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Peter Maginot: High-order radiative transfer

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Peter Maginot (MS+PhD). For his MS, Peter worked on positivity-preserving discretizations of the transport equation (positivity of the solution in important in of itself, but lack thereof can cause serious numerical problems, for instance, in radiative transfer applications). For his PhD, Peter continued working on quadrature-based positivity and developed a high-order in space+time code for radiative transfer. His work led to 3 journal articles.

Peter went on to LLNL, first as a post-doc, then as a staff member. He is now at LANL.

Vijay Mahadevan: Modern multiphysics !!!

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 Vijay Mahadevan (MS+PhD). My second PhD student. What great fun we had developing KARMA (Kode for Advanced Reactor Modeling and Analysis), making making high-end third party libraries (libmesh, PETSc, SLEPc, gmsh, tinyxml, …) talk to one another. KARMA was a mini-MOOSE, which we started independently of INL at around the same time. We did a lot of JFNK and Aitken-accelerated Picard and published 2 journal articles.

Vijay became a Givens Fellow at Argonne National Lab (ANL). Receiving a mathematical post-doctoral award is an outstanding achievement for a nuclear engineering. Well done breaking all sorts of barriers! Vijay was then hired by ANL and leads the SIGMA project.