Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Doug Kothe is Director of Science for the National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He is responsible for guiding the multidisciplinary research teams using the Center’s leadership computing systems. Dr. Kothe has more than 20 years of experience in computational science research. His research interests and expertise have centered on developing physical models and numerical algorithms for simulating physical processes in the presence of incompressible and compressible fluid flow. Before joining NCCS, he was deputy program director for Theoretical and Computational Programs in the Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He joined the technical staff at LANL in 1988 as a member of the Fluid Dynamics Group. Dr. Kothe received his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri ndash; Columbia and his master’s and doctoral degrees in nuclear engineering from Purdue University. He is author of more than 60 refereed publications and has written more than a half-million lines of source code.
Robert J. Harrison holds a joint appointment with ORNL and the chemistry department of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. At Oak Ridge, he is leader of the Computational Chemical Sciences Group in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division. He has more than 75 publications in peer-reviewed journals in the areas of theoretical and computational chemistry and high-performance computing. He earned a bachelor’s degree in natural science from Cambridge University, England, in 1981, and continued on there to earn a doctoral degree in organic and theoretical chemistry in 1984. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida, and the Daresbury Laboratory, England, before joining the staff of the theoretical chemistry group at Argonne National Laboratory in 1988. In 1992, he moved to the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, conducting research in theoretical chemistry and leading the development of NWChem, a computational chemistry code for massively parallel computers. He started the joint faculty appointment with UT/ORNL in August 2002. In addition to his research into efficient and accurate calculations on large systems, he has pursued applications in molecular electronics and chemistry at the nanoscale. In 1999, the NWChem team received an R&D Magazine R&D100 award, and Dr. Harrison received the IEEE Computer Society Sydney Fernbach award in 2002.
Contact:
Doug Kothe
kothe@ornl.gov
Robert Harrison
harrisonrj@ornl.gov
Trey White
trey@ornl.gov
Richard Mills
rmills@ornl.gov
Practicum Coordinator:
Jeff Nichols
nicholsja@ornl.gov
