Sverker Holmgren – Professor in Scientific Computing

Position

• Professor in Scientific Computing.
• Head of the cross-disciplinary research program in Computational Science.

CV and Publications.

Research Projects

• Numerical methods for quantum dynamics
• Numerical methods for genetic analysis of complex traits
• Algorithms and implementations for multicore and parallel architectures
• Scientific applications on GRID systems

Finished or Dormant Research Projects

• Preconditioned iterative methods for PDE

Participation in Major Research Initiatives

One of the Principal Investigators within the Linnaeus Center of Excellence UPMARC

Coordinator (shared with Kersti Hermansson) for the eSSENCE e-Science consortium. In autumn 2009, the Swedish Ministry of Education and Research granted the eSSENCE consortium 102 MSEK for 2010-2014.

Current PhD Students (Principal Advisor)

• Katharina Kormann
• Carl Nettelblad
• Salman Toor
• Magnus Gustafsson
• Marcus Holm
• Emil Kieri
• Behrang Mahjani

Supervised Exams

• Henrik Brandén, PhD Numerical Analysis, 2001 (Principal Advisor)
• Per Sundqvist, PhD Numerical Analysis, 2005 (Principal Advisor, shared with H. Brandén)
• Kajsa Ljungberg, PhD Scientific Computing, 2006 (Principal Advisor)
• Dan Wallin, PhD Computer Science, 2006 (Advisor)
• Henrik Löf, PhD Scientific Computing, 2006 (Advisor)
• Markus Nordén, PhD Scientific Computing, 2006 (Advisor)
• Kateryna Mishchenko, PhD Applied Mathematics, 2008 (Principal Advisor)
• Mahen Jayawardena, PhD Scientific Computing, 2010 (Principal Advisor)

• Åsa Petterson, Lic Quantum Chemistry, 1998 (Advisor)
• Andreas Hellander, Lic Scientific Computing, 2008 (Advisor)
• Katharina Kormann, Lic Scientific Computing, 2009 (Principal Advisor)
• Anna Nissen, Lic Scientific Computing, 2010 (Advisor)
• Salman Toor, Lic Scientific Computing, 2010 (Principal Advisor)
• Carl Nettelblad, Lic Scientific Computing, 2010 (Principal Advisor)

Main Assignments

Director (from July 2006) for the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing, SNIC. SNIC is a metacentre within the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) with a mandate to provide unified access to large-scale computing and storage resources for Swedish research. SNIC is responsible for coordinating the strategic and scientific development and funding of such resources in Sweden.

Earlier (until June 2006) Director for and responsible for the build-up of Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science, UPPMAX. UPPMAX is the regional computing center in Uppsala, and it is one of the six Swedish HPC centers within SNIC.

Chairman of the board for the National Graduate School in Scientific Computing, NGSSC. Earlier (until June 2006) Director for NGSSC.

Swedish representative in the Steering Board for the Nordic Data Grid Facility, NDGF. Chairman during 2009 and Deputy Chairman during 2008. NDGF is a collaborative effort by the Nordic research councils for building and operating a Nordic production grid facility.

Swedish representative in the European Grid Initiative, EGI Council. Elected member of the EGI.eu Executive Board. The goal of EGI is to create and operate a sustainable European grid infrastructure.

Swedish representative in the PRACE AISBL, PRACE Council. The goal of PRACE is to provide a persistent pan-European research infrastructure for high performance computing at the top level of the European HPC ecosystem.

Appointed by the Ministry of Education as the Swedish representative in the European e-Infrastructure Reflection Group, e-IRG) since December 2008. Member of the e-IRG executive board during 2009, including the Swedish EU presidency during autumn 2009.

Swedish representative in the NORIA-net group The Nordic eScience Initiative (eNORIA) since April 2008. eNORIA is funded by NordForsk. Among other assignments, eNORIA has a mandate from the Nordic Council of Ministers to produce a plan for future Nordic eScience, which was published in 2009.