Presenter

Gerhard Wellein holds a PhD in Solid State Physics from the University of Bayreuth and is Professor for HPC at the Department for Computer Science at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He heads the HPC group at Erlangen Regional Computing Center (RRZE) and has more than ten years of experience in teaching HPC techniques to students and scientists from Computational Science and Engineering. His research interests include solving large sparse eigenvalue problems, novel prarallelization approaches, performance modeling and engineering, and architecture-specific optimization. Together with Georg Hager and Jan Eitzinger, he is the recipient of the 2011 Informatics Europe Curriculum Best Practices Award in recognition of the outstanding educational initiative "Teaching High Performance Computing to Scientists and Engineers: A Model-Based Approach".

Personal web site: http://www.hpc.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/wir-ueber-uns/personal.shtml/gerhard-wellein.shtml