Esmond G. Ng's Publications

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Division

Esmond G. Ng's Professional Activities ...

(Last Updated: February 12, 2001)

Degrees

B.Math, Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 1978

M.Math., Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 1979
Advisor: J. Alan George
Dissertation: "On One-Way Dissections"

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 1983
Advisor: J. Alan George
Dissertation: "Row Elimination In Sparse Matrices Using Rotations"

Professional Appointments

Leader of Scientific Computing Group and Senior Staff Computer Scientist, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (1/1999 - present).

Leader of Computational Methods Group, Computational Mathematics and Statistics Section, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN (5/1995 - 1/1999).

Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (10/1992 - 1/1999).

Senior Research Staff Member, Computational Mathematics and Statistics Section, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN (10/1992 - 1/1999).

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (10/1987 - 10/1992).

Research Staff Member, Mathematical Sciences Section, Engineering Physics and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN (10/1985 - 10/1992).

Research Assistant Professor/Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (1/1983 - 9/1985).

Patents

United States Patent #5,815,413, “Integrated method for chaotic time series analysis” (with Lee M. Hively), issued Sept. 29, 1998.

Memberships

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Members of SIAM, SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra, and SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing.
Member of Editorial Board for SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (1997-present).
Guest editor-in-chief, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, vol. 20, no. 4 (1999).

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Members of ACM and ACM Special Interest Group on Numerical Mathematics (SIGNUM).
Member of ACM SIGNUM Board of Directors (1997-1999).

International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS)
Member of IMACS.
Member of IMACS Technical Committee on Computational Linear Algebra (1994-present).
Member of IMACS Technical Committee on Parallel and Supercomputing (1994-present).

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Member of IEEE.
Member of Editorial Board for IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2001-present).

Other professional societies/associations
Mathematical Association of America (MAA).

Invited participant at all Gatlinburg International Conferences on Numerical Algebra and Householder Symposia on Numerical Algebra since 1984:
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1984;
Fairfield Glade, Tennessee, 1987;
Halmstad, Sweden, 1990;
Lake Arrowhead, California, 1993;
Pontresina, Switzerland, 1996;
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, 1999.

Panel Discussion, "Supercomputers and Mathematics Research", 11th Annual SEAS-SIAM Meeting, Athens, Georgia (Mar. 27-28, 1987).

Member of Science Alliance Faculty Awards Committee, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1996-1998).

Co-chair of the Second SIAM Conference on Sparse Matrices, October 9-11, 1996, Coeur d'Alene Resort, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Organizer of DOE Workshop on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science Modeling, April 27-29, 1998, Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

Member of Program Committee of the 5th International Symposium on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel, 1998, Berkeley, California.

Member of Program Committee of SC’98: High Performance Networking & Computing, November 7-13, 1998, Orlando, Florida.

Member of Program Committee of the 6th International Symposium on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel, 1999, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Member of Program Committee of the 1999 International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Large Sparse Matrices from Industrial Applications, June 10-12, 1999, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Member of Program Committee of the 7th International Symposium on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel, 2000, Cancun, Mexico.

Organizer of Bay Area Scientific Computing Day, February 26, 2000, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California.

Chair of the 8th International Symposium on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel, April 2001, San Francisco, California.

Co-chair of the 2001 International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Large Sparse Matrices from Industrial Applications, April 29-May 1, 2001, Tahoe City, California.

Co-organizer of Numerical Linear Algebra Workshop, October 8-12, 2001, The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, Canada,

Organizers of minisymposia at various SIAM and IMACS conferences.

Served on NSF proposal panels.

Publications

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Presentations

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"Symbolic aspects of sparse orthogonal factorization", Conference on Linear Algenra: Theory, Applications, and Computations, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC (January 8-9, 1999).

"Incomplete Cholesky parallel preconditioners with selective inversion", the 6th International Symposium on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel, San Juan, Puerto Rico (April 16, 1999).

"Structural results for sparse orthogonal factorization", Minisymposium on Recent Advances in Sparse Matrix Techniques, 1999 SIAM Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA (May 12-15, 1999).

"Re-Revisit ICCG", International Conference on Preconditioning, Minneapolis, MN (June 3-5, 1999).

"High performance sparse Cholesky factorization", Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, California (July 19, 1999).

"NERSC", Partners in Scientific Collaborations, Oak Ridge, TN (August 18-19, 1999).

"NERSC", California Climate, Impacts, & Information Workshop, LBNL, Berkeley, CA (October 4, 1999).

"The Scientific Computing Group at NERSC", ERSUG Meeting, Portland, Oregon (November 15, 1999).

"Advancing Science Through High-Performance Computing", given to DOE Office of Science, Washington, D.C. (November 22, 1999).

"Ordering sparse matrices", Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (Nov. 29, 1999).

"The Scientific Computing Group", given at the DOE Scientific Computing Advisory Council Review, LBNL, Berkeley (March 14, 2000).

"The ordering problem for sparse matrix factorizations", University of California at Davis, Davis, California (April 13, 2000).

"Single-particle Reconstruction Using Supercomputing", Single-particle Reconstruction Workshop at the National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Houston, TX (April 28-30, 2000).

"What's New in Linear Equations Solvers", Workshop on Computational Challenges in Atomic and Molecular Physics, Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics, Harvard University, Mass. (May 4-6, 2000).

"An Elimination Game", a seminar presented to summer students in the Computing Sciences Directorate, LBNL, Berkeley (June 19, 2000).

"New Ideas For Solving Sparse Nonsymmetric Linear Systems", Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, Germany (August 17, 2000).

"The Ordering Problem for Sparse Matrix Factorization", the 16th IMACS World Congress on Scientific Computation, Modelling and Applied Mathematics, Lausanne, Switzerland (August 21-25, 2000).

"New Ideas For Solving Sparse Nonsymmetric Linear Systems", ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich, Switzerland (August 29, 2000).

"Scientific Computing at NERSC", Colloquium, Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky (October 16, 2000).

"Linear Algebra and Scientific Discoveries", SIAM Applied Linear Algebra, Raleigh, NC (October 23-25, 2000).

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Degrees
	B.Math, Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 1978

	M.Math., Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 1979 Advisor: J. Alan George Dissertation: "On One-Way Dissections"

	Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 1983 Advisor: J. Alan George Dissertation: "Row Elimination In Sparse Matrices Using Rotations"

Professional Appointments
	Leader of Scientific Computing Group and Senior Staff Computer Scientist, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (1/1999 - present).
	Leader of Computational Methods Group, Computational Mathematics and Statistics Section, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN (5/1995 - 1/1999).
	Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (10/1992 - 1/1999).
	Senior Research Staff Member, Computational Mathematics and Statistics Section, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN (10/1992 - 1/1999).
	Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (10/1987 - 10/1992).
	Research Staff Member, Mathematical Sciences Section, Engineering Physics and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN (10/1985 - 10/1992).
	Research Assistant Professor/Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (1/1983 - 9/1985).

Patents
	United States Patent #5,815,413, “Integrated method for chaotic time series analysis” (with Lee M. Hively), issued Sept. 29, 1998.

Memberships
	Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Members of SIAM, SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra, and SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing. Member of Editorial Board for SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (1997-present). Guest editor-in-chief, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, vol. 20, no. 4 (1999).
	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Members of ACM and ACM Special Interest Group on Numerical Mathematics (SIGNUM). Member of ACM SIGNUM Board of Directors (1997-1999).
	International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS) Member of IMACS. Member of IMACS Technical Committee on Computational Linear Algebra (1994-present). Member of IMACS Technical Committee on Parallel and Supercomputing (1994-present).
	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Member of IEEE. Member of Editorial Board for IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2001-present).
	Other professional societies/associations Mathematical Association of America (MAA).
	Invited participant at all Gatlinburg International Conferences on Numerical Algebra and Householder Symposia on Numerical Algebra since 1984: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1984; Fairfield Glade, Tennessee, 1987; Halmstad, Sweden, 1990; Lake Arrowhead, California, 1993; Pontresina, Switzerland, 1996; Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, 1999.
	Panel Discussion, "Supercomputers and Mathematics Research", 11th Annual SEAS-SIAM Meeting, Athens, Georgia (Mar. 27-28, 1987).
	Member of Science Alliance Faculty Awards Committee, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1996-1998).
	Co-chair of the Second SIAM Conference on Sparse Matrices, October 9-11, 1996, Coeur d'Alene Resort, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
	Organizer of DOE Workshop on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science Modeling, April 27-29, 1998, Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
	Member of Program Committee of the 5th International Symposium on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel, 1998, Berkeley, California.
	Member of Program Committee of SC’98: High Performance Networking & Computing, November 7-13, 1998, Orlando, Florida.
	Member of Program Committee of the 6th International Symposium on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel, 1999, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
	Member of Program Committee of the 1999 International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Large Sparse Matrices from Industrial Applications, June 10-12, 1999, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
	Member of Program Committee of the 7th International Symposium on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel, 2000, Cancun, Mexico.
	Organizer of Bay Area Scientific Computing Day, February 26, 2000, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California.
	Chair of the 8th International Symposium on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel, April 2001, San Francisco, California.
	Co-chair of the 2001 International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Large Sparse Matrices from Industrial Applications, April 29-May 1, 2001, Tahoe City, California.
	Co-organizer of Numerical Linear Algebra Workshop, October 8-12, 2001, The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, Canada,
	Organizers of minisymposia at various SIAM and IMACS conferences.
	Served on NSF proposal panels.

Publications
	Click here for a complete list of publications.

Presentations
	Click here for a complete list of presentations.

	"Symbolic aspects of sparse orthogonal factorization", Conference on Linear Algenra: Theory, Applications, and Computations, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC (January 8-9, 1999).
	"Incomplete Cholesky parallel preconditioners with selective inversion", the 6th International Symposium on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel, San Juan, Puerto Rico (April 16, 1999).
	"Structural results for sparse orthogonal factorization", Minisymposium on Recent Advances in Sparse Matrix Techniques, 1999 SIAM Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA (May 12-15, 1999).
	"Re-Revisit ICCG", International Conference on Preconditioning, Minneapolis, MN (June 3-5, 1999).
	"High performance sparse Cholesky factorization", Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, California (July 19, 1999).
	"NERSC", Partners in Scientific Collaborations, Oak Ridge, TN (August 18-19, 1999).
	"NERSC", California Climate, Impacts, & Information Workshop, LBNL, Berkeley, CA (October 4, 1999).
	"The Scientific Computing Group at NERSC", ERSUG Meeting, Portland, Oregon (November 15, 1999).
	"Advancing Science Through High-Performance Computing", given to DOE Office of Science, Washington, D.C. (November 22, 1999).
	"Ordering sparse matrices", Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (Nov. 29, 1999).
	"The Scientific Computing Group", given at the DOE Scientific Computing Advisory Council Review, LBNL, Berkeley (March 14, 2000).
	"The ordering problem for sparse matrix factorizations", University of California at Davis, Davis, California (April 13, 2000).
	"Single-particle Reconstruction Using Supercomputing", Single-particle Reconstruction Workshop at the National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Houston, TX (April 28-30, 2000).
	"What's New in Linear Equations Solvers", Workshop on Computational Challenges in Atomic and Molecular Physics, Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics, Harvard University, Mass. (May 4-6, 2000).
	"An Elimination Game", a seminar presented to summer students in the Computing Sciences Directorate, LBNL, Berkeley (June 19, 2000).
	"New Ideas For Solving Sparse Nonsymmetric Linear Systems", Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, Germany (August 17, 2000).
	"The Ordering Problem for Sparse Matrix Factorization", the 16th IMACS World Congress on Scientific Computation, Modelling and Applied Mathematics, Lausanne, Switzerland (August 21-25, 2000).
	"New Ideas For Solving Sparse Nonsymmetric Linear Systems", ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich, Switzerland (August 29, 2000).
	"Scientific Computing at NERSC", Colloquium, Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky (October 16, 2000).
	"Linear Algebra and Scientific Discoveries", SIAM Applied Linear Algebra, Raleigh, NC (October 23-25, 2000).