Masters student

Consortium for Electromagnetic Modeling and Inversion
  1460E, 135S, WBB 717, Salt Lake City, Utah, UT 84112.
  phone: (801) 581-4337
  e-mail: tolstaya@mines.utah.edu

Academic history

Geology & Geophysics Department, University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, 2001 - present

Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics Department
M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
Graduate School, Research Assistant
Moscow, Russia, 2000 - 2001

Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics Department
M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
M.S. in Applied Mathematics with specialization in Mathematical Physics
Moscow, Russia, June 2000.

Thesis paper: "The Integral Conductivity Method in Magnetotelluric Sounding"

Employment History

Consortium for Electromagnetic Modeling and Inversion
Geology and Geophysics Department
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
September 2001-present, Research Assistant

Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow, Russia, 2000 - 2001, Research Assistant

Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics Department - Admissions Office
M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
Moscow, Russia, 1997, 1998.

TPA, French Recruitment Agency
Moscow, Russia, 1996-1997, database assistant.

Projects

V. I. Dmitriev, E. V. Tolstaya, "Numerical study of the magneto-telluric field over inhomogeneous thin sheet", Applied Mathematics and informatics, 2000, 6, pp. 45-55, published by CMC department, Moscow State University. (in Russian)

Rok V., Rebetsky Yu., Tolstaya K., Zakrevsky K., "Magnetic fluids in Oil Production", technical report, Research Project with Shell Corp. and International Science Technology Center, October 2000 - March 2001, Moscow, Russia

Tolstaya E. V., Rebetsky Yu. L. "Deformation of Fold Complexes", mathematical modeling Collected articles of Institute of Physics of the Earth, 2002

Tolstaya E., Yoshioka K., Zhdanov M. "Accuracy study of the quasi-analytical and quasi-linear approximations for 3-D electromagnetic field. CEMI Proceedings, 2002

M. Zhdanov, E. Tolstaya, "New Method of the Resolution Analysis of the Geophysical Inversion", CEMI Proceedings, 2003

M. Zhdanov, E. Tolstaya, "Three-dimensional Inversion of Array MT Data with Minimum Support Nonlinear Parameterization", CEMI Proceedings, 2003

Activity

Summer 1999 - Participation in international exchange program organized by CIEE

November 1999 - Participation in scientific workshop arranged by Shell Co in Moscow. By October 2000 our team received a grant on research concerning application of magnetic fluids in oil production, on which we worked until March of 2001.

Scolarship named after A. Tikhonov, 1999, given by Institute of Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

CEMI web site

Programming and computer skills

Programming languages - C/Visual C++, Matlab
Software - TeX, Photoshop, CorelDraw
Languages - English (fluent), French (fair), Russian (native)

Professional interests

Scientific computing, particularly inverse problems of image recognition, mathematical modeling, integral and partial differential equations.

Other interests

Web design
Horseback riding
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