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Research Physicist and Adjunct Professor University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Physics and Astronomy Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547 |
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High Performance Computing: The purpose of this research is to develop strategies, algorithms, and techniques to enable effective use of high performance computers for the solution of large scale scientific problems. |
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Object-Oriented Programming in Fortran 90 |
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Fortran 95 Lectures |
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UPIC: UCLA Parallel PIC Framework |
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Modernization of Fortran Legacy Code |
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Optimization techniques for RISC processors |
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Parallel Particle-in-Cell Codes |
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A Parallel Macintosh Cluster |
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Parallel Computing Tutorial |
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Development and refinement of computer simulation models using particles, and diagnostic techniques for performing numerical experiments. |
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Fundamental properties of plasmas, especially wave emission and transport. |
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RF heating and current drive in plasmas. |
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Waves in bounded plasmas |
| Educational Background |
| Diploma, Northfield
Mount Hermon School (Mass.), 1966
B. A. in Physics (cum laude), Amherst College (Mass.), 1970 M. S. in Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1972 Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977 |
| Professional Societies |
| Fellow, American Physical Society (Plasma Physics Division,
Division of Computational Physics)
Member, IEEE Computer Society Member, Association for Computing Machinery Fellow, Shevchenko Scientific Society (Mathematical-Physical-Technical Section) |
| Other Professional Activities |
| Senior Member of Technical Staff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
High
Performance Computing Group.
Organizer, 16th International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Plasma, Santa Barabara, California, 1998 |
| Selected Awards and Honors |
Concurrent Algorithm for Particle-in-Cell Simulations, 1990 A 2D Electrostatic PIC code for the Mark III Hypercube, 1991 Optimization of Particle-in-Cell codes on RISC Processors, 1996 Expressing Object-Oriented Concepts in Fortran 90, 1997 |
| 1993 APS Fellowship Citation: "For his pioneering work in the area of plasma simulations including applications of parallel computers to plasma modeling and the use of computers in the teaching of plasma physics." |
| Selected Publications |
| V. K. Decyk and D. E. Dauger, "Supercomputing for the
Masses: A Parallel Macintosh Cluster," Proc. 4th Intl. Conf. on Parallel
Processing and Applied Mathematics, Naleczow, Poland, September, 2001,
Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2328, ed. by R. Wryrzykowski,
J. Dongerra, M. Paprzycki, and J. Wasniewski [Springer-Verlag, Berlin,
2002], p. 10.
V. K. Decyk, C. D. Norton, and B. K. Szymanski, "How to support inheritance and run-time polymorphism in Fortran 90", Computer Physics Communications 115, 9, 1998. V. K. Decyk, C. D. Norton, and B. K. Szymanski, "How to Express C++ Concepts in Fortran 90," Scientific Programming, , vol. 6, no. 4, IOS Press, Winter 1997, p. 363. V. K. Decyk, S. R. Karmesin A. de Boer, and P. C. Liewer, "Optimization of Particle-in-Cell Codes on RISC Processors", Computers in Physics 10, 290, 1996 V .K. Decyk, "Skeleton PIC Codes for parallel computers", Computer Physics Communications 87, 87, 1995 V. K. Decyk, "How to Write (Nearly) Portable Fortran Programs for Parallel Computers", Computers in Physics, 7, 418 (1993) J. M. Dawson, V. K. Decyk, R. D. Sydora, and P. C. Liewer, "High Performance Computing and Plasma Physics", Physics Today, vol. 46, no. 3, p. 64 (1993) P. C. Liewer and V. K. Decyk, "A General Concurrent Algorithm for Plasma Particle-in-Cell Codes", J. Computational Phys. 85, 302 (1989) V.K Decyk, "Simulation of Microscopic Processes in Plasma", Proc. 1987 International Conference on Plasma Physics, Kiev, USSR, April, 1987, ed. A. G. Sitenko [World Scientific, Singapore, 1987], vol II, p. 1075 V.K. Decyk, "Particle Simulation of RF Heating and Current Drive," Computer Physics Reports, 4, 245 (1986). V. K. Decyk, "Computer Simulation Study of Waves in Bounded
Plasma with Application to Lower Hybrid Heating," Ph. D. Thesis, UCLA,
1977, John M. Dawson, Advisor
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