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News: - May 2013: Minghua Lin successfully defends his PhD on "Angles, Majorization, Wielandt Inequality and Applications"; congratulations! - December 2012: Killian Miller successfully defends his PhD on "Algebraic Multigrid for Markov Chains and Tensor Decomposition"; congratulations! - August 2012: Yasunori Aoki successfully defends his PhD on "Study of Singular Capillary Surfaces and Development of the Cluster Newton method"; congratulations! - July 2011: PhD student Yasunori Aoki wins first place in poster competition at AC.CES 2011 conference with work he did while at NII. - July 2010: job opening. Postdoc position in Multilevel Numerical Linear Algebra. (filled) - May 20, 2009: Second SHARCNET Symposium on GPU and CELL Computing at University of Waterloo. -January 2009: grad student Killian Miller wins Student Paper Competition for Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods. - September 2008: start of new Waterloo Master's program in Computational Mathematics. - August 2007: Hans De Sterck wins Ontario's Early Researcher Award. - April 2005: our planetary atmosphere simulation paper [pdf] was published in Science (link to newspaper article in "the Record", slashdot news item, and University of Waterloo news release.) -Archived news

Hans De Sterck is Professor in Computational Mathematics and Scientific Computing at the Department of Applied Mathematics of the University of Waterloo. He is a member of the Centre for Computational Mathematics in Industry and Commerce at the University of Waterloo, and is cross-affiliated to the Scientific Computation Group of the School of Computer Science. He served as Graduate Advisor for the new Master's program in Computational Mathematics (2007-2010), and as Waterloo Site Leader for SHARCNET (2007-2009). He is serving as Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2008-2013), and as Secretary of the SIAM activity group on Computational Science and Engineering (SIAG CSE) (2013-2014).

He obtained his PhD degree at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA. Before joining the University of Waterloo in 2004, he did post-doctoral research work at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Belgium, and in Tom Manteuffel's and Steve McCormick's Multilevel Computation group at the Department of Applied Mathematics of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The overall ambition of his research is to develop efficient mathematical techniques and scalable parallel methods for the solution of scientific and engineering problems on large-scale computer infrastructure. In particular, he works on multilevel numerical linear algebra methods, numerical methods for PDEs, and novel platforms for scientific computing including GPUs and clouds. His research finds applications in large-scale computing for information retrieval (including Markov chains, clustering, image processing, graph analysis), and in computational fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics for astrophysics and geophysics.

New at the University of Waterloo: faculty-wide Computational Mathematics Program with new Master's degree in Computational Mathematics.

Research Topics for Prospective Students

See research topics for prospective PhD and Master's students wanting to pursue degrees in Applied Mathematics, Computational Mathematics or Computer Science, and for summer undergraduate research projects.

Teaching

Winter 2014

• AMATH 342: Computational Methods for Differential Equations


• MATH 118: Calculus 2 For Engineering

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Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada.
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