Full Professor in Mathematics and Informatics
(Special Functions, Numerical Analysis, Optimization,
Computer graphics and Programming)
Home-page http://math.masfak.ni.ac.rs/math/~PredragRajkovic/
Office Location: 606a,
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Nis, Serbia
A. Medvedeva 14, 18 000 Nis, Serbia
Job-phone: +381-18-500-721
Fax: +381-18-588-244
E-mail: pedja.rajk@yahoo.com,
pedja.rajk@gmail.com,
pedja.rajk@masfak.ni.ac.rs
RESEARCH INTERESTS
¨ Special functions (MSC:33)
Q-calculus (basic hypergeometric functions ), Special transformations
¨ Numerical Analysis (MSC: 65)
Orthogonal polynomials, Numerical integration, Approximation theory
¨ Combinatorics (MSC: 05)
¨ Computer graphics(MSC: 68U)
¨ Mathematical programming (MSC: 90C)
WORK EXPERIENCE
à 2009. Full professor for mathematics and informatics
(special functions, analysis, programming, geometry, optimization)
University of Nis, Faculty of Mechanical Eng., Department for Mathematics
à 2004. High assistant professor for mathematics and informatics
(numerical analysis, programming and geometry
University of Nis, Faculty of Mechanical Eng., Department for Mathematics
à 1999. Assistant Professor for Numerical Analysis,
Computer Programming and Geometry
University of Nis, Faculty of Mechanical Eng., Department for Mathematics
à 1984. Research and teaching assistant for mathematics
(Numerical Analysis, Computer Programming, Geometry and Calculus)
University of Nis, Faculty of Mechanical Eng., Department for Mathematics
EDUCATION
Doctoral Dissertation (1998)
“New Types of Orthogonality of Polynomials and Their Applications”
Scientific Area: Numerical Analysis
University of Niš, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics.
Master’s Thesis (1991)
“ Complex Orthogonal Polynomials and Their Applications”,
Scientific Area: Numerical Analysis, Approximating theory, Quadrature, Orthogonal Polynomials, Differential Equations, Programming.
University of Niš, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics.
Bachelor of Mathematics (1983)
University of Niš, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics.
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Multimedia Technology for Mathematics and Computer Science Education, 2002.-2008.
Partner in the project within the DAAD-Sonderprogramm Akademischer Neuaufbau Südosteuropa in the framework of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe (leader of the project: prof. dr Konrad Polthier)
2. Tempus project 145009-Tempus-2008-RS-JPHES, 2010-2012,
Conversion Courses for Unemployed University Graduates in Serbia CONCUR.
3. Integral Transform Methods, Special Functions And Applications,
(Project ID_02_2009), National Science Fund, Ministry of Education and
Science of Bulgaria, Project Leader: Dr. Virginia Kiryakova, Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences (as a foreign member of the team with other researchers
from Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, Belarus).
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
- DAAD-scholarship, Germany
November-December, 2004. at University in Kassel, Germany
Host: prof. dr. Wolfram Koepf ,
AG Computational Mathematics Fachbereich Mathematik / Informatik
http://www.mathematik.uni-kassel.de/~koepf/
Theme: “On q-differrence equations and their role in the investigation of
the orthogonal polynomials and special number sequences”
- DAAD-scholarship, Germany,
University in Kassel, Germany, 2008.
- Foreign examiner for doctoral dissertation, Ireland, 2011
Waterford Insitute, candidate: Aoife Hennessy
Host: prof. dr Paul Barry
ADVISOR’S WORK
A) Advisor of doctoral dissertation in mathematics
1. candidate: mr Slađana D. Marinković,
The Applications Of The Basic Hypergeometric Functions In The Theory Of
Orthogonality And Numerical Mathematics,
doctoral dissertation in mathematics, University of Niš, Faculty of Mathematics
and Natural Sciences, Niš, 2005.
B) Coadvisor of doctoral dissertation in mathematics
2. candidate: Marko D. Petković,
The Symbolic Computing Of Hankel Determinants And Generalized Matrix
Inverses,
doctoral dissertation in mathematics and informatics, University of Niš,
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, 2008.
C) Coadvisor of master thesis in mathematics
3. candidate: Savić Nataša, coadvisor,
Generating Functions And Riordan Sequences With Applications On
Hankel Determinants And Combinatorial Interpretation
Magister thesis in mathematics and informatics, University of Niš, Faculty of
Mathematics and Natural Sciences, 2012.
D) Member of commissions for doctoral dissertations
1. Marko Miladinović, comission member for Ph. D thesis in mathematics and
informatics, 2011., University of Niš.
2. Aoife Hennessy, comission foregn member for Ph. D thesis in mathematics
and informatics, 2011., Waterford Insitute, Ireland.
REVIEWER
I am reiviewer for in the following journals:
- Applied Mathematics and Compupation;
- Journal of Compuational and Applied Mathematics;
- Mathematical Computation and Modelling;
- Discrete Mathematical Analisys and Applications;
- Fractional calculus and applied analysis;
- Facta Universitatis;
- FILOMAT
- Mathematical Journal of Novi Sad
MONOGRAPHS AND BOOKS
1) P.M. Rajkovic, S.D. Marinkovic and M.S. Stankovic
Differential And Integral Calculus Of Basic Hypergeometric Functions
(monography) Nis, 2008.
(Mathematical Subject Classification:
33D15, 33D60, 33D45, 33C45, 39A13,11B65, 26D15, 26A33, 30C15, 41A30)
2) Lj. Petkovic, S.Trickovic and P.M. Rajkovic,
A Collection Of Tasks In Numerical Mathematics,
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Nis, 1997.
PARTICIPATION IN SERBIAN SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS
1) Dynamical Stability And Unstability Of Mechanical
2) Systems Under Stochastical Disruption,
Project of Ministry of Republic Serbia, 2011-2014.
3) Deterministic and stochastic stability of mechanical systems,
Project of Ministry of Republic Serbia, 2006-2010.
4) Stability and nonlinear oscilations of viscoelastic composite platforms,
Project of Ministry of Republic Serbia, 2001-2005.
5) Methods and Models in theoretical and Applied Mathematics,
Project of Mathematical Institute of Republic Serbia, 1996 - 2001.
6) Project of Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Nis, 1996-2001.
7) Mathematics with Applications, Project of Mathematical Institute of Republic Serbia, 1991-1995.
CONFERENCE ORGANAZING COMMITTEE
I was the member of organizing and scientific committee of the next conferences:
- MASHING - The Second International Conference “Mechanical Engineering In The Xxi Century”, Nis, 2013.
- SAUM - XI Conference on Systems, Automatic Control and Measure, Niš, 2012.
- MASHING - The Second International Conference “Mechanical Engineering In The Xxi Century”, Nis, 2011.
- SAUM - X Conference on Systems, Automatic Control and Measure, Niš, 2009.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
- Serbian Society of Mathematics, Belgrade, Kneza Milosa 35, Serbia
PUBLICATIONS
Total: 84
A) Papers published in refereed journals (SCI-list): 25
B) Papers published in journals with international editorial board: 17
C) Papers published in the proceedings of international conferences: 33
D) Papers published in abstract-book of international conferences: 9
Cited by : 164
A) Papers published in refereed journals (SCI-list)
- Predrag M. Rajković , Paul Barry and Marko D. Petković,
Sobolev orthogonal polynomials in computing of Hankel determinants,
Linear algebra and applications 437 (10) (2012), 2417–2428 (M21)
Cited by 1
- Slađana D. Marinković, Miomir S. Stanković, Predrag M. Rajković,
Functions induced by iterated deformed Laguerre derivative: analytical and
operational approach,
Abstract and Applied Analysis (2012) 1-17.
Hindawi Publishing Corporation Abstract and Applied Analysis Volume 2012,
Article ID 190726, 17 pages (M21)
- Marko D. Petković, Paul Barry and Predrag M. Rajković,
Closed-form expression for Hankel determinants of the Narayana polynomials,
Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal, 62 (137) (2012), 39–57 (M23)
- Miomir S. Stanković, Slađana D. Marinković, Predrag M. Rajković,
The deformed exponential functions of two variables in the context of various
statistical mechanics,
Applied Mathematics and Computation 218 (2011) 2439–2448 (M21)
Cited by 2
- Miomir S. Stanković, Slađana D. Marinković, Predrag M. Rajković,
Deformed and modified Mittag-Leffler polynomials,
Mathematical and Computer Modelling 54 (2011) 721–728. (M21)
Cited by 3
- Marko D. Petković, Predrag M. Rajković and Paul Barry,
The Hankel transform of generalized central trinomial coefficients and related sequences,
Integral Transforms and Special Functions, Vol. 22, Issue 1 (2011), 29–44
(M22)
Cited by 1
- Miomir S. Stanković, Predrag M. Rajković, Slađana D. Marinković,
On The Fractional q-Derivative Of Caputo Type,
Comptes rendus de l'Acad_emie bulgare des Sciences 63, No 2, 2010, 1-8. (M23)
- Paul Barry, Predrag M. Rajković and Marko D. Petković,
An Application of Sobolev Orthogonal Polynomials to the Computation of a
Special Hankel Determinant,
chapter of the book “Approximation and Computation” (In Honor of Gradimir V.
Milovanović) Series:
Springer Optimization and Its Applications, Vol. 42 (2010), pp. 1-8. (M13)
Cited by 9
- Predrag M. Rajković, Slađana D. Marinković, Miomir S. Stanković,
A generalization of the concept of q--fractional integrals,
Acta Mathematica Sinica, English version, Vol. 25, No. 10 (2009), 1635-1646.
(M22)
Cited by 5
- Bratislav Danković, Predrag M. Rajković, Slađana D. Marinković,
On a class of almost orthogonal polynomials,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5434, (M23) Numerical Analysis and its
Aplications, Springer-Verlag
Berlin Heidelberg, (2009) 241—248. S. Margenov, L.G. Vulkov, and J.
Wa´sniewski (Eds.): NAA 2008
Proceedings of The Fourth Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applications,
June (2008), Lozenetz, Bulgaria.
Cited by 6
- Slađana D. Marinković, Predrag M. Rajković, Miomir S. Stanković,
The inequalities for some types of q-integrals,
Computers and Mathematics with Applications 56 (2008) 2490–2498 (M21)
Cited by 12
- Ratko Pavlović, Predrag Rajković, and Ivan Pavlović,
Almost Sure Stability of a Moving Elastic Band,
Journal of Applied Mechanics, July 2008, Volume 75, Issue 4, 041016 (M22)
- Ratko Pavlović, Predrag M. Rajković, I. Pavlović,
Dynamic stability of the viscoelastic rotating shaft subjected to random
excitation,
International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 50(2008), PP. 359-364. (M21)
Cited by 7
- Wolfram Koepf, Predrag M. Rajković , Slađana D. Marinković,
Properties of q-Holonomic Functions,
Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, Vol. 13, No. 7 (2007), 621–
638. (M21)
Cited by 2
- Predrag M. Rajković, M.D. Petković, P. Barry,
The Hankel Transform of the Sum of Consecutive Generalized Catalan
Numbers,
Integral Transforms and Special Functions, Vol. 18, Issue 4, 2007, 285--296.
(M22)
Cited by 15
- Predrag Kozić, Ratko Pavlović, Predrag M. Rajković,
Moment Lyapunov Exponents and Stochastic Stability of a Parametrically
Excited Oscillator,
Meccanica, Vol. 42 (2007) 323–330. (M22)
Cited by 1