51福利社

Dr. Wojciech L. Golik

Professor, 聽Mathematics

Young Hall 318
(636) 949-4701
[email protected]

Biographical Information

Dr. Golik earned a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Poznan Technological University, Poznan, Poland in 1982. His Master鈥檚 thesis was 鈥淚nverse Boundary Problems in Heat Transfer鈥�. After working a year as a mechanical engineer in Poland, he went to the New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM, to pursue graduate studies in mathematics. He received his M.S. in Mathematics in 1985 and his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1988. His doctoral dissertation was 鈥淐onvergence of the Boundary Integral Methods in Numerical Solutions of Fourier Problems鈥�.

After completing his Ph.D. Dr. Golik spent eleven years at University of Missouri at St. Louis (the last 3 years as a researcher for the Boeing Corporation) and two years at St. Louis Community College. He joined 51福利社 in 2001. He is currently Professor of Mathematics and Assistant Dean for Mathematical and Natural Sciences in the College of Science, Technology, and Health.

He lives in St. Louis with his wife Joletta.

Academic Interests

Dr. Golik鈥檚 academic interests include:

• Numerical Analysis
• Computational Mathematics
• Computational Electromagnetics
• Statistics
• Data Science
• History of Mathematics

Courses Taught

Dr. Golik has taught the following courses:

• Quantitative Methods for Business
• Basic Statistics
• Statistics for Natural Sciences
• College Algebra
• Pre-Calculus / Trigonometry
• Discrete Structures
• Financial Mathematics I
• Operations Research
• Probability and Statistics
• Computer Programming I and II
• Data Structures (w/ C++)
• Computer Graphics (w/ OpenGL)
• Engineering Mechanics
• Calculus I, II, and III
• Differential Equations
• Linear Algebra
• Introduction to Advanced Mathematics
• Advanced Calculus
• Partial Differential Equations
• Calculus of Variations
• History of Mathematics
• Numerical Analysis I and II
• Numerical Linear Algebra
• Numerical Partial Differential Equations
• Complex Variables

Publications

• W.L. Golik,聽 鈥淪iedemdziesi膮t Trzy鈥�, Ludowa Sp贸艂dzielnia Wydawnicza, Warszawa, Poland 聽(2013), ISBN: 978-83-205-5552-3, (in Polish).
• W.L. Golik, 鈥淪parsity and conditioning of impedance matrices obtained with semi-orthogonal and biorthogonal wavelet bases鈥�, IEEE Trans. Antennas Prop., 48(4), 473-481, 2000.
• W.L. Golik, 鈥淧arallel solvers for planar elliptic grid generation equations鈥�,聽J. Parallel Algorithms and Applications, 14,175-186, 2000.
• W.L. Golik, 鈥淐onditioning of biorthogonal wavelet transforms and iterative solvers for electromagnetic integral equations鈥�, 15th Annual Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics Proceedings, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, March 1999.
• W.L. Golik, 鈥淎 note on an adaptive algorithm based on Chebyshev coefficients for two-point boundary value problems鈥�, Proyecciones, 17(2), 201-213, 1998.
• W.L. Golik, 鈥淲avelet packets for fast solution of electromagnetic integral equations鈥�, IEEE Trans. Antennas Prop., 46(5), 618-625, 1998.
• W.L. Golik, D.S. Wang, and G.V. Welland, 鈥淔ast wavelet packet algorithm for the combined field integral equation鈥�, 13th Annual Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics Proceedings, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, March, 1997.
• P. Amogio, W.L. Golik, and F. Mazzia, 鈥淰ariable step boundary value methods based on reverse Adams schemes and their grid redistribution鈥�, Appl. Num. Math., 18, 5-21, 1995.
• W.L. Golik and J.A. Kolodziej, 鈥淎n adaptive boundary collocation method for linear PDEs鈥�, Num. Meth. for PDEs, 11, 555-600, 1995.
• W.L. Golik, 鈥淣umerical study of multigrid methods with various smoothers for the elliptic grid generation equations鈥�, in: N.D. Melson, T.A. Manteuffel, S.F. McCormick (eds.): Seventh Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods, NASA Conference Publ. 3339, 339-347, 1995.
• W.L. Golik, 鈥淥rder increasing grid adaption for Runge-Kutta methods applied to two-point boundary value problems鈥�, Computers Math. Applic. 27(4), 59-75, 1994.
• W.Connett, W. Golik, A. Schwartz, 鈥淎 superconvergent scheme on irregular grids for systems of two-point boundary value problems鈥�, Comp. Appl. Math., 12(3), 227-246, 1993.
• W.L. Golik, 鈥淐ontinuous dependence of solutions of some inverse problems in heat conduction鈥�, Appl. Mat. 21(4), 491-501, 1993.
• W.Connett, W. Golik, A. Schwartz, 鈥淭he best grid for a boundary value problem鈥�, Proceedings of the IV Int. Symp. on Comp. Fluid Dyn., U. of California, Davis, CA, 1991, p. 240-245.
• W.L. Golik, 鈥淐onvergence of boundary element methods in numerical solutions of Fourier problems鈥�, Proyecciones 10(1), 1-12, 1991.
• W.Connett, W.L. Golik, A. Schwartz, 鈥淪uperconvergent grids for two-point boundary value problems鈥�, Comp. Appl. Math. 10(1),43-58, 1991.
• W.L. Golik, 鈥淢onitor Invariance.聽 Evaluation of Color Dot Misconvergence for the Hitachi Monitor鈥�, Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science, Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, 97-1987.

Personal Interests

In his spare time, Dr. Golik can be found pursuing his hobbies, which include:

• Reading
• Bridge
• Sailing
• Skiing
• Biking
• Traveling