D. Krstinić and I. Slapničar, Grid-based mode seeking procedure, Intelligent Data Analysis, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 343-356 (2011).
19. I. Slapničar, Symmetric Matrix Eigenvalue Techniques, in CRC Handbook of Linear Algebra, Leslie Hogben (ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2006, pp. 42:1-23.
20. N. Truhar and I. Slapničar, Relative Residual Bounds for Indefinite Hermitian Matrices, Linear Algebra Appl., Special Issue in honor of Friedrich Ludwig Bauer, No. 417, pp. 466-477 (2006).
21. J. L. Barlow, H. Erbay and I. Slapničar, An Alternative Algorithm for Refinement of ULV Decompositions, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 198-211 (2005).
22. J. A. Powell, I. Slapničar and W. van der Werf, Epidemic Spread of a Lesion-Forming Plant Pathogen - Analysis of a Mechanistic Model with Infinite Age Structure, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 398, pp. 117-140 (2005).
23. I. Slapničar and N. Truhar, Relative Perturbation Theory for Hyperbolic Singular Value Problem, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 358, pp. 367-386 (2002).
24. I. Slapničar, Highly Accurate Symmetric Eigenvalue Decomposition and Hyperbolic SVD, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 358, pp. 387-424 (2002).
25. Z. Drmač, V. Hari and I. Slapničar, Advances in Jacobi methods, Proceedings of the Third Conference on Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 2-9, 2001, Kluwer, Doordrecht, to appear.
26. J. Barlow and I. Slapničar, Optimal perturbation bounds for the Hermitian eigenvalue problem, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 309, pp. 19-43 (2000).
    Also Technical Report No. 99-001, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA,
27. K. Veselić and I. Slapničar, On spectral condition of J-Hermitian operators, Glasnik matematicki, Memorial Issue in Honor of Branko Najman, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 3-24 (2000).
28. N. Truhar and I. Slapničar, Relative perturbation bound for invariant subspaces of Hermitian matrix, Glasnik matematicki, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 221-232 (2000).
29. N. Truhar and I. Slapničar, Relative perturbation bounds for invariant subspaces of graded indefinite Hermitian matrices, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 301, pp. 171-185 (1999).
30. I. Slapničar and N. Truhar, Relative perturbation theory for hyperbolic eigenvalue problem, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 309, pp. 57-72 (2000).
31. J. Demmel, M. Gu, S. Eisenstat, I. Slapničar, K. Veselić, and Z. Drmač, Computing the singular value decomposition with high relative accuracy, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 299, pp. 21-80 (1999); also LAPACK Working Note #119.
32. I. Slapničar and K. Veselić, A bound for the condition of a hyperbolic eigenvector matrix, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 290, pp. 247-255 (1999).
33. I. Slapničar, Componentwise analysis of direct factorization of real symmetric and Hermitian matrices, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 272, pp. 227-275 (1998).
34. N. Truhar and I. Slapničar, Relative perturbation of invariant subspaces, Mathematical Communications, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 169-174 (1996).
35. I. Slapničar, Accurate computation of singular values and eigenvalues of symmetric matrices, Mathematical Communications, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 153-168 (1996).
36. P. Arbenz and I. Slapničar, On an implementation of a one-sided block Jacobi method on a distributed memory computer, Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, 76 (Suppl 1), pp. 343-344, 1996.
37. P. Arbenz and I. Slapničar, An analysis of parallel implementations of the block-Jacobi algorithm for computing the SVD, in: D. Kalpic and V. Hljuz-Dobric, eds., Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces, pp. 343-348, Pula, 1995.
38. I. Slapničar and K. Veselić, Perturbations of the eigenprojections of a factorized Hermitian matrix, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 218, pp. 273-280 (1995).
39. K. Veselić and I. Slapničar, Floating-point perturbations of Hermitian matrices, Linear Algebra Appl., No. 195, pp. 81-116 (1993).
40. I. Slapničar, Accurate Symmetric Eigenreduction by a Jacobi Method, in Linear Algebra for Large Scale and Real-Time Applications, M. S. Moonen, G. H. Golub and B. L. R. De Moor eds., NATO ASI Series, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1993, pp. 417-418.
41. I. Slapničar and V. Hari, On the quadratic convergence of the Falk-Langemeyer method, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., Vol. 12, pp. 84-114 (1991).