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Part IV

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Staff
MCSD consists of full time permanent staff located at NIST laboratories in Gaithersburg,
MD and Boulder, CO. This is supplemented with a variety of faculty appointments, guest
researchers, postdoctoral appointments, and student appointments. The following list reflects
the status at the end of FY 2002.

Legend: F = Faculty Appointee, GR = Guest Researcher, PD = Postdoctoral Appointee, S =
Student, PT= Part time

Division Staff
   Ronald Boisvert, Chief
   Robin Bickel, Secretary
   Peggy Liller, Secretary
   Joyce Conlon

   Brianna Blaser, S
   André Deprit, GR
   Jeffrey Fong, GR

Mathematical Modeling Group
   Geoffrey McFadden, Leader
   Bradley Alpert (Boulder)
   Timothy Burns
   Alfred Carasso
   Andrew Dienstfrey (Boulder)
   Michael Donahue
   Fern Hunt
   Raghu Kacker
   Anthony Kearsley
   Stephen Langer
   Agnes O'Gallagher (Boulder)
   Donald Porter

   Daniel Anderson, GR
   Eric Baer, S
   James Blue, GR
   Richard Braun, F
   Daniel Cardy, S
   John Gary, GR
   Katharine Gurski, PD
   Kelly McQuighan, S


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  Luis Melara, PD
  Bruce Murray, GR
  Dianne O'Leary, F

Mathematical Software Group
  Roldan Pozo, Leader
  Daniel Lozier
  Marjorie McClain
  Bruce Miller
  William Mitchell
  Bert Rust
  Bonita Saunders

  Bruce Fabijonas, F
  Elaine Kim, S
  Leonard Maximon, GR
  Frank Olver, GR
  G.W. Stewart, F
  Abdou Youseff, F

Optimization and Computational Geometry Group
  Ronald Boisvert, Acting Leader
  Isabel Beichl
  Javier Bernal
  David Gilsinn
  Christoph Witzgall

  Theodore Einstein, GR
  Saul Gass, F
  Alan Goldman, GR
  James Lawrence, F
  David Song, PD
  Francis Sullivan, GR

Scientific Applications and Visualization Group
  Judith Devaney, Leader
  Yolanda Parker, Office Manager
  Barbara am Ende
  Robert Bohn
  William George
  Terence Griffin
  John Hagedorn


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  Howard Hung
  Peter Ketcham
  Adele Peskin (Boulder)
  Steven Satterfield
  James Sims

Other Staff Associated with the Division for Part of the Year
  James Filla (Boulder)
  John Koontz (Boulder)

  Vital Pourprix, GR

  April Andreas, SURF Participant
  Stuart Fletcher, SURF Participant
  Jacob Scott, SURF Participant

  Harry W. Bullen, Volunteer
  Jessica S. Chang, Volunteer
  Alex V. Harn, Volunteer
  Sean P. Kelly, Volunteer




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Acronyms
ACM        Association for Computing Machinery
AMS        American Mathematical Society
AMS        Applied Mathematics Series (NIST Publications)
ANSI       American National Standards Institute
APS        American Physical Society
ATP        NIST Advanced Technology Program
BFRL       NIST Building and Fire Research Laboratory
BLAS       Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms
BLAST      Blast Technical Forum
CCS        IDA Center for Computing Sciences
CEM        computational electromagnetics
CIO        Chief Information Officer
CRT        Chinese Remainder Theorem
CSTB       Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment
CSTL       NIST Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory
CWI
DARPA      Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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           Extensible (visualization software)
DLMF       Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (MCSD project)
DOD        Department of Defense
DPD        dissipative particle dynamics
DSO        distributed shared objects
EEEL       NIST Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory
ESRF       European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
ETH        Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule
FY         fiscal year
GAMS       Guide to Available Mathematical Software
GMR        giant magneto-resistance
IDA        Institute for Defense Analysis
IT         information technology
ITL        NIST Information Technology Laboratory
IFIP       International Federation for Information Processing
IMA        Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (Univ. of Minnesota)
INA        NBS Institute for Numerical Analysis
JAMA       Java Matrix package
JGF        Java Grande Forum
LADAR      Laser Distance and Ranging
MCSD       ITL Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division
MEL        NIST Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory
MMD        MEL Manufacturing Metrology Division
MPI        Message Passing Interface
MRAM       magnetic random access memory


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MSEL    NIST Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
NAML    NBS National Applied Mathematics Laboratory
NBS     National Bureau of Standards (former name of NIST)
NIST    National Institute of Standards and Technology
NSF     National Science Foundation
OOF     Object-Oriented Finite Elements (software package)
OOMMF   Object-Oriented Micromagnetic Modeling Framework (software package)
ORAP    Organisation Associative du Parallelisme
PDE     partial differential equation
PHAML   Parallel Hierarchical Adaptive Multi Level (software)
PL      NIST Physics Laboratory
QDPD    quarternion-based dissipative particle dynamics
RAVE    Reconfigurable Automatic Virtual Environment
SAVG    MCSD Scientific Applications and Visualization Group
SEAC    NBS Standards Eastern Automatic Computer
SEM     scanning electron micrograph
SIAM    Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
SSS     Screen Saver Science
STEM    scanning transmission electron microscopy
SUNY    State University of New York
SURF    Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship
SVD     singular value decomposition
TIN     triangulated irregular network
TNT     Template Numerical Toolkit
TOMS    Transactions on Mathematical Software
VCCTL   Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory
VET     Virtual Electromagnetic Testrange
VRML    Virtual Reality Modeling Language
XANES   x-ray absorption near-edge structure
XAS     x-ray absorption spectroscopy




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