Householder Fellowship at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Householder Fellowship

Purpose The Computer Science and Mathematics (CSM) Division at the Oak Ridge

National Laboratory (ORNL) invites outstanding candidates to apply for

the Alston S. Householder Fellowship in Scientific Computing.

Description

The Fellowship honors Dr. Alston S. Householder, founding director of the

Mathematics Division (now CSM Division) at ORNL and recognizes his

seminal research contributions to the fields of numerical analysis and

scientific computing. Funding for the Householder Fellowship comes from

the Computational Mathematics Project, which is supported by the Office

of Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences of the U.S.

Department of Energy (http://www.science.doe.gov/ascr).

Additional information about the math group at ORNL can be found at

http://www.csm.ornl.gov/comp_math/.

The purpose of the Householder Fellowship is to promote innovative

research in scientific computing on advanced computer architectures and

to facilitate technology transfer from the laboratory research

environment to industry and academia through advanced training of new

computational scientists. The applied mathematics research efforts

provide the fundamental mathematical methods and algorithms needed to

model complex physical, chemical, and biological systems. The computer

science research efforts enable scientists to efficiently implement

these models on the highest performance computers available and to

store, manage, analyze, and visualize the massive amounts of data that

result. Networking research provides the techniques to link the data

producers, e.g., supercomputers and large experimental facilities, with

the data consumers, i.e., scientists who need the data.

Qualifications Required The position requires a Ph.D. in computer science, mathematics, or

statistics. Candidates nearing completion of the Ph.D.but no more than

three years beyond completion can be considered. The successful

candidate will have a strong background and interest in multi-scale

methods for scientific computing. Principal research areas include:

- boundary element method

- dense matrix computations

- direct methods for sparse matrix computations

- iterative methods for linear systems

- algorithms for solving differential equations

- large eigenvalue computations

- computational geometry and mesh generation

* A security clearance is not required for this position

SELECTION: Finalists for the Fellowship will be invited to visit ORNL to present a seminar and visit the area. The selected Fellow must be available to begin the appointment during calendar year 2012.Appointments are for one year with the option to renew for a second year. Each Householder Fellowship is a staff-level appointment that provides access to state-of-the-art computational facilities(high-performance workstations and parallel architectures), and collaborative research opportunities in active research programs in

To Apply

Please visit http://jobs.ornl.gov to officially apply to this Fellowship. For additional questions please contact Kate Carter at carterka@ornl.gov or Ed D'Azevedo dazevedoef@ornl.gov.