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Part IV: Appendices




 Part IV

 Appendices
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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 and appointments. The following list reflects the status at the end of FY 2004.


Division Staff
  Ronald Boisvert, Chief , Ph.D. (Computer Science), Purdue University, 1979
  Robin Bickel, Secretary
  Joyce Conlon, B.A. (Mathematics), University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1979
  Jeffrey Fong, Ph. D. (Applied Mechanics and Mathematics), Stanford University, 1966
  Roldan Pozo, Ph.D. (Computer Science), University of Colorado at Boulder, 1991


Mathematical Modeling Group
  Geoffrey McFadden, Leader , Ph.D. (Mathematics), New York University, 1979
  Bradley Alpert (Boulder) , Ph.D. (Computer Science), Yale University, 1990
  Timothy Burns, Ph.D. (Mathematics), University of New Mexico, 1977
  Alfred Carasso, Ph.D. (Mathematics), University of Wisconsin, 1968
  Andrew Dienstfrey (Boulder), Ph.D. (Mathematics), New York University, 1998
  Michael Donahue, Ph.D. (Mathematics), The Ohio State University, 1991
  Fern Hunt, Ph.D. (Mathematics), New York University,
  Raghu Kacker, Ph.D. (Statistics), Iowa State University, 1979
  Anthony Kearsley, Ph.D. (Computational and Applied Mathematics), Rice University, 1996
  Peter Ketcham. M.S. (University of Minnesota), 1997
  Stephen Langer, Ph.D. (Physics), Cornell University, 1989
  Agnes O'Gallagher (Boulder), M.S. (Applied Math), University of Colorado at Boulder, 1991
  Donald Porter, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), Washington University, 1996

  Postdoctoral Fellows
    David Cotrell, Ph.D. (Mech. Engineering), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003

  Faculty Appointees
    Richard Braun (University of Delaware)
    Dianne O'Leary (University of Maryland College Park)
    Florian Potra (University of Maryland Baltimore County)

  Guest Researchers
    Daniel Anderson (George Mason University)
    Katharine Gurski (George Washington University)
    Seung-Ill Haan (University of Maryland Baltimore County)

  Students
     Eric Baer (Carnegie Mellon University)
     Christopher Copeland (Vanderbilt University)
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Mathematical Software Group
  Daniel Lozier, Leader, Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics), University of Maryland, 1979
  Marjorie McClain, M.S. (Mathematics), University of Maryland College Park, 1984
  Bruce Miller, Ph.D. (Physics), University of Texas at Austin, 1983
  William Mitchell, Ph.D. (Computer Science), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988
  Bert Rust, Ph.D. (Astronomy), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1974
  Bonita Saunders, PhD (Mathematics), Old Dominion University, 1985

  Faculty Appointees
    Bruce Fabijonas (Southern Methodist University)
    G.W. Stewart (University of Maryland College Park)
    Abdou Youssef (George Washington University)

  Guest Researchers
    Leonard Maximon (George Washington University)
    Frank Olver (University of Maryland College Park)

  Students
     Elaine Kim (Stanford University)


Optimization and Computational Geometry Group
  Ronald Boisvert, Acting Leader
  Isabel Beichl, Ph.D. (Mathematics), Cornell University, 1981
  Javier Bernal, Ph.D. (Mathematics), Catholic University, 1980
  David Gilsinn, Ph.D. (Mathematics), Georgetown University, 1969
  Emanuel Knill (Boulder), Ph.D., (Mathematics), University of Colorado at Boulder, 1991

  Postdoctoral Fellows
    Stephen Bullock, Ph.D. (Mathematics), Cornell University, 2000
    Scott Glancy (Boulder), Ph.D. (Physics), University of Notre Dame, 2004

  Faculty Appointees
    Saul Gass (University of Maryland College Park)
    James Lawrence (George Mason University)

  Guest Researchers
    David Song
    Francis Sullivan (IDA Center for Computing Sciences)
    Christoph Witzgall
    Anoka Yimsiriwattana (University of Maryland Baltimore County)


Scientific Applications and Visualization Group
  Judith Devaney, Leader, Ph.D. (Information Technology), George Mason University, 1998
  Yolanda Parker, Office Manager
  Robert Bohn, Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry), University of Virginia, 1991
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  William George, Ph.D. (Computer/Computational Science), Clemson University, 1995
  Terence Griffin, B.S. (Mathematics), St. Mary's College of Maryland, 1987
  John Hagedorn, M.S. (Mathematics), Rutgers University, 1980
  Howard Hung, Ph.D. (Operations Research), University of Massachusetts, 1973
  John Kelso, M.S. (Computer Science), George Washington University, 1984
  Adele Peskin (Boulder), Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering), University of Colorado at Boulder, 1985
  Steven Satterfield, M.S. (Computer Science), North Carolina State University, 1975
  James Sims, Ph.D. (Chemical Physics), Indiana University, 1969


Staff Leaving the Division During FY 2004
  Postdoctoral Fellows
    Luis Melara

  Guest Researchers
    Alan Goldman
    Bruce Murray
    Eduardo Martinez-Vecino

  Students
     Whitney Austin
     Shauntia Burley
     Angel Villalain-Garcia
     Michael Huber
     Brandon Smith
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Acronyms
ACM         Association for Computing Machinery
AMS         American Mathematical Society
ANSI        American National Standards Institute
API         application programming interface
APS         American Physical Society
ATP         NIST Advanced Technology Program
AWM         Association for Women in Mathematics
BFRL        NIST Building and Fire Research Laboratory
BLAS        Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms
CAD         computer-aided design
CARB        NIST Center for Advanced research in Biotechnology
CCCBDB      NIST Computational Chemistry Comparison and Benchmark Database
CCD         concurrence canonical decomposition
CCS         Center for Computing Sciences
CEM         computational electromagnetics
CG          conjugate gradient
CSTB        Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment
CSTL        NIST Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory
CTCMS       Center for Theory and Computation in Materials Science
CWI         Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (National Research Institute for
            Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands)
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
ECG         explicitly correlated Gaussian
EEEL        NIST Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory
EM          electromagnetic
EPA         Environmental Protection Agency
ESRF        European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
FY          fiscal year
GAMS        Guide to Available Mathematical Software
GMR         giant magneto-resistance
GMRES       generalized minimal residual
HECRTF      High End Computing Revitalization Task Force
Hy-Cl       Hylleraas-Configuration Interaction
IDA         Institute for Defense Analysis
IMPI        Interoperable MPI
IT          information technology
ITL         NIST Information Technology Laboratory
IFIP        International Federation for Information Processing
ISO         International Organization for Standardization
JAMA        Java Matrix package
JVM         Java virtual machine
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LADAR       Laser Distance and Ranging
LOQC        linear optics quantum computation
LP          linear programming
MatCASE     Materials Computation and Simulation Environment
MCSD        ITL Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division
MEL         NIST Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory
MKM         mathematical knowledge management
MPI         Message Passing Interface
MRAM        magnetic random access memory
MSEL        NIST Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
Mspec       mass spectrometry
NAG         Numerical Algorithms Group
NASA        National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NBS         National Bureau of Standards (former name of NIST)
NIH         National Institutes of Health
NIJ         National Institute of Justice
NIRT        NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team
NIST        National Institute of Standards and Technology
NOAA        National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
NRC         National Research Council
NSA         National Security Agency
NSF         National Science Foundation
ODE         ordinary differential equation
OLES        NIST Office of Law Enforcement Standards
OMB         Office of management and Budget
OOF         Object-Oriented Finite Elements (software package)
OOMMF       Object-Oriented Micromagnetic Modeling Framework (software package)
OSTP        Office of Science and Technology Policy
PDE         partial differential equation
PHAML       Parallel Hierarchical Adaptive Multi Level (software)
PL          NIST Physics Laboratory
QDPD        quarternion-based dissipative particle dynamics
QKD         quantum key distribution
QMR         quasi-minimal residual
quant/ph    quantum physics report archive at www.arXiv.org
RAVE        Reconfigurable Automatic Virtual Environment
SAVG        MCSD Scientific Applications and Visualization Group
SEM         scanning electron micrograph
SIAM        Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
SMS         smart machining system
SSS         Screen Saver Science
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
VRML        Virtual Reality Modeling Language
WTC         World Trade Center