Application Deadline: November 27, 2006
Selection Committee Meeting: December 15, 2006
Finalist Interviews: January-February 2007

ALSTON S. HOUSEHOLDER FELLOWSHIP
in Scientific Computing

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.  The Fellowship honors Dr. 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/mics/). Additional information about the math group at ORNL can be found at http://www.csm.ornl.gov/comp_math/

PURPOSE:  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:  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 candidates 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

TO APPLY: Go to http://computing.ornl.gov/Employment/postings.html and click on job posting 2019.  In addition, provide three letters of recommendation via e-mail to CCSD_Staffing@ornl.gov or mail to: Householder Fellowship, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6060.

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 2007. 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 advanced scientific computing. The Fellowship offers a competitive salary, fringe benefits, and travel opportunities
 
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