Department of Mathematics 		 Tel. 931-372 3690
Tennessee Technological University 	 Fax 931-372 6353
Box 5054                                 email sleborne@tntech.edu
Cookeville, TN 38505 		         homepage www.math.tntech.edu/sleborne

Education
5/1999           Dissertation 
                 Topic: Multigrid methods for convection-dominatedproblems. 
                 Adviser: Prof. Wolfgang Hackbusch
10/1996 - 5/1999 Ph.D. student at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
10/1995 - 9/1996 Visiting research fellow at the University of California, San Diego 
                 (UCSD). Advisor: Prof. Randolph E. Bank 
2/1995 		 Diploma in Mathematics at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel 
                 Topic: CG-like methods for solving nonsymmetric linear systems of
                 equations. Adviser: Prof. Wolfgang Hackbusch
7/1992 - 3/1993  Visiting student at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK 
10/1990 - 2/1995 Student of Mathematics (and computer science) at the 
                 Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel 

Employment
8/2006  - present Associate professor at Tennessee Technological University
1/2010  - 7/2010  Visiting researcher at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
8/2006  - 7/2007  Visiting researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics
                  in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
8/2001  - 7/2006  Assistant professor at Tennessee Technological University, 
                  Cookeville, Tennessee, USA
1/2001  - 7/2001  Post-doctoral associate at the Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics 
                  in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany
10/1996 - 12/2000 Teaching and research assistant, Department of Applied Mathematics, 
                  Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany
10/1995 - 9/1996  Visiting scholar at the University of California in San Diego, USA
4/1995  - 9/1995  Software engineer at SAP, Walldorf, Germany
7/1993  - 10/1993 Student internship at IBM, Hamburg, Germany 
4/1993  - 2/1995  Student teaching and project assistant, Department of Applied 
                  Mathematics, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany

Research activities
Numerical analysis and scientific computation (Multigrid methods, partial differential 
equations, hierarchical matrices)

Awards - Grants
7/2009 - 6/2012 NSF (National Science Foundation), DMS-0913017, funding amount
                $137,149.00, Title: "Algebraic hierarchical matrix preconditioners
                for two- and three-dimensional saddle point problems."
9/2004 - 9/2007 DOE (Department of Energy), Applied Mathematics Early Career 
                Principal Investigator Program, Grant No. DE-DE-FG02-04ER25649 
                in the amount of $290,496. Project title: ``Theory and Application of 
                Hierarchical Matrices in Multiscale Problems''.
7/2004 - 6/2007 NSF (National Science Foundation), Computational Mathematics 
                Program, Standard Grant No. DMS-0408950 in the amount of 
                $117,026. Project title: ``Hierarchical Matrices in Computational 
                Fluid Dynamics''.
2/2002          Awarded an AMS-NSF Travel Grant in the amount of $1,200 to 
                participate in the Annual GAMM conference 2002 in Augsburg, Germany
7/1998          Awarded first place honors for the Graduate Paper Competition 
                held during the 11th International Conference on Domain 
                Decomposition Methods, Greenwich, United Kingdom
10/1995	-9/1996 DAAD Research grant HSPII/AUFE, Research fellow at the 
                University of California in San Diego (UCSD)
9/1992 - 3/1993 Erasmus grant, visiting student at the University of East Anglia 
                (UEA), Norwich, United Kingdom
7/1990 		Awarded first place honors in the national competition for 
                mathematics during the first of three rounds (1. Bundessieger 
                Bundeswettbewerb für Mathematik, 1. Wettbewerbsrunde)

Publications