[CIG-SHORT] Suggested speaker: Mark S. Shephard

[Matthew Knepley]

I know Mark. He is very nice and a great scientist. His mesh framework
is cutting edge and he has the best integration with CAD. Charles can
walk over and ask him :)

   Matt

On Dec 21, 2007 8:28 AM, Carl W. Gable <gable at lanl.gov> wrote:
> Someone from outside the community that could provide insights from
> another field:
>
> Mark S. Shephard  Professor and (Samuel A. and Elisabeth C. Johnson, Jr.
> Professor of Engineering) and Director of the Scientific Computation
> Research Center
>
> Department Affiliations:
>
>      * Department of Mechanical, Aerospace & Nuclear Engineering»
>      * Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering»
>      * Computer Sceince
>
> Research Center Affiliations:
>
>      * Scientific Computation Research Center»
>      * Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI)»
>
> Professional Background:
>
> Shephard is a fellow past president the U.S. Association of
> Computational Mechanics, and is an active member of numerous
> organizations including the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
> SIAM, the Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, and the
> American Society for Engineering Education. He serves at the Editor of
> Engineering with Computers and is on the editorial board of five other
> technical journals.
>
> Research:
>
>      * Simulation
>      * Modeling
>
>   Mark S. Shephard's professional activities have focused on
> technologies to improve the reliability and level of automation of
> advanced numerical simulations to support their effective application by
> engineers and scientist. His research activities have lead to well
> recognized and applied contributions on the areas of automatic mesh
> generation of CAD geometry, automated and adaptive analysis methods, and
> parallel adaptive simulation technologies. This research has been
> supported by both government agencies (over 65 research grants from 13
> agencies) and industry (funding from 44 companies). Dr. Shephard has
> published over 250 papers.
>
> Awards:
>
>      * Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineering
>      * Fellow and Past President, U.S. Association for Computational
> Mechanics
>      * Fellow, International Association for Computational Mechanics
>      * Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
>
> Dr. Shephard is a fellow and past president of the US Association for
> Computational Mechanics, and was recipient of the 1997 USACM
> Computational and Applied Sciences Award; a fellow and member of the
> General Council of the International Association for Computational
> Mechanics; a fellow of ASME and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. He is
> editor of Engineering with Computers and on the editorial board of five
> computational mechanics journals.
> --
>
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> Dr. Carl W. Gable, Staff Scientist
> EES-6, MS T003
> Los Alamos National Laboratory
> Los Alamos NM 87545
>
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