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Coast to Cosmos People

Core Computational Science People

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Coast to Cosmos People

Focus Area Head

Tohline, Prof. Joel

Room 247, Nicholson Hall
Department: Physics
[email-address]

http://www.phys.lsu.edu/~tohline/

Tohline earned a B.S. in Physics from Centenary College of Louisiana in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1978. Before joining the LSU faculty in 1982, Tohline held a J. Willard Gibbs Instructorship in the Astronomy Department at Yale University and a postdoctoral fellowship in Group T-6 at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has served as a member of the Publications Board of the American Astronomical Society, as a member of the Applications Strategy Council of Internet2, on the Program Advisory Council of LIGO, as Chairman of LSU's Department of Physics & Astronomy, and as Interim Director of LSU's Center for Applied Information Technology and Learning (now CCT).

Faculty

	Acharya, Sumanta Professor Department: Mechanical Engineering +1 225 578 5809
Dr. Sumanta Acharya is an L.R. Daniel professor in LSU's Mechanical Engineering department. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota. His research interestes include computational and experimental heat transfer, fluid mechanics and combustion.

Chen, Q. Jim
Associate Professor

Room 3418D, Patrick F. Taylor Hall
Department: Environmental Engineering
+1 225 578 4911
[email-address]

	Diener, Peter Research Professor Room 334, Johnston Hall Department: Physics +1 225 578 6880
Peter Diener is an assistant professor of research in the LSU Department of Physics. He received his Ph.D. from and completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Texas at Austin, the California Institute of Technology, and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics.

Khonsari, Michael
Dow Chemical Endowed Chair and Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering
+1 225 578 9192
[email-address]

Dr Khonsari earned a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. At LSU he holds the Dow Chemical Endowed Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering where he is also the Director of the Center for Rotating Machinery. His research interests are in friction, lubrication and wear of machinery, machinery performance analysis, numerical analysis and heat transfer. Dr Khonsari serves as the EPSCoR Project Director in Sponsored Programs for the Louisiana Board of Regents.

Schnetter, Dr. Erik
Assistant Research Professor and Research Scientist

Room 327, Johnston Hall
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
+1 225 578 8907
[email-address]

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~eschnett/

Erik Schnetter is a researcher in the Coast-to-Cosmos focus area at the CCT. His main scientific interests include black holes and neutron stars in relativistic computational astrophysics as well as high performance computing and software frameworks in computer science. He joined the CCT in September 2005.

Erik is the original author and the project leader of Carpet, the adaptive mesh refinement and multi-block driver for Cactus. He is principal investigator of the NSF "Alpaca" grant to invent new, framework-based profiling and debugging tools for HPC environments. He also participates in the XiRel collaboration to create and improve software infrastructure for numerical relativity.

Seidel, Edward
Director

Room 309, Johnston Hall
Department: Physics
+1 225 578 7877
[email-address]

http://director.cct.lsu.edu/

Edward Seidel is the director of the Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University and the Floating Point Systems Professor in LSU's Departments of Physics and Astronomy, and Computer Science. Seidel is well known for his work on numerical relativity and black holes, as well as in high-performance and grid computing. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in relativistic astrophysics. He headed the numerical relativity group as a professor at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institute) in Germany from 1996--2003, where he maintains an affiliation. He was previously a senior research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and associate professor in the Physics Department at the University of Illinois.

Seidel is a recipient of the 1998 Heinz-Billing-Preis of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; a recipient of the 2001 Gordon Bell Prize; and winner of various HPC Challenge awards at SC98, SC01, and SC02. In 2004, Seidel was named the Rising Star of the Year at the Governor's Technology Awards in Louisiana. He has been the PI or CoPI on large grants in Physics and Computational Science from NSF, DOE, NASA, the German DFN-Verein, and the European Commission, where he led the EU Astrophysics Network and was a leader in the GridLab project. He is the co-chair (emeritus) of the Applications Research Group, Global Grid Forum and chief scientist for the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI). He is the author or co-author of more than 150 publications, and serves on numerous national and international committees and advisory boards.

Twilley, Dr. Robert R.
Associate Vice Chancellor of Research
Full Professor

+1 225 578 8806
[email-address]

	Tyagi, Dr. Mayank Assistant Professor (PETE & CCT) Assistant Professor Room 211, Johnston Hall Department: Petroleum Engineering +1 225 578 8929 http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~mtyagi/
I am interested in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) specifically in complex biological systems, turbulent engineering/environmental systems. I am also interested in developing numerical schemes/solvers to address the challenging problems in a computationally efficient way. I am currently working as project manager for the cactus framework based CFD Toolkit

White, Christopher
Chevron Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering

Department: Petroleum Engineering
[email-address]

Post-doctoral Researchers

Gilmanov, Anvar
Senior Research Associate
PhD

Room 318, Johnston Hall
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
+1 225 578 3213
[email-address]

Loeffler, Dr. Frank
Post Doctoral Researcher

Room 352, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 7437
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Peter Diener

Muldoon, Dr. Frank
Post Doctoral Researcher

Room 318, Johnston Hall
Department: Mechanical Engineering
+1 225 578 6960
[email-address]

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~fmuldoo/webpage/frank-muldoon.html

Tao, Dr. Jian
Post Doctoral Researcher

Room 229, Johnston Hall
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
+1 225 578 1834
[email-address]

Supervisor: Gabrielle Allen

Zink, Dr. Burkhard
Distinguished Senior Postdoctoral Fellow

Room 229, Johnston Hall
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
+1 225 578 0046
[email-address]

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~bzink

Staff

	El-Khamra, Yaakoub IT Analyst 2 Room 211, Johnston Hall +1 225 578 8904
Yaakoub El Khamra works in the Frameworks group on the Cactus computational framework. He is a graduate of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the American University of Beirut. His research interests include computational frameworks, computational fluid dynamics, numerical methods and petroleum engineering.

Graduate Students

Even, Wesley
Graduate Assistant

Room 353, Johnston Hall
Department: Physics
[email-address]

Supervisor: Joel Tohline
Faculty Advisor: Joel Tohline

	Li, Xin Graduate Assistant Room 328, Johnston Hall Department: Petroleum Engineering Faculty Advisor: Christopher White
I work at CCT UCoMS group and concentrate on developing ResGrid, which is the first reservoir simulation grid. My research interests include designed reservoir simulation and response surface model, stochastic simulation, automatic history match, grid computing and its application in Petroleum Engineering.