Employment: ITL at ERDC (start date 05/18/09)

Ph.D. Advisor: Tim Kelley (NCSU)

(Grats to Tim on his forthcoming first mathematical grandchild)

Expected Graduation: Fall 2009

Undergraduate Degree: Asbury College (2004)

Curriculum Vitae 

Presentations:  

• Doctoral Preliminary Exam
  
  
• 2008 Copper Mountain Conference on Optimization & Iterative Methods
  
  
• 2008 SIAM Conference on Optimization
   
  
• 2008 Computational Methods in Water Resources 

Pdf of the presentation: Copper, SIAM, CMWR

Papers:

Pseudo-Transient Continuation and Optimization 

C. T. Kelley, L. Qi, L-Z. Liao, J. P. Reese, and C. Winton, 2006

Research Experience:

Two summers at the Coastal & Hydraulics Lab, Vicksburg, MS.

Research: 

My research focuses on optimizing inverse problems in groundwater flow models using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD).  By projecting the full-scale model onto a very small set of basis vectors (in our case, we are currently using a full-model solution and the sensitivity vectors of that solution to the parameters as our basis), we are able to cheaply approximate the full-scale model to compare against data.  Currently, we are focusing on saturated flow, but will soon expand to exploration of the heat equation, unsaturated flow, and hopefully surface water flow.  Our full-model solution is generated using ADH, a 3-d finite element code written by the good folks at the Coastal & Hydraulics Lab, one of the ERDC Labs in Vicksburg, MS.