Martin Sandve Alnæs successfully defended his PhD thesis
On Thursday 1 October, Martin Sandve Alnæs successfully defended his PhD thesis A Compiler Framework for Automatic Linearization and Efficient Discretization of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. In his thesis, Alnæs investigates methods and software that simplify and speeds up development of applications for biological tissue models.
Martin Sandve Alnæs
Development of applications customized for specific models of complex physical phenomena is done routinely by researchers and students in many branches of science, although this is both costly and time consuming. Alnæs investigates methods and software that will make such development easier and swifter, with emphasis on the simplified implementation of biological tissue models. In particular, the implementation of efficient software for solving partial differential equations has been partially automated in a flexible software framework that is part of the open-source and freely available software from the FEniCS project.
Alnæs defended his thesis in Storstua on Thursday 1 October. Prior to the defence, Alnæs presented his trial lecture Symbolic scientific computing — future prospects and limitations.
The adjudication committee
Professor Christopher Prudhomme, Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble.
Head of Research Sverker Holmgren, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University.
Professor Tor Skeie, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo.
Chair of the disputation
Dag Langmyhr
Supervisors
Kent-Andrè Mardal, Joakim Sundnes
Read more:
Announcement of the PhD defence at the University of Oslo’s web pages (in Norwegian)
