Jim Jones

Educational Background

Ph.D.  University of Colorado, Denver

Professional Experience

Dr. Jones' training, job experience, and research interests are in the field of computational mathematics.  Dr. Jones' research focuses on parallel multigrid solvers. Dr. Jones was the the PI on the grant, MRI: Acquisition of a Computational Science and Engineering Parallel Cluster, National Science Foundation, 2009-2013, which helped purchase the Blueshark cluster at Florida Tech.

Before coming to Florida Tech, he worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) on parallel solvers for partial differential equations.  He was one of the developers of the hypre package, a library of fast parallel solvers.

Prior to LLNL, Dr. Jones held a post-doc position at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE) at NASA Langley. 

• Associate Professor, Florida Tech, 2004-Present
• Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1997-2004
• Staff Scientist, NASA Langley, 1995-1997

Selected Publications

H. Yan, K.G. Wang, J. Jones, "Large-scale three-dimensional phase-field simulations for phase coarsening at ultrahigh volume fraction on high-performance architectures",  Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 24 (5), 2016

R.D. Falgout, J.E. Jones, and U.M. Yang, "The Design and Implementation of hypre, a Library of Parallel High Performance Preconditioners", chapter in Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations on Parallel Computers, Springer, 2006.

R.D. Falgout, J.E. Jones and U.M. Yang, "Pursuing Scalability for hypre's Conceptual Interfaces", ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 21(2005), pp.326-350.

T. Chartier, R.D. Falgout, V.E. Henson, J. Jones, T. Manteuffel, S. McCormick, J. Ruge, and P.S. Vassilevski, "Spectral AMGe (pAMGe)", SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 25 (2003), pp. 1-26.

J. Jones and P. Vassilevski, "AMGe Based on Element Agglomeration", SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 23 (2001), pp. 109-133.

J. E. Jones, C. S. Woodward, "Newton–Krylov-multigrid solvers for large-scale, highly heterogeneous, variably saturated flow problems",  Advances in Water Resources, 24(7), 2001.

M. Brezina, A.J. Cleary, R.D. Falgout, V.E. Henson, J.E. Jones, T.A. Manteuffel, S.F. McCormick, and J.W. Ruge, "Algebraic Multigrid Based on Element Interpolation (AMGe)", SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 22 (2000), pp. 1570-1592.

P.N. Brown, R.D. Falgout, and J.E. Jones, "Semicoarsening Multigrid on Distributed Memory Machines", SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 21 (2000), pp. 1823-1834.

A.J. Cleary, R.D. Falgout, V.E. Henson, J.E. Jones, T.A. Manteuffel, S.F. McCormick, G.N. Miranda, and J.W. Ruge, "Robustness and Scalability of Algebraic Multigrid", SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 21 (2000), pp. 1886-1908.

R.D. Falgout and J.E. Jones, "Multigrid on Massively Parallel Architectures", in Multigrid Methods VI, Springer-Verlag, 2000, pp. 101-107.

Z. Cai, J. Jones, S. McCormick, and T. Russell, "Control-Volume Mixed Finite Element Methods'', Computational Geosciences, 1(1997), pp. 289-315. 

Research

Computational Mathematics

Parallel Computing

Numerical Solution of PDEs