P. Aaron Lott

Current

• National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate at NIST

Past

• Graduate Research Assistant at University of Maryland, College Park
• SIAM Student Chapter President at University of Maryland, College Park
• Graduate Student Advisor at University of Maryland, College Park

• Graduate Teaching Assistant at University of Maryland, College Park
• Summer Intern at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Graduate Research Assistant at University of Maryland, College Park
• PRE-IRTA Fellow at National Institutes of Health

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Education

• University of Maryland College Park
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• University of Southern Mississippi

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P. Aaron Lott’s Summary

My research focuses on developing scalable efficient algorithms for simulation of complex fluid flows.

P. Aaron Lott’s Specialties:

Research: Scientific Computation, High Performance Computing, Spectral Element Method, Domain Decomposition, Preconditioners, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Linear Algebra, Numerical Solutions to Differential Equations.

Teaching: Calculus, Linear Algebra, Probability, Differential Equations, Nonlinear Dynamics, Optimization, Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computation, Computer Organization.

Program Development, Recruitment, Conference Organizing, Mentoring.

P. Aaron Lott’s Experience

• National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate

  NIST

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  Mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of multi-phase flows. Development of scalable computational methods for convective flows.

• Graduate Research Assistant

  University of Maryland, College Park

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 8 months)

  Developing numerical solution algorithms for models of fluid flow.

• SIAM Student Chapter President

  University of Maryland, College Park

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  May 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  Served on the AMSC Graduate Committee. Developed a wiki site for mentoring students in mathematical sciences at UMCP. Organized a student seminar in Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation. Coordinated a one day conference for students in the mathematical sciences. Recruited students into the AMSC Ph.D. program. Coordinated a deal with two departments to obtain 21 new computers for graduate students.

• Graduate Student Advisor

  University of Maryland, College Park

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  June 2006 — December 2006 (7 months)

  Advised graduate students in Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation on matters concerning course selection, qualifying exams, and general program questions. Aided in recruitment of graduate students. Designed website and interactive flow chart to assist students in the graduate program. Setup a wiki for students and faculty in the Mathematical Sciences.

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  University of Maryland, College Park

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  August 2001 — May 2006 (4 years 10 months)

  Taught undergraduate courses in Probability, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, and Differential Equations. Developed online problems for Calculus and Pre-Calculus courses using WebAssign software.

• Summer Intern

  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

  June 2004 — July 2004 (2 months)

  Parallelized a spectral element code to solve the 2D Burgers’ equation using MPI.

• Graduate Research Assistant

  University of Maryland, College Park

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 2002 — May 2004 (2 years 5 months)

  Wrote spectral element code to solve the incompressible Navier Stokes equations. Performed large scale simulations of mantle convection on supercomputers. Administered two computer clusters.

• PRE-IRTA Fellow

  National Institutes of Health

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  October 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 1 month)

  Systems Administrator in the NIH Laboratory of Computational Biology in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Administrator for a 70 node high performance computing cluster LoBos 4. Designed a 190 node high performance computing cluster LoBos 5 and coordinated a trade in with computer vendor to replace faulty LoBos 4 nodes.

P. Aaron Lott’s Education

• University of Maryland College Park

  Ph.D. , Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation , 2001 — 2008

  Dissertation: "Fast Solvers for Models of Fluid Flow with Spectral Elements".
  Advisors: Howard Elman & Anil Deane

  Activities and Societies:

  SIAM Student Chapter, AMSC Student Council

• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

  NASA Summer School for High Performance Computational Earth and Space Sciences. 2002 — 2002

• University of Southern Mississippi

  B.S. Summa Cum Laude , Mathematics, Computer Science , 1997 — 2001

  Thesis: "Periodic Solutions to Duffing’s Equation via the Homotopy Method" Advisor: Temple H. Fay
  
  Published in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science & Technology.
  Volume 33. "Using the homotopy method to find periodic solutions of forced nonlinear differential equations"

  Activities and Societies:

  Kappa Mu Epsilon

Additional Information

P. Aaron Lott’s Interests:

Computational Fluid Dynamics, High Performance Computing, Scientific Computation, Photography

P. Aaron Lott’s Groups:

•    University of Maryland College of Computer, Math, and Physical Sciences
•    Southern Miss Alumni
•    Computational Fluid Dynamics Group
•    High Performance & Super Computing
•    Maryland Mathematical Sciences Alumni
•    University of Maryland, College Park Alumni Association
•    Inverse and ill-posed Problems
•    Computational Scientists & Engineers
•    SIAM
•    Multiscale/Multiphysics Modeling for Clean Energy (M3E)
•    College of Science and Technology

P. Aaron Lott’s Honors:

SIAM Student Chapter Certificate of Recognition 2008

University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Department of Mathematics VIGRE grant Travel award. 2007 & 2008
Goldhaber Travel Award 2008
College of Computer Mathematical and Physical Sciences Dean’s Fellowship. 2007

National Institutes of Health PRE-IRTA Fellow 2002-2003

University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Wright W. Cross Senior Scholarship. 2000-2001
Alton C. Grimes Scholarship and USM NASA Space Grant Scholarship. 1999-2000
Wright W. Cross Scholarship. 1998-1999

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