LANS researchers have achieved a number of accomplishments in theoretical and algorithmic results, software development, and applications.
Success Stories
Two-page summaries give recent highlights of project successes.
Wilkinson Prize
Sponsored by Argonne National Laboratory, the National Physical Laboratory and the Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd., the
Wilkinson Prize is awarded every four years to the best numerical software developed by young researchers (at most 40 years of age by the year of the award) in honor of the outstanding contributions of James Hardy Wilkinson to the field of numerical software.
Awards: 2008
Fischer Honored for Distinguished Performance
Paul Fischer has received a Distinguished Performance Award. This award is given by the UChicago Argonne, LLC Board of Governors to recognize the best and brightest talents at Argonne.
Three Named as SIAM Fellows
Hans G. Kaper, senior mathematician emeritus, Jorge Moré, Argonne Distinguished Fellow, and Sven Leyffer, computational mathematician, were named senior fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Best Paper Award
P. Balaji, A. Chan, R. Thakur, W. Gropp, and E. Lusk were honored by the ISC Award committee as one of the winners of the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) Award 2009. Their winning paper is "Toward Message Passing for a Million Processes: Characterizing MPI on a Massive Scale Blue Gene/P."
PETSc Named to Top 10
PETSc, the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation, was named one of top 10 scientific achievements by ASCR.
Awards: 2007
Jaydeep Bardhan Wins Howes Scholar Award
Jaydeep Bardhan
has been named a Frederick A. Howes Scholar
in Computational Science for 2007.
Bardhan was one of two former CSGF fellows presented with the award
at the 2007 CSGF Annual Fellows' Conference in Washington, D.C., June 19-21.
He is currently
a Wilkinson Fellow at Argonne.
Paul Fischer and Rob Jacob Receive 2007 Incite Awards
Paul Fischer and Rob Jacob each have been awarded
computer time for large-scale simulations on the
DOE leadership-class computing systems.
The awards were among 45 announced by the Department of Energy 2007 INCITE program -- Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment.
Ahmed Hassanein and Isak Konkashbaev receive patent
Ahmed Hassanein and Isak Konkashbaev (with Bryan Rice of Sematech)
have received a 2007 patent
for a device for generating extremely short-wave ultraviolet electromagnetic waves.
Awards: 2006
Todd Munson receives
PECASE Award
Todd Munson has received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
The awards is the highest honor the U.S. government bestows on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. This year, 56 researchers supported by nine federal departments and agencies received awards. Munson is one of seven recipients affiliated with the U.S. Department of Energy. The winners each received a citation, a plaque and a commitment for continued funding of their work from their agency for five years.
Hans Kaper receives NSF Director's Award
Hans Kaper, on leave to NSF, received
an NSF Director's Award
for Merit Review Excellence, 2006.
IBM grants LANS researchers extended allocation on Blue Gene Watson
Paul Fischer, Fausto Cattaneo, and Aleksandr Obabko
have been awarded an extended
allocation of 64 "rack days" on the IBM Blue Gene Watson (BGW) system
to conduct
spectral element simulations of magneto-rotational
instabilities.
In announcing the award,
IBM's Blue Gene Watson Policy Review Board
noted that it felt the simulations
were "exciting and
would lead to exciting publications."
Sven Leyffer Wins Lagrange Prize
Sven Leyffer (with colleagues
Roger Fletcher, University of Dundee, and Philippe Toint, University of Namur)
has won the Lagrange Prize in Continuous Optimization
for seminal work on filter methods.
The Lagrange Prize is awarded jointly by
the Mathematical Programming Society and the Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics once every three years.
Awards: 2000-2005
Paul Fischer Receives 2005 INCITE Award
Paul Fischer (with colleagues Fausto Cattaneo and Aleksandr Obabko at the University of Chicago) has received a DOE INCITE award of 2 million hours of supercomputing time to study how stars and solar systems form. Fischer and his group will use the award to develop large-scale simulations on the Seaborg system at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). The award, which was announced by DOE Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham on December 22, 2004, is one of only three INCITE awards granted this year.
NEOS Papers Acknowledged for Excellence in Computational Mathematics
J. More' and T. Munson of MCS, E. Dolan (formerly of MCS), and R. Fourer (Northwestern U) have won the 2003 Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize competition for their paper "Optimization on the NEOS Server." The award is given only every three years.
Dan Negrut Receives 2003 PE Publishing Award
Dan Negrut (with his colleagues) has won the 2003 PE Publishing
for two papers: "A Rosenbrock-Hystron state space implicit approach for the dynamic analysis of mechanical systems: I - theoretical formulation, and II - method and numerical examples." The papers were published in the Journal of Multi-Body Dynamics K4, vol. 217.
DOE Citations
LANS Researchers Named as Fellows
