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Curriculum Vitae of N.M. Missirlis


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 Name
Nikolaos M. Missirlis

  Address
Department of Informatics and Telecommunications,
Section of Theoretical Informatics,
University of Athens,
Panepistimiopolis, 157 84,
Athens, Greece.

Phone:

+(3210) 7275103

 

+(3210) 7275300

Fax:

+(3210) 7275114

Email:

nmis@di.uoa.gr


Education

1975 - 1978:   

Ph.D, Department of Computer Studies, Loughborough University of Technology, UK.

1970 - 1974:   

B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Ioannina, Greece.


Academic Positions

1995 - today:  

Professor, Department of Informatics, Section of Theoretical Informatics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

2006 – 2008:

Visiting Professor, Department of Informatics, University of Cyprus, Cyprus.

1989 - 1995:   

Associate Professor, Department of Informatics, Section of Theoretical Informatics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

1986 - 1987:   

  1. Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  2. Visiting Researcher, Parallel Computing Laboratory, Center for Computer Aids for Industrial Productivity, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.

1984 - 1989:   

Assistant Professor, Section of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science Department of Mathematics, University of Athens.

1980 - 1984:   

Lecturer, Section of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, Department of Mathematics, University of Athens.


Research Interests

Combinatorial Scientific Computing, Algebraic Graph Theory, Numerical Linear Algebra, Parallel Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations.

 


Projects

2004 – 2008:

PYTHAGORAS: Distributed Iterative methods for the numerical solution of the Convection-Diffusion equation. Application in numerical models of weather prediction, 59.000 euro.

1999 – 2001:

 

 

1998 - 2000:   

Development of a high accuracy weather prediction system for marine

applications (ΕΠΕΤ ΙΙ), 50.000 euro.

 

Parallelization of the Princeton Ocean Model, 10.000 euro.

1995 - 1998:   

Development of a high accuracy numerical weather prediction system on high performance computers (EPET II), 200.000 euro.

1992 - 1994:   

Development of parallel methods for the numerical solution of Partial Differential Equations  (PENED), 1000 euro.

1986 - 1987:   

Implementation of parallel numerical methods for the Parallel Computer Ncube-10, Parallel Computing Laboratory, Rutgers University, USA.

1986 - 1988:   

Development and Evaluation of Parallel Algorithms (PENED), 1000 euro.


Book Publications

He is the author of five  books:

1.    Numerical Analysis: An algorithmic approach, 2009.

2.    Introduction to Data Structures with C, 2002.

3.    Introduction to Programming with C, 2002.

4.    Data Structures (with Pascal), Symmetria, 1994.

5.    Pascal and Turbo Pascal, Symmetria, 1992.

 

Notes for courses:

6.    Numerical Linear Algebra.

7.    Parallel Algorithms.

8.  Scientific Computing.

 


Teaching

Undergraduate courses

  1. Algorithms and Complexity
  2. Data Structures
  3. Numerical Analysis
  4. Numerical Linear Algebra
  5. Nonlinear Optimization
  6. Inroduction to Programming
  7. Introduction to Computer Science

Graduate courses

  1. Scientific Computing (Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations)
  2. Parallel Algorithms

Publications

Top 10 Publications in Journals

[1]  Μ. Α. Louka, N. M. Missirlis and F. I. Tzaferis, Is Modified PSD equivalent to Modified SOR for two-cyclic matrices?, Linear Algebra and its Applications, vol. 432, 2010, pp 2798–2815. 

[2]  Μ. Α. Louka, N. M. Missirlis and F. I. Tzaferis, The impact of the eigenvalues locality on the convergence behavior of the PSD method for two-cyclic matrices, Linear Algebra and its Applications, vol. 430, Issues 8-9, 2009, pp 1929-1944.

[3]  G. Karagiorgos  and N. M. Missirlis,  Convergence of the Diffusion method for weighted torus graphs using Fourier analysis, Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 401, Issues 1-3, pp. 1-16, July 2008.

[4]  G. Karagiorgos and N. M. Missirlis, Accelerated Diffusion Algorithms for Dynamic Load Balancing, Information Processing Letters, 84, 61-67, 2002.

[5]  L. A. Boukas and N. M. Missirlis, A parallel local Modified SOR for nonsymmetric linear systems, Intern. J. of Comput. Math., 68, 153-174, 1998.

[6]  N. M. Missirlis and F. I. Tjaferis, The Huard Method on a Shared Memory MIMD  Computer,  Parallel Algorithms and Applications,  11, 249-272, 1997.

[7]  N. M. Missirlis, Convergence theory of extrapolated iterative methods for a certain class of non-symmetric linear systems, Numerisch Mathematik, 45, 447-458, 1984.

[8]  N. M. Missirlis, The extrapolated first order method for solving systems with complex eigenvalues, BIT, 24, 357-365, 1984.

[9]  N. M. Missirlis and D. J. Evans, On the convergence of some generalized preconditioned iterative methods, SIAM J. Num. Anal., 18, No. 4, 591-596, 1981.

[10]  D. J. Evans and N. M. Missirlis, The Modified Alternating Direction Preconditioning method for the numerical solution of elliptic selfadjoint Partial Differential Equations, BIT, 9, 172-185, 1979.

 

Other Publications

 

Mathscinet, LPDB, ISI, Scopus

 

Top 5 Publications in Conferences and Books

[1] Μ. Α. Louka and N. M. Missirlis, Generalized Iterative Methods, Conference in Numerical Analysis NumAn2010, Chania, Hellas, September 2010.

[2] G. Markomanolis and N. M. Missirlis, Optimum diffusion for load balancing in mesh networks, EuroPar2010, LNCS 6271, 230-241, 2010.

[3] N. M. Missirlis, Towards optimum diffusion for load balancing in heterogeneous torus, 5th International Workshop on Parallel Matrix Algorithms and Applications (PMAA’08), 20-22, June 2008, Neuchatel, Switzerland.

[4] Μ. Α. Louka, N. M. Missirlis and F. I. Tzaferis, The Modified Preconditioned Simultaneous Displacement (MPSD) Method for two-cyclic systems, IMA Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization, University of Birmingham, UK, September 2007.

[5] N. M. Missirlis, G. Karagiorgos and F. Ι. Tzaferis,  Fast diffusion load balancing algorithms on torus graphs,  Euro-Par 2006,  Parallel Processing, 12th Intern. Euro-par conference, Dresden University of Technology Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing, Dresden, Germany,  28th August-1st  September, 2006,  Proceedings LNCS 4128, 222-231, Springer 2006.