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Michael Holst is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at UC San Diego.
He is a core faculty member in both
the Center for Computational Mathematics
(CCoM)
and
the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences
(CASS).
He works broadly in numerical analysis, applied analysis,
partial differential equations, and mathematical physics,
with a particular focus on mathematical and numerical general relativity.
He grew up in Colorado,
earned a B.S. from Colorado State University in 1987,
and received a 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 the Mathematics
Department at UC San Diego in 1998.
He was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2000,
to Professor of Mathematics in 2003, and
appointed as Professor of Physics in 2009.
He is the recipient of an
NSF CAREER Award
and a
Hellman Fellowship,
and is coauthor of a graduate textbook
on applied analysis and partial differential equations with Ivar Stakgold.
He holds a
Chancellor's Associates Endowed Chair at UCSD, and became a SIAM Fellow in 2016.
Prof. Holst 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 institutes
and research training programs on campus, including
the Center for Computational Mathematics
(CCoM),
the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences
(CASS),
and the NIH National Biomedical Computation Resource
(NBCR).
His research is supported by NSF, NIH, DOE, AFOSR, and DTRA,
as well as by industrial sponsors and private foundations.
While at UCSD he has been the primary supervisor for more than thirty
doctoral and postdoctoral students, as well as more than a dozen
undergraduate honors thesis students and REU summer research students.
The navigation bar to the left has links to more detailed information
about Prof. Holst's research and education activities.
Group Blog:
- In January 2018, we will be running a UCSD workshop and
jointly organizing a related multi-part minisymposium at the
JMM Conference at the San Diego Convention Center; see the
GPDE2018
website for more information about the workshop and the JMM minisymposium.
- Our group was approached by the AMS for a survey article on mathematical
and numerical general relativity, to help explain to the broader
mathematical sciences community the mathematics, science, and
technology behind the recent gravitational wave detections
(there have now been several detections).
The article will appear in the October 2016 issue of the Bulletin of the
American Mathematican Society, and when available it will be
published online
[ here ].
- At 10:30am EST on 11 February 2016, the National Science Foundation,
together with the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, announced that the
first direct detection of a
gravitational wave was made on 14 September 2015
by the twin LIGO devices
located in Livingston, Louisiana and Hanford, Washington.
The LIGO project, which at over 600 million dollars is the single
most ambitious and expensive scientific project ever supported by NSF,
represents an incredible scientific and engineering achievement.
This successful detection will substantially change astronomy and other
areas of physics forever, and
the discovery is viewed as comparable in
importance to the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson using the
Large Hadron Collider.
Our group put together some additional information about the LIGO Project
for Prof. Holst's graduate students, which can be found
[ here ].
Links to the announcement and joint press conference by
NSF and by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and a link to
the Phys. Rev. Lett. article on the discovery that was published
online simultaneously with the announcement, can be found below:
- The year 2015 is the one-hundred year anniversary of the
theory of general relativity;
in celebration, there are a number of local, regional, national, and
international workshops and conferences being held this year.
One such conference is the
Focus Program on 100 Years of General Relativity
being held at the Fields Insitute in Toronto during May and June 2015.
As part of this conference, Prof. Holst co-organized one of the
Focus Weeks on
Constraint Equations and Mass-Momentum Inequalities,
and gave two of the overview talks
(the slides talks can be found
[ here ]).
- The 31st Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting is being held at the University of
Oregon on March 13-14, 2015.
It is being co-organized by CCoM at UCSD and local organizers in Oregon.
For more information see the
PCGM31
Conference Website.
- In July 2014, NSF announced that a collaborative team of mathematicians
at the Center for Computational Mathematics (CCoM) at
UCSD had received a 5-year $1.8M NSF Research Training Group (RTG) Award.
This NSF RTG Award will fund up to five UCSD Mathematics doctoral students
participating in the CSME Doctoral Program, as well as provide funding
for up to two named CCoM Postoctoral Fellowships each year of the award.
CCoM mathematicians Randy Bank, Philip Gill, Michael Holst, Melvin Leok,
and David Meyer are the principle invesigators of the NSF Award.
For more information about the project, see the
RTG
Project Website.
- Our research group and CCoM at UCSD will be hosting the
30th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting on March 28-29, 2014.
For more information see the
PCGM30
Conference Website.
- In April 2013, NSF announced that a collaborative team of mathematicians
and mathematical physicists at Stanford University, UCSD,
the University of Oregon, and the University of Alaska
had received a $798K NSF Focussed Research Group (FRG) Award.
The FRG funding award will allow the team to tackle several
long-standing open problems in mathematical general relativity.
UCSD Mathematician Michael Holst (PI) leads the UCSD portion of the project.
For more information about the project, see the
FRG
Project Website, or the announcement on the
NSF Website.
- In January 2013, we will be running a UCSD workshop and
jointly organizing a related multi-part minisymposium at the
JMM Conference at the San Diego Convention Center; see the
GPDE2013
website for more information about the workshop and the JMM minisymposium.
- 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 of mathematicians at
UCSD, 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 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, and UCSD Mathematicians
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:
- GPDE2018/FRG-GR-10:
General Relativity and Finite Element Exterior Calculus
(January 2018)
- PCGM31:
31st Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting (March 2015, held at Oregon)
- FRG-GR-5:
FRG: Analysis of the Einstein Constraint Equations, Workshop 5
(January 2015)
- PCGM30:
30th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting (March 2014)
- FRG-GR-2:
FRG: Analysis of the Einstein Constraint Equations, Workshop 2
(March 2014)
- GPDE2013:
Geometric Numerical Methods for PDE
(January 2013)
- SCAPDE:
Southern California Analysis and PDE Conference
(May 2012)
- GPDE2011:
Geometric Numerical Methods for PDE
(November 2011)
- RPCCT2011:
Rough Paths and Combinatorics in Control Theory (July 2011)
- DD20:
20th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods
(February 2011)
- SI2010:
6th Annual Structured Integrators Workshop (April 2010)
- PCGM26:
26th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting (March 2010)
- REB60:
Workshop on Adaptive and Multilevel Methods for PDE
(November 2009)
- 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.
Since 2007, we have run a campus-wide CSME Seminar Series
covering a broad range of topics in applied mathematics,
physical sciences, and computational science.
The CSME series, with typically 2-3 lectures each quarter, complements
the weekly CCoM Seminars as well as other seminars that run each quarter.
The CSME Seminar Speakers include both UCSD faculty as well as visiting
faculty from other institutions.
The seminar titles and abstracts for CSME and CCoM Seminars are posted
on the
CCoM/CSME Seminar website
and are also announced on the CSME-L mailing list.
For information about getting onto the CSME-L and related email lists,
see the
MCP group webpage.
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