• Name: Gregory A. Baker
• Department: Aerospace Engineering
• Status: Ph.D. Candidate
• Phone: 471-5506
• e-mail: baker@csr.utexas.edu
• Personal WWW: none
• Research interests:
  The disseration research I have proposed involves the Application of Parallel Algorithms to Problems in Satellite Geodesy. The main focus of the research is the recovery of geoid coefficients. The data types to be imployed are satellite gradiometry data, satellite altimetry data, and satellite-to-satellite tracking data. I hope to show that the implementaion of MPP methods will greatly increase the size of gravity field which can be recovered.

• Possible semester project:
  Most of the computation in the research described above involves the solution to a linear least squares problem. Past research has shown that the prefered solution methods is by orthogonalization techniques. A possible semester project would be an "efficient" implementation of either a Given's Rotations or a Householder Transformation algorithm. I would be leaning toward the Householder since the observations can, in general, be processes independently and, in general, not across processors. Thus, I am left with a batch of observations to be folded into the information matrix.