Houman Owhadi
Houman Owhadi
Applied and Computational Math,
217-50
California Institute of
Technology
1200 E. California Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91125
USA
Phone: (626) 395 4547
Fax: (626) 578-0124
Married, 2 Children
French citizen - US resident
Appointments
Professional Activities
1991-1994: Ecole Polytechnique (France)
1994- 1997: Ecole Nationale des Ponts et
Chaussées
1996- 1997: MBA program of Ecole Nationale des
Ponts et Chaussées
1996- 1997: University of Paris VI, DEA of probability (equivalent of the first year of a PhD in Mathematics, with M. Yor, J.F. Legall, J. Jacod, S. Méléard and A. Millet)
1997- 2000: (EPFL) PhD in Probability (advisor: Gérard Ben Arous.)
Isolation of 10 differentially expressed cDNAs in p53-induced apoptosis: Activation of the vertebrate homologue of the Drosophila seven in absentia gene (cosigned). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA vol 93, Issue 9, 3953-3957, April 30, 1996
Anomalous Slow
Diffusion from Perpetual Homogenization on infinitely many scales.
Annals of Probability,
Vol. 31, No. 4 - October
2003
Multi-scale homogenization with bounded ratios and Anomalous Slow Diffusion. (with Gérard Ben Arous). Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol XVI, 80-113, 2003
Super-diffusivity in a shear flow model from perpetual homogenization. (with Gérard Ben Arous). Communications in Mathematical Physics , 227(2):281--302, 2002
Approximation of the effective conductivity of ergodic media by periodization. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 125, 225-258, 2003.
Averaging versus Chaos in Turbulent Transport? Communications in Mathematical Physics , 247(3):553--599, 2004
Metric Based Up-scaling (with Lei Zhang). Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics , Vol. LX, 0675–0723 (2007). Arxiv math.NA/0505223.
Homogenization of Parabolic equations with a continuum of space and time scales (with Lei Zhang). SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 46 (2007/08), no. 1, 1--36. Arxiv, math.AP/0512504
Homogenization of the acoustic wave equation with a continuum of scales (with Lei Zhang). Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 198, no 3-4, 397-406, 2008. http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0604380
Bistable equilibrium points of mercury body burden (with Areen Boulos). Journal of Biological Systems Vol. 16, No. 1 (March 2008). http://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0606024
Rigorous Verification, Validation,
Uncertainty Quantification and Certification through Concentration-of-Measure
Inequalities. With L. J. Lucas and M. Ortiz. Computer Methods in Applied
Mechanics and Engineering 197 (2008), no 51-52, 4591--4609
(2008)
Ergodicity for Langevin Processes with Degenerate Diffusion in Momentums. With Nawaf Bou-Rabee. International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics. 45 (2008), no 3, 475--490 http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4259
Stochastic Variational Integrators. With Nawaf Bou-Rabee. IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis no 2, 421-443 (2009). (Chosen as an Editor's Choice Article) arXiv:0708.2187
Numerical Coarsening of Inhomogeneous Linear Elastic Materials (with Lily Kharevych, Patrick Mullen and Mathieu Desbrun), ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 28(3), 2009.
Geometric Langevin Algorithm (2009). With Nawaf Bou-Rabee. http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.4123. Accepted for publication in SINUM.
Distinctions
Grant Awards
Former Students
Former Post Doc
· Nawaf Bou Rabee (NSF post doctoral fellow 2008, Courant Institute Instructor 2009)
Current Post Docs
Current Student
Courses taught
Selected Invited Lectures
April 2000: Aussois congress of young
probabilist and statisticians (Plenary).
November 2000: Technion's seminar in
Probability and Stochastic Processes.
January 2001: "Pole Air" seminar at ENPC.
February 2001: Orsay seminar on
probability and statistics.
April 2001:
April -May 2001: Mini-Course at Technion
on anomalous diffusion from perpetual homogenization.
July 2001:
October 2002: Oberwolfach.
Stochastic analysis (Plenary).
November 2002: Meeting
on the particle
methods and the probabilistic models applied to the simulation of the nuclear
waste transport problems (Plenary).
December 2002:
January 2003: ENS
Géologie,
February 2003 : Caltech, ACM colloquium.
March 2003 : Congress CIRM.
Statistical Mechanics and Probability Theory (Plenary).
March 2003.
April 2003: Courant Institute, probability seminar.
July 2003: Lisbonne: XIV international congress on mathematical
physics.
January 2004: Stantiago de Chile, Workshop on Percolation, Particle systems and Random media (Plenary).
April 11 : USC
Applied math seminar.
April 24, 2005: Southern California
May 2005: Oberwolfach, Stochastic Analysis and Non Classical
Random Processes
(Plenary).
May 2005: Max Planck-Institute: Workshop on
Metastability, ageing, and anomalous diffusion.
Stochastic and nonlinear effects in long term dynamics
(Plenary).
July 2005:
CIRM. Workshop on Random Homogenization (Plenary).
March 1, 2006 :
March 2006 :
March 31, 2006: USC, probability seminar.
July 2006 :
January 24, 2007:
March 19-22, 2007:
June 8, 2007: Stanford (applied mathematics seminar).
Oct 2007 : Dynarum workshop, Caltech.
Nov 2007 : UTRC seminar.
Nov 2007 : University of Arizona, mathematics seminar.
Nov 2007 : Tucson, Dynarum workshop.
Jan 2008 : Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego.
April 2008: University of Maryland, mathematics seminar.
April
2008: Structured Integrators Workshop (Stanford) (Plenary).
May 2008: 6th International Conference On Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems.
June 2008: FOCM meeting, Honk Kong.
July 2008: Stanford UQ workshop (Plenary).
August 2008: TST PSAAP, Caltech.
September 15, 2008: University of Chicago, Applied mathematics seminar.
October 10-11, 2008: 2nd Workshop on Multiscale and Stochastic Modeling, Analysis, and Computation. The Michigan Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. (Plenary).
October 17, 2008: Purdue University, CCAM seminar.
October 31, 2008: University of Minnesota, probability seminar.
November 6, 2008: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CASC seminar.
March 2-6, 2009: SIAM CSE conference (UQ minisymposium).
March 26-29, 2009: Workshop on Meshless Methods, Generalized Finite Element Methods, and Related Approaches, at the University of Maryland, College Park.
May 4, 2009: Caltech, ACM colloquium.
May 7-8, 2009: Structured integrators workshop (Plenary).
June
2-6, 2009: EPFL: Advances in the Theory of Control, Signals, and Systems, with
Physical Modeling (Plenary).
June 9-12, 2009: Brunel UK, MAFELAP conference. Validation and Robust Prediction in Computational Science.
July 6-11, 2009: Taida Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Taida mathematics month, international conference in mathematics (Computational and Applied Math), Taiwan.
July
28-30, 2009: PSAAP UQ workshop (Caltech) (Plenary).
August
10-11 2009: USC Workshop on Stochastic
Multiscale Methods.(Plenary).
August 30-Sept 2 2009: SAMSI program on stochastic Dynamics (Plenary).
October 7, 2009. UTRC seminar.
October 9, 2009. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (applied mathematics seminar).
November 4, 2009. Caltech. E2 Frontiers in Engineering and Applied Science.
Dec 6-11, 2009. Numerical Analysis of Multiscale Computations (BIRS)
May 24-28, 2010. International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh, Scotland. SPDE-UQ workshop.
July 12-16, 2010: Numerical Methods for Stochastic Computation and Uncertainty Quantification. SIAM annual meeting (Pittsburgh)
September 13-17 2010. Conference on Highly Oscillatory problems. Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge. (Plenary)
Professional Societies
Non academic experience
1991: The Army, served in the corps of engineers as lieutenant in command of a platoon (45 sappers and 7 non-commissioned officers to command)
September 1994 - December 1994: Departmental Equipment Service of
Charente- Maritime in the Great Works Service (in charge of the majority of the
national and regional development projects on the
September 1995 - September 1996: Biospace Instruments, research work in a team of physicists. Development and production of instruments involving recent breakthroughs in the field of detection and localization of ionizing radiations and adaptation of those instruments to the needs of biological researchers (digital autoradiography, in collaboration with the CEPH).
Computer Skills
Turbo Pascal, Think Pascal, C, C++, Prolog
Macintosh, Windows and Object Windows system programming, UNIX.
System consultant for Division of Applied Probability at EPFL.
Language Skills
Fluent: French, English.
Mother Tongue: Persian
Average: Spanish.
Basic: Chinese (Mandarin).
