To promote interdisciplinary research with a mission to pursue cutting edge
research in the understanding of singular problems in nature that involve
multiple active scales, and to develop high level computational and analytical
methods for the effective treatment of such problems, with the goal of
uncovering their governing laws.
Pakwo Leung
Numerical studies of strongly correlated electron systems;
application of parallel processing in computational physics
Tiezheng Qian
Molecular simulation and hydrodynamic calculation of
complex fluids; Monte Carlo simulations in statistical physics
Xiao-Ping Wang
Adaptive methods for singular problems;
numerical methods for micromagnetics simulations; phase transition;
self-focusing in laser propagations; nonlinear waves
Yang Xiang
Mathematical modeling and simulation in materials science; numerical
analysis and scientific computing; partial differential equations
Kun Xu
Computational fluid dynamics, gas kinetic schemes, rarefied gas flow;
heat transfer
Seminars
Croucher Lab Inaugural Seminar delivered by
Prof. Shing-Tung Yau
of Harvard University and Chinese University of Hong Kong, entitled
Application of Geometry to Computer Graphics and Medical Imaging
on 26 March 2004, 4:30p.m.-5:30p.m. at Lecture Theatre E, HKUST
Croucher Lab Seminar delivered by
Prof. Yongli Mi of Department of Chemical Engineering, HKUST, entitled
Engineering the single molecules: from the basic concept to applications
on 27 April 2004, 4:30p.m.-5:30p.m. at Room 3401, HKUST
Croucher Lab Seminar delivered by
Prof. Zhouping Xin of IMS, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, entitled
Multi-Dimensional Conservation Laws and Transonic Shock Waves
on 06 May 2004, 4:30p.m.-5:30p.m. at Room 3008, HKUST
Croucher Lab Seminar delivered by
Prof. George Papanicolaou of Stanford University, entitled
Interferometric Array Imaging
on 31 May 2004, 3:00p.m.-4:00p.m. at Room 4333, HKUST
To cope with the upcoming challenges of even larger computational
problems in the research area of high performance scientific computation,
a Linux parallel cluster laboratory equipped with around 140
Intel Pentium IV/Xeon/AMD Althon PCs has been setup.
By running message-passing programming systems like PVM
(Parallel Virtual Machine) and MPI (Message Passing Interface),
the aggregate power of these powerful computers can be used to solve
resource-intensive computational problems.
A more powerful Linux parallel cluster is under construction.