Randall J. LeVeque -- Students and Postdocs

See also: Mathematics Genealogy

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Current PhD students:

Since retiring I have not served as primary advisor for PhD students.

Former Students:

Xinsheng (Shawn) Qin (co-advised with Mike Motley, CEE), PhD, 2019.
- PhD Thesis: Efficient Tsunami Simulation at Local and Global Scales
- First position: Waymo
Tommaso Buvoli, PhD, 2018
- PhD Thesis: Polynomial-Based Methods for Time-Integration
- First position: Instructor, Department of Mathematics, UC-Merced.
Brisa Davis, PhD, 2018
- PhD Thesis: Adjoint-Guided Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Hyperbolic Systems of Equations
Scott Moe, PhD, 2017.
- PhD Thesis: High order shock capturing methods with compact stencils for use with adaptive mesh refinement and mapped grids
- First position: AMD Research
Donsub Rim, PhD, 2017.
- PhD Thesis: Uncertainty Quantification Problems in Tsunami Modeling and Reduced Order Models for Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations
- First position: Chu Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
Daniel Shapero (co-advised with Ian Joughin, APL), PhD, 2017.
- PhD thesis: Data assimilation problems in glaciology
- First position: Postdoc, UW eScience Institute and Polar Science Center
Mauricio del Razo Sarmina (co-advised with Hong Qian, AMath), PhD, 2016.
- PhD thesis: Stochastic Modeling of Reversible Biochemical Reaction-Diffusion Systems and High-Resolution Shock-Capturing Methods for Fluid Interfaces
- First position: Postdoc, Freie Universitat, Berlin
Maurice Fabien, MS, 2014.
- Masters Thesis: Spectral Methods for Partial Dierential Equations that Model Shallow Water Wave Phenomena [Github repository]
Jihwan Kim, PhD, 2014.
- PhD Thesis: Finite volume methods for Tsunamis genereated by submarine landslides,
- First position: Postdoc, NGI Oslo
Grady Lemoine, PhD, 2013.
- PhD Thesis: Numerical Modeling of Poroelastic-Fluid Systems Using High-Resolution Finite Volume Methods,
- First position: Postdoc, UW Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
- Current position: Software Engineer, CD-adapco.
Josh Jacobs (co-advised with Pascale Lelong), PhD 2012.
- PhD Thesis: Vortex Dynamics of Geostrophically Adjusted Density Perturbations in Triply-Periodic Models of Stratified Incompressible Fluids,
- First: Swanson Lab, UW Medical School.
Kyle Mandli, PhD, 2011
- PhD thesis: Finite Volume Methods for the Multilayer Shallow Water Equations with Applications to Storm Surges
- First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas, Austin
- Current position: Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Jonathan Claridge, PhD, 2011
- PhD thesis: Numerical Methods and Studies of Parabolic Problems, Operator Splitting, and Adaptive Mesh Refinement
- First/current position: Google.
Kirsten Fagnan, PhD, 2010
- PhD thesis: High-resolution Finite Volume Methods for Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy.
- First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
- Current position: NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
David Ketcheson, PhD, 2009
- PhD thesis: High Order Strong Stability Preserving Time Integrators and Numerical Wave Propagation Methods for Hyperbolic PDEs
- First/current position: Assistant Professor, KAUST
Randall Hoberecht, MS, 2009
- Masters thesis: A finite volume approach to modeling injury mechanisms of blast-induced traumatic brain injury
- First position: West Point (active duty, US Army)
David George, PhD, 2006
- Master's Thesis: Numerical Approximation of the Nonlinear Shallow Water Equations with Topography and Dry-Beds: A Godunov-Type Scheme.
- PhD Thesis: Finite Volume Methods and Adaptive Refinement for Tsunami Propagation and Inundation
- First position: Postdoc, University of Utah
- Current position: Staff Scientist, USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory
Marica Pelanti, PhD, 2005
- PhD Thesis: Wave Propagation Algorithms for Multicomponent Compressible Flows with Applications to Volcanic Jets.
- First position: Postdoc, Paris VI
- Current position: Faculty, ENSTA, Paris
Long Lee, PhD, 2002, "Immersed interface methods for incompressible flow with moving interfaces"
- longlee:thesis.ps.gz
- First position: Postdoc, University of North Carolina
- Current position: Associate Professor, University of Wyoming
James Rossmanith, PhD, 2002,
- PhD thesis: A Wave Propagation Method with Constrained Transport for Ideal and Shallow Water Magnetohydrodynamics"
- rossmanith_thesis.tar tar file containing all chapters
- .ps.gz files for each chapter: chap0 chap1 chap2 chap3 chap4 chap5 chap6 chap7 chap8
- errata.ps An important correction.
- First position: Postdoc, University of Michigan
- Current position: Associate Professor, Iowa State University
Derek Bale, PhD, 2002, "Wave propagation algorithms on curved manifolds with applications to relativistic hydrodynamics"
- thesis files
- First position: ii-vi
- Current position: Engineering Manager, Baker Hughes, Houston
Tiernan Fogarty, PhD, 2001, "Finite volume methods for elastic-plastic wave propagation in heterogeneous media"
- fogartyphd.ps.gz
- fogartyms.ps.gz Masters Thesis
- First position: Instructor, Oregon Institute of Technology
- Current position: Professor, Oregon Institute of Technology
Donna Calhoun, PhD, 1999, "A Cartesian grid method for solving the streamfunction-vorticity equations in irregular geometries"
- calhounphd.ps.gz ... calhoun_phd.pdf
- First position: Postdoc, Courant Institute, NYU
- Current position: Associate Professor, Boise State University
L. G. Ted Stern, PhD, 1996, "An Explicitly Conservative Method for Time-Accurate Solution of Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations on Embedded Chimera Grids"
- stern:thesis.ps.gz
- First position: Consulting company
- Current position: Cogint, Inc.
Chaoming Zhang, PhD, 1996, "Immersed Interface Methods for Hyperbolic Systems of Partial Differential Equations with Discontinuous Coefficients"
- zhang:thesis.ps.gz
- First position: Postdoc, Rice University
- Current position: Co-founder, CFO, and Chairman, Veritas-MSI
Zhilin Li, PhD, 1994, "The Immersed Interface Method --- A Numerical Approach for Partial Differential Equations with Interfaces"
- liphd.pdf
- First position: Postdoc, UCLA
- Current position: Professor, North Carolina State University
Keh-Ming Shyue, PhD, 1993, "Front Tracking Methods based on Wave Propagation"
- thesis.pdf
- First position: Postdoc, SUNY Stony Brook
- Current position: Professor, National Taiwan University
Richard P. Beyer, PhD, 1989, "A computational model of the cochlea using the immersed boundary method"
- First position: Postdoc, University of Washington
- Current position: Researcher, University of Washington

Students at other universities, co-advised:

Christiane Helzel, PhD, 2000, "Numerical Approximation of Conservation Laws with Stiff Source Term for the Modelling of Detonation Waves"
- Primary Advisor: Gerhard Warnecke, University of Magdeburg
- First position: postdoc, Courant Institute, NYU
- Current position: Professor, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf
Jan Olav Langseth, PhD 1995,
- Primary Advisor: Aslak Tveito, University of Oslo
- Current position: Norwegian Research Defence Establishment, Oslo
Carsten Schulz-Rinne, PhD, 1993, "The Riemann Problem for Two-Dimensional Gas Dynamics and New Limiters for High-Order Schemes"
- Primary Advisor: Rolf Jeltsch, ETH-Zurich
- Current position: Munich Reinsurance Company
Rolf Walder, PhD, 1994, "Some aspects of the computational dynamics of astrophysical nebulae"
- First position: Postdoc, ETH-Zurich
- Primary Advisor: H. Nussbaumer, ETH-Zurich
- Current position: Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon

Recent postdocs:

Chris Vogl (NSF Postdoctoral Fellow), now at Lawrence Livermore Lab
Knut Waagan, (now at Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Oslo)
Peter Blossey (now in Atmospheric Sciences)
Sorin Mitran (now at University of North Carolina)