Education

Biography

 Dr Adrian Nicolae Branga received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca in February 2003. His current research concerns are Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Modelling, Computational Algorithms, Dynamical systems, Statistical Computation and Applications, Data Mining, Databases, Information Technology. He is currently Associated Professor at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania. Between 2002 and 2010 he worked in the Software Industry as a Programmer Analyst at AMN Systems Ro, with the following technologies: C++, C#, ASP, PHP, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, CSS, JQuery, XML. Dr Branga worked on several research projects during his career. He wrote 8 books / monographs and published 18 scientific articles in journals indexed in Thomson Reuters Web of Science or other international databases and 6 papers in proceedings of international conferences. He was a member in the scientific and organizing committees of 16 international conferences and invited speaker / participant (with scientific papers) at 45 international conferences and research seminars. Dr Branga is a member of the Research Center in Mathematics and Applications within Lucian Blaga University. He was Editor-in-Chief of the journal General Mathematics between 2010 and 2014.

Research Interest

• Applied Mathematics
• Mathematical Modelling
• Computational Algorithms
• Dynamical systems
• Statistical Computation and Applications
• Data Mining
• Databases
• Information Technology
  

Scientific Activities

1. 8 books published in national accredited publishing houses (4 books single author, 2 books two authors and 2 book three authors).
2. 18 papers published in scientific journals (2 scientific articles published in journals indexed in Thomson Reuters Web of Science, 16 scientific articles published in journals indexed in other international databases).
3. 6 scientific articles published in collective volumes reviewed in Zentralblatt - MATH.
4. 45 participations at international conferences and research seminars in mathematics.
5. Project director of two research projects in mathematics (one international and one national) and team member in other two international research projects.
6. Member of the Scientific Research Seminar in Mathematics and Related Fields (2010-present).
7. More then 15 citations in research journals indexed in Thomson Reuters Web of Science or in other international databases.

Publications

1. Adrian Nicolae Branga, Mugur Acu, A remarkable equality referring to spline functions in Hilbert spaces, Filomat, ISSN 0354-5180, vol. 24, no. 4, pp 121-127, 2010. (Thomson Reuters - Web of Science - Science Citation Index Expanded, IF=0.753, RIS=0.391)
2. Adrian Nicolae Branga, Natural splines of Birkhoff type and optimal approximation, Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications, ISSN 1521-1398, vol. 7, no. 1, pp 81-88, 2005. (Thomson Reuters - Web of Science - Science Citation Index Expanded, IF=0.799, RIS=0.274)
3. Eugen Constantinescu, Adrian Nicolae Branga, Applications of the improved Fejer’s sum, General Mathematics, ISSN 1221-5023, vol. 20, no. 5, pp 31–36, 2012. (IDB: Zentralblatt Math)
4. Ion Marian Olaru, Adrian Nicolae Branga, Anca Oprea, Common fixed point results in b-cone metric spaces over topological vector spaces, General Mathematics, ISSN 1221-5023, vol. 20, no. 1, pp 57–67, 2012. (IDB: Zentralblatt Math)
5. Ion Marian Olaru, Adrian Nicolae Branga, Common fixed point results in b-K-metric spaces, General Mathematics, ISSN 1221-5023, vol. 19, no. 4, pp 51-59, 2011. (IDB: Zentralblatt Math)
6. Adrian Nicolae Branga, Eugen Constantinescu, On a property of the spline functions, Journal of Science and Arts, ISSN 1844-9581, vol. 11, no. 4 (17), pp 413-416, 2011. (IDB: Zentralblatt Math)
7. Adrian Nicolae Branga, A generalization of some classical quadrature formulas, General Mathematics, ISSN 1221-5023, vol. 18, no. 1, pp 19-23, 2010. (IDB: Zentralblatt Math)
8. Mugur Acu, Adrian Nicolae Branga, Daniel Breaz, Nicoleta Breaz, Eugen Constantinescu, Alina Totoi, On some integral operators on analytic functions, General Mathematics, ISSN 1221-5023, vol. 17, no. 4, pp 205-210, 2009. (IDB: Zentralblatt Math)
9. Adrian Nicolae Branga, A structural theorem of the generalized spline functions, General Mathematics, ISSN 1221-5023, vol. 17, no. 2, pp 135-143, 2009. (IDB: Zentralblatt Math) Page 6/9 - Curriculum Vitae of Adrian Nicolae BRANGA | © European Union, 202-2017, http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu
10. Adrian Nicolae Branga, A best approximation property of the generalized spline functions, General Mathematics, ISSN 1221-5023, vol. 16, no. 4, pp 25-33, 2008. (IDB: Zentralblatt Math)
11. Adrian Nicolae Branga, Development in series of orthogonal polynomials with applications in optimization, General Mathematics, ISSN 1221-5023, vol. 15, no. 1, pp 101-110, 2007. (IDB: Zentralblatt Math)
12. Adrian Nicolae Branga, Spline functions with applications to optimal approximation, General Mathematics, ISSN 1221-5023, vol. 14, no. 4, pp 135-146, 2006. (IDB: Zentralblatt Math)
13. Adrian Nicolae Branga, Optimal approximation of linear functionals using natural splines of Hermite type, Buletinul Ştiinţific al Universităţii Politehnica din Timişoara, seria Matematică- Fizică, ISSN 1224-6069, pp. 23-30, 1999. (IDB: Zentralblatt Math)
14. Adrian Nicolae Branga, On Hermite interpolation formula, General Mathematics, ISSN 1221-5023, vol. 6, pp 11-15, 1998. (IDB: Zentralblatt Math)
15. Adrian Nicolae Branga, A fundamental property of B-splines, General Mathematics, ISSN 1221-5023, vol. 4, pp 33-39, 1996. (IDB: Zentralblatt Math)
16. Adrian Nicolae Branga, A property of divided differences with multiple nodes, General Mathematics, ISSN 1221-5023, vol. 4, pp 21-32, 1996. (IDB: Zentralblatt Math)
17. Adrian Nicolae Branga, Some properties of interpolating polynomials, General Mathematics, ISSN 1221-5023, vol. 3, no. 1-2, pp 29-40, 1995. (IDB: Zentralblatt Math)
18. Adrian Nicoale Branga, A sufficient condition for univalence, General Mathematics, ISSN 1221-5023, vol. 2, no. 3, pp 145-150, 1994. (IDB: Zentralblatt Math)