External Collaborators

James Schloss is a postdoc in the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climates at MIT. Schloss studies complicated physical systems with HPC methods, including GPU computing. During his PhD, he focused on massively parallel implementations of superfluid simulations on graphics processing units and will be using this expertise on largescale climate models for the Climate Modeling Alliance. His focus will be on writing and optimizing discontinuous Galerkin and timestepping methods for modeling the ocean on distributed graphics processing units and high-performance computers using the Julia language. Schloss has a PhD from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University and a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Auburn University.

Michael F. Herbst is a postdoctoral researcher with Benjamin Stamm at the Applied and Computational Mathematics research lab at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Having obtained a PhD in theoretical chemistry as well as multiple years of research experience in applied mathematics, Michael’s interests span broadly within the field of materials modeling. His current research concentrates on developing efficient and robust simulation algorithms for electronic-structure theory simulations by combining physical principles as well as rigorous methods to control simulation error. As one of the lead developers of the DFTK Julia density-functional theory software, Michael is involved with both the uncertainty quantification as well as the software development efforts at CESMIX.