EXTERNAL RECOGNITION

1. Dan Anderson's work on the freezing of water droplets in collaboration with S.H. Davis (Northwestern University) and M.G. Worster (Univeristy of Cambridge) was featured in the Fall 1996 issue of McCormickDimension, a quarterly publication of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University.

2. Isabel Beichl participated on advisory panel for Army in Durham, NC to evaluate a Geometry Center that they are supporting.

3. Paul Boggs has been appointed to the Advisory Board for the newly-formed High Performance Computing Users (HPCU) Group. He will also serve as a member of the Editorial Board for its web-based, peer-reviewed journal, The Journal of HPC Users. The HPCU is a national organization whose purpose is to "promote the exchange of information among users of high performance computing and communications products (hardware/software) and between the users and manufacturers of these products.'' High performance computing is an important thrust for ITL and is viewed as crucial for the future of the scientific programs at NIST. The HPCU group seeks to participate proactively in the development of scalable parallel processing as a technology. It is managed by the users themselves and is vendor independent, but serves as a liaison to vendors, such as Silicon Graphics/Cray and Intel. The Advisory Board draws its members from the Federal Laboratories, academia, funding agencies, and vendors; it makes recommendations on activities for the Group.

4. Paul Boggs served on the Review Board for the Center for Computing Sciences in Bowie, MD and on the Review Panel for the US Army Research Office in Research Triangle Park, NC. He also continues to serve on the Editorial Boards of the SIAM News and Applied Mathematics Letters.

5. Eleazer Bromberg served on the Review Board for the Center for Computing Sciences in Bowie, MD.

6. Ronald Boisvert serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on Mathematical Software published by the Association for Computing (ACM). He also serves as a member of the ACM Publications Board and IFIP Working Group 2.5 (Numerical Software)

7. Tim Burns served on the NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences Materials and Mechanics Panel, January 16-18, 1997, Arlington, VA.

8. Tony Kearsley, Dan Lozier, and Bonita Saunders were videotaped for a career video and CD-ROM produced by American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Under a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the three mathematical societies are producing guidance material for students interested in careers in the mathematical sciences.

9. Daniel Lozier serves as an Associate Editor of Mathematics of Computation published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS).

10. G. McFadden serves on the editorial boards for the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics and the Journal of Computational Physics.

11. William Mitchell's work on adaptive multilevel methods was recognized by several external organizations. He was invited to participate in an adaptive methods workshops at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach in Germany and at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications at the University of Minnesota. He was also invited to spend two weeks at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia as a visiting scientist.

12. D. Porter joined the steering committee of the Micromagnetic Modeling Activity Group (muMAG), sponsored by the NIST Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science (CTCMS).

13. Roldan Pozo received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in ceremonies at the White House on December 16, 1996. This is the highest honor bestowed by the US government for outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent research careers.

14. Karin Remington was elected to the Board of Directors of the ACM Special Interest Group on Numerical Mathematics (SIGNUM). She also serves as Information Director for the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software.