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Summer Internships

Dr Plechac has been organizing summer internships for graduate and undergraduate students in which the students have learned computational techniques for stochastic simulations and solution of partial differential equations.

The group of summer students from Chinese University Hong Kong on the campus of University of Delaware.


The group of summer students with their mentors in front of the supercomputer kraken housed by National Institute for Computational Sciences at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Summer interns at University of Delaware

2011

Giorgos Arampatzis	(University of Crete), Parallel algorithms for kinetic Monte Carlo simulations.
Angelos Athanasopoulos	(University of Delaware), Parallel random number generators
Nick Messina	(University of Delaware), Fast multiresolution solvers for parabolic PDEs.
	(University of Tennessee), Modelling pattern formation in chemically reacting systems.
Fung Ming Ng	(undergraduate students, Chinese University of Hong Kong), Algorithms for computing permanent
Hanbo Li and Chung Keung John Lau	(undergraduate students, Chinese University of Hong Kong), worked with Dr Y. Ou on Numerical solution of reaction-diffusion equations
Kam Piu Tsang	(undergraduate students, Chinese University of Hong Kong), worked with Dr Pak-Wing Fok

Summer interns at Joint Institute for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

2010

Giorgos Arampatzis	(University of Crete), Parallel algorithms for kinetic Monte Carlo simulations.
Lifan Xu	(University of Delaware), GPUs and kinetic Monte Carlo algorithms.
Alvaro Moraes	(KAUST), Error control in multiscale approximations of kinetic Monte Carlo.
Zhen Guan	(University of Tennessee), Modelling pattern formation in chemically reacting systems.
Cheuk Ting Li, and Chi Po Choi	(undergraduate students, Chinese University of Hong Kong), Sampling rare events
Ming Xu and Tzi Kin Mak	(undergraduate students, Chinese University of Hong Kong), worked with Dr Y. Ou on multiscale simulations of bones.

Summer interns at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in front of the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences

2009

Jonathan Mascie-Taylor	(University of Warwick), Multilevel coarse graining methods for sampling stochastic particle systems.
Alvaro Moraes	(KAUST) Multiscale modeling and numerical approximation of epidemic diseases.
Qiwen Wang and King Yu Lam	(undergraduate students, Chinese University of Hong Kong), Constraint molecular dynamics simulations
Henry Tucker	(ORNL-SULI summer undergraduate internship, University of California, Berkeley), Boundary value problems for the Poisson equation in MADNESS

2008

Jennifer Yip and Kama Kwok

(undergraduate students, Chinese University of Hong Kong), Multi-level Monte Carlo simulations

2007

Yong Hong Kuo and Fun Chan

(undergraduate students, Chinese University of Hong Kong), Coarse-grained stochastic simulations