Computing Hydrogen Ion Survival Probability: Academy Student, Graduate Student, and Faculty Experiences

Biography: Dr. David Monismith is an independent researcher in the Oklahoma City Area. He was an Assistant Professor at Northwest Missouri State University from 2012 to 2015 where he served as XSEDE Campus Champion, Graduate Directed Projects Coordinator, and PI on two US Army Subcontracts. He is currently working as a Co-PI with Drs. John Shaw and Himadri Chakraborty on an XSEDE Allocation entitled "Computational Simulations of Electronic Motions and Excitations in Nanostructured Surfaces by Ion-Surface and Adsorbate-Surface Charge-Transfer Interactions". While working on this project, Dr. Monismith wrote code that generates scripts to perform parameter sweeps on the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) Stampede Supercomputer using the TACC Launcher. He also worked with Yixiao (Icy) Zhang, a Northwest Academy student, to help her parallelize the code using OpenMP. Dr. Monismith later updated the code to make use of Xeon Phi Accelerators, and worked with a graduate student team to develop tools to save results to a database and generate graphs from those results. Dr. Monismith is currently performing reviews, parallelization, and optimization on the code for this project. Additionally, Dr. Monismith is performing pro bono work on the Scholar-Link project with the Community Foundation of Northwest Missouri. Scholar-Link has been a graduate directed project at NWMSU since 2012. It enables students in Northwest Missouri to easily access and apply for hundreds of scholarships offered through the Community Foundation using a single scholarship application.