Snorre H. Christiansen

Vita

    Education

    Employments

Projects

    leader

• European Science Foundation, EURYI, Jan. 2006 - Dec. 2010.
  Numerical analysis and simulation of geometric wave equations (ESF project page).
• European Research Council, Starting Grant, Jan. 2012 - Dec. 2016.
  Structure and scaling in computational field theories (ERC project page, UiO project page).

    participant

• French - Chilean ECOS- CONICYT project C03-E08,  2003 - 2006, Project leader Mario Durán Toro.
  Modelling, mathematical analysis and computer simulation of some complex engineering problems.
• Norwegian Research Council, Evita,  Jan. 2007 - Dec. 2011, Project leader Hans Z. Munthe-Kaas.
  Structure preserving algorithms for differential equations - applications, computations, education (project). 

    financed by

Collaborators

• Annalisa Buffa (Pavia)
• Jörg Frauendiener, Guest Professor (Feb. 2007 - Oct. 2007)  (Otago)
• Tore Gunnar Halvorsen, PhD student (finished Oct. 2009)  (Trondheim)
• Eric Michielssen (Michigan)
• Hans Z. Munthe-Kaas (Bergen)
• Ilia Musco, Post Doc (Jan. 2009 - present)
• Jean-Claude Nédélec (Paris)
• Morten Nome, PhD Student, principal advisor H. Z. Munthe-Kaas  (in progress)
• Brynjulf Owren (Trondheim)
• Peter Dimitris Rippis
  
• Claire Scheid, Post Doc (Nov. 2007 - Oct. 2009) (Nice)
• Ragnar Winther (Oslo)
  

Software developed

• Statistical validation of randomness properties of streamciphers (in C, for Alcatel 1996).
• Topology optimimization of structures in unilateral contact under stochastic load (in C parallelized with PVM, 1997).
  
• Flight simulation over dynamical triangulations (in C, Diffpack and POV-Ray, for SINTEF 1997).
• Boundary element method for three dimensional acoustic and electromagnetic scattering (in C++, for Thomson/Thales 1998 - 2002).
• Lie algebra valued finite element differential forms for Yang-Mills and Maxwell-Klein-Gordon equations (in C++, 2003 - 2006).

Workshop organization

• Computational methods for the time-dependent Schrödinger equation (2003).
  
• Compatible discretizations for partial differential equations (2005).
  
• Conceptual problems in computational gravity (2007).
• Time-dependent quantum mechanics - analysis and numerics (2010).
• Unstructured meshes in dynamical spacetimes (2010).
• Geometric algorithms for partial differential equations (2011).

Teaching

    courses

• Partial differential equations and Sobolev spaces II: spring 2004.
• Ordinary differential equations: spring 2005.
• Partial differential equations and Sobolev spaces I: autumn 2011.
  

    mini-courses

• Boundary element methods: autumn 2002, spring 2003.
• Symplectic geometry: spring 2004.
  
• Finite elements and differential forms:
    spring 2007 Zaragoza, spring 2008 Oslo, spring 2009 Bergen, autumn 2009 Trondheim, summer 2010 Shanghai.

Interviews

• Dagens Næringsliv (1996)
  
• Aftenposten, Vi Menn, NRK P2, ScienceCareers.org, Apollon, bulletins-electroniques.com (2005)
  
• Dagbladet (2006)
• Aftenpostens Frankrike bilag (2008)
• Utdanning.no (2010)
• Uniforum, Maddmaths (2011)
  

Peer reviewing

• Associate Editor of SIAM J. Numer. Anal.
• Reviewer for MathSciNet (AMS).
• Referee pool member for the European Science Foundation.
• Anonymous referee for most major journals of numerical analysis.

Honours

• Prix de Thèse de l'École Polytechnique (2002)
• European Young Investigator project (2005)
• Invited Professor for one month at Université Nice - Sophia Antipolis (2010)
• Stephen Smale prize (2011)
• ERC Starting Grant (2011)
  

Publications