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 | Pullin, Jorge
Horace Hearne Chair of Theoretical Physics Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy |
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| Jorge Pullin is the professor and Horace Hearne Chair of Theoretical physics. He received his PhD in physics from the Instituto Balseiro, National Commission of Atomic Energy in Bariloche, Argentina in 1988. He is known for his work on black hole collisions and quantum gravity. | |
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 | White, Christopher
Research Associate Professor Tulane University: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences |
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 | Kees, Chris
Associate Professor; CSRS Distinguished Professor |
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| Harrison, Cheryl
Assistant Professor |
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 | Ozdemir, Celalettin
Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| 2065 LDMC
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 | Justic, Dubravko
Texaco Distinguished Professor Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences |
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| Dr. Dubravko Justic is the Texaco Distinguished Professor in the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences. His research interests include ecosystem modeling, biological oceanography, coastal eutrophication, hypoxia, and impacts of climate change on coastal ecosystems. | |
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 | Schnetter, Dr. Erik
Research Technologies Group Lead - Perimeter Institute Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Waterloo - Adjunct Professor |
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| Erik Schnetter became the Research Technologies Group Lead at the Perimeter Institute and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Guelph in November of 2010. Prior to accepting this position, he was apart of the Coast-to-Cosmos focus area research staff at the CCT and an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at LSU. His main scientific interests include black holes and neutron stars in relativistic computational astrophysics as well as high performance computing and software frameworks in computer science. Erik is the original author and the project leader of Carpet, the adaptive mesh refinement and multi-block driver for Cactus. He also participates in the XiRel collaboration to create and improve software infrastructure for numerical relativity. | |
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 | Huang, Fang
Visiting Associate Professor School of Resources and Environment, UESTC |
| 2065 LDMC
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 | Mariotti, Giulio
Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences |
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 | Twilley, Robert R.
Executive Director of LA Sea Grant College Program Professor - Department of Oceanography & Coastal Studies |
| 2051 LDMC
• +1 225 578 8806 •
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 | Liang, Junhong
Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences |
| 2051 LDMC
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 | Tyagi, Mayank
Chevron Professor of Engineering #3 Associate Professor, Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering |
| 2047 LDMC
• +1 225 578 8929 •
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| Mayank Tyagi is the Adoph G. Gueymard Distinguished Associate Professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering. He received his PhD in mechanical engineering from LSU in 2003. He is interested in computational fluid dynamics specifically in complex biological systems, turbulent engineering/environmental systems. He also has interest in developing numerical schemes/solvers to address the challenging problems in a computationally efficient way. Tyagi currently works as project manager for the cactus framework based CFD Toolkit. | |
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 | Penny, Matthew
Assistant Professor |
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 | Acharya, Sumanta
Professor Illinois Institute of Technology: Department of Mechanical Engineering |
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 | Karimpour, Arash
Postdoctoral Researcher |
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 | Kaiser, Carola
IT Consultant Research Scientist |
| 2031 LDMC
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| Carola is the lead researcher of the Coastal Emergency Risks Assessment (CERA) visualization system, an automated visualization workflow and web mapping system for hurricane storm surge forecasts based on the ADCIRC storm surge model. She is responsible for software development, management, and maintenance of the real-time, interactive CERA website for emergency managers. Clients of the CERA tool include NOAA, GOHSEP, NWS Weather Forecast Offices, USACE, USCG, and the National Hurricane Center. In addition, she is an active member of the Advanced Surge Guidance System (ASGS). She has been working with Geographic Information Systems since 1992, after obtaining a MS in cartography from the University of Dresden, Germany. Her research interests include managing spatial data, developing technologies for data implementation, and applying GIS systems in specific research disciplines and collaborative environments. She is a GIS modeler with years of experience in the design and development of custom GIS applications, spatial data analysis, data gathering, data conversion, and mapping of spatial data, the development of spatial analysis techniques, database design, and data management. | |
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 | Diener, Peter
Research Assistant Professor Department of Physics & Astronomy |
| 2045 LDMC
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| Peter Diener is an assistant professor of research in the LSU Department of Physics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen and completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Texas at Austin, the California Institute of Technology, and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics before joining CCT. | |
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 | Löffler, Dr. Frank
IT Consultant Faculty Advisor: Peter Diener |
| 2043 LDMC
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| Frank Loeffler is a postdoctoral researcher in the numerical relativity group at CCT. He received his PhD from the Albert-Einstein-Institute in Germany and completed a VESF fellowship at SISSA, Italy. He is interested in dynamics of compact astrophysical objects, e.g., neutron stars, black holes and processes creating them, e.g., supernovae. He is also currently leading the Einstein Toolkit and co-leading the Cactuscode project at CCT. | |
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 | Chen, Prof. Q. Jim
Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| 2055 LDMC
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| Q. Jim Chen is the first CSRS Distinguished Professor of Coastal Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and serves as the Coast to Cosmos Focus Area lead at CCT. He received his PhD in Civil Engineering from Old Dominion Univeristy in Norfolk, Virginia. Chen was an assistant professor of civil engineering at the University of South Alabama before he joined CCT in 2006. Chen specializes in the development and application of numerical models for coastal hydrodynamics and nearshore processes, including surface waves, wave-induced nearshore circulation, storm surges, estuarine circulation and sediment transport. | |
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 | Brandt, Steven
Assistant Director, Computational Science |
| 2035 LDMC
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| Steven Brandt obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana for his research in numerical simulations of rotating black holes. He currently serves as an adjunct faulty member in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering and is involved in research into making parallel programming more effective. He works with the STEllAR team led by Dr. Hartmut Kaiser, and helps lead the Cactus Frameworks effort. He is Co-PI on grants relating to Cactus Frameworks development and cyberinfrastructure for the Coastal Hazards Collaboratory. | |
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