PhD in Condensed Matter Physics and Masters in Optics from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2002 and 1994 respectively. Masters and Bachelors in Physics from the University of Buffalo. Last 20+ years in aerospace and education. Maybe the only person in the US to work on planes, ships and rotor-craft electromagnetics. Wanna be academic who enjoys lecturing but would rather teach problem sessions and labs rather than lecture.
INTRODUCTION As a long-time computer programmer and almost as long a High-Performance Computer (HPC) user, I didn’t know anything about how these machines worked under the hood. I still really don’t, so a few years ago when I was working at one of the US National Labs, I decided that a fun project to learn…