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AnnouncementsWe are pleased to announce that our CAM student, Mauricio Santillana, has been selected as one of seven fellows of the 2008 Environmental Fellows at Harvard University. The two-year program was created to enable recent doctorate recipients to use and expand Harvard's extraordinary resources to tackle complex environmental problems.
"Each of the Environmental Fellows has demonstrated enormous talent and potential in his or her field," said Daniel P. Schrag, professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and director of the Center for the Environment. "From a large field of applicants from around the globe, the Center selected these seven because of their achievements to date and the likely impact of their research on scholarship at Harvard and on environmental problems confronting the planet."
More information can be found at: http://environment.harvard.edu/program/2008fellows.htm.
Mauricio, who will graduate this July, has been working under the supervision of Dr. Clint Dawson.
On behalf of ICES, congratulations!
We are pleased to announce that Jim Rath has been chosen as the AMS Congressional Fellow for 2008-09 by the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
"The AMS will sponsor Jim's fellowship through the Congressional Fellowship program administered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The fellowship is designed to provide a unique public policy learning experience, to demonstrate the value of science-government interaction, and to bring a technical background and external perspective to the decision-making process in Congress. Fellows spend a year working on the staff of a Member of Congress or a congressional committee, working as a special legislative assistant in legislative and policy areas requiring scientific and technical input. The fellowship program includes an orientation on congressional and executive branch operations, and a year-long seminar series on issues involving science, technology and public policy."
The article can be found at the following link: http://www.ams.org/government/congressfellowaward.html
Jim is a former CAM student who received his Ph.D. in the spring of 2007.
On behalf of ICES, congratulations!
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Ghattas' research team in ICES received the TeraGrid Capability Computing Challenge Award for a paper entitled "Towards Adaptive Mesh PDE Simulations on Petascale Computers" (by Carsten Burstedde, Omar Ghattas, Georg Stadler, Tiankai
Tu, and Lucas Wilcox). The TeraGrid '08 Conference was held in June in Las Vegas.
The award was presented for the team's work in developing parallel algorithms and implementations that enabled adaptive mesh PDE simulations to scale up to 32,000 cores of the Ranger supercomputer.
On behalf of ICES, congratulations to Drs. Burstedde, Ghattas, Stadler, Tu and Wilcox!
It is our pleasure to announce that Ludovic Chamoin has received the John Argyris Award for the best paper by a young researcher in the field of Computational Mechanics.
This Award was initiated in honor of Professor John Argyris whose research had a pioneering impact on computational mechanics both in theory and in practice. The award recognizes his significant contribution both to the field and to the international journal Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, of which he was a founding editor and editor-in-chief for 30 years, and is sponsored by Elsevier, publisher of the Journal.
The judging panel consisted of the three editors of CMAME and the Presidents of IACM, ECCOMAS and USACM. Ludovic will receive the award during the Venice Congress in June 30-July 4, 2008.
You are invited to a small reception hosted by Dr. Oden in honor of Ludovic. The reception will be held on Tuesday, June 3 from 4:00-5:00 p.m. in the ACES Faculty Lounge.
Congratulations Ludovic, on behalf of ICES!
We are pleased to announce that Mr. Peter O'Donnell, Jr. and Dr. Tinsley Oden have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for their outstanding contributions to their profession, the nation, and the world. The Academy honors distinguished scientists, scholars, and leaders in public affairs, business, administration, and the arts. The purpose of the Academy is “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.”
The Academy has numbered among its members the finest minds in each successive generation: eighteenth century — John Adams, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Thompson; nineteenth century — Alexander Graham Bell, Charles Darwin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William and Henry James, Daniel Webster. Fellows over the past century have been — Ansel Adams, Marian Anderson, Hannah Arendt, Aaron Copland, Albert Einstein, John Kenneth Galbraith, Charles Hutchins, Barbara McClintock, Martin Luther King, Jr., Margaret Mead, Lionel Trilling, and Woodrow Wilson. Winston Churchill, Henri Cartier–Bresson, T .S. Eliot, Iawaharlal Nehru, Albert Schweitzer were Foreign Honorary Members of the Academy. The members represent innovative thinkers in every field and profession, including over two hundred and fifty Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners.
Mr. O’Donnell and Dr. Oden will be inducted at the House of the Academy on October 11, 2008.
On behalf of ICES, congratulations to Mr. O’Donnell and Dr. Oden.
We are pleased to announce that Ludovic Chamoin, Dr. Oden’s Postdoctoral Fellow, was one of two winners of the 2008 Melosh Medal received during the 20th Annual Melosh Competition for the Best Student Paper in Finite Element Analysis.
The Competition was inaugurated in 1989 to honor Professor Melosh, a pioneering researcher in finite element methods and former chairman of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University.
Congratulations to Ludovic, on behalf of ICES!
Please visit http://imechanica.org/node/3121 for more information.
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Tom Hughes has received the JSCES Grand Prize of the Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science. It is the highest award of the society and he is the first recipient.
Congratulations on behalf of ICES!
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Robert Van de Geijn and Field Van Zee have made possible the release of libFLAME version 2.0 through a collaboration between UT Austin and UJI (Spain). libFLAME is an infrastructure for developing dense (including banded) linear algebra libraries for sequential and multithreaded architectures. It includes an implementation of the BLAS and “core LAPACK.”
The primary goal of the FLAME project has shifted from exposing systematic methods for deriving algorithms to the problem of solving the programmability issue that now faces us given the impending ubiquity of multicore architectures. It targets the domain of dense linear algebra (most easily summarized by “the functionality of libraries like the BLAS, LAPACK, and RECSY”).
This release is available as Free Software, licensed under the LGPL.
For more information, please visit the FLAME website: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/flame/ and for a complete list of updates, visit http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/flame/libFLAME/.
Congratulations on behalf of ICES.
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Mary Wheeler has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering by the Colorado School of Mines Board of Trustees for her contributions to the curriculum and research of their institution. Dr. Wheeler will receive this award during the commencement ceremony on May 9, 2008. Congratulations, Dr. Wheeler!
ICES has been selected by the Department of Energys National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to develop new computer modeling techniques that can provide more reliable predictions of complex systems. Dr. Robert Moser is the Principal Investigator, and the Director of the Center for Predictive Engineering and Computational Sciences (PECOS). Read the UT article .