Panayot Vassilevski

Prof. Panayot Vassilevski is a faculty member at the Faculty of Informatics of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Switzerland. He is engaged in collaborative research involving high-performance computing (HPC) and computational methods for partial differential equations (PDEs), with a focus on scalable discretization and solver development. His work intersects applied mathematics and computer science, particularly in the context of discrete networks and GPU-accelerated algorithms.

• Fields of Interest: Applied Mathematics, High Performance Computing, Machine Learning, Computational Science, Partial Differential Equations

Recent work includes the GPU Accelerated Shifted Penalty Multigrid for Contact Elasticity (2024), which highlights his expertise in computational methods and HPC. This project builds on prior successful collaborations, such as the LLNL sabbatical of Prof. Rolf Krause and the internship of his student Patrick Zulian, which resulted in a publication. The collaboration also involves Dr. Zulian and the Swiss Supercomputing Center (CSCS) in Lugano. During the visit, Prof. Vassilevski and his PhD student Austen Nelson will work with Prof. Krause's team on reciprocal knowledge exchange.

Advising: Austen Nelson, a PhD student under Prof. Vassilevski, is participating in the project. The visit project (Grant #229884, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation with 10,500 CHF) emphasizes in-depth methodological collaboration and personnel exchange between USI and Portland University, as well as LLNL and CSCS.

Labs and Teams: The project involves the Euler Institute at USI and the Swiss Supercomputing Center (CSCS) in Lugano. These institutions are pivotal for advancing the HPC-software project, which combines theoretical and algorithmic tasks in scalable discretization methods and PDE solvers.