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Appendix B: Committee Biographical Information
Pages 67-76

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From page 67...
... Nuclear Regulatory Commission, system analyst for the White House Energy Office, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy, and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense.
From page 68...
... He has served on the Defense Science Board and is a consultant to the Los Alamos and Livermore National Laboratories and to the Institute for Defense Analyses. He serves as chairman of the Defense and Nuclear Technology Review Committee of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as well as chairman of the Predictive Science Panel reviewing strategic computing at Los Alamos and Livermore and is a member and for some years was vice chairman of JASON, advising the government on subjects such as ballistic missile defense, ultrasound technology, and the human genome project, among others.
From page 69...
... Lasota, Program on Black Hole Astrophysics of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, which had three conferences; National Security Panel, University of California President's Council on the National Laboratories; chair, External Review Panel for the Radiation Effects Sciences Program, Sandia National Laboratories; and mission committee, Los Alamos National Security, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
From page 70...
... Dr. Garwin has served on numerous scientific boards and advisory committees, including the President's Science Advisory Committee from 1962 to 1965; the 1998 "Rumsfeld Commission" to assess the ballistic missile threat to the United States; the NRC Committee on the Effects of Nuclear Earth Penetrating Weapons and other Weapons; and the NRC Committee on Conventional Prompt Global Strike Capability.
From page 71...
... and as deputy to the assistant secretary. Before that, she served as a member of the professional staff at the National Security Council, as a technical staff member at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory performing analyses of nuclear weapons and related security issues, and at Sandia National Laboratories utilizing applied mathematics and systems analyses for national security and nondefense issues.
From page 72...
... He also holds three patents. His research is supported by DOE's Office of Fusion Energy Science, by the National Nuclear Security Administration, and by Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque.
From page 73...
... Her ongoing areas of research focus on computational and graphical statistics applied to statistical databases, including complex data/model integration and related software and modeling techniques, and she is an expert in the area of data access. She has served on the Information Technology panel of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Board; the Committee on National Statistics' Panel on Research for Future Census Methods; the NRC Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications; the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics (chair, 2000-2003)
From page 74...
... He has been editor of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics of ASCE and of the Journal of Applied Mechanics, associate editor of Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, and is presently associate editor of the Journal for the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, the Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis and the Journal for Computational Mechanics. Since 2002, Professor Ortiz has served on the Office of the President Science and Technology Panel for the University of California.
From page 75...
... Dr. Rosner's many scientific community services include current positions on the External Advisory Committee for the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the steering committee of the Interagency Task Force on High Energy Density Physics, the scientific advisory committees for the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Lindau, Germany, and the Astrophysical Institute of Potsdam, Germany.
From page 76...
... After moving to Los Alamos in 1979, he served as the division leader of the Applied Theoretical Physics Division, as associate director for the Theoretical and Computational Physics Division, and as the first director of the Los Alamos Center for National Security Studies.


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