Ignatios Vakalis

Education:

• B. Sc. in Physics, University of Patras, Greece, 1982.
• M.Sc. in Computer Science, Western Michigan University, 1988.
• Ph.D. in Mathematics, Western Michigan University, 1992.
  Dissertation: Multivariate Numerical Integration on Shared and Distributed Memory Machines

Research Interests:

• Parallel Computing
• Numerical Integration
• Computer Vision
• Computational Science Education

Grants, Awards and Honors:

• Faculty Cultural Enrichment Program, Capital University: A grant award to conduct research on: a) Pythagoras; b) Computational models on DEMs and air-pollution mapping, Summer 1996.
• Undergraduate Computational Science Faculty Honarable Mention from Undergraduate Computational Enginnering and Sciences (UCES) , August, 1995.
• Project Kaleidoscope , Invited memeber of the Faculty 21, class of 1995.
• Introducing Research and Innovative Instruction into the Undergraduate Science and Mathematics Curriculum through Advanced Computing Technology, NSF ILI-IP grant, Sept 1995, $80,000 (matching funds)
• Gerhold Research Award, Capital University: Grants to conduct research and incorporate CAS into the Mathematics curriculum, Spring 1994 and Spring 1993.
• NATO: A travel grant for being an invited speaker at the NATO Advanced Workshop on Numerical Integration, Bergen, Norway, June 1991.
• Charles H. Butler Award: Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics, Western Michigan University, 1989.

Teaching Interests:

• "Introduction to Parallel Computing". This course will be taught every other Fall semester at the Advanced Computational Laboratory at Capital University, using also facilities at National Supercomputer Centers.
• "Intoduction to High Performance Computing". This course will be taught every other Spring semester the Advanced Computational Laboratory at Capital University, using also facilities at National Supercomputer Centers.
• "Introduction to Computational Science". This course will be taught every Spring semester. MAPLE and MATLAB and a programming language (C or Fortran) are used in the course.
• "Calculus". Reform Calculus is currently being taught. MAPLE is fully integrated throughout the Calculus sequence.
• "Numerical Analysis". MAPLE and MATLAB are utilized throughout the course.
• Participant in the High Performance Scientific Computing Educational Project. Current materials can be retreived by anonymous ftp from www.cs-colorado.edu/course/hpsc

Selected Invited Talks:

• "Mathematics Education: Vision for the Furure", Invited panelist at the Joint MAA/AMS National Meeting, San Diego, January 1997.
• "Integrating Parallel Computing into the Undergraduate CS Curriculum at Capital University", Invited speaker at the Parallel Computing in Education Consortium , Ohio Supercomputer Center, February 1996.
• "Computational Science, Parallel and High Performance Computing in the Undergraduate Curriculum", Invited panelist at the annual SIGCSE meeting, Nashville, March 1995.
• "Parallel Multivariate Numerical Integration: Design, Speedup Analysis and Perormance Results", Invited speaker at the AMS special session on Scientific Computing at the annual MAA/AMS Meeting, Cincinnati, January 1994.
• "A Parallel Global Adaptive Algorithm for Integration over the N-Simplex on Shared Memory Machines", Invited participant at the NATO Advanced workshop on Numerical Integration, Bergen-Norway, June 1991.
• "The use of Trinocular Shading in the Reconstruction of a visible Surface", Invited speaker at the 11th European Conference on Visual Perception, Bristol-England, September 1988.

Selected Recent Publications:

• "Integration of Undergraduate Research into the Math Curriculum: Prospects and Limitations", Abstract, Proceedings of the MAA/AMS National Meeting, San Diego, January 1997.
• "Computational Science, Parallel and High Performance Computing in Undergraduate Education" (with T. Marchioro, I. Zachary, D. Stevenson, L. Tabak), Proceedings of the 26th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Nashville, (1995), 362-363.
• "A Survey of Parallel Multidimensional Numerical Integration: Applications to Physics", International Journal of Modern Physics C, vol. 5, no. 2, (1994), 239-241.
• "Convergence Results and Speedup of Parallel Numerical Integration Algorithms" (with E. de Doncker), Proceedings of the 6th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Norfolk, (1993), 539-545.
• "Parallel Global Adaptive Integration and Dynamic Load Balancing on Lossely Coupled Systems" (with E. de Doncker), Proceedings of the 1993 Symposium of Apllied Computing, Indianapolis, (1993), 554-561.

An Exciting Confererence

I am organizing and serving as the chair of an International Conference on Teaching of Mathermatics.
The Interantional Conference will be held on July 3-6, 1998 on the island of Samos, Greece (birthplace of Pythagoras).
Information exists on the Web page SAMOS-1998

Interesting Web sites on Parallel Computing/Computational Science:

• Nan Schaller's Parallel Computing Page

  Nan Schaller at the Rochester Institute of Technology mainatins a wonderful page with a plethora of pointers to bibliographic materials, on-line courses and texts, and other resources on parallel computing.

• U.K. Parallel Computing Archive at HESNA Unix

  This archive is in the United Kingdom at the Univesrity of Canterbury and includes information about education, environments, tools, systems, bibliography, realted to parallel computing.

• Parallel Processing Courseware at the University of Wales, Cardiff

  This site has inforamtion on course materials for parallel computing developed at the Computing Matheamtics Department at the University of Wales, College at Cardiff.

• Undergraduate Computational Enginnering and Sciences (UCES)

  This site contains inforamtion about the UCES project and links to educational materials and tools related to Undergraduate Computational Science.

• Computational Science Education Project

  An electronic textbook for teaching Computational Science and Engineering (primarily graduate level).







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