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October 11, 2010

"Todd Munson Named Senior Fellow of the Computation Institute"

Todd Munson, a computational scientist in Argonne’s Mathematics and Computer Science Division, has been named a senior fellow of the University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory Computation Institute.

Munson is a key part of the MCS Division’s optimization group. He has a leadership role in the Toolkit for Advanced Optimization (TAO) project; he is actively involved in a study of uncertainty quantification for equilibrium model forecasts for climate and smart grid technologies; and he has a grant from the Chicago Energy Initiative to investigate border tax adjustments and their impacts on carbon markets. Munson (with his colleagues) also has been addressing so-called mixed-integer nonlinear programs, which are among the most challenging computational optimization problems faced by researchers; such problems arise, for example, in designing the thermal insulation system for the Large Hadron Collider.

In 2003 Munson (with his colleagues) received the Beale-Orchard-Hayes Prize for Excellence in Computational Mathematical Programming, which is awarded every three years by the Mathematical Programming Society and is considered the most prestigious prize of its kind in the field. Three years later Munson received a DOE Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Munson joined Argonne in 2000 after receiving his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He was appointed a CI Fellow in 2005.