Vincent Larson

  • Professor, Mathematical Sciences
  • Data Science Internship Coordinator, Mathematical Sciences

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, CIRA, Colorado State University, 1999-2000
  • PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, February 1999.
  • BA, Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 1992.

Research Interests

  • Simulation of clouds and microphysics
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Monte Carlo simulation
  • Parameter estimation

Selected Service and Projects

  • Lead Principal Investigator of a Climate Process Team grant from National Science Foundation, with 6 institutions and more than 10 personnel, 2010--2015.
  • Visiting Fellowship at the Developmental Testbed Center at NCAR in Boulder, CO, 2010--2011.
  • Over 40 articles published in the peer-reviewed literature, most of them on simulations and observations of clouds and precipitation, with a focus on boundary-layer and mid-level clouds.

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