Lecturers
- Dr. Sebastian von Alfthan is a specialist in scientific computing at CSC, the Finnish IT center for science. He received his Ph.D. in computational physics in 2006 from the Helsinki University of Technology and joined CSC shortly thereafter. He has a scientific background in classical molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations of condensed matter systems.
- Dr. Ulf Andersson works as an application expert at PDC. He earned his Ph.D. degree in numerical analysis in March 2001 at Nada, KTH. He was a student at the first summer school in 1996, has been a lecturer since 1998, and he was the coordinator 2004-2006.
- Dr. Mark Bull is an Architect at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC). He received a PhD in Computational Mathematics from the University of Manchester in 1997, and has been involved in research, consultancy and teaching in High Performance Computing since 1990. He has a special interest in shared memory parallel programming and is currently chair of the OpenMP Language Committee.
- Dr. Ake Edlund is the Project Director BalticGrid (www.balticgrid.eu, 7 nations, 13 partners). Ake has a research background in Applied Mathematics, High-Performance Distributed Computing and Quantum Chemistry and holds degrees from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (PhD) and Uppsala University (Tekn.Lic, MSc). Research stations were at Technion - Israel; Uppsala University - Sweden; and at University of California at Berkeley, and Rice University - US. Ake has since 1997 been engaged in a number of startups in the IS/IT industry: as Solution Manager at Alzato (developing a novel real-time database, now part of MySQL/SUN), an Ericsson Business Innovation venture; as Product Manager for Cult3D (software for interactive 3D on the Internet - Best of Comdex awards at Fall Comdex '98 and awarded the European Information Society Technologies (IST) Prize of 1999) at Cycore; and as a consultant with Parallel Consulting Group, Stockholm (computer security). Ake Edlund is one of the co-founders (2003-) of Numeri Ltd, a novel video-compression company based in Haifa, Israel. Ake has also a background as Chief Architect for IS/IT Global Customer Services at Sony Ericsson Mobile Communication.
- Björn Engquist is professor in mathematics at University of Austin, Texas. Formerly, he has had similar positions at Princeton University and the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Engquist is also a professor of Numerical Analysis and Computing Science at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH) since 1992. He received his B.S. in 1966 and the Ph.D. in 1975 from Uppsala University, Sweden. Between 1966 and 1985, he held positions at the Courant Institute, the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, and Uppsala University. He is the chairman of KTH Center for Computational Science and Engineering and former director of Parallel and Scientific Computing Institute (PSCI) at KTH and Uppsala University and the Center for Parallel Computers (PDC), KTH. His principal research interests are the mathematics and algorithms of scientific computing.
- Dr. Thomas Ericsson is working at Chalmers University of Technology. He is an expert in high-performance computing and numerical analysis, in particular in numerical linear algebra.
- Erik Hagersten, Uppsala University, teaches courses in computer architecture. His research focus is "Increase data processing speed through adopting architectures and [coherent] data replication." He works in both academia and industry in Sweden and the US, and has initiated a collaborative research program between Uppsala University and Sun's Engineering in the U.S.
- Mike Hammill, PDC, has been working as a consultant, teacher, and coordinator in high-performance computing since 1984. Before coming to PDC, he was coordinating a national high-performance consulting program at the Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, USA.
- Michael Hanke has been a university lecturer and docent at KTH since 1998. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Humboldt University of Berlin and has lectured in a variety of universities throughout the world, including the Computing Center of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Russia), Johannes Kepler University (Austria), University of Zaragoza (Spain), and University of Pittsburgh (USA). He has also worked in industry as a Scientific Consultant for Comsol AB and UTRC in East Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Michael's Scientific Interests include analysis and numerical methods for differential-algebraic equations, partial differential-algebraic systems, and numerical approximation of equations from semiconductor physics.
- Docent Sverker Holmgren received a Ph.D. in Numerical Analysis from Uppsala University in 1993. Since 2006, Holmgren is the Director of the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC). SNIC is the national computing infrastructure initiative within the Swedish Research Council, with a mandate to provide high performance computing, grid and large-scale storage resources for academia in Sweden and to coordinate development activities in these areas. Holmgren is also the chairman for the Swedish National Graduate School in Scientific Computing (NGSSC). Since 2007, Holmgren is the Head of the Uppsala University program in Computational Science and Engineering, where he leads several research projects in CSE and large-scale computing.
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Lennart
Johnsson is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Computer
Science, Mathematics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston.
He received his M.S. degree in engineering physics in 1967 and the Ph.D. degree in Control Engineering in 1970 from Chalmers Institute of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. At ASEA AB (now ABB), from 1971 to 1979, he led the development of real-time supervisory data acquisition and control systems for electric utilities and process industries. He was on the faculty of Caltech from 1979 to 1983, where he initiated a course in parallel scientific computation, taught VLSI design, and did research in parallel algorithms and VLSI design. From 1983 to 1990, he was an associate professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering at Yale University, where he introduced courses in parallel scientific computation and also in computer arithmetic. He also led the research effort that resulted in the acquisition of the first Connection Machine at a university after MIT. He was Gordon McKay Professor at Harvard University from 1990 to 1997.
From 1986 to 1995, Johnsson also served as the director of Computational Sciences at Thinking Machines Corporation and was responsible for the development of the Connection Machine Scientific Software Library (CMSSL) as well as parts of the Connection Machine Run-Time System (CMRTS). Since 1995, he has been Cullen Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston; an adjunct professor of Computer Science at Rice University; and a visiting professor of Computing Sciences and Numerical Analysis at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He also serves as the director of both the Texas Learning and Computation Center at the University of Houston and the Houston Area Computational Science Consortium. Johnsson serves on the executive board of the W. M. Keck Center for Computational Biology in Houston and the Los Alamos Computer Science Institute; he is chair of the PDC External Advisory Committee and the Swedish National Allocations Committee for High-Performance Computation; and he is the editor of seven journals.
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Erik Lindahl is an assistant professor in Computational Structural Biology at the Department of Biochemistry & BIophysics at Stockholm University. He received his PhD in Theoretical Biophysics from the Royal Institute of Technology in 2001, and worked at Groningen University, Stanford University, and the Pasteur Institute before returning to Sweden in 2004.
The research in the Lindahl lab is focused on bioinformatics, modeling, and simulation techniques to understand structure and function of biomolecules, in particular membrane proteins. To enable this, an integral part of the work has been the development of the GROMACS molecular simulation toolkit, which has broken new grounds in efficient parallelization/optimization on cheap x86 CPUs and distributed computing.
- Dr. Pekka Manninen is a specialist in scientific computing at CSC, the Finnish IT center for science, and a docent of physical chemistry at the University of Helsinki. He obtained his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 2004, and has worked since then, before joining CSC, at the universites of Helsinki and Århus and at Helsinki University of Technology. He has a scientific background in molecular quantum mechanics
- Elisabet Molin, received a M.Sc. in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Linköping University in 2002. Developing and assessing computational models of physical phenomena has enabled her to participate in research projects at both CERN, KTH and KI. Joining PDC in 2008, she brings a prospective user's perspective in combination with an interest and experience in teaching.
- Dr. Jean-Philippe Nominé lead Data Management and Post-Processing Group then was Deputy Head of a high performance simulation codes unit at CEA/DIF Supercomputing Centre. He is now involved in PRACE Project, coordinating various CEA activities and mostly involved in Work Package 7. Dr. Nominé received his Ph.D. in Robotics from Paris 6 -Pierre et Marie Curie - University before joining CEA HPC division in 1992.
- Jesper Oppelstrup is an assistant professor in the Department of Numerical Analysis and Computing Science (NADA) at KTH. He received an M.S. degree in 1969 in engineering physics, and the Ph.D. degree in numerical analysis in 1976, both at KTH. He was a research project manager at the Swedish Institute of Applied Mathematics from 1977 to 1985, and he has worked in commercial development of finite element software since 1984. He began working at KTH in 1985, and he is currently an assistant professor in numerical analysis. Oppelstrup is engaged in the development of high-performance computing resources and industry/academic collaborative research in high-performance computing and mathematical modeling, especially for fluid dynamics and electromagnetics. He is a member of the national supercomputer resource allocation committee, he is on the Program Board of the Parallel and Scientific Computing Institute at KTH, and he is a member of the Swedish Society of Mathematicians.
- Tomas Oppelstrup is a Ph.D. student in numerical analysis at CSC, KTH since 2004, and received an M.S. degree in engineering physics from KTH in 2003. He has done a large part of his Ph.D. research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. His research is focused on diffusion in glasses, and consists to a large extent of long time molecular dynamics simulations. The group has recently taken interest in using graphics cards to speed up the computations, and has developed a molecular dynamics simulation code for graphics card computation.
- Gert Svensson received a M.Sc in engineering physics from KTH in 1981. After that he has worked with computer research and operations at KTH. In the mid-80ties he initiated and installed the first Internet connection at KTH. He started working with parallel computing in 1986 and was one of the founders of PDC in 1990. Late research interest also includes Virtual Reality. He is currently involved in several EC-sponsored projects.
- Olav Vahtras received a MS degree in engineering physics in 1988 and PhD in quantum chemistry in 1993, both at Uppsala University. His work at the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute 1993-1994 as a post-doc, and at Linköping University as a research associate 1994-1999 has included research on molecular properties and electronic structure theory. He now works at PDC as an application specialist in the field of computational chemistry.
- Aad van der Steen was head of the High Performance Computing Group at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. As such he was involved in studying High Performance System Architectures and their relation to algorithms and programming models that must map onto those architectures. Aad studied mathematics at the Delft University of Technology and got his Ph.D. of Utrecht University on performance assessment on High Performance systems. Now he is employed by the Dutch National Science Foundation for research into High Performance Computers and Computing after retiring from University
