Member Name: Sultan Sial

Title: Associate Professor, Mathematics
Head of Department

Qualifications: Ph.D., University of Western Ontario
MSc., Carleton University

Phone: + 92 (42) 3560 8000 Ext: 8018

Fax: + 92 (42) 3572 2591

E-Mail: sultans@lums.edu.pk

Research Interests: Scientific Computation, Statistical Mechanics, Numerical Methods, and Simulation of Mesoscale/Nanoscale Systems.

Biography: Dr Sultan Sial received the MSc. Mathematics degree from Carleton University and the PhD. degree in Applied Mathematics from University of Western Ontario, Canada in 1992 and 1997. Prior to joining LUMS, he has been associated with University of Toronto, University of Western Ontario, Trent University, University of Arizona at Tempe, and Los Alamos National Lab (LANL). Dr Sial also has corporate sector experience; he has been the Vice President (Research) of Heuchera Technologies, and Vogelfrei Analytics. He has several publications, a book and book chapter in leading international journals.

Publications and Patents:
04. Majid, A., Sial, S. "Application of Sobolev gradient method to Poisson-Boltzmann Systems" YJCPH3036, J. Computat. Phys. (2010)

03. Raza, N., Sial, S. and Siddiqi, S. "Approximating time evolution related Ginzberg-Landau functionals via Sobolev gradient methods in a finite-element setting" Journal of Computational Physics, 229, 1621-1625, (2010)

02. Raza, N., Sial, S., Siddiqi, S. and Lookman, "T. Energy minimization related to Nonlinear Schrodinger equation", Journal of Computational Physics., 228, 2572-2577, (2009)

01. Raza, N., Sial, S. and Siddiqi, S. "Simulation study of Propagation of pulses in Optical fiber Communication Systems using Sobolev gradient and Split-Step Fourier Methods", International journal of Computational methods., 6, 1-12, (2009)