Computer Modeling at MSU

Computer Modeling Group at MSU

For the purposes of this interest group, "Computer Modeling" is defined as research projects that involve all or most of the following steps:

Describing a physical, biological, chemical, etc. system by a mathematical model, which is most frequently (but not necessarily) a system of differential equations (ODE's or PDE's)
Using Numerical Analysis to build a discrete computational scheme for the mathematical model
Writing an algorithm for efficient (often parallel) solution of the above scheme
Implementing that algorithm in a particular programming language for a particular platform -- usually on a high performance parallel machine or cluster
Conducting the numerical simulations
Collecting, processing, and visualizing the resulting data
Interpreting that data for the original physical system

The following CSAM faculty conduct Computer Modeling research:

Dr. Lora Billings (Dept. of Math. Sciences): Math Biology, Disease Dynamics
Dr. Mark J. Chopping (Dept. of Earth & Env. Studies): Remote sensing (BRDF Modeling)
Dr. Huan E Feng (Dept. of Earth & Env. Studies): Modeling in Marine Geochemistry
Dr. Angel Gutierrez (Dept. of Comp. Science): Neural Network Research
Dr. Mark S. Korlie (Dept. of Math. Sciences): Computer Modeling of Natural Phenomena
Dr. Duke Ophori (Dept. of Earth & Env. Studies): Groundwater Modeling
Dr. Stefan Robila (Dept. of Comp. Science): Remote Sensing and Image Processing
Dr. Baojun Song (Dept. of Math. Sciences): Mathematical/Computer Modeling
Dr. Robert Taylor (Dept. of Earth & Env. Studies): Urban & Environmental Modeling
Dr. Diana M Thomas (Dept. of Math. Sciences): Dynamical Systems
Dr. Roman M Zaritski (Dept. of Comp. Science): Simulations of Excitable Media

Contact: Dr. Roman M. Zaritski (zaritski @ roman . montclair . edu)