People & Partners
The Computation Institute is extraordinarily multidisciplinary including people from all Divisions of the University and Directorships at Argonne.
The Executive Committee meets regularly to discuss Computation Institute strategies and policies, identify opportunities for interactions with other scientists, review proposed Fellow appointments, and build new projects.
Executive Committee:
- Todd Dupont, Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics in the Department of Computer Science, has a primary research focus on the construction, analysis and evaluation of numerical methods for partial differential equations. He also has interests in related areas such as the construction of mathematical models for physical and biological systems.
- Ian Foster is Computation Institute Director, the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science, Chan Soon-Shiong Scholar and Associate Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. His research in computer science has led to the development of the Globus Toolkit open source Grid software, widely used in business and science.
- T. Conrad Gilliam the Marjorie I. and Bernard A. Mitchell Professor and Chairman of Human Genetics, studies the genetic determinants of common heritable disorders, including neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and autism, as well as other multifactorial disorders such as celiac disease and cardiovascular disorders. He is a member of the editorial boards of Psychiatric Genetics and Neuropsychiatric Genetics, and he is associate editor of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
- John Goldsmith, the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science, currently researches computational techniques to better understand what the nature of human language is, and how language can be learned—by humans and computers.
- Stuart Kurtz, Professor in Computer Science and in the College, does research in the computational properties of random and generic sets, which goes back to his doctoral thesis in mathematics, written under the supervision of Carl Jockusch. Unlike most people working in computational complexity theory, his work with randomness derives from measure theory and definability rather than compressibility.
- Ewing ("Rusty") Lusk, Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, has interests in parallel computing, program visualization, automated theorem proving, logic programming, database technology and systems software.
- Jonathan C. Silverstein, Associate Director of the Computation Institute, Associate Professor of Surgery and Radiology, General Surgery Section; Director of the Center for Clinical Information at the University of Chicago Hospitals, Chan Soon-Shiong Scholar and Co-Leader of the Chicago Biomedical Consortium, is a proponent of the use of grid computing to improve patient safety and academic efficiency in biomedicine.
- Rick Stevens, Professor in Department of Computer Science and in the College and Associate Laboratory Director for Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences at Argonne National Laboratory, is interested in the development of innovative tools and techniques that enable computational scientists to solve large-scale problems more effectively on the most advanced high-performance computers.
- Albert F. Wagner, Director of the Chemistry Division at Argonne National Laboratory as well as a Senior Chemist and Leader of the Chemical Dynamics in the Gas Phase Group there. He is also Co-Director of the University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory Joint Theory Institute. Wagner, who is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, conducts theoretical work in reaction dynamics and chemical kinetics, especially as it is related to combustion.
