Michael Holst is a
Professor of Mathematics and Physics at UCSD.
He works in numerical analysis, applied analysis,
partial differential equations, and mathematical physics.
He grew up in Colorado, attended Colorado State University as an
undergraduate, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1993.
He was a von Karman Instructor and Prize Research Fellow in Applied
Mathematics at Caltech from 1993-1997, and was an Assistant Professor of
Mathematics at UC Irvine from 1997-1998, before moving to UC San Diego
in 1998.
He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and a Hellman Fellowship,
and is coauthor of two graduate textbooks
on applied analysis and partial differential equations with Ivar Stakgold.
Michael directs the Mathematical and Computational Physics Research Group
(MCP) within the
Mathematics
and
Physics
Departments at
UCSD,
and is the lead developer and architect of the
Finite Element ToolKit (FETK).
He serves as Co-Director for the Center for Computational Mathematics
(CCoM)
within the Mathematics Department,
and co-directs the interdisciplinary
M.S. and Ph.D. Programs in Computational Science, Mathematics,
and Engineering
(CSME)
that span a number of departments at UCSD.
He is involved in a number of interdisciplinary research and training
programs on campus, including
the BioCircuits Institute
(BCI),
the NIH National Biomedical Computation Resource
(NBCR),
and
the NSF Physics Frontier Center for Theoretical Biological Physics
(CTBP).
His research is supported by NSF, NIH, DOE, DOD, and DTRA,
as well as by industrial sponsors and private foundations.
The navigation bar to the left has links to more detailed information
about Michael's research and education activities.
During the 2011-2012 academic year we will run a
Reading Course/Seminar Series
in the overlapping areas of mathematical and numerical general relativity.
There will be about 6-8 talks spread throughout the Fall quarter,
with a few additional seminars in the Spring quarter.
For the schedule of talks, see the
MNGR Seminar Series
webpage.
We are also running a related UCSD workshop and multi-part minisymposium
at the SIAM PDE Conference in November; see the
GPDE2011
website.
In May 2012, we will hold the Southern California Analysis and Partial
Differential Equations Conference (SCAPDE) at UCSD, with a
focus on mathematical and numerical general relativity; see the
SCAPDE
website.
In July 2011 NSF announced that a collaborative team, led by UCSD
and with supporting teams at Caltech and Colorado State University,
had received a $1.1M NSF Focussed Research Group (FRG) Award.
The FRG funding award will allow the team to tackle several
open problems in mathematical and numerical general relativity,
the solutions of which could have impact on gravitational wave simulation
efforts (such as LIGO, VIRGO, and other gravity wave detection devices).
UCSD is the lead institution in the FRG project; UCSD Mathematicans
Michael Holst (PI) and Melvin Leok (Co-PI) lead the UCSD portion of the
project.
For more information about the project, see the announcement on the
NSF Website.
In June 2010 the source code tree for the entire
FETK Project
was released under the GNU LGPL (GNU Library General Public License).
For more information about FETK, see the
FETK Website.
In Spring 2008,
the Center for Computational Mathematics (CCoM)
was founded as a UC-designated Research Center at UC San Diego.
The Center was formed by a group of UCSD faculty with common interests
in the areas of computational and applied mathematics,
and is supported by the UCSD Division of Physical Sciences
and by funding awards of the individual CCoM Faculty.
CCoM faculty, together with other UCSD faculty and faculty at other
institutions, have organized and co-organized a sequence of regional,
national, and international workshops and conferences over the last
several years, including:
REB60:
Workshop on Adaptive and Multilevel Methods for PDE
(November 2009)
DD20:
20th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods
(February 2011)
RPCCT2011:
Rough Paths and Combinatorics in Control Theory (July 2011)
GPDE2011:
Geometric Numerical Methods for PDE
(November 2011)
SCAPDE:
Southern California Analysis and PDE Conference
(May 2012)
In Fall 2007 (PhD) and Fall 2010 (MS), the
CSME Graduate Program
was officially launched by UCSD.
Complete information about the new CSME Graduate Programs,
which are the first degree-granting Computational Science Graduate
Programs in the UC System, can be found on the
CSME Website.
Michael Holst is a
Professor of Mathematics and Physics at UCSD.
He works in numerical analysis, applied analysis,
partial differential equations, and mathematical physics.
He grew up in Colorado, attended Colorado State University as an
undergraduate, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1993.
He was a von Karman Instructor and Prize Research Fellow in Applied
Mathematics at Caltech from 1993-1997, and was an Assistant Professor of
Mathematics at UC Irvine from 1997-1998, before moving to UC San Diego
in 1998.
He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and a Hellman Fellowship,
and is coauthor of two graduate textbooks
on applied analysis and partial differential equations with Ivar Stakgold.
