Prof Dr George Lake
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Institute for Theoretical Physics University of Zürich Winterthurerstr. 190 8057 Zürich Switzerland +41 44 635 6198, Office: 36 L 08 |
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
Ph.D., Physics, 1980; M.A. 1977, Princeton University.
B.A. with High Honors, Physics and Astronomy, Haverford College, May, 1975.
Employment History:
2005—: Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Zürich
2003-2005: William Band Professor of Theoretical Physics, Washington State University
2003: President’s Professor, University Alaska Fairbanks and Interim Chief Scientist, Arctic Region Supercomputer Center
2000–2003: Professor and CIO, Institute for Systems Biology
1985–2004: University of Washington, Professor of Astronomy & Physics
1991–1993: Staff Associate, The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
1981–1987: Member of the Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories.
1983–1986: Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study
1980–1981: NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
1980–present: Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge University.
1979–1981: Research Astronomer, University of California, Berkeley.
Recent Professional Service 1995–:
Director of Computational Science Program, University of Zürich
Project Scientist, NASA High Performance Computing & Communications Earth and Space Science Project, 1997–2002, Member of Working Group 1992-2002
NASA HQ IT Systems and Operations Management Working Group, 1997–2002
Setting Priorities for Neuroscience, NIH Working Group, 2002.
ISB Lead for Strategic Alliances with ARSC, UAF & IBM, 2001–2004
Director, NIH COE: Intelligent Information Systems for Systems Biology I2S2B, 2002-4
Consultant, Center for Excellence in Space Data Information Systems 1996–2000
Co-PI, Intel Technology 2000 Initiative at UW, 1998– 2001
NASA Consolidated Supercomputing Architectural Vision Team, 1997–98.
Chair, GSFC MPP Testbed Time Allocation Committee, 1997– 2001
Plenary Speaker, Eighth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms 1997
Invited Speaker, IEEE Advanced Digital Libraries Conference, 1999
Organizer, Petaflop Initiative Session, 1997 AAAS Meeting & Science Innovation Expo
Organizer, Petaflops BOF Workshop, Supercomputing '95
Science Advisory Council, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, 1995–97
Chair, JPL Supercomputing Project Review, 1995
Keynote Speaker, Frontiers Petaflop Workshop, 1995
Chair, UW Interdisciplinary Program in Computational Science, 1994–2001
Astronomy Graduate Program Advisor 1990–1996