Luke Olson

Current Research:

Research publications, presentations, and CV

Current Teaching:

Spring 2013: CS 555, Numerical Methods for PDEs

Current Service:

• Organizing Committee, SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 2013
• Organizing Committee, Sixteenth Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods, 2013
• Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2009-present

Positions:

• Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011-present
• Visiting Affiliate, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota, 2011 (fall)
• Affiliate Faculty, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010-present
• Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005-2011
• Visiting Assistant Professor/NSF VIGRE Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 2003-2005

Education:

• PhD (2003), Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder
• Thesis: Multilevel Least-Squares Finite Element Methods for Hyperbolic PDEs
• Advisors: Tom Manteuffel, Steve McCormick
• MS (1999), Mathematics (Applied), University of Iowa
• Areas: PDEs, ODEs, Optimization, Numerical Analysis
• BA (1997), Physics and Mathematics, Luther College