Category of Study: Signal analysis and Wavelets

Office: 232 Austin Bldg., East Carolina University, Greenville NC, USA

Email: pravicad@uwindsor.ca, pravicad@ecu.edu 

Phone Numbers: Cell (252) 864-6277, Office (252) 328-1901

Fax: (252) 328-6414 (Math Department at ECU)

Education:
BSc (1986), MSc (1987), PhD (1990) in Mathematics from the University of Toronto, ON, Canada

Academic Career:

• Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University 1991-1993,
• Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Windsor 1993-1994,
• Assistant Professor at East Carolina University 1994-1999,
• Associate Professor at ECU 1999-2007,
• Full Professor at ECU 2007-present,
• Adjunct Professor at the University of Windsor 2009-present.

Research Areas:
Quantum and Wave Mechanics, Fluid Dynamics, Gravitational Waves, Wavelet and Signal Analysis

Patent:
DW Pravica, OW Day, RS Brock, “Methods, systems, and computer program products for analyzing cardiovascular sounds using eigenfunctions”, USPTO patent no. 7621875, issue date November 24, 2009.

Textbook:
DW Pravica, MJ Spurr, “Mathematical Models and the Scientific Method”,
release date February 12, 2010.

Recent Publications:
1. DW Pravica, N Randriampiry, MJ Spurr, Theta function identities in the study of wavelets satisfying advanced differential equations, ACHA (to appear).

2. DW Pravica, N Randriampiry, MJ Spurr, Applications of an advanced differential equation in the study of wavelets, Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal. 27 (2008) 2-11.

3. Xin-Hua Hu, JQ Lu, C Chen, RS Brock, DW Pravica, Validity of a closed-form diffusion solution in P1 approximation for reflectance imaging with an oblique beam of arbitrary profile, Medical Physics, 35(9), (2008) 3979-3987.

4. M Bier, O Day, DW Pravica, Murmurs and noise caused by arterial narrowing – Theory and clinical practice, Fluctuation and Noise Letters, © World Scientific Publishing Company 6 (4), (2006) 415-425.

5. M Bier, RS Brock, OW Day, DW Pravica, Stable stationary vortices and traveling oscillatory vortices in a stenotic fluid-flow channel, Physical Review E (Fluid dynamics) Volume 72(6), Catalogue #067303; (2005) 1-4.

6. DW Pravica, MJ Spurr, Unique summing of formal power series solutions to advanced and delayed differential equations, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Supplement Volume, (2005) 730-737.

7. DW Pravica, MJ Spurr, Analytic continuation into the FUTURE, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Supplement Volume, (2003) 709-716.