Curriculum Vitæ

Name: Kurt Otto
Date of birth: September 19, 1962

Degrees

Publications

    Refereed

  1. K. OTTO, Construction and Analysis of Preconditioners for First-order PDE, Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden, 1993.
  2. K. OTTO AND M. THUNÉ, Stability of a Runge–Kutta method for the Euler equations on a substructured domain, SIAM J. Sci. Statist. Comput., 10 (1989), pp. 154–174.
  3. S. HOLMGREN AND K. OTTO, Iterative solution methods and preconditioners for block-tridiagonal systems of equations, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 13 (1992), pp. 863–886.
  4. S. HOLMGREN AND K. OTTO, Semicirculant preconditioners for first-order partial differential equations, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 15 (1994), pp. 385–407.
  5. K. OTTO, Analysis of preconditioners for hyperbolic partial differential equations, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 33 (1996), pp. 2131–2165.
  6. S. HOLMGREN AND K. OTTO, Semicirculant solvers and boundary corrections for first-order partial differential equations, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 17 (1996), pp. 613–630.
  7. L. HEMMINGSSON AND K. OTTO, Analysis of semi-Toeplitz preconditioners for first-order PDEs, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 17 (1996), pp. 47–64.
  8. S. HOLMGREN AND K. OTTO, A framework for polynomial preconditioners based on fast transforms I: Theory, BIT, 38 (1998), pp. 544–559.
  9. S. HOLMGREN AND K. OTTO, A framework for polynomial preconditioners based on fast transforms II: PDE applications, BIT, 38 (1998), pp. 721–736.
  10. M. THUNÉ, E. MOSSBERG, P. OLSSON, J. RANTAKOKKO, K. ÅHLANDER, AND K. OTTO, Object-oriented construction of parallel PDE solvers, in Modern Software Tools for Scientific Computing, E. Arge, A. M. Bruaset, and H. P. Langtangen, eds., Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, 1997, pp. 203–226.
  11. E. MOSSBERG, K. OTTO, AND M. THUNÉ, Object-oriented software tools for the construction of preconditioners , Sci. Programming, 6 (1997), pp. 285–295.
  12. K. OTTO AND E. LARSSON, Iterative solution of the Helmholtz equation by a second-order method, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 21 (1999), pp. 209–229.
  13. K. OTTO, Iterative solution of the Helmholtz equation by a fourth-order method, in suppl, vol. 40:1 of Boll. Geof. Teor. Appl., 1999, pp. 104–105.
  14. M. THUNÉ, K. ÅHLANDER, M. LJUNGBERG, M. NORDÉN, K. OTTO, AND J. RANTAKOKKO, Object-oriented modeling of parallel PDE solvers, in The Architecture of Scientific Software, R. F. Boisvert and P. T. P. Tang, eds., vol. 188 of IFIP Conf. Proc., Kluwer Acad. Publ., Norwell, MA, 2001, pp. 159–174.
  15. K. ÅHLANDER AND K. OTTO, Software design for finite difference schemes based on index notation, Future Generation Comput. Syst., 22 (2006), pp. 102–109.
  16. M. LJUNGBERG, K. OTTO, AND M. THUNÉ, Design and usability of a PDE solver framework for curvilinear coordinates, Adv. Engrg. Software, 37 (2006), pp. 814–825.
  17. K. OTTO AND E. LARSSON, A flexible solver of the Helmholtz equation for layered media, in Proc. ECCOMAS CFD Conf. 2006, P. Wesseling, E. Oñate, and J. Périaux, eds., Tech. Univ., Delft, The Netherlands, 2006, 8 pp.

    Unrefereed

  18. K. OTTO, A unifying framework for preconditioners based on fast transforms, Report 187 (revised), Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden, 1999.
  19. I. KARASALO AND K. OTTO, A numerical study of the acoustic field in a fiber-optic hydrophone, Meth. Rep. FOA-R–00-01780-409–SE, Division of Sensor Technology, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Linköping, Sweden, 2000.
  20. I. KARASALO AND K. OTTO, Acoustic scattering from submerged elastic objects, Meth. Rep. FOI-R–0307–SE, Division of Systems Technology, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Stockholm, Sweden, 2001.
  21. B. L. ANDERSSON, S. IVANSSON, I. KARASALO, AND K. OTTO, Acoustic propagation models for complex shallow water environments, Tech. Rep. FOI-R–1850–SE, Division of Systems Technology, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Stockholm, Sweden, 2005.
  22. B. L. ANDERSSON, J.-O. HALL, AND K. OTTO, Parallel computer algorithms for the solution of volume integral equation models in marine electromagnetics, Tech. Rep. FOI-R–2326–SE, Department of Underwater Research, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007.
  23. E. SUNDKVIST AND K. OTTO, Discretization of a hybrid model for acoustic wave propagation in layered fluid media, Tech. Rep. 2011-015, Dept. of Information Technology, Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden, 2011.

Awards

  1. Third place in the student paper competition at the Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, April 1–5, 1990, Copper Mountain, CO, USA.
  2. The Oscar Prize 1997 from Uppsala University.

Conference contributions

Five invited talks, 18 talks, and two poster presentations at international conferences in eleven different countries. A comprehensive list of my contributions could be compiled from http://www.it.uu.se/research/scicomp/former/anla/rec.ps

Graduate student supervision

  1. Principal advisor for Elisabeth Larsson, who received the degree of Doctor of Technology in Numerical Analysis (on May 19, 2000) for her dissertation on Domain Decomposition and Preconditioned Iterative Methods for the Helmholtz Equation.
  2. Advisor for Malin Ljungberg, who received the degree of Doctor of Technology in Scientific Computing (on April 20, 2007) for her dissertation on Design of High Performance Computing Software for Genericity and Variability.
  3. Principal advisor for Elena Sundkvist, who received the degree of Licentiate of Philosophy in Numerical Analysis (on September 16, 2011) for her dissertation on A high-order accurate, collocated boundary element method for wave propagation in layered media.

Affiliations

  1. Postdoctoral Research Associate (from October 1994 through June 1995) at the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland at College Park, MD, USA.
  2. Universitetslektor (from July 1995 through December 1999) at the Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala University.
  3. Förste forskare (from January 2000 through April 2002) at the Dept. of Underwater Acoustics, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Stockholm.
  4. Forskare (part-time 20% from February 2000 through May 2004) at the Dept. of Information Technology, Uppsala University.
  5. Adj. Professor (from June 2004 through May 2007) at the Dept. of Information Technology, Uppsala University.
  6. Visiting Professor (from May 2008 through December 2011) at the Dept. of Information Technology, Uppsala University.
  7. Laborator (from May 2002 through September 2022) at the Dept. of Computational Wave Propagation, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Stockholm.
  8. Adj. Professor (from January 2012 through December 2019) at the Dept. of Information Technology, Uppsala University.

Languages in order of fluency

  1. Swedish
  2. English
  3. German
  4. Spanish