Dear Friends:
Starting on Monday for a period of one month, Professor Hans P. Lüthi will
be visiting our lab. He will be seated in Sam's area (next to Semion).
Here is a quick bio:
Hans P. Lüthi obtained his MSc and PhD degrees in chemistry from ETH Zürich
and the University of Zürich. After post-doctoral studies at the IBM
Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, and a visiting
professorship at Minnesota Supercomputer Institute (MSI) in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, he returned to ETH Zurich in 1987, where he was involved in the
build-up of the Swiss Supercomputing infrastructure.
Lüthi’s research interests are in the electronic structure and properties
of large molecules as well as in high performance computing. He made major
contributions to the implementation of the Hartree-Fock method (direct
methods, parallel computing, distributed computing) as well as to the
understanding of chemical phenomena (prediction of the stability of the
“buckyball” (1987), the design of molecular switches (1997), and the
reactivity of hypervalent iodine compounds (2007)).
As early as in 1991, Lüthi and coworkers of the MSI were able to distribute
large electronic structure computations over trans-continental networks of
supercomputers. Still interested in delocalized computing, his focus has
shifted towards the processing of (distributed) information obtained from
electronic structure calculations.
Lüthi is the director of the ETH Zurich “Competence Center for
Computational Chemistry”, and a senior lecturer at the ETH Zurich
Department of Chemistry. He was the chairman of the management committee of
a European project on Grid computing (COST D37), and is currently on the
Board of Directors of the Swiss Chemical Society.
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Please stop by Monday to say hello.
Have a nice weekend.
Marlon.
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