Francis J. Alexander
CNLS Executive Committee Member
CCS-3
Statistical Physics
Office: TA-3, Bldg. 200, Rm 273A
Mail Stop: B-256
Phone: (505) 665-4518
Fax: (505) 667-1126
fja@lanl.gov
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Educational Background/Employment:
- B.S. Physics and Mathematics 1987, The Ohio State University
- Ph.D. Physics, Rutgers University, 1991
- Postdoctoral Research:
- CNLS at LANL 1991-1993
- ISCR at LLNL 1993 -1995
- Employment:
- Technical Staff Member since 1998 in CCS-3 (formerly CIC-19 and CIC-3)
- Deputy Group Leader for the Modeling, Algoritms and Informatics Group, Dec 2002-Present
Research Interests:
- Statistical Physics
- Computational Physics
- Statistical Learning Theory
Selected Recent Publications:
- F.J. Alexander, A.L. Garcia, and D.M. Tartakovsky,
Noise in Algorithm Refinement Methods,
Computing in Science and Engineering (to appear).
- D.F. Martin, P. Colella, M. Anghel, and F.J. Alexander
Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Multiscale Nonequilibrium Physics,
Computing in Science and Engineering (to appear).
- F.J. Alexander, G.L. Eyink, and J.M. Restrepo
Accelerated Monte-Carlo for Optimal Estimation of Time Series,
Journal of Statistical Physics (to appear).
- F.J. Alexander, B.M. Boghosian, R.C. Brower and S.R. Kimura
Fourier acceleration of Langevin molecular dynamics,
Phys. Rev. E 64, 066704 (2001).
- F.J. Alexander and G.L. Eyink,
Shape Dependent Thermodynamics and Non-Local Hydrodynamics in a Non-Gibbsian
Steady-State of a Drift-Diffusion System,
Phys. Rev. E 57, R6229 (1998).
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