Oren Livne's Personal Homepage

RUReady? Continuing education at the University of Utah
Academic Outreach and Continuing Education (AOCE)
1901 East South Campus Dr., Room 2197-D
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Tel. (801) 581-6831
Fax (801) 585-5414
Email: olivne@aoce.utah.edu
Personal Homepage: http://ruready.net/oren
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Short Biography

Born in Ramat Gan, Israel in 1978, Oren Livne received his B.A. degree (Summa Cum Laude) in applied mathematics from the Technion in 1994, and his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2000. During 2000-2002 he was a Visiting Scientist at Weizmann as well as an Israel Defense Forces Officer at the Directorate of Defense Research and Development. Oren worked as a Radar Systems Research and Development Staff Scientist at ELTA - Israel Aircraft Industries (1998-1999) and as a Printed Circuit Board Testing Research and Development Staff Scientist at Orbotech, Ltd. (2001-2002). He was an Individualized Computerized Units (ICUs) Developer for Israel's Ministry of Education (1998-2000). He held two postdoctoral fellowships at Stanford University (with Prof. Gene Golub, 2002-2004), and at the Scientific Computing & Imaging Institute at the University of Utah (2004-2006). Oren is currently Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, concurrently working at the Continuing Education Division on RUReady.

Oren has published 15 scholarly journal papers in applied mathematics, natural languages and mathematics education. He has been awarded the Manchester Who's Who as an Honored Member (2006-07); Who's Who in America: Award of Recognition for Research Achievement, 2006; Paper Excellence Award, Eleventh Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods (2003); and The Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Prize for Engineering and Technology (2000). He is a member of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) since 2004.

Oren is RUReady's software architect of and the inventor of its Advanced Mathematical Expression Parsing System. He and his colleagues (N. Livne & C. Wight) have recently been awarded a U.S. Provisional Patent Application on the program: System and Method for Academic Evaluation and Education (Docket No. 25702.PROV, filed January 2006).

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RUReady @ Mount Rushmore

Applied Mathematics

  • Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) algorithms for large sparse linear systems and eigenvalue problems
  • Numerical linear algebra
  • Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) for multi-phase explosive systems and fluid dynamics
  • Radar detection and tracking

Natural Languages

  • Development of mathematical and textual expression parsers
  • Parser element identification and categorization
  • Approximate tree matching and Munkres assignment algorithms

Mathematics Education

  • Modeling and measuring cognitive processes in mathematics and science
  • Developing individualized curriculum units
  • Psychometric assessment of abilities and talent
  • Development of technology-based creative learning tools for K-12 and college readiness.

Collaborators Back to top
  • Nava Livne, AOCE, University of Utah (she is also my mother in case you wondered).
  • Chuck Wight, AOCE and Chemistry, University of Utah.
  • Steve McCormick, Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder.
  • Grady Wright, Mathematics, University of Utah.
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