Steven G. Johnson
American mathematician (born 1973)
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Steven Glenn Johnson (born 1973)[2] is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for being a co-creator of the FFTW[3][4][5] library for software-based fast Fourier transforms and for his work on photonic crystals. He is professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT where he leads a group on Nanostructures and Computation.[6]
Steven G. Johnson | |
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| Born | 1973 (age 52–53) St. Charles, Illinois, U.S.[1] |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | FFTW, Meep, MPB |
| Awards | J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software (1999) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | |
| Institutions | MIT |
| Thesis | Photonic Crystals: From Theory to Practice (2001) |
| John Joannopoulos | |
| Website | math |
While working on his PhD at MIT, he developed the Fastest Fourier Transform in the West (FFTW) library[3] with funding from the DoD NDSEG Fellowship.[7] Steven Johnson and his colleague Matteo Frigo were awarded the 1999 J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software for this work.[8][9]
He is the author of the NLOpt library for nonlinear optimization,[10] as well as being the co-author of the open-source electromagnetic softwares Meep[11] and MPB.[12] He is a frequent contributor to the Julia programming language, and he has also contributed to Python, R, and Matlab. He was a keynote speaker for the 2019 JuliaCon conference.[13]
Selected publications
- Articles
- Johnson, Steven G.; Fan, Shanhui; Villeneuve, Pierre R.; Joannopoulos, J. D.; Kolodziejski, L. A. (1999). "Guided modes in photonic crystal slabs". Physical Review B. 60 (8): 5751. Bibcode:1999PhRvB..60.5751J. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.60.5751.
- Johnson, Steven G.; Joannopoulos, J. D. (2001). "Block-iterative frequency-domain methods for Maxwell's equations in a planewave basis". Optics Express. 8 (3): 173–190. Bibcode:2001OExpr...8..173J. doi:10.1364/OE.8.000173.
- Luo, Chiyan; Johnson, Steven G.; Joannopoulos, J. D.; Pendry, J. B. (2002). "All-angle negative refraction without negative effective index". Physical Review B. 65 (20) 201104. Bibcode:2002PhRvB..65t1104L. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.65.201104.
- Frigo, M.; Johnson, S.G. (2005). "The design and implementation of FFTW3". Proceedings of the IEEE. 93 (2): 216–231. Bibcode:2005IEEEP..93..216F. doi:10.1109/JPROC.2004.840301.
- Oskooi, Ardavan F.; Roundy, David; Ibanescu, Mihai; Bermel, Peter; Joannopoulos, J.D.; Johnson, Steven G. (March 2010). "Meep: A flexible free-software package for electromagnetic simulations by the FDTD method". Computer Physics Communications. 181 (3): 687–702. Bibcode:2010CoPhC.181..687O. doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2009.11.008. hdl:1721.1/60946.
- Hsu, Chia Wei; Zhen, Bo; Lee, Jeongwon; Chua, Song-Liang; Johnson, Steven G.; Joannopoulos, John D.; Soljačić, Marin (2013). "Observation of trapped light within the radiation continuum". Nature. 499 (7457): 188–191. Bibcode:2013Natur.499..188H. doi:10.1038/nature12289. hdl:1721.1/110846. PMID 23846657.
- Books
- Johnson, Steven G.; Joannopoulos, John D. (2001). Photonic Crystals: The Road from Theory to Practice. Springer.
- Joannopoulos, John D.; Johnson, Steven G.; Winn, Joshua N.; Meade, Robert D. (2008). Photonic Crystals: Molding the Flow of Light (2 ed.). Princeton.