1. Name : Lubos Mitas, PhD
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801
Office ph.: 217 244 1971
Fax: 217 244 2909
E-mail: lmitas@ncsa.uiuc.edu
2. Education:
1989 Ph.D. in Physics, Institute of Physics,
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava (Czechoslovakia)
1983 M.S. in Solid State Physics 1983
Slovak Technical University, Bratislava (Czechoslovakia)
3. Experience:
Employment:
1996-present, Research Scientist, National Computational Science
Alliance (National Center for Supercomputing
Applications), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1992-1996, Research Associate, National Center for Supercomputing
Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1990-1992, PostDoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Physics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1989-1990, Research Scientist, Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of
Sciences, Bratislava (Czechoslovakia)
1988-1989, Research Fellow, Centro di Fisica, C.N.R., Trento (Italy)
1984-1988, Research Scientist, Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of
Sciences, Bratislava (Czechoslovakia)
Research experience in geoscientific applications and applied mathematics
- development of multi-variate interpolation/approximation methods for
scattered data (for 2D implemented in ARC/INFO and GRASS GIS):
- Monte Carlo methods for solving distributed water and sediment
transport equations, soil erosion models
- Monte Carlo and numerical method for large-scale minimization and
optimization methods for complex optimization problems
- high performance vector, parallel and cluster computing
Research experience in computational physics
Pioneering quantum Monte Carlo methods for
electronic structure calculations of atoms, molecules and solids
- theory and development of the method
- coding and implementation on vector and parallel architectures
- the first calculation of the electronic band gap for a solid
by QMC (compressed solid nitrogen)
- the largest molecular calculation with explicit many-body
treatment of the valence electronic structure - silicon clusters
- the most accurate calculations of the Fe atom to date
-Hartree-Fock, Local Density Functional and correlated quantum chemistry
methods for electronic structure calculations
-statistical mechanics of charged classical systems (3D Coulomb lattice gas)
-molecular dynamics simulation of the atomic structure of amorphous alloys
Projects in computational science and physics as co-PI:
Scalable Pseudorandom Number Generators Library
Dates: 1995-1998
Organization: ARPA
Categorization: basic
Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure
Dates: 1998-2003,
Org: NSF
Cat.: basic
Accelerated Strategic Computational Initiative: Center of Simulation
of Advanced Rockets
dates: 1998-2003
Org. DOE
Cat.: basic
4. Awards and Fellowships:
National Science Foundation PostDoctoral Fellow
in Advanced Scientific Computing, 1992
NSERC International Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ottawa, Canada,
1992 (declined)
Fellowship from International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste
(Italy) under the Program for Training and Research in Italian
Laboratories, 1989
Prize of the Education Secretary of Slovakia for Excellent
University Studies, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, 1983
5. Related Peer reviewed publications
Mitas, L., Mitasova, H., 1999, Spatial Interpolation.
In: P.Longley, M.F. Goodchild, D.J. Maguire, D.W.Rhind (Eds.),
Geographical Information Systems: Principles, Techniques, Management
and Applications, Wiley, pp.481-492
Mitas, L., Mitasova, H., 1998, Multi-scale Green's function
Monte Carlo approach to erosion modelling and its application
to land-use optimization In: Modelling Soil Erosion, Sediment
Transport and Closely Related Hydrological Processes,
(Eds: W.Summer, E. Klaghofer and W.Zhang),
IAHS Publication no. 249, pp. 81-90.
Mitas, L., and Mitasova, H., 1998, Distributed soil erosion simulation
for effective erosion prevention.
Water Resources Research Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 505-516.
Mitas L., Brown W. M., Mitasova H., 1997, Role of dynamic
cartography in simulations of landscape processes based on
multi-variate fields. Computers and Geosciences, Vol.
23, No. 4, pp. 437-446 (includes CDROM and WWW: www.elsevier.nl/locate/cgvis).
Mitasova, H., L. Mitas, B.M. Brown, D.P. Gerdes, I. Kosinovsky, 1995,
Modeling spatially and temporally distributed phenomena: New methods
and tools for GRASS GIS. International Journal of GIS, 9 (4),
special issue on integration of Environmental modeling and GIS, p. 443-446.
Mitasova, H., L. Mitas, 1993, Interpolation by regularized spline
with tension : I. Theory and implementation. Mathematical Geology 25,
p. 641-655.
Mitas, L., H. Mitasova, 1988, General variational approach to the
interpolation problem. Computers and Mathematics with Applications 16,
p.983-992.
6.Selected peer reviewed publications in computational physics and chemistry :
L. Mitas, J.C. Grossman, I. Stich, J. Tobik, Silicon clusters of
intermediate size: energetics, dynamics and thermal effects,
Phys. Rev. Lett., 84, 1479 (2000)
L. Mitas, Quantum Monte Carlo, Current Opinions in Solid State and
Materials Research, Current Chemistry Ltd, London, 1998.
J.C. Grossman and L. Mitas, High accuracy molecular
heats of formation and reaction barriers: Essential role of
electron correlation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4353 (1997)
L. Mitas, Electronic structure by Quantum Monte Carlo: atoms,
molecules and solids, (invited Feature Article),
Comp. Phys. Commun. 97, 107 (1996)
D.M. Ceperley and L. Mitas, (invited review chapter)
Monte Carlo methods in quantum chemistry,
Advances in Chemical Physics, Vol. XCIII, Ed. by I. Prigogine and S.A.
Rice, Wiley, New York 1996, pp. 1-38.
J.C. Grossman, L. Mitas, and K. Raghavachari,
Structure and Stability of Molecular Carbon: Importance of Electron
Correlation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3870 (1995)
J.C. Grossman, L. Mitas, Quantum Monte Carlo Determination
of Electronic and Structural Properties of Si_n Clusters (n<20),
Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 1323 (1995)
L. Mitas and R.M. Martin, Quantum Monte Carlo of nitrogen:
atom, dimer, atomic
and molecular solids, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 2438 (1994)