Raymond J. Spiteri
I am a
Professor at the University
of
Saskatchewan in the
Department
of
Computer Science. My research is mainly run out of the
Numerical Simulation Laboratory.
From Jan-Apr, 2010, I am teaching MATH211:
Numerical Analysis I (Introductory Numerical Analysis) and CMPT 898.02: Parallel Programming for Scientific Computing.
My subject areas of research expertise
are
applied
mathematics and
computer science,
in particular algorithms and software for continuous mathematics and
scientific computation. I am usually involved in several projects,
many of which span more than one field of application.
My core research area focuses on the development of novel numerical
methods and software (specifically problem-solving
environments)
for
nonlinear algebraic equations, ordinary differential equations, and
time-discretization methods for
partial differential equations, in particular optimal design of
implicit-explicit (IMEX) and
strong-stability-preserving (SSP) Runge-Kutta time-discretization
methods
for computational fluid dynamics and
differential-algebraic equations. I am also working on projects
involving software for Lagrange-d'Alembert (variational) integrators,
simulation of electrical activity in myocardial tissue, fuel cell
simulation, catalytic converter design for carbon sequestration from
point sources, and numerical
algorithms and software that take advantage of the unique structure of
the Cell Broadband Engine.
I often have opportunities for students to join my research group at
all levels (undergraduate, Master's, Ph.D., and PDF). Many of these
opportunities involve an industrial component to the research. Please
feel free to contact me if you wish to enquire about the availability
and/or scope of any of these opportunities.
I am the leader of the MITACS
project Advanced
Mathematical Modelling and Simulation of Transport Phenomena.
Our industrial partners in this research include Ballard Power, the Simula Research Lab of Oslo,
Norway, Environment Canada,
and IBM.
I am also the MITACS Regional Scientific Director for the Prairie
Provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba).
I am the Director of the Centre
for
High-Performance Computing in
the College of
Arts and Science at
the University of Saskatchewan.
I am also on the Executive Committee of the WestGrid
high-performance computing consortium.
For more information about what I do
while on the job, check out my research
interests or
publications.
Copies
of some of my
students'
work is also available.
Here are the files for an
introductory presentation on Matlab: the
slides
in pdf format, and the matlab
code. These are the files that I
used at St.
Mary's University on Wed. Oct.
30,
2002. Here are some other matlab
tutorials.
I obtained my Ph. D. from the
Department
of Mathematics
at the University of British Columbia
under the direction of Drs.
Uri
Ascher and
Dinesh
Pai.
At UBC, I was a member of the
Institute of Applied
Mathematics,
which offers interdisciplinary graduate-degree programs to students
from many different departments (such as physics, chemistry, computer
science, economics, geology, ...) having some form of
scientific
computation at the
heart of their research.
Another
biographical note: I obtained my
B.Sc. degree in Applied
Mathematics
from the University
of Western Ontario in 1990. My
advisor was Dr. M.A.H. (Paddy) Nerenberg, after whom the Nerenberg
Lecture Series is named. Here is
an excerpt from the description,
put here is his honour, as a model for the rest of us:
The Nerenberg Lecture Series is
first and foremost about people and
ideas. Knowledge is the true treasure of humanity, accrued and passed
down through the generations. Some of it, particularly science and its
language, mathematics, is closed in practice to many because of
technical barriers that can only be overcome at a high price. These
technical barriers form part of the remarkable fractures that have
formed in our legacy of knowledge. We are so used to those fractures
that they have become almost invisible to us, but they are a source of
profound confusion about what is known.
The Nerenberg Lecture is named
after the late Morton (Paddy)
Nerenberg, a much-loved professor and researcher born on 17 March--
hence his nickname. He was a Professor at Western for more than a
quarter century, and a founding member of the Department of Applied
Mathematics there. A successful researcher and accomplished teacher,
he believed in the unity of knowledge, that scientific and
mathematical ideas belong to everyone, and that they are of human
importance. He regretted that they had become inaccessible to so many,
and anticipated serious consequences from it. The series honors his
appreciation for the democracy of ideas. He died in 1993 at the age of
57.
Other useful and fun links:
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Please send comments or
questions to Ray Spiteri
<spiteri@cs.usask.ca>
Last modified: Wed Dec 16 19:14:58 CST 2009