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EDUCATION
- The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
Ph.D., Physics, May 2004
Dissertation: ``Numerical Studies of the Standard Nontwist Map and
a Renormalization Group Framework for Breakup of Invariant Tori''
Supervisor: Philip J. Morrison
- Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
M.Sc., Physics, May 1996
EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Fellow, TIFR Center for Applicable Mathematics,
Bangalore, India: July 2007 - present
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Research
Institute (MSRI), Berkeley, California, USA: January - May 2007
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Mathematics,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA: August -
December 2006
- Instructor: Math 233 ``Multivariable Calculus,'' Fall
2006
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Statistical and Applied Mathematical
Sciences Institute (SAMSI), Durham NC, USA: January 2005 - August
2006
- University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA
- Graduate Research Assistant, Institute for Fusion
Studies: June 2000 - May 2004
- Assistant instructor: August 1999 - May 2000
- PS 303 ``Introduction to Physical Science I''
- Teaching Assistant: August 1996 - August 1999
- PHY 116L: Laboratory for calculus based Electricity and
Magnetism
- PHY 102N: Laboratory for non-calculus based General Physics
- Tutor for General Physics courses
- Grader for PHY 302K: calculus-based Introduction to Physics
Recommended for Best Teaching Assistant award
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed -
- A. Apte, A. Wurm, and P.J. Morrison,
``Renormalization and destruction of
tori in the
standard nontwist map,''
Chaos 13, 421-433 (June 2003)
- A. Wurm, A. Apte, and P.J. Morrison,
``On reconnection phenomena in the standard nontwist map,''
Brazilian Journal of Physics 34, 1700-1706 (December 2004)
- A. Apte, A. Wurm, and P.J. Morrison,
``Renormalization for breakup of invariant tori,''
Physica D 200, 47-59 (January 2005)
- A. Apte, R. de la Llave, and N.P. Petrov,
``Regularity of critical invariant circles of the standard non-twist
map,''
Nonlinearity 18, 1173-1187 (May 2005)
- A. Wurm, A. Apte, K. Fuchss and P.J. Morrison,
``Meanders and reconnection-collision sequences in the standard
nontwist map,''
Chaos 15, 023108 (June 2005)
- A. Apte, R. de la Llave, and E. Petrisor,
``Comment on `Reconnection scenarios...,' Chaos Solitons and
Fractals 14, 117 (2002),''
Chaos Solitons and Fractals 27, 1115 (2006)
- K. Fuchss, A. Wurm, A. Apte, and P.J. Morrison,
``Breakup of shearless meanders and `outer' tori in the standard
nontwist map,''
Chaos 16, 033120 (September 2006)
- A. Apte, M. Hairer, A. M. Stuart, and J. Voss,
``Sampling the posterior: an approach to non-Gaussian data
assimilation,''
Physica D 230, 50-64 (June 2007)
- T.B. Krause, P.J. Morrison, and A. Apte,
``A unique approach to the Darwin approximation,''
Phys. Plasmas bf 14 102112 (October 2007)
- A. Apte, C.K.R.T. Jones, and A. M. Stuart,
``A Bayesian approach to Lagrangian data assimilation,''
Tellus A 60, 336-347 (March 2008)
- A. Apte, C.K.R.T. Jones, A. M. Stuart, and J. Voss,
``Data Assimilation: Mathematical and Statistical Perspectives,''
Int. J. Numer. Methods in Fluids 56 1033 (2008)
Non-refereed / Proceedings -
- A. Apte, ``Wave-mean-flow interaction in Oldroyd-B fluid,''
Proceedings of the 2003 Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA
http://gfd.whoi.edu/proceedings/2003/PDFvol2003.html
PRESENTATIONS
Talks -
- Working Dynamical Systems seminar, University of Texas, Austin
TX, October 2004
- Plasma Theory Group seminar, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
November 2004
- Department of Mathematics and Mechanics seminar, Instituto de
Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas (IIMAS),
UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico, November 2004
- SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird
UT, May 2005
- Workshop on ``Mathematics of Data Assimilation,'' University of
Warwick, Coventry, UK, May 2006
- Seminars at TIFR Center, Bangalore, India; Inst. Math. Sciences,
Chennai, India; Inst. Plasma Research, Ahemedabad, India, February
2007
- Workshop on ``Environmental Modeling and Data Assimilation,''
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, November 2007
- Contributed talk, National Conference on Nonlinear Sciences and
Dynamics, Ahemedabad, India, January 2008
- Colloquium, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India,
March 2008
- Colloquium, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, India,
March 2008
- Invited talk, National Seminar on ``Generalizations and
Approxomations in Mathematics,'' Visva-Bharati University, India,
March 2008
- Colloquium, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, May 2008
- Invited talk, International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamical
Systems and Turbulence, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
India, July 2008
- Contributed talk, Workshop on ``Stochastic Differential Equation
Models with Applications to the Insulin-Glucose System and Neuronal
Modelling,'' Middlefart, Denmark, August 2008
Posters -
- Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, Rochester NY, April 2002
- Annual meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Orlando
FL, October 2002
- Annual meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Dallas
TX, November 2002
- Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, Corpus Christi TX,
April 2003
- SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems,
Snowbird UT, May 2003
- Annual meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics,
Albuquerque NM, October 2003
- Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference, Missoula MN, April 2004
- SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems,
Snowbird UT, May 2005
- Workshop on Data Assimilation, SAMSI, May 2006
- SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems,
Snowbird UT, May 2007
- Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics: Integrability and Chaos,
Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, India, February 1998.
PROJECTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
- ``Entropy changes during nucleosynthesis in the early
universe.'' Project at the Vacation Students' Programme at Inter
University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA),
Pune, India, August 1994; Supervisor: N.C. Rana, IUCAA
- ``Entropy of
supersymmetric theory and its
relation to black holes.'' Qualifier seminar, UT Austin, December
1998; Collaborator: Li Jiang; Supervisor: Willy Fischler
- ``A search for CH stars in globular clusters.'' E. Ambrose,
A. Apte, T. Krause, M. Wolf; Project for the ``Observational
Astronomy'' class at UT Austin, Summer 2001.
- ``Wave-mean-flow interactions in Oldroyd-B fluid.'' Project
completed as a Fellow at the Summer Program in Geophysical Fluid
Dynamics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole MA, August
2003 - Supervisor: Oliver Bühler, Courant Institute, NY
SERVICES
- Referee for Chaos, Communications in
Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, Discrete and
Continuous Dynamical Systems, Physica D, Physical
Review, Journal of Earth System Science, and Current
Science
- Elected as Membership Coordinator (1999-2000), Food Buyer
(Summer 2000), and Director (Fall 2000) of Laurel House Cooperative,
Austin TX
- Judge for Texas State Science Fair, Austin TX, 1999
- Workshop leader in ``Holding office hours and dealing with
student problems'' and ``Sharing concerns'' sessions and participant
in ``Experienced TAs and AIs and UT undergraduate students'' session
of Fall 1999 and Summer 2000 International Teaching Assistants'
Workshop, University of Texas, Austin
LANGUAGES
Marathi (native), English (near-native), Hindi and Spanish (fluent)