Dr. Christopher F. Eldred AIRSEA, Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann (LJK) (+33) 07 85 32 70 28 Université de Grenoble Alpes 5 Rue Jules Ferry chris.eldred@gmail.com Grenoble, France 38100 Professional Experience May - Current November 2015-May August 2011- August 2015 May 2011- August 2011 August 2009- May 2011 August 2008- May 2007- August 2008 May 2007- August 2007 Postdoc, AIRSEA, Université de Grenoble Alpes (Through the Highly Efficient ATmospheric modelling project) Postdoc, LAGA, University of Paris 13 (Through the Highly Efficient ATmospheric modelling project) Research Assistant/PhD Student, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University Research Assistant (Summer Practicum), Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Research Assistant/PhD Student, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Utah. Undergraduate Research, Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University Intern, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pittsburgh, PA Intern, National Weather Service, Anchorage, AK Collaborators Thomas Dubos (LMD/Ecole Polytechnique)- Current Daniel Le Roux (Claude Bernard University Lyon )- Current Fabrice Voitus (Meteo France)- Current Werner Bauer (Imperial College)- Current Francois Gay-Balmaz (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris)- Current David Randall (Colorado State University)- Past Education August 2011- August 2015 August 2009- May 2011 August 2005- Ph. D., Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University Enrolled in Ph. D. program in Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah B. S. Applied Computational Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Teaching August 2006- August 2013- December 2013 TAA for Matter and Interactions I and Physics Upper Class Course Center Tutor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA TA for ATS604: Atmospheric Modelling (Fall Semester, Taught 2 full weeks of class while Dr. Randall was on travel) Professional Service and Activities 2014-date Member, American Meteorological Society Member, American Geophysical Union Member, European Geophysical Union Member, Phi Kappa Phi & Phi Beta Kappa Fellowships, Honors and Awards 2010-2014 DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship- more information at https://www.krellinst.org/csgf/ Zollinger Outstanding Senior, Sigma Phi Epsilon- more 2009 information at http://www.sigep.org/about/what-wedo/awards/individualawards/zollingeroutstandingsenioraward/ 2009 College and University Graduation Honors, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA 2005-2009 Dean's List High Honors, Carnegie Mellon 2008 Supercomputing 2008 Student Competition Winners 2005-2009 Presidential Scholarship, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA (Full-ride Academic Scholarship) 2005 Denali Alaskan Federal Credit Union Scholarship, Anchorage, AK 2005 Anchorage South Rotary Scholarship, Anchorage, AK 2005 Balanced Man Scholarship, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Pittsburgh, PA Selected Publications C.F. Eldred and D.A. Randall, Total energy and potential enstrophy conserving schemes for the shallow water equations using Hamiltonian methods Part 3: Linear Modes C.F. Eldred and D.A. Randall, Total energy and potential enstrophy conserving schemes for the shallow water equations using Hamiltonian methods Part 2: Test Case Results Eldred, C. and Randall, D.: Total energy and potential enstrophy conserving schemes for the shallow water equations using Hamiltonian methods Part 1: Derivation and properties, Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 791-810, doi:10.5194/gmd-10-791-,. C.F. Eldred, Linear and Nonlinear Properties of Numerical Methods for the Rotating Shallow Water Equations, PhD Thesis, Colorado State University, 2015 Carven A. Scott, et.al and C. Eldred: Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (QPF) as a Foundation for a Systematic Methodology in GFE, 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Jan 2005
Carven A. Scott, et. al and C. Eldred: GFE - The Next Generation, 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Jan 2005 Selected Conference Talks, Proceedings and Presentations C.F. Eldred, T. Dubos, D. Le Roux, F. Voitus and E. Kritsikis, Progress towards a Hydrostatic Dynamical Core using Structure-Preserving Finite Elements, Solution of Partial Differential Equations on the Sphere, April C.F. Eldred, T. Dubos, D. Le Roux, F. Voitus and E. Kritsikis, A Hydrostatic Dynamical Core using Structure-Preserving Finite Elements, SIAM CSE, March C.F. Eldred, T. Dubos and E. Kritsikis, Higher-order Structure-Preserving Finite Elements for Atmospheric Dynamical Cores, Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project, June 2016 C.F. Eldred, T. Dubos and E. Kritsikis, Higher-order Structure-Preserving Finite Elements for Atmospheric Dynamical Cores, CANUM, May 2016 Shallow Water Equations on a Z Grid, Solution of Partial Differential Equations on the Sphere, October 2015 Shallow Water Equations on an Arbitrary Grid, Mathematics of the Weather Workshop, September 2015 Rotating Shallow Water Equations on an Arbitrary Grid, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, December 2014 Selected Conference Posters C.F. Eldred, T. Dubos and E. Kritsikis, A Hydrostatic Dynamical Core using Higher-Order Structure-Preserving Finite Elements, European Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, April C.F. Eldred, T. Dubos and E. Kritsikis, Dynamico-FE: A Hydrostatic Dynamical Core using Higher-Order Structure-Preserving Finite Elements, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, December 2016 C.F. Eldred, T. Dubos and E. Kritsikis, Dynamico-FE: A Hydrostatic Dynamical Core using Higher-Order Structure-Preserving Finite Elements, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, December 2016 C.F. Eldred, T. Dubos and E. Kritsikis, A Structure Preserving Hydrostatic Model using Themis, Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project, June 2016 C.F. Eldred, T. Dubos and E. Kritsikis, Finite Element Hydrostatic Primitive Equations in Themis, European Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, April 2016 C.F. Eldred and D.A. Randall: Conservation Properties of Numerical Schemes for the Shallow Water Equations, European Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, April 2014 C.F. Eldred and D.A. Randall: Linear Properties of Numerical Schemes for the Shallow Water Equations, Solution of Partial Differential Equations on the Sphere, April 2014 C.F. Eldred and D.A. Randall: Linear Properties of Numerical Schemes for the Shallow Water Equations, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, December 2013
C.F. Eldred and D.A. Randall: The Nonlinear Shallow Water Testbed Model (NTM): Implementation and Preliminary Results, Frontiers in Computational Physics, Dec 2012 Relevant Workshops and Summer Schools Attended Solution of Partial Differential Equations on the Sphere, April SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (SIAM CSE), February/March CEMRACS 2016: Numerical challenges in parallel scientific computing, July/August 2016 Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project (DCMIP) Summer Workshop; June 2016 Weather and Climate Prediction on Next Generation Supercomputers: Numerical and Computational Aspects (Satellite Meeting), Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Multiscale Numerics for the Atmosphere and Ocean Programme); October 2012 Solution of Partial Differential Equations on the Sphere, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Multiscale Numerics for the Atmosphere and Ocean Programme), September 2012 Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project (DCMIP) Summer Workshop; July/August 2012 Center for Scalable Application Development Software (CscADS) Summer Workshop on Leadership Computing Platforms, Extreme-scale Applications, and Performance Strategies; July 2012 Summer School on Atmospheric Modeling, National Center for Atmospheric Research; July 2010 Relevant Classwork University of Utah CS 6210/6220: Advanced Scientific Computing I & II CS 6630: Scientific Visualization CS 6230: Parallel and High Performance Computing Colorado State University ATS 604: Atmospheric Modelling MATH 550: Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations ATS 703: Numerical Weather Prediction ATS 745: Atmospheric General Circulation Modelling Technical Skills and Certifications Programming Languages and Environments Fortran/Python/C, including mixed language programming Linux/Unix Jinja2 LaTeX Software Libraries PETSc/SLEPc/petsc4py
Matplotlib Numpy/Scipy Professional Skills Language Skills English (Mother tongue) Communication Skills Extensive experience in presenting research to large audiences with diverse scientific background Organizational/Management Skills: Co-convened a EGU General Assembly session on Recent Developments in Numerical Earth System Modeling Member of the organizing committee for the Partial Differential Equations on the Sphere meeting Organized and lead CEMRACS 2016 project titled Accelerated Higher-Order finite element Assembly through the use of a duality-based algorithm Served on executive board of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity chapter at Carnegie Mellon University for 3 years: Vice President of Communication, Vice President of Programming, President President of Carnegie Mellon Greek Council, 2008-2009 School Year