Sanja Rapajić, Ph. D.

Curriculum Vitae

 

May 01, 2011

 

Personal Data

·         Date of birth: March 30, 1972

·         Place of birth: Vršac, Yugoslavia

·         Marital status: Married, two daughters

·         Citizenship: Serbian

Languages

·         Mother tongue: Serbian

·         Active knowledge: English

·         Reading knowledge of other Slavic languages

Education

·         Ph. D., Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro, 2005

·         M. Sc., Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 1999

·         B. S., Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 1990-1994

Experience

·         Associate Professor, Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia, since 2010

·         Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia, since 2006

·         Assistant, Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, 2000-2006

·         Junior Assistant, Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia,  1995-2000

 

Courses

She teaches courses in Financial Mathematics, Operations Research (for students of mathematics and informatics), Programming and Numerical Mathematics (for students of physics) and Software for processing experimental data (for students of Chemistry). She has thought  Mathematics for students of natural science and assists or has assisted in teaching courses: operations research, numerical analysis, mathematics with statistics for students of biology and chemistry, mathematics for students of geography, numerical mathematics for students of chemistry and physics.

 

Publications

1.      Rapajić, S., Jacobian smoothing inexact Newton method for NCP with a special choice of forcing  parameters, Novi Sad Journal of  Mathematics, Vol 40, No 2, 2010, 47-60

http://www.dmi.uns.ac.rs/NSJOM/Papers/40_2/NSJOM_40_2_047_060.pdf

2.      Krejić, N., Lužanin, Z., Rapajić, S., Jacobian smoothing Brown’s method for NCP,  Nonlinear Analysis 70 (2009), pp 642-657,  DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2008.01.001

     http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V0Y-4RJK112-1&_user=4099212&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000061922&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=4099212&md5=0959488ebca33710cece377554749103

 

3.      Krejić, N., Rapajić, S., Globally convergent Jacobian smoothing inexact Newton methods for NCP,  Computational Optimization and Applications (2008) 41, pp 243-261,   DOI: 10.1007/s10589-007-9104-2

      http://springerlink.metapress.com/content/t7134wv6h0534828/fulltext.pdf

 

4.      Krejić, N., Lužanin, Z.,  Rapajić, S., Iterative method with modification of the right-hand side vector for nonlinear complementarity problems, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Vol 83, Issue 02, 2006, pp 193-201

      http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a745985831~tab=citation

 

5.      Rapajić, S., Jacobian smoothing methods for nonlinear complementarity problems (in Serbian), Doctoral Dissertation,  University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Science, 2005,  118 pgs

6.      Cvetković, Lj., Rapajić, S., How to improve MAOR method convergence area for  linear complementarity problems, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol 162, 2005, pp 577-584

      http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TY8-4BT1DSN-5&_user=4099212&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000061922&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=4099212&md5=f803cb13b9d7232f0ac696446a1aa77f

7.      Rapajić, S., Krejić, N., Lužanin, Z.,  On a Smoothing Quasi-Newton Method for Nonlinear Complementarity Problems, PAMM - Proc. Appl. Math. Mech., Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2003, pp. 523-524

8.      Lužanin, Z., Rapajić, S., A Newton-like method with modification of the right-hand side vector without derivatives, XIV Conference on Applied Mathematics, D. Herceg, K. Surla, Z. Lužanin, eds., Institute of Mathematics, Novi Sad, 2001, pp. 106-111

9.      Lužanin, Z., Rapajić, S., Convergence acceleration of a general Newton method for systems of nonlinear equations, Scientiae Mathematicae Japonicae, Vol. 54, No 3, 2001, pp. 513-519

10.  Krejić, N., Rapajić, S., Quasi-Newton methods for semi-smooth reducible systems, XIII Conference on Applied Mathematics, D. Herceg, K. Surla, N. Krejić, eds., Institute of Mathematics, Novi Sad, 2000, pp. 63-74

11.  Rapajić, S., Modifications of Newton method for nonlinear complementarity problems (in Serbian), Master Thesis, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Science, 1999,  93 pgs

12.  Herceg, D., Surla, K., Rapajić, S., Cubic spline difference scheme on a mesh of Bakhvalov type, Novi Sad J. Math., Vol. 28, No. 3, 1998, pp. 41-49

13.  Vukoslavčević, V., Surla, K.,  Rapajić, S., Some uniformly convergent schemes on Shishkin mesh, Novi Sad J. Math., Vol. 28, No. 2, 1998, pp. 33-42

14.  Pilipović, S., Herceg Dj., On numerical solving of boundary value problems in  Mathematica, IX Conference on Applied Mathematics, D. Herceg, Lj. Cvetković, eds., Institute of Mathematics, Novi Sad, 1995, pp. 111-126

Books in Serbian

1.      Surla, K., Herceg, Dj., Rapajić, S.Mathematica for physicists and chemists (in.Serbian), University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Science, 1998, 193 pgs

2.      Gajić Lj., Pavlović, A., Rapajić, S., Collection of solved test tasks in business mathematics, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, first edition, 2003, 109 pages, second edition, 2004, 146 pages

Congresses and Conferences Participated

1.      GAMM 2011 Annual Conference of the "Gesellschaft fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik", Graz, Austria, April 18-21, 2011

2.      14th General Meeting European Women in Mathematics,  Novi Sad, August 25th- 28th, 2009

3.      XVIII Conference on Applied Mathematics "Prim 2009", Subotica, Serbia,  May 2009

4.      12th Serbian Mathematical Congress, Novi Sad, August 28th- September 2nd, 2008

5.      GAMM 2006 Annual Conference of the "Gesellschaft fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik", Berlin, Germany, March 27-31, 2006

6.      XVII Conference on Applied Mathematics "Prim 2006", Kragujevac, Serbia,  September 25 – 27, 2006

7.      XVI Conference on Applied Mathematics "Prim 2004", Budva, Serbia and Montenegro,  May  31 – June 4, 2004

8.      GAMM 2003 Annual Conference of the "Gesellschaft fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik", Abano Terme – Padua, Italy, March 24-28, 2003

9.      XV Conference on Applied Mathematics "Prim 2002", Zlatibor, Yugoslavia,  May  27-31, 2002

10.  XIV Conference on Applied Mathematics "Prim 2000", Palić, Yugoslavia,  May  29-June 1, 2000

11.  XIII Conference on Applied Mathematics "Prim '98", Igalo, Yugoslavia, May 25-29, 1998

12.  XII Conference on Applied Mathematics "Prim '97", Palić, Yugoslavia, September 8-12, 1997

13.  IX Conference on Applied Mathematics "Prim '94", Budva, Yugoslavia, May 30–June 1, 1994

 

Congresses and Conferences Organized

  • Member of the Organizing Committee, 15th General Meeting of European Women in Mathematics, Barcelona, Spain, September, 2011
  • Member of the Organizing Committee, 14th General Meeting of European Women in Mathematics, Novi Sad, Serbia, August 25-28, 2009
  • Member of the Organizing Committee, XVIII Conference on Applied Mathematics "PRIM 2009", Subotica, Serbia, May, 2009
  • Member of the Organizing Committee, XVII Conference on Applied Mathematics "PRIM 2006", Kragujevac, Serbia, September 25-27, 2006
  • Member of the Organizing Committee, XVI Conference on Applied Mathematics "PRIM 2004", Budva, Serbia and Montenegro, May 31-June 4, 2004
  • Member of the Organizing Committee, XV Conference on Applied Mathematics "PRIM 2002" Zlatibor, Serbia and Montenegro, May 27-31, 2002
  • Member of the Organizing Committee, XII Conference on Applied Mathematics "PRIM 97", Palić, Yugoslavia, September 8-12, 1997

 

Miscellaneous

Membership

 

1.      JUPIM

2.      EWM