Patrick Diehl is a research scientist here in the STE||AR Group at CCT – LSU. He is definitely one of our most active members! In addition to his extensive research activities and numerous publications, Patrick also teaches in the LSU Math Department and has organized several workshops and events.
Before joining LSU, Patrick was a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory for Multiscale Mechanics at Polytechnique Montreal. He received his diploma in computer science at the University of Stuttgart and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the university of Bonn.
Patrick created and hosted the virtual CAIRO colloquium series in the Spring. Speakers from across the country, and even internationally, joined to discuss various AI (artificial intelligence) topics. The series was an overall success and will continue in the Fall.
Patrick is the liaison for universities in Louisiana for the Texas and Louisiana section of the Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SIAM). He is a topic editor for the Journal for Open Source Software (JOSS) for computational fracture mechanics, applied mathematics, C++, asynchronous and task-based programming.
Patrick also cohosts a podcast – FLOSS For Science – with episodes that showcase free, libre and open source software uses in science with the aim to advocate for the usage of Open Source software in academia and higher education.
Patrick’s main research interests are:
Computational engineering with the focus on peridynamic material models for the application in solids, like glassy or composite materials
High performance computing, especially the asynchronous many task system (ATM), e.g. the C++ standard library for parallelism and concurrency (HPX) for large heterogeneous computations.
In addition, Patrick has a deep interest in the usage of Open Source software to enhance the openness of Science. With respect to teaching, he is interested to develop tools to easily introduce C++ and parallel computing to non-computer science students.
Patrick lives in Baton Rouge with his wife Sylvia and their young daughter Ava. Aside from all the great work he does at LSU, he’s an active family man and enjoys trips to the park and gymnastics lessons for Ava. Some of their favorite activities are enjoying the local Cajun food and visiting the amazing BREC parks.