L. Ridgway Scott
- Louis Block Professor
- Department of Computer Science
- Professor
- Department of Mathematics
- Professor
- Physical Sciences Collegiate Division
- co-Director
- Computation Institute
Contact Information
University of Chicago
1100 E 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: Ryerson 258A
Phone: (773)702-6614
Fax: (773)702-0024
ridg@cs.uchicago.edu
Personal Homepage
http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~ridg
Research
My current interests focus on bioinformatics, via the Digital Biology Projet, and the automatic generation of software to support scientific simulation, via the FEniCS project. The Digital Biology Project seeks to understand how protein systems function in a discrete fashion, especially in the presence of hydrophobic effects (which are very non-specific). FEniCS is a polymorhpic acronym for an international effort (www.fenics.org) that attempts to utilize mathematical structure inherent in scientific models to automate the generation of simulation software.
Education
B.S., Tulane University, 1969
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973
Additional
Interests: Golf, music, sailing, skiing, tennis.
Projects
Laboratories
Technical Reports
- TR-2005-14
- Compiler Support for Implicit Process Sets. L. Ridgway Scott; Ernesto Gomez. 25 October, 2005. Communicated by L. Ridgway Scott.
- TR-2005-13
- Analysis of Pair-Wise Comparisons. Jerrold S. Levine; Angelika Longacre; L. Ridgway Scott. 6 October, 2005. Communicated by L. Ridgway Scott.
- TR-2005-10
- Topological optimization of the evaluation of finite element matrices. Andy Terrel; L. Ridgway Scott; Anders Logg; Robert C. Kirby. 8 July, 2005. Communicated by Robert Kirby.
- TR-2005-01
- Education and Research Challenges in Parallel Computing. L. Ridgway Scott; Babak Bagheri; Terry Clark. 30 January, 2005. Communicated by L. Ridgway Scott.
- TR-2004-09
- About Analysa. L. Ridgway Scott; Babak Bagheri. 14 December, 2004. Communicated by L. Ridgway Scott.
- TR-2004-07
- Evaluation of the Action of Finite Element Operators. L. Ridgway Scott; Matthew Knepley; Robert C. Kirby. 17 September, 2004. Communicated by Robert Kirby.
- TR-2004-04
- Optimal Evaluation of Finite Element Matrices. Matthew Knepley; L. Ridgway Scott; Robert Kirby. 7 May, 2004. Communicated by Robert Kirby.
- TR-99-01
- Model Relaxations for the Fuel Cost Minimization of Steady-State Gas Pipeline Networks. Scott, L. Ridgway; Boyd, E. Andrew; Ríos-Mercado, Roger Z.; Wu, Suming. 16 February, 1999. Communicated by L. Ridgway Scott.