Prof. Eric Polizzi My research team (see below) and I are part of the Emerging Electronics Laboratory at ECE, UMass. Our research objectives focus on developing efficient real-space atomistic modeling strategies for handling the simulation of emerging nanoscale electronics devices. This research necessitates the use of advanced mathematical methodologies and the development of specific high performance numerical parallel algorithms. Office: Marcus 201C Phone: (413) 57-70861 Fax: (413) 54-54611 polizzi@ ecs. umass. edu

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Deyin Zhang Deyin is from Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. She received her Bachelor's degree in Microelectronics Information and Technology from Harbin Institute of Technology, and her MS degree on "Efficient Modeling Techniques for Atomistic-Based Electronic Density Calculations" under my supervision in August 2007. She is currently pursuing her PhD degree. Office: Marcus Lab. 2 dzhang@ ecs. umass. edu

Zuojing (Andy) Chen Zuojing is from Wuhan, China. He received his Bachelor's degree in Optical Information Sicence and Technology from Department of Physics of University of Science and Technology of China. His interests lie in both physics and computer, especially computational physics, and he is currently working on the numerical solution of time-dependent Schrodinger equation. Office: Marcus Lab. 2 zuojing@ ecs. umass. edu

Visitors

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Murat Manguoglu (from 11/12/06 to 11/18/06) Murat is a PhD student in computer sciences at Purdue University, West-Lafayette, IN. Murat is working with Prof. Ahmed Sameh on developping efficient preconditoner for general sparse linear systems. Murat is also working on SPIKE and its applications. During his journey, we have been working on improving the SPIKE code for handling systems with large condition numbers, as well as some reordering schemes for sparse systems.

Olivier Tomaz (from 8/10/06 to 8/24/06) Olivier is a MS student in computer sciences at the I.T. Engineering School (ISTY) Versailles, France. Olivier is much more than interested in whatever linked to I.T. material and the Open Source world. During his journey, he has been working on getting better performances on the SPIKE library using high and low level optimizations. Being a part of the MAQAO team in Versailles France, this internship focuses his priorities on the view and needs of the user regarding specific optimization tools.

Dr. Diego Kienle (from 6/12/06 to 6/18/06) Dr. Kienle studied Physics at the University of Bayreuth/Germany and received his diploma degree (M.S.) in Theoretical Physics in April 1997 working on dynamical correlation functions of 1D Luttinger liquids. He received his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University Saarland/Germany in April 2001. From February 2003 till February 2006 he was a postdoctoral research associate at Purdue University. His research interest are empirical modeling of electronic structure of nanostructures using non-orthogonal tight-binding, quantum transport simulation through molecules and nanotubes using Non-Equilibrium Green Function, modeling of complex fluids using Brownian dynamics, and hydrodynamic interaction in polymer systems. During his journey at Umass, Dr. Kienle and I have been working on carbon nantotube modeling and contact problems.