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Research Topics for Prospective Students and Postdocs
Most of the research projects I am involved in deal with developing efficient mathematical
techniques and scalable parallel methods for the solution of large scientific
and engineering problems on powerful parallel computers.
Research projects are available in the following four general areas:
These four areas of interest provide ample opportunity for formulating a
research project at the PhD or Master's thesis level. Smaller projects more
appropriate for undergraduate research work may be defined as well.
Most of these projects require a combination of mathematics and
computing (algorithm and software development).
If you are interested in developing methods for solving large science
or engineering problems on (parallel) computers, one of these projects
may be what you're looking for. Excellent computing infrastructure is
available at the Mathematics Faculty (fast linux workstations and
state-of-the-art 64-bit SGI Altix parallel clusters), within Ontario's
SHARCNET
network, and at remote Supercomputer Centers (including
the U.S.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.)
These projects are open to students with background and interests in Computational and Applied Mathematics or Computer Science. Some of these topics are rather interdisciplinary, and
in special cases outstanding students from other branches of Mathematics, Engineering or Physics
may qualify as well. In fact, if you have a science or engineering problem for which
a lot of computing is required (e.g. also in finance, image processing,
theoretical physics, ...), chances
are that applying modern computational mathematics techniques may tremendously help you to
improve the quality of the results you can obtain. I am always interested in extending the
scope of applications of my computational mathematics research in new directions.
If you feel that you may be interested in working on one of the four topics described above,
please contact me and we can explore ideas further.
If you have your own funding (e.g. from NSERC), all the better
(actually, NSERC scholarship recipients automatically receive a $10,000 top up);
if not, funding may be available.
Please contact Hans De Sterck if you are interested.
I am affiliated with the Applied Mathematics department, and cross-affiliated
with the School of Computer Science. Therefore, I can supervise graduate research work in either of their graduate programs.
Detailed information about applying to the
Applied Mathematics gradate program
and to the
Computer Science graduate program at the
University of Waterloo is available online.
Created by Hans De Sterck.
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada.
Phone: 1-519-888-4567 ext 37550, Fax: 1-519-746-4319, E-mail:
hdesterck@math.uwaterloo.ca.
Office: MC 5016. campus map
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