Part IV: Appendices Part IV Appendices 100 Math &…

Part IV: Appendices




 Part IV

 Appendices
100   Math & Computational Sciences Division
Yearly Report                                                                      _____101



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 2003.

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

Division Staff
   Ronald Boisvert, Chief
   Robin Bickel, Secretary
   Joyce Conlon
   Jeffrey Fong
   Roldan Pozo


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
   Richard Braun, F
   Stephen Bullock, PD
   Christopher Copeland, S
   David Cotrell, PD
   Katharine Gurski, GR
   Seung-Ill Haan, GR
   Luis Melara, PD
   Bruce Murray, GR
   Dianne O'Leary, F
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Mathematical Software Group
  Daniel Lozier, Leader
  Marjorie McClain
  Bruce Miller
  William Mitchell
  Bert Rust
  Bonita Saunders

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

Optimization and Computational Geometry Group
  Ronald Boisvert, Acting Leader
  Isabel Beichl
  Javier Bernal
  David Gilsinn
  Emanuel Knill (Boulder)
  Christoph Witzgall

  Stephen Bullock, PD
  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
  Robert Bohn
  William George
  Terence Griffin
  John Hagedorn
  Howard Hung
  John Kelso
  Peter Ketcham
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  Adele Peskin (Boulder)
  Steven Satterfield
  James Sims

Other Staff Leaving the Division During FY 2003
  Peggy Liller, Secretary
  Barbara am Ende

  Shirin S. Mehbraban, SURF Participant
  Sheehan Olver, SURF Participant
  Samuel S. Small, SURF Participant

  Christian Brown, Volunteer
  Harry W. Bullen, Volunteer
  Joshua T. Chang, Volunteer
  Sean P. Kelly, Volunteer
  Eric Ma, Volunteer
  Robert Xiao, Volunteer

  James Blue, GR
  John Gary, GR
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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
CARB       NIST Center for Advanced research in Biotechnology
CCS        IDA Center for Computing Sciences
CEM        computational electromagnetics
CIO        Chief Information Officer
CSTB       Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment
CSTL       NIST Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory
CWI
DARPA      Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DIVERSE    Device Independent Virtual Environments Reconfigurable, Scalable,
                                                    




           Extensible (visualization software)
DLMF       Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (MCSD project)
DOD        Department of Defense
DOE        Department of Energy
DPD        dissipative particle dynamics
DSO        distributed shared object
EEEL       NIST Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory
ESRF       European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
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)
JAMA       Java Matrix package
LADAR      Laser Distance and Ranging
MCSD       ITL Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division
MEL        NIST Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory
MPI        Message Passing Interface
MRAM       magnetic random access memory
MSEL       NIST Materials Science and Engineering 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)
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OOMMF           Object-Oriented Micromagnetic Modeling Framework (software package)
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
SEM             scanning electron micrograph
SIAM            Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
SSS             Screen Saver Science
STEM            scanning transmission electron microscopy
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