Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J.'s Mathematics and Computer Science Publications Page

Publications --- Mathematics/Computer Science

Articles, Technical Reports, Booklets, Book Chapters, and Book Reviews

• Leonard F. Klosinski and Dennis C. Smolarski, "On the Reversing of Digits," Mathematics Magazine, v. 42, n. 4 (Sept 1969), pp. 208-210.
• Dennis C. Smolarski, "Generalizing Binary Operations," Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, v. 6, n. 2 (Spring 1975), pp. 75-78.
• Dennis C. Smolarski and Leonard F. Klosinski, "Recognition Algorithms for Fibonacci Numbers," The Fibonacci Quarterly, v. 19, n. 1 (Feb 1981), pp. 57-61. (Text of paper accessible at: http://www.fq.math.ca/Scanned/19-1/smolarski.pdf.)
• Dennis C. Smolarski, Optimum Semi-Iterative Methods for the Solution of Any Linear Algebraic System with a Square Matrix. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science, December, 1981 (Report Number UIUCDCS-R-81-1077).
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., book review of Electronic Life by M. Crichton, Mind at Play by G. & E. Loftus, and Turing's Man by J.D. Bolter in America, May 19, 1984, pp 383-84.
• Dennis C. Smolarski and Paul E. Saylor, An Optimum Semi-Iterative Method for Solving Any Linear Set with a Square Matrix. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science, July, 1985 (Report Number UIUCDCS-R-85-1218).
• Paul E. Saylor and Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., Computing the Roots of Complex Orthogonal and Kernel Polynomials. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science, July, 1986 (Report Number UIUCDCS-R-86-1290).
• Paul E. Saylor and Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., "Computing the Roots of Complex Orthogonal and Kernel Polynomials," SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing, v. 9, n. 1 (January, 1988), pp. 1-13.
• Dennis C. Smolarski and Paul E. Saylor, "An Optimum Semi-Iterative Method for Solving Any Linear System with a Square Matrix," BIT, v. 28, n. 1 (1988), pp. 163-178.
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., "The Spirituality of Computers," Spirituality Today, v. 40, n. 4 (Winter, 1988), pp. 292-307. (On-line version available at: http://www.spiritualitytoday.org/spir2day/884041smolarski.html)
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., The Essentials of FORTRAN, Piscataway: Research and Education Association, 1989.
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., The Essentials of Data Structures I, Piscataway: Research and Education Association, 1990.
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., The Essentials of Data Structures II, Piscataway: Research and Education Association, 1990.
• Paul E. Saylor and Dennis C. Smolarski. Implementation of an Adaptive Algorithm for Richardson's Method. Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Departement Informatik, Institut für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen, October, 1990 (Report Number 139).
• Paul E. Saylor and Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., "Implementation of an Adaptive Algorithm for Richardson's Method," Linear Algebra and Its Applications, v. 154-156 (Aug-Oct, 1991), pp. 615-646.
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J. "Balance and Complementarity, Mathematics and Liturgy, East and West," Diakonia, v. XXIV, n. 1 (1991), pp. 37-44.
• Dennis Smolarski, Introductory Chapter Reviews (approximately 120 pages out of a 1000+ page book) for The Pre-Calculus Problem Solver by the Staff of Research and Education Association, Piscataway, NJ: Research and Education Association, 1992.
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J. "Finding Meaning in Mathematics," Ultimate Reality and Meaning, v. XVII, n. 4 (Dec 1994), pp. 249-60.
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J. "Helping Souls: Computer Science and the Society of Jesus," Company: Magazine of the American Jesuits, v. 15, n. 1 (Fall 1997), pp. 17-19. (Also available online at http://www.companysj.com/v151/helpingsouls.html.)
• F. Douglas Swesty, Paul Saylor, Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., E.Y.M. Wang, "Scalable, Hydrodynamic and Radiation-Hydrodynamic Studies of Neutron Stars Mergers," SC97 Conference Proceedings (San Jose, CA, November 15-21, 1997) (Complete Proceedings accessible at http://www.supercomp.org/sc97/proceedings), Technical Paper (November 18, 1997) (Text of paper accessible at: http://www.supercomp.org/sc97/proceedings/TECH/SAYLOR/INDEX.HTM.)
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J. "GC 34, Higher Education, and Computer Science," pp 106-19 in Promise Renewed: Jesuit Higher Education for a New Millennium by Martin R. Tripole, S.J. (ed.), Chicago: Loyola Press, 1999.
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J. and Tamsen Whitehead, "Ethics in the Classroom: A Reflection on Integrating Ethical Discussions in an Introductory Course in Computer Programming," Science and Engineering Ethics, v. 6, n. 2 (Spring 2000), pp. 254-64.
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., "Growth of Technology" (Presentation at Panel Discussion), pp 130-33 in Jesuit Education 21: Conference Proceedings on the Future of Jesuit Higher Education (25-29 June 1999) by Martin R. Tripole, S.J. (ed.), Philadelphia: St. Joseph's University Press, 2000.
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., "The Ratio Studiorum and New Technology: Opportunities and Challenges," explore, v. 4, n. 1 (Fall 2000), pp. 22-30. (Available online via http://www.scu.edu/ignatiancenter/publications/explorejournal/archive/upload/explore-fall-2000.pdf)
• Paul E. Saylor and Dennis C. Smolarski, "Why Gaussian quadrature in the complex plane?" Numerical Algorithms, v. 26, n. 3 (March 2001), pp. 251-280.
• Paul E. Saylor and Dennis C. Smolarski, "Addendum to: Why Gaussian quadrature in the complex plane?" Numerical Algorithms, v. 27, n. 2 (June 2001), pp. 215-217.
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., "The Jesuit Ratio Studiorum, Christopher Clavius, and the Study of Mathematical Sciences in Universities," Science in Context, v. 15, n. 3 (September 2002), pp. 447-457. (Available via http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=129332&jid=SIC&volumeId=15&issueId=03&aid=129331.)
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J. (transl.), "Historical Documents, Part I: Sections on Mathematics from the Various Editions of the Ratio Studiorum" of the Society of Jesus. Science in Context, v. 15, n. 3 (September 2002), pp. 459-464. (Available via http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=129334&jid=SIC&volumeId=15&issueId=03&aid=129333.)
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J. (transl.), "Historical Documents, Part II: Two Documents on Mathematics" by Christopher Clavius, S.J. Science in Context, v. 15, n. 3 (September 2002), pp. 465-470. (Available via http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=129336&jid=SIC&volumeId=15&issueId=03&aid=129335.)
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., "Teaching Mathematics in the Seventeenth and Twenty-first Centuries," Mathematics Magazine, v. 75, n. 4 (October 2002), pp. 256-262. (Link to PDF reprint at https://webpages.scu.edu/ftp/dsmolarski/claviusmathmag.pdf.)
  Spanish version (by Chicksx.com) available at this link.
• Ramesh Balakrishnan, Eduardo F. D'Azevedo, John W. Fettig, Bronson Messer, Anthony Mezzacappa, Faisal Saied, Paul E. Saylor, Dennis C. Smolarski, and F. Douglas Swesty, "On the Performance of SPAI and ADI-like Preconditioners for Core Collapse Supernova Simulations in One Spatial Dimension." University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science, June 2003 (Report No. UIUCDCS-R-2003-2335). (Available via http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/research/techreports.php?report=UIUCDCS-R-2003-2335.)
• Dennis C. Smolarski, "A first course in computer science: Languages and goals," Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science, v. 1, n. 1 (2003), pp. 137-152. (Link to PDF reprint at https://webpages.scu.edu/ftp/dsmolarski/smolar-e.pdf.)
• F. Douglas Swesty, Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., Paul E. Saylor, "A comparison of algorithms for the efficient solution of the linear systems arising from multigroup flux-limited diffusion problems," The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, v. 153, n. 1 (July 2004), pp. 369-387. (Link to PDF reprint at https://webpages.scu.edu/ftp/dsmolarski/59111.web.pdf.)
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., "Jesuits on the Moon: Seeking God in All Things ... Even Mathematics!" Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, v. 37, n. 1 (Spring 2005). (Monograph -- entire number.) (Link to electronic archive copy at Boston College.)
• Glenn Appleby and Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., "A linear acceleration row action method for projecting onto subspaces," Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA), v. 20 (2005), pp. 253-275. Text available via http://www.etna.mcs.kent.edu/vol.20.2005
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., "Diagonally striped matrices and approximate inverse preconditioners," Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, v. 186, no. 2 (15 Feb 2006), pp. 416-431. Text available via Science Direct (if your university subscribes to the service).
• Dennis C. Smolarski, Ramesh Balakrishnan, Eduardo F. D'Azevedo, John W. Fettig, Bronson Messer, Anthony Mezzacappa, Faisal Saied, Paul E. Saylor, and F. Douglas Swesty, "On the Performance of SPAI and ADI-like Preconditioners for Core Collapse Supernova Simulations in One Spatial Dimension," Computer Physics Communications. v. 175, no. 5 (1 Sept 2006), pp. 330-338. Text available via Science Direct (if your university subscribes to the service).
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., "The Ratio Studiorum and New Technology: Opportunities and Challenges" (Presentation at Conference), pp 73-93 in Ratio Studiorum 400: The Past, Present, and Future of a Four Hundred Year Tradition of Jesuit Education (The International Conference organized by Centre for Culture and Dialogue, Cracow, 22 November 1999), Wydawnictwo WAM - Centrum Kultury i Dialogu, Krakow, 2006.
• Eric S. Myra, F. Douglas Swesty, Dennis C. Smolarski, "Stellar Core Collapse: A Case Study in the Design of Numerical Algorithms for Scalable Radiation Hydrodynamics," Computing in Science and Engineering, v. 11, no. 2 (March/April 2009), pp. 34-44. (Available via http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cise/index.jsp.)
• Dennis C. Smolarski, book review of Numerical Methods by J.D. Faires and R.L. Burden (4th ed.) (Boston: Brooks/Cole, Cengage, 2013). DOI: 10.2514/1.J052430. In AIAA (American Institue of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Journal, v. 51, no. 9 (Sept 2013), p. 2304.
• Dennis Smolarski, S.J., ``What If Einstein Stopped His Education Early Because He Had a Good Paying Job?,'' Chapter 11 in Mathematics for the Curious: Why Study Mathematics? Kishor Vaidya, ed., The Curious Academic Publishing Co., 2015.

Conference Presentations

• Dennis C. Smolarski(*), "Guiding Principles Operating in Mathematics and Computer Science and the Implied Notion of Reality," Research Paper, August 19, 1993, 7th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Human Ideas on Ultimate Reality and Meaning (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). (Text revised and published in Ultimate Reality and Meaning, XVII:4 [December 1994] 249-60.)
• F. Douglas Swesty(*), Paul E. Saylor, Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., E.Y.M. Wang, "Scalable, Hydrodynamic and Radiation-Hydrodynamic Studies of Neutron Stars Mergers," Technical Paper, November 18, 1997, SC97 Conference (San Jose, California) [refereed paper]. (Text available in SC97 Conference Proceedings at: http://www.supercomp.org/sc97/proceedings/TECH/SAYLOR/INDEX.HTM.)
• Paul E. Saylor, Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J.(*), "Gaussian Quadrature in the Complex Plane," April 2, 1998, Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods (Copper Mountain, Colorado).
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J.(*), "Media and Technology: Instruments for Growth, Instruments for Destruction-Part I: Growth of Technology," Panel Presentation, June 26, 1999, Jesuit Education 21: Conference on The Future of Jesuit Higher Education (St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia). (Text available in Jesuit Education 21: Conference Proceedings on the Future of Jesuit Higher Education, Martin R. Tripole, S.J. (ed), Philadelphia: St. Joseph's University Press, 2000, pp. 130-33.)
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J.(*), "The Ratio Studiorum and New Technology: Opportunities and Challenges," November 22, 1999, The International Conference "Ratio Studiorum 400": The Past, Present, and Future of a Four Hundred Year Tradition of Jesuit Education (Kraków, Poland).
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J.(*), "New Technology and Jesuit Education," January 25, 2000, More to Explore Lecture, Santa Clara University.
• F. Douglas Swesty(*), Paul E. Saylor, Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J., "Parallelizable Preconditioners for Multigroup Flux-limited Diffusion Problems," April 3, 2000, 6th Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods (Copper Mountain, Colorado).
• Dennis C. Smolarski, S.J.(*), "Christopher Clavius, S.J., Mathematician," May 5, 2001, Santa Clara University-College of Arts and Sciences, 150th Anniversary Conference.
• Ramesh Balakrishnan(*), John Fettig, Dennis Smolarski, Faisal Saied, Paul Saylor, "Comparison of preconditioners for MGFLD and MGBT equations," Terascale Supernova Initiative Collaborators Meeting, Miami, Feb 9-11, 2003.
• Dennis C. Smolarski(*), Paul E. Saylor, F. Doug Swesty, Ryan Szypowski, "Implementing Chebyshev Iteration on Parallel Architectures: Some Preliminary Results," April 1, 2004, 8th Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods (Copper Mountain, Colorado).
• Dennis C. Smolarski(*), F. Douglas Swesty, Alan C. Calder (*), "Performance of an Astrophysical Radiation Hydrodynamics Code under Scalable Vector Extension Optimization," Research Paper presented at HPC Workshop, September 6-9, 2022 during 2022 IEEE Conference on Clustser Computing, Heidelberg, Germany. Text published in proceedings of the conference, pp. 545-548. DOI Bookmark: 10.1109/CLUSTER51413.2022.00071. https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/cluster/2022/985600a545/1HzBqFScmIw
• A. C. Calder, E. Siegmann, C. Feldman, S. Chheda, D. C. Smolarski, F. D. Swesty, A. Curtis, J. Dey, D. Carlson, B. Michalowicz, R. J. Harrison, "Ookami: An A64FX Computing Resource," June 26-30, 2023, 15th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, ASTRONUM 2023, Pasadena, CA. Text available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04259 Text published in {\it Journal of Physics: Conference Series} V. 2742 (2024) DOI Bookmark: 10.1088/1742-6596/2742/1/012019. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2742/1/012019

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My email address is dsmolarski at scu.edu

This page last updated 29 April 2024.