Ed Seidel
{{Short description|American computer scientist}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Ed Seidel
|office = 28th President of the University of Wyoming
|term_start = July 1, 2020
|term_end =
|predecessor = Neil Theobald
|successor =
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|8|21}}
|birth_place = Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
|death_date =
|death_place =
|education = College of William and Mary (BS)
University of Pennsylvania (MS)
Yale University (PhD)
|module = {{Infobox scientist
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|field = Physics
|workplaces = {{plainlist|
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- Albert Einstein Institute
- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
- Louisiana State University
- University of Wyoming
}}
| thesis_title = Perturbation methods for the calculation of gravitational waves from slightly nonspherical spacetimes with applications to stellar core collapse
| thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/303727741/
| thesis_year = 1988
|doctoral_advisor = Vincent Moncrief
|awards = Sidney Fernbach Award
Gordon Bell Prize
}}
}}
Edward Seidel (born August 21, 1957) is an American academic administrator and scientist serving as the president of the University of Wyoming since July 1, 2020.{{Cite web |url=http://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2020/03/trustees-select-seidel-as-uws-28th-president.html |title=Trustees Select Seidel as UW's 28th President |access-date=2020-03-05 }} He previously served as the Vice President for Economic Development and Innovation for the University of Illinois System, as well as a Founder Professor in the Department of Physics and a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[http://vpedi.uillinois.edu/people/staff/edward-seidel Edward Seidel]vpedi.uillinois.edu {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916164010/https://vpedi.uillinois.edu/people/staff/edward-seidel |date=September 16, 2018 }} He was the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Illinois from 2014 to 2017.
Early life and education
Seidel was born in Bethesda, Maryland. Seidel is a relative of Chicago artist Emory Seidel. He earned a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and physics from the College of William & Mary, Master of Science in physics from the University of Pennsylvania, and PhD in relativistic astrophysics from Yale University. Seidel's research has focused on astronomy, physics, and computer science.{{Cite web|publisher=Grainger Engineering Office of Marketing and|title=Edward Seidel|url=https://cs.illinois.edu/about/people/affiliate-faculty/*|access-date=2020-09-14}}
Career
Seidel moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to lead the LSU Center for Computation and Technology in 2003. Prior to his work at CCT, he worked at the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam, Germany and also worked as a research scientist and professor at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/about/org/ed_seidel NCSA director Edward Seidel] 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 Astronomy.[https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/204770 "H. Edward Seidel] 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."[https://www.linkedin.com/in/harryedwardseidel Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications] LinkedIn {{better source|date=May 2023}}
From September 2012 until January 2014, he was the senior vice president for research and innovation at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.{{cite news|author=Karin Fischer|title=To Spur Interdisciplinary Research, an Astrophysicist Moves to Russia|url=http://chronicle.com/article/To-Spur-Interdisciplinary/135104/|newspaper=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=October 15, 2012}}{{cite web|title=Edward Seidel|url=http://www.skolkovotech.ru/stuff/edward-seidel|work=Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology|accessdate=23 November 2012}}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Previously, he was the assistant director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Science Foundation and was director of NSF's Office of Cyberinfrastructure.{{cite press release|title=LSU Center for Computation & Technology Director To Head National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure|url=https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111689&org=OLPA|accessdate=14 October 2011|publisher=National Science Foundation|date=June 10, 2008}}{{Citation |title=TeraGrid '11: Ed Seidel | date=September 2011 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB17lt3yfMs |language=en |access-date=2022-07-28}}
Before moving to NSF, Seidel was the founding director of the LSU Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is a career computer scientist and physicist who has received a number of awards for his work. His most noted achievements are in the field of numerical relativity, which involves solving Einstein's equations on computers. Seidel's research groups are known for modeling black hole collisions and for work in scientific computing. He is also a co-founder of the Cactus Framework.{{Cite web |title=Edward Seidel |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7koY3QYAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2022-07-28 |website=scholar.google.com}}
In Louisiana, Seidel served as the first Chief Scientist for the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, or LONI, which connects supercomputing resources throughout Louisiana to enable faster and more accurate research collaboration.
In November 2006, Seidel received the Sidney Fernbach Award{{Cite web|url=http://www.computer.org/web/awards/about-sidney-fernbach|title = About Sidney Fernbach | IEEE Computer Society| date=April 9, 2018 }}{{Cite news |last=Brooks |first=David |date=2014-12-26 |title=Opinion {{!}} The Sidney Awards, Part I |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/opinion/david-brooks-the-sidney-awards-part-i.html |access-date=2022-07-28 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |last=Brooks |first=David |date=2014-12-30 |title=Opinion {{!}} The Sidney Awards, Part 2 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/30/opinion/david-brooks-the-sidney-awards-part-2.html |access-date=2022-07-28 |issn=0362-4331}} at the Supercomputing Conference in Tampa, Florida.{{cite web|title=Edward Seidel 2006 Sidney Fernbach Award Recipient|url=http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/seidel|work=IEEE Computer Society Awards|publisher=IEEE Computer Society|access-date=14 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815212928/http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/seidel|archive-date=15 August 2011|url-status=dead}} for "outstanding contributions to the development of software for HPC and Grid computing to enable the collaborative numerical investigation of complex problems in physics; in particular, modeling black hole collisions."{{Cite web |url=http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/seidel |title=Edward Seidel: 2006 Sidney Fernbach Award Recipient |access-date=2011-10-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815212928/http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/seidel |archive-date=2011-08-15 |url-status=dead}} This award, which is one of the highest honors in computing, was given for his achievements in numerical relativity.
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.{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.billingpreis.mpg.de/ |access-date=2022-07-28 |website=www.billingpreis.mpg.de}} He shared the Gordon Bell Prize in 2001 with colleagues.[http://www.phys.lsu.edu/newwebsite/people/seidel.html Ed Seidel]
Seidel was the Floating Point Systems Professor in Louisiana State University LSU's Departments of Physics and Astronomy and Computer Science.
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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External links
- [http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/about/org/ed_seidel Biography at NCSA]
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Category:American computer scientists
Category:College of William & Mary alumni
Category:Louisiana State University faculty
Category:People from Bethesda, Maryland
Category:Presidents of the University of Wyoming
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