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Personal Profile I am a research specialist at the Institute of Cyber--Enabled Research at Michigan State University! My contact info is: Benjamin Ong iCER (Institute of Cyber Enabled Research), MSU 1443 Biomedical and Physical Science Building East Lansing, MI, 48823 office: (517) 884.6683 home: (517) 214.3277 ongbw [at] msu [dot] edu

Research

I am interested in all projects involving computation! My area of expertise are in parallel time integrators, fast summation methods, and adaptive mesh generation.

Papers

1. Parallel Semi-Implicit Time Integrators
   A. Christlieb, A. Melfi, B. Ong
   submitted, pdf
   


2. A Parallel Space-Time Algorithm
   A. Christlieb, R Haynes, B. Ong
   submitted, pdf
   


3. Semi-implicit integral deferred correction using high order additive Runge-Kutta integrators,
   A. Christlieb, M. Morton, B. Ong, J. Qiu
   Comm. Math. Sci., 9(3):879-902, 2011, pdf | bib


4. Parallel Implicit Time Integrators,
   A. Christlieb, B. Ong
   J. Sci. Comput, 49(2):167-179, 2011, doi:10.1007/s10915-010-9452-4, pdf | doi


5. Parallel high-order integrators,
   A. Christlieb, C. Macdonald, B. Ong,
   SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 32(2):818-835, 2010, doi:10.1137/09075740X, pdf | bib | doi


6. Integral deferred correction methods constructed with high order Runge-Kutta Methods,
   A. Christlieb, B. Ong, J. Qiu,
   Math. Comp., 79:761-783, 2010, doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-09-02276-5, pdf | bib | doi


7. Comments on high order integrators embedded within integral deferred correction methods
   A. Christlieb, B. Ong, J. Qiu,
   Comm. Appl. Math and Comp. Sci., 4(1):27-56
   4(1), pgs 27-56, 2009, pdf | bib


8. Burning issues with PROMETHEUS, the Canada's wildfire growth simulator,
   J. Barber, C. Bose, A. Bourlioux, J. Braun, E. Brunelle, T. Garcia, T. Hillen, B. Ong
   Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly, 16(4):337-378, 2008, pdf

• Levelset Framework - Minimal Surfaces PDF | PS (zipped) | code
• Levelset Framework - Image Segmentation PDF | PS (zipped) | code
• Levelset Framework - Curvature Motion PDF | PS (zipped) | code

• Numerical Linear Algebra - Sparse LU Orderings PDF | PS (zipped) | code
• Computational Fluid Dynamics - Shallow Water Approximation PDF | PS (zipped) | code

• IPSW 2006 Workshop - Fire Growth Modelling PDF.gz
• GIMMC 2002 Workshop - Resistivity Well Logging PDF | PS (zipped)
• IPSW 2002 Workshop - Image Stitching PS (zipped) | code

Courses

I have taken or participated in an extensive number of courses at SFU. These include:

• Asymptotics
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Finite Elements
• Functional Analysis
• Level-Set Methods
• Mathematical Methods I
• Mathematical Methods II
• Numerical Linear Algebra
• Numerical PDEs
• Optimization
• Study Session (Non Credit)
• Topics in Non-Linearity
• Wavelets

Teaching

In the past, I have taught:

• Pre Calculus
• Calculus
• Boundary Value Problems
• Numerical Analysis
• Linear Algebra

I have also been a teaching assistant for:

• Freshman physics
• Continuous Optimization
• Numerical Analysis I
• Boundary Value Problems
• Fluid Dynamics

Last updated: Tuesday, 06-Dec-2011 10:47:17 PST