Shelvean Kapita

Shelvean Kapita

Department of Mathematics
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas
United States of America

kapita at tamu dot edu
John R. Blocker Building 328A
My CV

I am an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Mathematics department at Texas A&M University in College Station. Previously, I was a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Computational Sciences at the University of Zimbabwe.

I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the IMA , University of Minnesota - Twin Cities from August 2016 to August 2017. I was also a Limited Term Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia from 2017 to June 2020.

Education

Teaching

( previous teaching )

In Spring 2024, I am teaching Math 308 (Differential Equations). I am also leading the Week-In-Review for Math 308.

In Fall 2023, I taught MATH417 (Numerical Methods) and MATH140 (Mathematics for Business and Social Sciences) at Texas A&M University.

I taught MTSCS515 (Numerical Methods) a master's level course on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization in Block C at the University of Zimbabwe, April-May 2023.

In Nov/Dec 2022, I taught a masters degree course MTSCS546 (Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations) in Block C, Semester 2, 2022. In 2022, I also taught HMTH407 (Partial Differential Equations), MTE201 (Engineering Mathematics 2), and HMTHCS212 (Numerical Methods).

Previously, at The University of Georgia , I taught Math1113 (PreCalculus), Math2250 (Calculus 1 for Science and Engineering), Math 2700 (Elementary Differential Equations) , and Math 4500/6500 (Numerical Analysis 1).

Research interests and background

My research focuses on numerical analysis and scientific computation. I am particularly interested in the design and application of numerical methods to partial differential equations that arise in science and engineering. Recently I have been thinking about Bernstein-Bézier and multivariate spline methods for solving variational inequalities, particularly the elliptic obstacle problem. Special interests include numerical PDE constrained optimization, numerical methods for wave propagation, artificial boundary conditions for unbounded domain problems, and discontinuous Galerkin methods.


My papers and preprints are on my research page.

Undergraduate research

I have supervised the following undergraduate research projects:

Coding

Sometimes I write code in Python/MATLAB for teaching and research.

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