Andrew Canning canning@nersc.gov

Education

1980-1984

B. Sc. in Physics and Astronomy (1st Class with Honours)

Glasgow University

1985-1988

Ph.D. in Computational Physics

"Ising Spin Models of Neural Networks"

Physics Dept. Edinburgh University.

Comments: Partly Funded by AMT Reading, England

(Manufacturers of the DAP parallel computer)

Employment

1988-1993

Maitre Assistant (Postdoc) in the Physics Dept

Geneva University, group of Prof. C. Enz

1993-1997

Material Science Group IRRMA, Lausanne, directed by Prof R. Car.

Paid by Cray Research Switzerland

Parallel Applications Technology Program (PATP).

Comments: Joint project between Cray and the Ecole Polytechnique

Federal de Lausanne to develop parallel technology (Programs

Algorithms etc.) on the Cray T3D.

1997-

NERSC, LBL, Scientific Computing Group.

Distinctions and Awards

1998

Invited Speaker at the American Physical Society Spring Meeting

1998

Winner of the Gordon Bell Prize in collaboration with co-workers

at Oak Ridge National Lab (see publication 25).

2000

Winner of Smithsonian Computerworld Award for the first real

world application to run at more than 1 Tflop.

Research Interests

Materials Science, Parallel Computing and Algorithms

Publication:

More than 30 publications in leading journals on computational

methods for physics as well as scientific applications.

References

Giulia Galli (email: galli@llnl.gov)

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

P.O. Box 808, L-415

Livermore, CA 94551

Tel: 925 423 4223

Fax: 925 422 6594

Malcolm Stocks (email: gms@gmsis.ms.ornl.gov)

Theory Group Metals and Ceramics Division

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

P.O. Box 2008-6114

Oak Ridge

TN 37831-6116

Tel: 423 574 5163 [an error occurred while processing this directive]