Oden Institute Researchers Win Best SIAM Paper

Oden Institute researchers Noemi Petra, Omar Ghattas, Georg Stadler, and Tobin Isaac were selected for the 2019 SIAM Computational Science and Engineering Best Paper Prize for their paper "Scalable and Efficient Algorithms for the Propagation of Uncertainty from Data through Inference to Prediction for Large-scale Problems, with Application to Flow of the Antarctic Ice Sheet," which appeared in the Journal of Computational Physics, 296(1) (2015).

The SIAM selection committee recognized their paper as “a cornerstone paper in CS&E that demonstrates a scalable algorithmic framework for geophysical model inversion and uncertainty quantification on extreme-scale ice-sheet modeling exploiting supercomputing architectures.”

The paper was written in 2015 when ICES Professor Omar Ghattas worked with Petra and Stadler as ICES Postdoc Fellows and Isaac as a CSEM student. Petra is now an assistant professor at the University of California, Merced; Stadler is an associate professor at the Courant Institute - New York University; and Isaac is an assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology.

The prize was awarded at the 2019 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19) Feb. 25-March 1 in Spokane.