Center for Computational Mathematics (CCM)

Director

Executive Committee

CCM Members and Research Areas

• Gita Alaghband Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1986. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, parallel processing, performance measurements and modeling, parallel algorithm design, parallel architectures.
• Tom Altman Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Algorithms, complexity, network design and optimization, parallel computation.
• Lynn S. Bennethum Ph.D., Purdue University, 1994. Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Mathematical modeling of porous media, constitutive modeling of swelling porous media (e.g. clay, polymers, membranes), continuum mechanics, numerically solving partial differential equations.
• Stephen Billups Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1995. Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Optimization, numerical methods, complementarity problems.
• Leopoldo Franca Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987. Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Finite element methods, fluids and structural mechanics.
• Ellen Gethner, Computer Science and Engineering, Mathematics PhD, Ohio State University 1992, Theoretical Computer Science, PhD University of British Columbia 2002, Graph Theory, Graph Algorithms, Combinatorial, Discrete, and Computational Geometry, Number Theory, Combinatorics.
• Andrew Knyazev PhD, Institute of Numerical Mathematics Russian Academy of Sciences, 1985. Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Numerical linear algebra, iterative solution of large sparse linear systems and eigenproblems, bounds for eigenvalues, numerical solution of partial differential equations, parallel computation, data mining.
• Julien Langou Ph.D., CERFACS, France, 2003. Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Numerical linear algebra, Error analysis of algorithms, Parallel computing, Numerical analysis
• Hai Lin Ph. D, University of Science and Technology of China, 1998 Department of Chemistry, Computational chemistry, combined quantum mechanical / molecular mechanical methods, enzyme modeling and simulations.
• Weldon Lodwick Ph.D., Oregon State University, 1977. Department of Mathematical and Statistical Science, Optimization, linear and nonlinear programming, interval analysis and self-validation, artificial intelligence, applications (medicine, natural resources, industrial processes).
• Rich Lundgren Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1971. Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Applied graph theory and combinatorial matrix theory with application to large matrix models and communication networks.
• Jan Mandel Ph.D., Charles University, Czechoslovakia, 1983. Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Numerical solution of partial differential equations, large scale computations, supercomputing and parallel methods, domain decomposition and multigrid methods, fast iterative methods for problems in structural mechanics and electromagnetics.
• Thomas Manteuffel Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1975. UCB Department of Applied Mathematics , Numerical linear algebra, iterative solution of large sparse linear systems, numerical solution of partial differential equations, integral equations, transport models.
• Anatolii (Tolya) Puhalskii Ph.D., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1984. Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Probability theory, queueing theory, large deviation theory.
• Burt Simon Ph.D., Univ. Michigan, 1980. Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Simulation, queueing theory and mathematical modeling.
• Scott Reed Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2001. Department of Chemistry, Principal component analysis, parallel factor analysis, chemometrics, image analysis.
• Boris Stilman , Ph.D.s, in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, National Research Institute for Electrical Engineering, Moscow, 1984. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering.
• Randy Tagg Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics, Experiments in chaos and nonlinear dynamical systems, hydrodynamic instabilities and transition to turbulence, condensed matter physics, particularly liquid state and phase transitions.
• John Trapp Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1970. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Two-phase flow modelling; computational fluid mechanics.
• Sam Welch Ph.D., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Computational fluid mechanics, Dynamics, Fluid mechanics, Heat transfer, Finite-elements

• Merico Argentati, Ph.D., UC Denver, 2003, Adjunct faculty Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences. UC Denver. Numerical linear algebra and applications.
  
• Anthony Cox Ph.D., MIT, 1986. Cox Associates, Optimal design and capacity planning of optical networks, customer data mining and behavior modeling, health and safety risk analysis and biomathematical modeling of cancer, uncertainty analysis and causal modeling in artificial intelligence.
• Abram Jujunashvili, Ph.D., Georgian Academy of  Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia 1984; Ph.D., UC Denver, 2005. Adjunct faculty Department of
  Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, UC Denver. Software developer aMinds Solutions. Optimization, statistics, numerical methods, database management.
  
• Boris V Khattatov Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1995. NCAR Atmospheric Chemistry Division. Applications of optimal control, estimation, and inverse theory to large-scale nonlinear problems in numerical modeling and data analysis.
• Pat Ryan, Ph.D., Stanford 2000, TRW Dynamic Systems Division. Variational and finite element methods for coupled and mixed eigenvalue problems. Simulation technology of unrestrained fluid-structure systems.
• Thomas Russell Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1980, NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences. Numerical solution of partial differential equations, oil recovery and groundwater contaminant transport, mathematical modeling.
• W. Roy Wessel, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, W. Roy Wessel Associates.