Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
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Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Pennsylvania State University
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Phone/Voice Mail: (814) 865-0193 Fax: (814) 865-3176 Office Hours (Summer 2008): |
E-mail address: shontz@cse.psu.edu
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Suzanne Shontz received her Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Cornell University in 2005. She received her B.A. in mathematics and B.S. in chemistry from the University of Northern Iowa in 1999 and her M.S. degrees in computer science and applied mathematics from Cornell University in 2002. Prior to joining Penn State in August 2006, she was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and a Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Research Scholar at the University of Minnesota. Professor Shontz received a National Physical Science Consortium Fellowship from 1999-2004 and an Honorable Mention for the Alice T. Schafer Prize for Women in Mathematics in 1999. She has presented her research at several international and national venues. Selected presentation venues in 2006 have included talks at the Fields-Mitacs Industrial Problem-Solving Workshop in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the World Congress on Computational Mechanics in Los Angeles, and the Finite Element Circus.
My research is in scientific and parallel computing. Specific interests include Mesh Generation, Numerical Optimization, Computational Materials Science, and Computational Cardiology.
Recent projects have included the development of efficient methods for the geometry optimization and electronic structures problems in computational materials science. Other recent work has involved the development of mesh warping algorithms and a nonlinear solver for problems with moving meshes; these methods have been applied to problems in cardiology and solid mechanics. Additional projects have been in mesh smoothing and the use of approximation models in parallel nonlinear optimization.
Current projects are described below.
Current Research Projects, Recent Publications and Presentations
Mesh Smoothing Algorithms Meshing and Linear Solvers Modeling and Numerical Algorithms for Computer Systems Computational Modeling of Blood Flow in Diseased Patients Publications Presentations
Shankar Prasad Sastry (Ph.D. Student) Nicholas Voshell (Ph.D. Student)
Fall 2006
CSE/Math 451 Numerical Computations (2 sections). Course website in ANGEL. Send e-mail to obtain password. Spring 2007
No teaching assignment. Fall 2007
CSE/Math 451 Numerical Computations. Course website in ANGEL. Send e-mail to obtain password. Spring 2008
CSE 598C Advanced Topics in Meshing (course ad). Course website in ANGEL. Send e-mail to obtain password.
Future Teaching Assignments (TENTATIVE):
Fall 2008
CSE/Math 555 Numerical Optimization (course ad) Spring 2009
CSE/Math 451 Numerical Computations, 2 sections
2008 Invited Panelist, NDSEG Graduate Fellowship Panel, Department of Defense 2008- Referee, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software 2008- Referee, Journal of Chemical Physics 2007 Invited Panelist, Broadening Participation in Computing Program, National Science Foundation 2007 Invited Panelist, SMART Scholarship Program, Department of Defense 2007 Posters Committee, Supercomputing Conference 2007 Faculty Marshall, PSU Commencement 2007- Referee, International Meshing Roundtable Conference 2007- Referee, Computational Materials Science 2007- Referee, Computer Physics Communications 2007- Referee, ACM Crossroads Magazine 2006 Invited Academic Expert, Fields-MITACS Industrial Problem-Solving Workshop 2006 Editor of the National Research Council (NRC) Group report for the Fields-MITACS Industrial Problem-Solving Workshop 2006 Member, Grace Hopper Conference Committee on Presentations, Panels, and Workshops 2005- Referee, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 2005- Mentor, Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Mentor Network