Petr PlechacUniversity of TennesseeDepartment of Mathematics 104 Aconda Court 1534 Cumberland Avenue Knoxville, TN 37996-0612 |
Email: plechac at math dot utk dot edu
Office: 415B Aconda Court (UT) |
| Research Activities |
|
| Research | research projects for students, preprints, publications, research interests etc. |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory | joint faculty UTK-ORNL, Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS), |
| member of Computational Mathematics Group, Computer Science and Mathematics Division. | |
| Research Projects - Funding | |
| NSF-DMS: Sep 2008-Aug 2011
|
PI for: "Algorithms and Numerical Analysis for Nested Approximations
of Stochastic Particle Dynamics" (GRA funding available)
|
| NSF-CMMI: Sep 2008 - Aug 2012
|
PI for :
"CDI-Type II: Hierarchical Stochastic Algorithms for Materials engineering."
|
| DOE: Sep 2009 - Aug 2012 |
PI for :
"Multiscale Mathematics for biomass conversion to renewable hydrogen"
collaborative research with D.G. Vlachos, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, and M.A. Katsoulakis, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete |
| DOE: Jan 2010 - Dec 2010
|
co-PI for : "Multiresolution Adaptive Numerical Environment for Scientific Simulation"
|
| Graduate students | |
Mr. Zhen Guan |
2008 - present, PhD student |
Dr Paul Clifford |
2004 - 2009, PhD in Applied and Computational Mathematics, currently in Barclay Capital Investments |
Dr Benson Muite |
2003 - 2009, PhD in Applied Mathematics (DPhil), joint supervision with Sir J.M. Ball (Oxford), currently a postdoctoral fellow at University of Michigan. |
| Recent Research Projects | |
|
Computation for Multiscale Modelling |
PI of the EPSRC funded research project: "Computation and Numerical Analysis for Multiscale and Multiphysics Modelling" Past events and preprints |
| MULTIMAT |
participating in the European network on "Multiscale Modelling and characterization for phase transitions of advanced materials" |
|
Teaching |
|
| Courses 10S | Spring 2010: Math200 - Matrix Computations |
| Recently taught courses | |
| Courses 09F | Fall 2009: Math231 - Differential Equations I |
| Courses 09S | Spring 2009: Math200 - Matrix Computations |
| Courses 08F | Fall 2008: Math679 - Numerical methods for high-dimensional problems |
| Courses 08S | Spring 2008: Math679.002 - Wavelets, Fast Algorithms and PDEs |
| Courses 07F | Fall 2007: Math371 - Numerical Algorithms |
| Courses 07S | Spring 2007: Math578 - Computational Methods for PDEs |
|
Recently Organized Events |
|
|
Multiscale Analysis and Computations for SDEs
(macsdiem07) |
workshop, University of Sussex, 22-24 Feb, 2007 |
|
Numerical Methods for Computations on Complex Domain |
workshop on discretisation of PDEs, efficient implementations,
porous media, homogenisation, numerical geometry.
Nov 10-11, 2006 |
|
Multiscale Computations Workshop |
workshop of the multiscale computations network in Warwick, Apr 24-26, 2006 Programme/Schedule of Talks |
Multiscale Computations |
past events of Multiscale research network
|
|
|
|
| Miscellaneous Links |
|
| Some useful local links | links to local sites used in some of my courses |