Education:

• Sep. 2010 - present:

  graduate study at the department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University.

• Sep. 2008 - Jul. 2010:

  MathMods - Mathematical Modeling in Engineering: Theory, Numerics, Applications [graduated with honors] - international M.Sc. Erasmus Mundus program organized and funded by the European Commission:
  - Sep. 2008 – Feb. 2009: Theoretical module - University of L'Aquila, Italy.
  - Feb. 2009 – Aug. 2009: Numerics - University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France.
  - Aug. 2009 – Aug. 2010: Applications (“Advanced computational methods in material science” track) and M.Sc. thesis  - Gdansk University of Technology, Poland.

• Sep. 2002 – Feb. 2008:

  National Research Nuclear University [MEPhI] (former Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, State University), Faculty of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Department of Modeling of Physical Processes in Environment.

Work experience:

• Sep. 2010 – present:

  McMaster University, Mathematics and Statistics department – research and teaching assistant.

• May 2009 – Aug. 2009:

  INRIA, Sophia Antipolis – summer internship within the framework of the MathMods program.

• Jul. 2006 – Aug. 2008:

  SAS Russia - Russian representative office webmaster.

• Mar. 2006 – Feb. 2007:

  Lyceum 8, Elektrostal - high-school physics tutor (“Methods of Solving Advanced Physics Problems” course).

• Oct. 1998 – May. 1999:

  IntSys – Intellectual Systems, Elektrostal - webmaster of local Internet service provider (unofficial job during school period).

Recent publications / preprints:

• Dmitry V. Ponomarev, Sergey B. Leble “Molecular zero-range potential method and its application to cyclic structures”, arXiv preprint , January 2011.
• Sergey B. Leble, Dmitry V. Ponomarev “Dressing of zero-range potentials into realistic molecular potentials of finite range”, Task Quarterly, 14, 29-34 (2010) [preprint ].
• Dmitry V. Ponomarev, Oleg V. Nagornov “On Effective Wave Propagation Characteristics in Porous Fluid-Saturated Medium Containing Fluid Inclusions”, Geophysical Journal International, 182, 1043-1057 (2010) [preprint ].
• Dmitry V. Ponomarev “High-order Time Integration Leap-Frog Schemes Combined with a Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Solution of the Maxwell Equations”, INRIA preprint , October 2009.
• O. Nagornov, D. Ponomarev “Plane Wave Scattering on Single Spherical Inclusions of Different Types in Fluid-Saturated Porous Media”, Mechanics of Solids – submitted September 2009.

Some awards / grants:

• 42,000 EUR Erasmus Mundus study grant and scholarship by the European Commission for participating in the two-year international MathMods program awarded on highly competitive basis.
• MEPhI institutional award for study/research work in modeling of dynamic inflation of a volcanic chamber.

Peer-review experience:

• Geophysical Journal International.

Complete PDF version of my resume / CV can be found here.