Profiles

Email: christopher.batty@uwaterloo.ca

Research Interests: Physics-Based Animation

Link to Profile: Christopher Batty

Email:  hans.desterck@uwaterloo.ca

Research Interests: Large-scale scientific computing, Multilevel numerical linear algebra methods, Numerical methods for PDEs, Novel platforms for scientific computing including GPUs and clouds, Computational fluid dynamics

Link to Profile: Hans De Sterck

Email: ddelreyfernandez@uwaterloo.ca

Research Interests: Numerical simulation of PDEs, Mathematically robust schemes, Summation-by-parts methods, Continuous and discontinuous Galerkin schemes, finite difference schemes, etc., Mesh adaptation, Machine learning for acceleration of scientific computing

Email: paforsyth@uwaterloo.ca

Research Interests: Financial derivative securities

Link to Profile: Peter Forsyth

Email: mwg@uwaterloo.ca

Research Interests: Computer algebra, algebraic algorithms and computational complexity

Link to Profile: Mark Giesbrecht

Email: rgracie@uwaterloo.ca

Research Interests: Geomechanics and Risks of Hydraulic Fracturing for Shale Gas Development

Link to Profile: Robert Gracie

Email: roberto.guglielmi@uwaterloo.ca

Research Interests: Control of finite and infinite dimensional systems, optimization with PDE-constraints, model predictive control, stability of dynamical systems and feedback controls, and applications to finance and natural sciences

Link to Profile: Roberto Guglielmi

Email: lgk@uwaterloo.ca

Research Interests: Discontinuous Galerkin methods, Error estimation and adaptive methods, Finite element methods, Numerical solution of PDEs in complex geometries, Hyperbolic conservation laws

Link to Profile: Lilia Krivodonova

Email: anita.layton@uwaterloo.ca

Research Interests: Mathematical Biology and Medicine

Link to Profile: Anita Layton

Email: kmorris@uwaterloo.ca

Research Interests: Estimator design, Computation of controllers for systems modelled by partial differential equations, Optimal actuator/sensor location, Robust control of smart materials, Hysteresis

Link to Profile: Kirsten Morris

Email: wmoursi@uwaterloo.ca

Research Interests: Continuous optimization, non-smooth optimization, convex analysis, monotone operator theory 

Link to Profile: Walaa Moursi

Email: srheberg@uwaterloo.ca

Research Interests: Discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods, Space-time finite element methods for deforming domain problems, Higher-order accurate finite element methods, Preconditioners, Fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, magma/mantle dynamics, two-phase flows

Link to Profile: Sander Rhebergen

Email: giang.tran@uwaterloo.ca

Research Interests: Sparse Modeling and Sparse Optimization Methods, Data Science, Image Processing and Medical Imaging, Compressed Sensing

Link to Profile: Giang Tran

Email: vavasis@uwaterloo.ca

Research Interests: Continuous optimization and numerical analysis

Link to Profile: Stephen Vavasis

Email: justin.wan@uwaterloo.ca

Research Interests: Numerical methods of PDEs, machine learning in finance and medical image processing, physics-based simulation in graphics, and parallel computing.

Link to Profile: Justin Wan

Email: henry.wolkowicz@uwaterloo.ca

Research Interests: Optimization; Mathematical Programming (linear, nonlinear, semidefinite programming, semi-infinite); Low Rank Matrix Completions, Compressive Sensing; Quadratic Assignment, Graph Partitioning, Knapsack Problems; Numerical Analysis (numerical linear algebra); Convex Analysis; Matrix Theory (eigenvalue bounds, invariant cones); Generalized Inverses (operators and matrices)