Three MCSD Staff Members Appointed to Editorial Boards
December 2000
Bradley K. Alpert, Isabel Beichl, and Geoffrey B. McFadden of ITL's
Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division (MCSD), were
recently appointed to editorial boards of leading journals.
Alpert, a computer scientist in the Boulder section of MCSD's
Mathematical Modeling Group, was named an Associate Editor of the
SIAM Journal on Scientific
Computing (SISC). Published by the
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), SISC contains
research articles on numerical methods and techniques for scientific
computation, focusing on computational issues relevant to the
solution of scientific or engineering problems. Alpert's research
areas include the development of algorithms for the solution of
integral equations and partial differential equations, such as fast
multipole methods, high-order quadrature techniques, special
functions of mathematical physics, wavelets, and
harmonic-analysis-based methods.
Beichl, a mathematician in MCSD's Optimization and Computational
Geometry Group, was named an Associate Editor of
Computing in Science &
Engineering (CiSE). Published by the
IEEE Computer Society and the American Institute of Physics, CiSE contains
articles on efficient algorithms, system software, and computer
architecture to address large computational problems in the sciences
and engineering presented in a magazine format.
Along with Francis Sullivan of the IDA Center for Computing Sciences,
Beichl has been a regular contributor to the CiSE column Computing
Prescriptions providing expository articles on non-numerical
algorithms in scientific computing. Beichl's research is in the
application of Monte Carlo techniques to combinatorially difficult
problems, such as computation of matrix permanents, dimer constants,
and the partition function for monomer-dimer systems.
McFadden, Leader of the MCSD Mathematical Modeling Group, was named
Associate Editor of the Journal
of Crystal Growth (JCG). Published by Elsevier Science, JCG offers
a common reference and publication
source for workers engaged in research on the experimental and
theoretical aspects of crystal growth and its applications.
Experimental and theoretical contributions are published in such
areas as the theory of nucleation and growth, transport phenomena,
and crystal growth of metals, semiconductors, superconductors,
magnetic materials, and biological substances. McFadden has published
more than 25 papers in this journal in collaboration with colleagues
in the NIST Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory. He will be
handling submissions dealing with mathematical aspects of the
theory of crystal growth.
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