I have been permanently adopted by the Argonne National Lab ANL. Previously I was at Honeywell in CDMX, ANSYS and Intel in GDL.
I received my B.Sc. in Physics in 2002 from the National University of Mexico (UNAM). I was awarded a Ph.D in Computational Physics at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. My research and skills have benefited from several internships since my undergraduate years (CERN, Summer Program 1996), more recently at the Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, in Golm, Germany (2008) and The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (2010) in Waterloo, Canada. Before starting my doctoral studies I worked as a Linux server specialist at my home university's Institute for Mathematical Research, and later at Hewlett Packard Mexico..After my Ph.D. I worked for Gumstix Research Canada and then i took a postdoctoral position at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, in suburban Chicago, where I contributed to the analysis of large datasets from cosmological simulations. After Argonne I collaborated with the Clear Linux Project as a Linux integration and data engineer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center in Guadalajara, Mexico.
My PhD. research project consists in the study of dynamics of certain type of solutions to the equations of motion of non-linear classical field theories. The scattering of solitons and their time-dependent evolution in a non-integrable classical or quantum field theory remains an intractable and difficult problem. This is where numerical methods offer an effective tool to deal with the complexity of the equations, which require sophisticated algorithms and extensive runtime and storage resources. Independently of their physical applications, the non-linear nature of the solutions provides a rich phenomenology, interesting in its own right.
These problems are expressed as hyperbolic time-dependent non-linear partial differential equations (PDEs) in 2 and 3 spatial dimensions, supplemented by suitable boundary conditions. To solve them, we apply finite difference techniques and iterative relaxation methods such as Newton-Gauss-Seidel. However, the physical domain spans over several time and space scales. The appropriate optimization of computational resources is achived by means of parallel adaptive mesh refinement (PAMR) techniques. They implement a hierarchy of meshes with different resolutions, concentrating resources on areas with high phenomenology using a modified Berger-Oliger algorithm.My training in parallel programming and hyperbolic PDEs allowed me to gain experience in another area I find deeply exciting: Computational hydrodinamics. I am interested in problems involving astrophysical (maybe relativistic) fluids, reactive-transport models, Euler equations and shallow water equations to model tsunamis. Some of this equations develop shocks, which require the use of high resolution shock capture methods. I am familiar with some finite-volume techniques coupled to iterative linear solvers and fully implicit schemes.
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