DR. DOMINIQUE AUBERT DOB 10th August 1978 - 31 years French Lecturer Université de Strasbourg Observatoire Astronomique [email protected] http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/~aubert CURRENT SITUATION Lecturer at the University of Strasbourg, member of the Astronomical Observatory since September 2006. TOPICS RESEARCH • Formation of large structures in the Universe, Cosmology • Epoch of Reionization, galaxies, galactic dynamics, gravitational lenses • Numerical simulations, high performance computing, hardware acceleration of scientific computing on graphics cards (Graphics Processing Units - GPUs) CAREER • October 2005 - September 2006: Post-Doc CNRS, Service d'Astrophysique, CEA, Saclay, France. • April 2005 - October 2005: Max-Planck Institut fur Astrophysik, Garching, Germany, visitor. • April 2004-October 2004: Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK, Marie Curie visitorship. • October 2001-April 2005: PhD thesis "Measurement and implications of dark matter flows at the surface of the virial sphere", University Paris XI and Astronomical Observatory of Strasbourg. REFEERED PUBLICATIONS • Reionisation powered by GPUs I : the structure of the ultra-violet background, Aubert D. & Teyssier R., April 2010, submitted to ApJ, available on request, arXiv:1004.2503 • The dusty, albeit ultraviolet bright infancy of galaxies. Devriendt, J.; Rimes, C.; Pichon, C.; Teyssier, R.; Le Borgne, D.; Aubert, D.; Audit, E.; Colombi, S.; Courty, S; Dubois, Y.; Prunet, S.; Rasera, Y.; Slyz, A.; Tweed, D., Submitted to MNRAS, arXiv:0912.0376 • Galactic kinematics with modified Newtonian dynamics. Bienaymé, O.; Famaey, B.; Wu, X.; Zhao, H. S.; Aubert, D. A&A, April 2009, in press. • A particle-mesh integrator for galactic dynamics powered by GPGPUs. Aubert, D., Amini, M. & David, R. Accepted contribution to ICCS 2009. • Full-Sky Weak Lensing Simulation with 70 Billion Particles. Teyssier, Romain; Pires, Sandrine; Prunet, Simon; Aubert, Dominique; Pichon, Christophe; Amara, Adam; Benabed, Karim; Colombi, Stephane; Re- fregier, Alexandre; Starck, Jean-Luc. Jan 09, A&A, In Press. • Numerical investigations of substructures using the perturbative method. Peirani S., Allard C. , Pichon C. , Gavazzi R. & Aubert D., MNRAS, Volume 390, Issue 3, pp. 945-957. • Initial Conditions for Large Cosmological Simulations. Prunet, Pichon, Aubert, Pogosyan, Teyssier, Gottloeber. Oct 2008, ApJS, Volume 178, Issue 2, pp. 179-188 • A radiative transfer scheme for cosmological reionization based on a local Eddington tensor. Aubert, Do- minique; Teyssier Romain. June 2008, MNRAS. • Smooth Particle Lensing. Aubert, Dominique; Amara, Adam; Metcalf, R. Benton. March 2007, MNRAS. • Dynamical flows through dark matter haloes - II. One- and two-point statistics at the virial radius. Au- bert, Dominique; Pichon, Christophe. Jan 2007, MNRAS. • Dynamical flows through dark matter haloes: inner perturbative dynamics, secular evolution and applica- tions. Pichon, Christophe; Aubert, Dominique. June 2006, MNRAS. CV Dominique Aubert • The origin and implications of dark matter anisotropic cosmic infall on ~L* haloes. Aubert, D.; Pichon, C.; Colombi, S. August 2004, MNRAS • The Clustering of Intergalactic Metals. Pichon, Christophe; Scannapieco, Evan; Aracil, Bastien; Pe- titjean, Patrick; Aubert, Dominique; Bergeron, Jacqueline; Colombi, Stéphane. Nov 2003, ApJ. AWARDS • 2010 Winner of the Young Scientist Award (HP-SF2A) of the French Society for Astronomy & Astrophysics • 2010 Finalist : Bull-Fourier Prize for the development of numerical simulation COMMITTEES - WORKING GROUPS - ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS • Member of the Laboratory Council of the Astronomical Observatory of Strasbourg since 2008. • Co-organizer with Romaric David (IT Department, University of Strasbourg) of the 1st GPU-Day in Stras- bourg (February 2010). 50 participants: http://www-cecpv.u-strasbg.fr • Member of local organizing committee of the conference "Galactic & Stellar Dynamics", March 2008. • Author of CUDATON, a cosmological radiative transfer code on clusters of GPUs used to evaluate candi- dates for the future petaflops-scale machine in the framework of the European PRACE project. • Member of the Working Group on «Computing, archiving, OV, software»(coordinator E. Audit) for the 2009 prospective led by the French National Institute for the Science of the Universe (INSU/CNRS) in Astrono- my-Astrophysics. • Examiner of the thesis presented by Nicolas Faber (advisors: C. Boily & S. Portegies Zwart) in the jury chaired by Hervé Wozniak, August 2008. Title: Orbital Complexity in Hamiltonian dynamics • referee for Astronomy & Astrophysics FUNDED PROJECTS • ANR LIDAU (2009) : Co-Investigator with B. Semelin (Paris Observatory). Project for the numerical simu- lation of the process of reionization on clusters of GPU. Funding granted by the French National Science Fundation (ANR): 158 000 euros over 3 years for Strasbourg. • National Program Cosmology and Galaxies (2008). Principal Investigator. Project for the numerical study of the stability of dark matter halos in their environment. Funding obtained: 5000 Euros for a one year on. • Scientific Council of the University Louis Pasteur (2007). SINGS project, principal investigator. Project in collaboration with IT department for the development of simulation codes for astrophysics on specific hardware (GPU, cards, GRAPES). Funding granted: 28 000 Euros for 2 years. SEMINARS & CONFERENCES • May-June 2010: IAU Symposium 270 on Computational Star Formation, Barcelona, Spain • May 2010: Advanced School on Computational Gravitational Dynamics Lorentz Center Leiden, Nether- lands • April 2010: Workshop "Simulation of Liquid-Vapour Flows", Research Institute of Advanced Mathematics, Strasbourg, France. • February 2010: 1st day GPU / GPU Day Strasbourg, co-organizer. • October 2009: GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, USA • September 2009: Parallel Computing Conference (PARCO), ENS Lyon, France • June 2009: Seminar Astrophysics, Insititut of Theoretical Physics, Zurich, Switzerland • January 2009: Seminar, Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, France • November 2008: Conference NOVICOSMO, Trieste, Italy • June 2007: Twenty-Third Conference of the IAP, Paris, France • April 2006: Seminar on Multi-scale, AIM Laboratory, CEA, Saclay, France • December 2005: Symposium PNC, LAL, Orsay France. • November 2005: Horizon Workshop, Observatoire de Paris, France. Page 2 CV Dominique Aubert • Nov. 2005: Dark Matter Substructures Workshop, MIT, Cambridge USA. • July 2005: XXI conference of the IAP, Paris, France. • June 2005: Institute Seminar, MPA Garching, Germany. • June 2005: Seminar. Astronomical Observatory of Strasbourg, France • November 2004: Horizon Workshop, Observatoire de Paris, France. • August 2004: Stellar population meeting. IOA, Cambridge, UK. • June 2004: Theoretical Astrophysics Lunch Seminar. Oxford Astrophysics Group, UK • December 2003: Workshop EARA, IAP, France. • June 2003: Journées de la SF2A, Bordeaux, France. • December 2001: Workshop EARA, MPA Garching, Germany. OUTREACH • December 2009: public discussion during the end session of the International year of Astronomy, Obser- vatoire Astronomique, Strasbourg. • November 2009: Conference «Fête de la Science», Lycée des Pontonniers, Strasbourg • May 2009: Conference «Nuit de l’Observatoire» • April 2009: Conference «Jardin des Sciences» - International Year of Astronomy • March 2009: Conférence, Kléber Bookstore, Strasbourg • February 2009: Conference, le Vaisseau (Science Museum), Strasbourg • April 2008: Conference Strasbourg Engineering School- Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Strasbourg • December 2007: Conference Lycée International Strasbourg • January 2007: Conference, le Vaisseau, Strasbourg • December 2006 : Conference French Society for Physics, Strasbourg TEACHING Unless otherwise stated, all courses are held at the University of Strasbourg. 2009-2010 • Parallel Computing and Numerical Simulations, Graduate School of Astrophysics of Ile de France (CM + TP) • Introduction to Parallel Computing, Graduate School of Earth Sciences, the Universe and the Environment (CM + TP) • Cosmology, Astrophysics M2 (CM) • Astrophysics, L3 STUE (CM + TD) • Programming in C, L2 STUE, teaching is in English. (CM + TP) • Mechanics, L1 STUE (ICs) 2008-2009 • Parallel Computing and Numerical Simulations, Graduate School of Astrophysics of Ile de France (CM + TP) • Astrophysics, L3 STUE (CM + TD) • Programming in C, L1 Physics (CM + TP) • Mechanics, Physics L2 (TD) Page 3 CV Dominique Aubert 2007-2008 • Statistical Physics, ENSPS, the first year (TD) • Astrophysics, L3 STUE (CM + TD) • Programming in C, L3 Physics (CM + TD) • Programming in C L1 Physics (CM) • Mechanics, Physics L2 (TD) 2006-2007 • Mechanics, Physics L2 (TD) • Mathematics-Calculus, Geophysics L1 (CI) • Programming in C, L1 Physics (CM + TP) STUDENT SUPERVISION • Jonathan Chardin (Astrophysics M2 Strasbourg) January-May 2010: "Geometry and chronology of the process of Reionization" Stage M2 • Matthew Kuhn (M2 Applied Mathematics Strasbourg) January-May 2010: "Development of a hydrodyna- mic code for astrophysics on Multi-GPU architecture» Stage M2, co-supervised by Romaric David, IT Ma- nagement, University of Strasbourg. • Nicolas Deparis (M1 Physics Strasbourg) January-May 2010: "Studies on the multi-wavelength cosmolo- gical radiative transfer", Internship M1 • Nicolas Gaudin (ENSPS-3rd year) February-July 2009: co-mentoring with C. Boily (Astronomical Observa- tory), "Dynamics of the central black hole of the Galaxy," Astrophysical Internship M2. • Nicolas Jacquier (L2 Physics Strasbourg) June-July 2009: "Simulation of the process of reionization» • Mehdi Amini (M2 Computer UdS) January to June 2008: "Development of a code simulation of galactic dynamics on GPU» • Fairouz Meslamani (L3 Geophysics, Saarland) June-July 2008: "Modelling of Stromgren spheres in a Structured Universe" • Karine Sagnard (ENSPS first-year) July-August 2007: "Projection Effects on the calculation of the gravita- tional lensing by halos" first year internship ENSPS • Agustin Alarcon (M1-University of Seville, Spain) January-April 2004: «Stability of dark matter halos» Page 4.