Susan E. Minkoff

Sue Minkoff

Associate Professor [smiley]
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Phone: (410) 455-3029
Fax: (410) 455-1066

sminkoff@umbc.edu

Ph.D. Rice University, Computational and Applied Mathematics, 1995
B.S. Duke University, Mathematics and Computer Science, 1986

Teaching, Spring 2008

Math 630: Matrix Analysis
Class Meets: MW 4:00 - 5:15 pm MP 012
Office Hours: W 2:30-3:30 pm or by appointment
Teaching in Past Semesters

Research Interests:

I consider myself a very applied mathematician. My general research area is scientific computing with primary emphasis to date on numerical modeling for geoscience problems (seismic imaging and wave propagation, reservoir simulation, and mechanical deformation modeling). Mainly I enjoy using mathematics and numerical simulation to model the "real-world" as closely as possible given limitations in physics, mathematics, and computer science. These studies tend to be data driven. Scientific computing balances applied mathematics, engineering, and computer science, using tools from all three subject areas to address physical problems of interest to applications scientists. I have broad interests that include not only earth science, but (perhaps unfortunately) almost all physical,chemical, and biological problems that can benefit from the skills and insights of an applied mathematician.

Current Projects:

Collaborative Research: Multiscale Aspects of Wave Propagation Inverse Problems
Computational Modeling of Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Sensors
Imaging Permeability and Fluid Mobility in a Deformable Medium
Carbon Sequestration Modeling of Leakage along a Fault

Past Projects:

SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences
Leipzig, Germany
June, 2009
SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences
Santa Fe, New Mexico
March 19-22, 2007

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

[Please note that for portability, I have converted as many papers as possible to pdf format. Older papers may appear fuzzy when viewed on your screen. They print cleanly, however.]

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Conference Proceedings:

1) T. Vdovina and S. Minkoff, 2008. "A Two-Scale Solution Algorithm for the Elastic Wave Equation", submitted.

2) N. Zakarias, J. Zweck, A. Kosterev, and S. E. Minkoff, 2008. "Theoretical Analysis of a Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Sensor", in preparation.

3) D. W. Vasco and S. E. Minkoff, 2008. "Modeling Flow in a Pressure-Sensitive, Heterogeneous Medium", in preparation.

4) K. Chang, S. Bryant, and S. E. Minkoff, 2008. "Modeling Leakage through Faults of CO2 Stored in an Aquifer", in preparation.

5) T. Vdovina and S. Minkoff, 2008. "An a Priori Error Analysis of Operator Upscaling for the Acoustic Wave Equation", International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, vol. 5, no. 4, pp.543--569.

6) J. Zweck and S. Minkoff, 2006. "Modeling Compensation for Optical Fiber Communication Systems", SIAM Journal on Optimization, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 738-775.

7) O. Korostyshevskaya and S. Minkoff, 2006. "A Matrix Analysis of Operator-Based Upscaling for the Wave Equation", SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 586-612.

8) S. Minkoff and N. Kridler, 2006. "A Comparison of Adaptive Time Stepping Methods for Coupled Flow and Deformation Modeling", Applied Mathematical Modeling, vol. 30, no. 9, pp. 993-1009. [Also see: Science Direct ]

9) R. Dean, X. Gai, C. Stone, and S. Minkoff, 2006. "A Comparison of Techniques for Coupling Porous Flow and Geomechanics", Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Journal, vol. 11, pp. 132-140.

10) T. Vdovina, S. Minkoff, and O. Korostyshevskaya, 2005. "Operator Upscaling for the Acoustic Wave Equation", SIAM Journal on Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 1305-1338.

11) N. Kridler and S. Minkoff, 2004. "Numerical Simulation of Coupled Fluid Flow and Mechanical Deformation Models", UMBC Review, vol. 5, pp. 98-111.

12) S. Minkoff, C. Stone, S. Bryant, and M. Peszynska, 2004. "Coupled Geomechanics and Flow Simulation for Time-Lapse Seismic Modeling", Geophysics, vol. 69, pp. 200-211.

13) S. Minkoff, C. Stone, S. Bryant, M. Peszynska, and M. Wheeler, 2003. "Coupled Fluid Flow and Geomechanical Deformation Modeling", Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, vol. 38, pp. 37-56.

14) C. Stone, S. Minkoff, S. Webb, and S. Sobolik, 2003. "Two-Way Coupling of a Nonlinear Geomechanics Code with Several Porous Flow Simulators", Proceedings of the 2nd M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, (Cambridge, MA), Elsevier, pp. 1521-1523.

15) J. Zweck, S. Minkoff, A. Lima, I. Lima, and C. Menyuk, 2003. "A Comparative Study of Feedback Controller Sensitivity to All Orders of PMD for a Fixed DGD Compensator", 2003 Optical Society of America, Optical Fiber Communications Meeting, (Atlanta, GA), pp. 590-591.

16) S. E. Minkoff, 2002. "Spatial Parallelism of a 3D Finite Difference, Velocity-Stress Elastic Wave Propagation Code", SIAM J. Scientific Computing, vol. 24, pp. 1-19.

17) S. Minkoff, C. Stone, J. Arguello, S. Bryant, J. Eaton, M. Peszynska, and M. Wheeler, 1999. "Coupled Geomechanics and Flow Simulation for Time-Lapse Seismic Modeling", Proceedings of the 69th Annual International Meeting of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, (Houston, TX.), pp. 1667-1670.

18) S. Minkoff, W. Symes, S. Bryant, J. Eaton, and M. Wheeler, 1998. "Reservoir Characterization via Time-Lapse Prestack Seismic Inversion", Proceedings of the 68th Annual International Meeting of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, (New Orleans, LA.), pp. 44-47.

19) S. E. Minkoff and W. W. Symes, 1997. "Full Waveform Inversion of Marine Reflection Data in the Plane-Wave Domain", Geophysics, vol. 62, pp. 540-553.

20) S. E. Minkoff, 1996. "A Computationally Feasible Approximate Resolution Matrix for Seismic Inverse Problems", Geophysical Journal International, vol. 126, pp. 345-359.

21) S. E. Minkoff and W. W. Symes, 1995. "Estimating the Energy Source and Reflectivity by Seismic Inversion", Inverse Problems, vol. 11, pp. 383-395.

22) S. E. Minkoff and W. W. Symes, 1994. "Viscoelastic Modeling and Inversion of a Marine Data Set", Proceedings of the 64th Annual International Meeting of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, (Los Angeles, CA.), pp. 1016-1019.

23) S. E. Minkoff and W. W. Symes, 1993. "Simultaneous Determination of the Source-Time Function and Reflectivity via Inversion", Proceedings of the 63rd Annual International Meeting of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, (Washington, D.C.), pp. 649-652.

Other Publications:

24) S. Minkoff, C. Stone, J. Arguello, S. Bryant, J. Eaton, M. Peszynska, and M. Wheeler, 1999. "Staggered In Time Coupling of Reservoir Flow Simulation and Geomechanical Deformation: Step 1 --- One-Way Coupling", Proceedings of the 1999 Society of Petroleum Engineers' Reservoir Simulation Symposium, (Houston, TX.), pp. 329-330.

25) C. Ober, R. Gjertsen, S. Minkoff, and D. Womble, 1998. "3D Finite-Difference Seismic Migration with Parallel Computers", in Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation: SIAM, J. DeSanto, Ed., pp. 381-385.

26) T. Arbogast, S. Minkoff, and P. Keenan, 1998. "An Operator-Based Approach to Upscaling the Pressure Equation", in Computational Methods in Water Resources XII: Computational Mechanics Publications, V. Burganos, G. Karatzas, A. Payatakes, C. Brebbia, W. Gray, and G. Pinder, Eds., pp. 405-412.

27) T. Arbogast, S. Minkoff, and P. Keenan, 1997. "An Operator-Based Approach to Upscaling the Pressure Equation", Tech Report 97-30, Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Math, University of Texas.

28) S. E. Minkoff and W. W. Symes, 1994. "Estimating the Energy Source and Reflectivity by Seismic Inversion", in Mathematical Methods in Geophysical Imaging II: Proc. SPIE 2301, Siamak Hassanzadeh, Ed., pp. 43-56.

29) S. E. Minkoff, 1994. "Implementation of the Conjugate Gradient Algorithm in DSO", Tech Report 94-31, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University.