Viktor K. Decyk Theoretical Plasma Office: Knudsen 1-130C Phone: (310)206-0371 decyk@physics.ucla.edu Address UCLA Dept. of Physics phone: (310) 206-0371 405 Hilgard Avenue FAX: (310) 825-4057 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547 email: decyk@physics.ucla.edu Education UCLA Los Angeles, CA Physics 1970-77 M.S., Ph.D. Advisor: Prof. J. M. Dawson Thesis: "Computer Simulation Study of Waves in Bounded Plasma with Application to Lower Hybrid Heating" Amherst College Amherst, MA Physics 1966-1970 B.A. Professional Positions 1988- Research Physicst, UCLA 1983-88 Asso. Research Physicist, UCLA 1977-83 Asst. Research Physicist, UCLA Current Research Activities Computational plasma physics, particularly the use of particle simulation to model basic plasma processes and fusion plasmas. Algorithm development for particle simulations on parallel computers. High performance computing, especially software design, evaluation of languages, performance and optimization. Selected Awards and Honors (1984-95) 1995 Invited Foreign Researcher, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute 1993 Fellow, American Physical Society 1990,91,96 NASA Certificates of Recognition for development of technical innovation 1988-93 IBM Consulting Scholar 1984 USDOE Exchange Scientist, Kyoto, Nagoya, Japan Recent Publications: C. D. Norton, B. K. Szymanski, and V. K. Decyk, "Object Oriented Parallel Computation for Plasma PIC Simulation, "Communications of the ACM, vol. 38,no. 10, p. 88 (1995). 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, vol. 7, 418 (1993). J. M. Dawson, V. Decyk, R. Sydora, and P. 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). Personal Stuff This is GIF Format (photograph) This is JPEG Format (photograph). This is MPEG Format (movie) This is QuickTime Format (movie)

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