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He is a distinguished researcher in high-performance computing and relativity and astrophysics with an outstanding track record as an administrator. In addition to leading NCSA, he is also a Founder Professor in the University of Illinois Department of Physics and a professor in the Department of
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Seidel was named President of the University of Wyoming in 2020, where he has pursued the creation of a School of Computing, the Wyoming Outdoor Recreation, Tourism and Hospitality (WORTH) Initiative, and the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
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to enable the collaborative numerical investigation of complex problems in physics; in particular, modeling black hole collisions." This award, which is one of the highest honors in computing, was given for his achievements in numerical relativity.
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In 1998 Seidel was awarded the Max Planck Society's Heinz-Billing-Preis award, for the "achievements of those who have spent time and effort developing the hardware and software crucial for scientific advances. He shared the
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the senior vice president of research and innovation at Moscow's Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, has been named the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Illinois."
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In Louisiana, Seidel served as the first Chief Scientist for the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, or LONI, which connects supercomputing resources throughout
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Perturbation methods for the calculation of gravitational waves from slightly nonspherical spacetimes with applications to stellar core collapse
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since July 1, 2020. He previously served as the Vice President for Economic Development and Innovation for the
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From September 2012 until January 2014, he was the senior vice president for research and innovation at the
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to lead the LSU Center for Computation and Technology in 2003. Prior to his work at CCT, he worked at the
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who has received a number of awards for his work. His most noted achievements are in the field of
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collisions and for work in scientific computing. He is also a co-founder of the
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Before moving to NSF, Seidel was the founding director of the LSU
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LSU's Departments of Physics and Astronomy and Computer Science.
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and also worked as a research scientist and professor at the
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to enable faster and more accurate research collaboration.
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Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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and was director of NSF's Office of Cyberinfrastructure.
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Edward Seidel
University of Wyoming
Incumbent
Bethesda, Maryland
College of William and Mary
BS
University of Pennsylvania
MS
Yale University
PhD
Sidney Fernbach Award
Gordon Bell Prize
Physics
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Albert Einstein Institute
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Louisiana State University
University of Wyoming
Thesis
Perturbation methods for the calculation of gravitational waves from slightly nonspherical spacetimes with applications to stellar core collapse
Doctoral advisor
Vincent Moncrief
University of Wyoming
University of Illinois System
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Bethesda, Maryland
Emory Seidel
College of William & Mary
University of Pennsylvania

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