The Alston S. Householder
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Scientific Computing

Background

The Alston S. Householder Postdoctoral Fellowship in Scientific Computing honors Dr. Alston S. Householder, founding Director of the Mathematics Division (now Computer Science and Mathematics Division) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and recognizes his seminal research contributions to the fields of numerical analysis and scientific computing.

Each Householder Fellowship is a one-year appointment and is potentially renewable for a second year. It provides access to state-of-the-art computational facilities (high-performance workstations and parallel architectures), and collaborative research opportunities in active research programs in advanced scientific computing and computational sciences. The purpose of the Householder Fellowship is to promote innovative research in scientific computing on advanced computer architectures and to facilitate technology transfer from the laboratory research environment to industry and academia through advanced training of new computational scientists.

Support

Funding for the Householder Fellowships comes from the Applied Mathematical Sciences Program, which is supported by the Office of Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences of the U.S. Department of Energy.

Current Fellow (2006)

Dr. Ralf Deiterding is currently the Householder postdoctoral fellow in the Computational Mathematics Group of the Computer Science and Mathematics Division. He received his diploma degree in Applied and Technical Mathematics in January 1998 from the Technical University Clausthal. From February 1998 to June 2003 he was research scientist at the Technical University Cottbus at the chair of Professor Georg Bader and received a summa cum laude PhD degree from the same institution in September 2003 with a thesis on large-scale parallel adaptive simulation of multi-dimensional detonation phenomena. From July 2003 to July 2006, he was postdoctoral scholar in Applied and Computational Mathematics under Professor Daniel Meiron at the California Institute of Technology and chief software architect for the Virtual Test Facility, the computational infrastructure of the DoE ASC Center for Simulating the Dynamic Response of Materials. Previous work includes parallel multi-level methods for computational fluids dynamics, shock-capturing schemes for compressible gas dynamics and supersonic combustion, fluid-structure interaction simulation and object-oriented software design for large simulation infra-structures.

Householder Fellows work in the Computational Math group of CSM.

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