J. David Moulton
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Short Bio:
David Moulton completed his B.Eng. (1988) and M.Eng. (1990) in Physics at McMaster University, with a thesis that involved both experimental measurements and modeling of photon transport in tissue relevant to cancer treatment and diagnostics. He then completed a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (1996) at the University of British Columbia that focused on advanced discretization techniques and optimal multilevel solution methods for the diffusion models that appear in reactor physics.
David Moulton has sixteen years experience in mathematical modeling and computation, and in the last twelve years has focused on the development and application of multigrid methods. Currently, he is investigating innovative multilevel upscaling methods for modeling complex flows in heterogeneous porous media. In addition, he is working on efficient and scalable multilevel preconditioners for various nonlinear iterative solvers, including work with Jon Reisner on the implicit time-stepping algorithms used in this project's simulations.
He has served on funding review panels (NSF, LDRD/ER), refereed papers for numerous journals, and is co-editor of the special journal issue of Numerical Applications in Linear Algebra for the Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods (2003,2005).
His CV is available at: http://math.lanl.gov/~moulton/cv/moulton-cv.pdf
Related Research Interests:
- optimal multilevel iterative methods such as multigrid and multigrid preconditioning of Krylov subspace algorithms for the solution of discrete linear systems. This is critical to the overall efficiency of the implicit time-stepping used in this project's simulations.
- both the development and design of high performance parallel systems and the effective implementation of algorithms on these systems.
- deployment and education relating to modern content managements systems (e.g., Zope/Plone) and software engineering tools (e.g., Trac) that greatly enhance the teams productivity as well as the quality of the scientific research.
Related Publications:
For a complete list of my recent papers, visit my home page at http://math.lanl.gov/~moulton .
