William Martin
William R. Martin has been active in the development of numerical methods for the solution of the Boltzmann transport equation.
Professor Martin received his PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1976 and joined the University of Michigan Nuclear Engineering faculty in 1977.
Professor Martin served as Chair of the Department from 1990-94 and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the College of Engineering from 1994-1999. He is now serving a second term as Chair of the Department.
Martin was the first director of four computational units at the University of Michigan: the Laboratory for Scientific Computation (LaSC), the Center for Parallel Computing (CPC), the Center for Advanced Computing (CAC), and the Michigan Grid Research and Infrastructure Development (MGRID) Center. In recognition of his achievements in the area of computational particle transport, Professor Martin was elected Fellow of the American Nuclear Society in 1989.
Professor Martin's early work was in the application of the phase space finite element method to the neutron transport equation but his focus in recent years has been the development of new Monte Carlo algorithms for particle transport, including methods for analysis of stochastic media, improved methods for nonlinear thermal radiation transport, acceleration methods for fission source convergence, functional tallies for Monte Carlo estimation, correlated sampling techniques for perturbation Monte Carlo, and condensed history methods for electron transport Monte Carlo.
William Martin is a MMPEI Faculty Fellow.