Contact: butsons@oregonstate.edu
I am a third year graduate student at Oregon State University under the direction of Dr. Todd Palmer. My primary research interest is computational methods for radiation transport, particularly those for thermal radiative transfer. My work is done with the support of researchers in the Computational Physics and Methods Group (CCS-2) at Los Alamos National Lab.
For my PhD I am looking at variance reduction/acceleration methods for particle transport. Currently I am investigating parallel-in-time schemes with the hopes of combining them synergestically with existing acceleration techniques.
My MS work was on a reduced-precision (16-bit) implementation of the Implicit Monte Carlo method for thermal radiation transport. This work developed some arithmetic manipulation and scaling techniques that could be of value to other reduced-precision scientific computing applications. A code package from that work is available here: https://github.com/simonbutson/MixedPrecisionIMC.jl
MS in Nuclear Engineering - Oregon State University, 2025.
BASc in Mechanical Engineering (Mechantronics Option) and minor in Physics - University of British Columbia, 2023.
Bouldering, hiking, lifting, parkour, playing guitar, reading.