Luis A. Melara

NRC Postdoctoral Fellow



Affiliation:

United States Department of Commerce
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Information Technology Laboratory
Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division



Education:

B.S., UCLA, 1996.
M.A., Rice University, 2001.
Ph.D., Rice University, 2003.




My postdoctoral advisor is Dr. A.J. Kearsley




Publications:



A.J. Kearsley, L.A. Melara,
Regularization of Energy Functional for Simulating Behavior of Twinned-Martensitic Microstructures.
In progress 2003.

A.J. Kearsley, L.A. Melara,
Simulating Twinned-Martensite Using Symmetric Cells and Constrained Optimization.
Manuscript 2003.

A.J. Kearsley, L.A. Melara, R.A. Tapia,
Numerical Experiments with Total Variation Denoising Problems,
Submitted 2003, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications.

A.J. Kearsley, L.A. Melara,
Simulation of an Austenite-Twinned-Martensite Interface,
J. of Res. Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol., 108,413-427 (2003).

P. Kloucek, L. A. Melara,
Computational Modelling Of Internal Domain Walls in Crystals},
Journal of Computational Physics, 183, 623-651, 2002.

P. Kloucek, L. A. Melara,
The Computational Modelling Of Micromagnetic Fine Structures in Uniaxial Ferromagnets Using Nonconforming Domain Decomposition Method,
Proceedings of ENUMATH 2001, the 4th European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, Ischia, July 2001. Springer-Verlag Italia, 2003.




Presentations:


Invited.
A Nonlinear Programming Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Scaling Problem .
The 2004 Meeting of the International Federation of Classification Societies, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA. July 17, 2004.

Colloquim.
Simulation of an Austenite-Twinned-Martensite Interface, a PDE Optimization Problem. .
Computational Sciences and Mathematics Research, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, USA. June 7, 2004.

Minisymposium Speaker.
Simulation of Twinned-Martensite as a PDE Optimization Problem. .
Sixth Joint AMS-SMM International Meeting, Houston, TX, USA. May 15, 2004.

Colloquim.
Computational Modeling of an Austenite-twinned-Martensite Interface.
Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA. November 18, 2003.

Colloquim.
Computational Modeling of an Austenite-twinned-Martensite Interface.
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA. November 11, 2003.

Minisymposium Speaker and Co-organizer.
Computational Modeling of an Austenite-twinned-Martensite Interface.
ICIAM 2003, Fifth International Conference for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Sydney, Australia. July 8, 2003.

Colloquim.
Computational Modeling of an Austenite-twinned-Martensite Interface.
Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA. May 6, 2003.

Colloquim.
Computational Modeling of an Austenite-twinned-Martensite Interface.
Department of Mathematics, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA, May 2, 2003.

Poster Presentation.
Computational Modeling of an Austenite-twinned-Martensite Interface
The 10th Annual Sigma Xi Postdoctoral Poster Presentation., National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, March 27, 2003.


Mailing address:


National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drive - Stop 8910
Gaithersburg, MD 20878-8910

Telephone: +1-301-975-36-56
Facsimile: +1-301-990-41-27


Last updated: Thursday 19 June 2003 A.D. 10:16:23 EST
Created: Tuesday 18 March 2003 A.D. 16:37:21 EST