Personal Details

  • Address:
         University of Zagreb
         Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
         Department of Applied Mathematics
         Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
  • e-mail: tomislav.buric@fer.hr
  • languages: Croatian (first), English (fluent)
     

Education

  • October 2007 - September 2011: PhD studies in mathematics
    Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    Main area: mathematical analysis; special functions
    PhD thesis: Asymptotic expansions of the gamma function and quotient of gamma functions, September 2011, supervisor: Professor Neven Elezović
  • September 2002 - June 2007: Graduate studies in telecommunication and informatics
    Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    Main area: Applied mathematics and machine learning
    Master thesis: Learning set of rules based on first order logic, June 2007
     

Employment

  • 2024 - today: Full Professor
    2019 - 2024: Associate Professor
    2015 - 2019: Assistant Professor
    2011 - 2015: Senior assistant (postdoc)
    2007 - 2011: Research associate
    Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia

​Awards and scholarships

  • 2015 Endeavour Research Fellowship, Australian Government
  • 2012 ”Roberto Giannini” award for excellence in teaching and working with students
    Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  • 2003, 2005 Acknowledgement ”Josip Lončar” for excellent achievements in graduate studies
    Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  • October 2004 - February 2007 The City of Zagreb Student Scholarship

 

Research

Research interests: mathematical analysis and applications, asymptotic expansions and approximations, special functions

Selected publications:

  1. D. Jankov Maširević, T.K. Pogány, T. Burić, Integral and series representations of the Nuttall function, Journal of computational and applied mathematics, 453 (2025)
  2. T. Burić, L. Mihoković, Asymptotic approximations of expectations of power means, Statistica neerlandica, 78 (2024) 505-522.
  3. T. Burić, Improvements of asymptotic approximation formulas for the factorial function, Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics 13 (2019); 895-904
  4. T. Burić, N. Elezović, Computation and analysis of the asymptotic expansions of the compound means, Appl. Math. Comput. 303 (2017), 48-54.
  5. T. Burić, Asymptotic analysis of the iterative power means, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 433 (2016), 701-705
  6. T. Burić, N. Elezović, L. Vukšić, Appell polynomials and asymptotic expansions, Medditerian J. Math. 13 (2016), 899-912.
  7. T. Burić, N. Elezović, Asymptotic expansions of the binomial coefficients, J. Appl. Math. Comp. 46 (2014), 135-145.
  8. T. Burić, N. Elezović, Approximants of the Euler-Mascheroni constant and harmonic numbers, Appl. Math. Comput., 222 (2013), 604-611.
  9. T. Burić, N. Elezović, New asymptotic expansions of the gamma function and improvements of Stirling's type formulas, J. Comput. Anal. Appl., 13 (2011), 785-795.
  10. T. Burić, N. Elezović, Bernoulli polynomials and asymptotic expansions of the quotient of gamma functions, J. Comput. Appl. Math., 235 (2011), 3315-3331.

Selected international conference talks:

  • Asymptotic analysis of the compound means with applications, The 7th Mediterranean International Conference of Pure & Applied Mathematics and Related Areas, Antalya, Turkey, October 2024. (invited plenar talk)
  • Expectations of large data power means. XIII Annual International Conference of the Georgian Mathematical Union, Batumi, Georgia, September 2023.
  • Comparison of exact and heuristic methods for numerical approximation of functions. International Conference on Mathematics and Computer Science, Brasov, Romania, September 2022.
  • Computation and analysis of the asymptotic behaviour of the compound means. Computational Methods and Function Theory, Chile, January 2022.
  • New asymptotic expansions and improvements of approximation formulas for the gamma function, Computational Methods and Function Theory, Lublin, Poland, July 2017.
  • Asymptotic formulas for the binomial coefficients and the Catalan numbers, 39. Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, University of Queensland, Australia, December 2015.
  • Asymptotic expansions of the multiple quotients of the gamma functions with applications, International Conference on Mathematical Inequalities and Nonlinear Functional Analysis with Applications, Jinju, Korea, July 2012.
  • Some completely monotonic functions related to the psi function, International Conference on Mathematical Inequalities and Applications, Lahore, Pakistan, March 2010.
     

Other activities: 

  • May 2015 - present: Associate Editor for Journal of Mathematical Inequalities
     

Teaching

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing

  • Graduate study: Decision and game theory (2023-present), Complex Analysis (2012-2022)
  • Undergraduate study: Mathematical Analysis 1 and 2 (2018-present), Probability and statistics (2012-2018)

Published university textbook:

  • T. Burić et al., Vector Analysis for Mathematics 3, Element, Zagreb (2013)