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SGI Award for Computational Science
and Visualization
This award is sponsored by SGI, a leader in high performance computing and visualization technology. The award recognizes outstanding contributions by Notre Dame graduate students in the areas of computational sciences and visualization. These contributions may include applications of high performance computing and/or visualization technology, or the development of algorithms, codes, software environments or other tools for better using high performance computing. Awards are presented to graduate students in the Colleges of Science, Engineering and Arts and Letters.
Year 2005 Awards
Christopher J. Fennel, Chemistry and Biochemistry
(advisor, Prof. J. Daniel Gezelter)David M. Eike, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
(advisor, Prof. Edward J. Maginn)Jeffrey R. Spies, Psychology
(advisor, Prof. Steven M. Boker)
Year 2004 Awards
John Drake, Biological Sciences (advisor, Prof. David Lodge)Global hot spots of biological invasions: evaluating options for ballast-water management
Youdong Lin, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (advisor, Prof. Mark Stadtherr)
Year 2003 Awards
Matthew Meineke, Chemistry and Biochemistry (advisor, Prof. Daniel Gezelter)Jesse Feyen, Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences (advisor, Prof. Joannes Westerink)
Eric Covey, Psychology (advisor, Prof. Steven Boker)
Year 2002 Awards
Gaurav Arya, Chemical Engineering (advisor, Prof. Edward Maginn)Jonas Oxgaard, Chemistry and Biochemistry (advisor, Prof. Olaf Wiest)
Year 2001 Awards
Chris Monico, MathematicsJeff Squyres, CSE
Year 2000 Awards
Arts and Letters: Timothy Gallant is an industrial design student in the Master of Fine Arts Program. His research advisor is Professor Paul Down. Tim is recognized for his creative use of computer-aided design and visualization techniques in the design and production of an elegant, multipurpose chair fabricated from aluminum and polycarbonate thermoplastic.Science: Marianna Safronova is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics. Her research advisor is Professor Walter Johnson. Marianna is recognized for making important advances in the application of high-performance computing to relativistic atomic structure calculations. Her published work has generated considerable interest among the atomic physics community worldwide, and has inspired new experimental work in atomic physics.
Engineering: Yiannis Kaznessis received the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering in January 2000. His research advisors were Professor Ed Maginn and Professor Davide Hill. Yiannis is recognized for the development and application of atomistic computer simulation methodology to study the dynamic and dielectric properties of polar polymers. This work was recently chosen by the NCSA (National Computational Science Alliance) as a feature story for their magazine "Access".