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Part V: Appendices




 Part V

 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 appointments, and student appointments. The following list reflects the status at the end of
FY 2005.

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

Division Staff
   Ronald Boisvert, Chief
   Robin Bickel, Secretary
   Jeffrey Fong, PT
   Roldan Pozo
   Chris Schanzle

Mathematical Modeling Group
   Geoffrey McFadden, Leader                            Donald Porter
   Bradley Alpert (Boulder)
   Timothy Burns                                        Mirit Aladjem, GR
   Alfred Carasso                                       Daniel Anderson, GR
   Andrew Dienstfrey (Boulder)                          Eric Baer, S
   Michael Donahue                                      Richard Braun, F
   Fern Hunt                                            Katharine Gurski, GR
   Raghu Kacker                                         Seung-Ill Haan, GR
   Anthony Kearsley                                     Sohyoung Kim, GR
   Peter Ketcham                                        Dianne O'Leary, F
   Stephen Langer                                       Florian Potra, F
   Agnes O'Gallagher (Boulder)                          Richard Yeh, GR

Mathematical Software Group
   Daniel Lozier, Leader                                Bruce Fabijonas, F
   Marjorie McClain                                     Leonard Maximon, GR
   Bruce Miller                                         Frank Olver, GR
   William Mitchell                                     G.W. Stewart, F
   Bert Rust                                            Abdou Youssef, F
   Bonita Saunders

Optimization and Computational Geometry Group
   Ronald Boisvert, Acting Leader                       Emanuel Knill (Boulder)
   Isabel Beichl
   Javier Bernal                                        Theodore Einstein, GR
   David Gilsinn                                        Saul Gass, F
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  Scott Glancy, PD                              Francis Sullivan, GR
  James Lawrence, F                             Christoph Witzgall, GR
  Sita Ramamurti, GR
  David Song, GR

Scientific Applications and Visualization Group
  Judith Terrill, Leader                        John Kelso
  Yolanda Parker, Office Manager                Adele Peskin (Boulder)
  Robert Bohn                                   Steven Satterfield
  William George                                James Sims
  Terence Griffin
  John Hagedorn                                 Julien Lancien, GR
  Howard Hung                                   Alexandre Thibau, S

Staff Leaving the Division During FY 2005
  Joyce Conlon

  David Cotrell, PD
  Ioan Sucan, GR
  Anocha Yimsiriwattana, GR

  Brian Cordes, S
  Justin Haaheim, S
  Jarrett Inn, S
  Javier Sanchez, S
  Gaurav Thakur, S
  Benjamin Zoeller, S
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Acronyms
ACM          Association for Computing Machinery
AIP          American Institute of Physics
AMS          American Mathematical Society
ANSI         American National Standards Institute
APS          American Physical Society
ASME         American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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
CFM          confocal fluorescence microscopy
CIO          Chief Information Officer
CSTL         NIST Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory
CWI          Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (Amsterdam)
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
FY           fiscal year
GAMS         Guide to Available Mathematical Software
GMR          giant magneto-resistance
IDA          Institute for Defense Analysis
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
MIM          Molecular interaction map
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
NOAA         National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
NSF          National Science Foundation
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OCM        optical coherence tomography
OOF        Object-Oriented Finite Elements (software package)
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
RAM        random access memory
RAVE       Reconfigurable Automatic Virtual Environment
SAVG       MCSD Scientific Applications and Visualization Group
SED        NIST/ITL Statistical Engineering Division
SEM        scanning electron microscope
SIAM       Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
SIGGRAPH   ACM Special Interest Group on Graphics
SPIE       The International Society for Optical Engineering
SSS        Screen Saver Science
SURF       Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship
SVD        singular value decomposition
TIN        triangulated irregular network
TNT        Template Numerical Toolkit
VCCTL      Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory