Marek Stastna, Associate Dean of Computing and Professor of Applied Mathematics is an applied mathematician by training (PhD, Waterloo 2001). His applied mathematics interests are rooted in the descriptions of nonlinear waves, whether analytical (perturbation theory, variational methods) or numerical. His post PhD career has covered a broad range of application topics, with coastal oceans and large lakes the primary focus. He has made occasional forays into climate modeling, hydrology and other porous media problems. He enjoys developing numerical models, and has been involved in large, MPI based models, GPU based models as well as data analysis methods meant for a non-technical audience.
Academic Disciplines: coastal ocean modeling, fluid mechanics, climate physics
Application Areas: sediment resuspension and transport, algal blooms, sea level rise implications
Methods: pseudospectral numerical methods, data centric methods, stochastic methods
