Education:

• Ph.D., Physics, Stanford University, advisor W.A. Little,Thesis title: I. Matrix Products with Applications to Classical Statistical Mechanics; II. Reflectivity of One-Dimensional Solids, 1978.
• B.Sc., Physics, North Dakota State University, 1973.

Experience:

• Professor and Head, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Mississippi State University, 2001-present.
• Director, Center for Computational Sciences, Mississippi State University, 2002-2005.
• Scholar/Scientist, CSIT (School of Computational Science and Information Technology), Florida State University, 2000-2001.
• Associate Professor and Program Director, SCRI (Supercomputer Computations Research Institute), Florida State University, 1995-2000.
• Scholar/Scientist, SCRI, Florida State University, 1991-2000.
• Associate Scholar/Scientist, SCRI, Florida State University, 1988-1991.
• Senior Scientist, IBM Bergen Scientific Centre, Bergen, Norway, 1986-1988.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Northeastern University, 1981-1986.
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia, 1979-1981.
• Lecturer/Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia, 1978-1979.
• Research Assistant, Department of Physics, Stanford University, 1974-1978.

Recent Honors:

• 2012 elected Fellow of AAAS
• 2012 awarded Program for Short-Term Visits to Russia by Foreign Scientists by The Dynasty Foundation.
• 2011 awarded Outstanding Referee by The American Physical Society.
• 2006 awarded the "Faculty Research Award" for the College of Arts & Sciences, Mississippi State University.
• 2000 elected Fellow of The American Physical Society.
• 2000, listed in the Centennial edition of Marquis "Who's Who in the World 2000" (17th edition).
  
• 2000, Undergraduate student and co-author, Christina White, awarded a two-year Goldwater Fellowship.
• 1998, Undergraduate student and co-author, Dean Townsley, awarded a NSF Graduate Fellowship.
• 1997, Undergraduate student, Dean Townsley, whom I have mentored in research for 3 years, was awarded the distinction of being the "best FSU male undergrad of 1997"
• 1995, "Distinguished Foreign Researcher Study Grant"
  Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan.
  Award covered travel and expenses for an extended visit.
• 1995, Graduate student, Howard Richards, for whom I was the co-major professor (with Prof. Rikvold), was awarded the 1995 Fisher award from Sigma Xi for the best student research paper at FSU.

Professional Service:

• 2012-2013, Member of the International Advisory Board for CCP 2013, XXV IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics.
• 2011-2012, Member of the program committee for The American Physical Society March Meeting.
• 2008-2011, Panel reviewer at The National Science Foundation on eXtreme Digital (XD), tasks CMS/AUSS/TEOS, the winning proposal, Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (Xsede), provides computational resources for US investigators.
• 2009, panel reviewer at The National Science Foundation on the eXtreme Digital (XD) TAIS task.
• 2007-2011, Metropolis Prize Committee (graduate dissertation award) Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP) of The American Physical Society; Chair of committee in 2010.
• 2006, member of the steering committee for The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research (DMR) on cyberscience and cyberinfrastructure.
• 2004-2006, Chair and member of Southeastern Section of the The American Physical Society (SESAPS), committee for the Jessie W. Beams Award for research.
• 2005-2006, ran for Vice-Chair of the Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP) of the The American Physical Society.
• 2004, lead author on report entitled Materials Research Cyberscience enabled by Cyberinfrastructure for the Division of Materials Research of the National Science Foundation. Located on NSF web site at http://www.nsf.gov/mps/dmr/csci.pdf.
• 2002-2005, elected and served as Member-at-Large of the Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP) of the of the The American Physical Society.
• 1999, co-organizer of workshop Monte Carlo and Structure Optimization Methods for Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, March 28-30, 1999, partially supported by the National Science Foundation.
• 1998, member of Scientific Committee of VECPAR 98, 3rd International Meeting on Vector and Parallel Processing, Porto, Portugal.
• 1986, member of the local organizing committee of STATPHYS 16.