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 )

This Fall 2024, I am teaching two sections of Math 140 (Mathematics for Business and Social Sciences) and three sections of Math 147 (Calculus I for Biological Sciences). I am also leading the Week-In-Review for Math 140.

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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