John Zollweg
Senior Research Associate
John joined the Cornell Theory Center in 1992 as a Senior Research Associate in the Strategic Applications Group
Group. Prior to that, he had been a Senior Research Associate in the School of Chemical Engineering and the Laboratory
of Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell for ten years. His primary interests are in developing and optimizing
parallel software for both Linux and Windows platforms. John is literate in C, C#, Fortran, and MATLAB and writes
scripts in Python and Perl.
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Areas of Research or Expertise
- Performance and Optimization for very large clusters
- MATLAB, especially parallel applications
- Thermodynamics
- Parallelizing Monte Carlo Method Algorithms
Projects
- NYSGrid Project
- PALFA project at Arecibo
- User support and training for TACC
Selected Publications and Presentations
- J.D. Victor, D.H. Goldberg, D. Gardner, Dynamic programming algorithms for comparing multineuronal spike trains via cost-based metrics and alignments, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 161, April 15, 2007, pp. 351-360. Acknowledgement for optimization of MATLAB implementation.
- R. Regis, C. Shoemaker, Improved strategies for radial basis function methods for global optimization, Journal of Global Optimization, 37, January 2007, pp. 113-135. Acknowledgement for writing highly efficient MATLAB code.
- J. Conrad, K. Kotani, When to drill? Trigger prices for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Resource and Energy Economics, 27, November 2005, pp. 273-286. Acknowledgement for reprogramming MATLAB code to reduce run time.
- C.E. Murillo-Sanchez, R.J. Thomas, "Thermal unit commitment with a nonlinear AC power flow network model." chapter in The Next Generation of Electric Power Unit Commitment Models, Springer, New York, 2002. Acknowledgement for development of parallel MATLAB implementation.
Education
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A.B., Chemistry, Oberlin College, 1964.
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Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, Cornell University, 1969.
