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December 18, 2002 GILFEATHER NAMED INTERIM ASSOCIATE VICE PROVOST FOR RESEARCH, INGBER AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTER Frank L. Gilfeather has been named interim associate vice provost for Research at the University of New Mexico, said Terry Yates, vice provost for Research. Gilfeather served as executive director of the High Performance Computing Education and Research Center (HPCERC) at UNM for the past 10 years. Yates also announced that Marc Ingber, professor and chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at UNM, has been named executive director of the HPCERC effective Jan.1, 2003. “Frank founded HPCERC and the Maui High Performance Center and in doing so made UNM a national player in high performance computing,” said Yates, vice provost for Research. “We look forward to his help and vision in the office of Vice Provost for Research.” Gilfeather serves as professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UNM. He has served as special assistant to the dean of Arts and Sciences and as department chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He was the first staff director for the Board on Mathematical Sciences at the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences during the period from 1985-87. From 1983-85 he served as program director for the Division of Mathematical Sciences, National Science Foundation (NSF). At NSF he directed the Modern Analysis Program. In these capacities he interacted with and initiated programs with most federal research funding agencies. His positions, in addition to the HPCERC, NSF, and NRC, include Indiana University, University of Hawaii, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, and UNM. Gilfeather has been a visiting senior scholar at Leeds University in the United Kingdom, a member of numerous professional societies and organizations, and has served on numerous national and international program and professional committees. “HPCERC has established a strong foundation at UNM in computational science and engineering,” Ingber said. “I look forward to working with faculty from across campus to build on this foundation to develop national recognized academic programs.” Ingber was recently elected as a Fellow in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). This is the highest honor given by the governing body of ASME, which consists of more than 130,000 members. Only two percent of its members are elected as fellows. Ingber received his Ph.D. in applied mechanics from the University of Michigan. He was the director of the Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center from 1997 to 1999 and has an international reputation in high-end computing. He earned the 1994 Gordon Bell Prize for high performance computing. His research interests are concentrated in computational fluid mechanics where he has performed studies on multiphase flows, flow fields about three-dimensional cavitating bodies, selective withdrawal from stratified reservoirs, acoustic shape optimization and vorticity methods for the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations. He is the author of more than 90 technical publications, sits on the editorial board of two international journals in numerical methods and has been a member of more than 15 scientific advisory boards for international conferences. “Dr. Ingber has an extensive record in the areas of educational leadership, research and development, technical publications and providing services to various firms and governmental agencies,” said School of Engineering Dean Joe Cecchi. “I am confident that Marc will excel in his new position.” HPCERC is a strategic University Center whose role is to focus and undertake High Performance Computing (HPC) initiatives for UNM. The Center has so far played a significant role in the University and community by introducing the high-end and collaborative computing that is reshaping many aspects of University activities. The Center engages in research and development, service, and educational collaborations and activities with departments in virtually every UNM school and college, as well as with community and external organizations. HPCERC receives funding from the National Computational Science Alliance, a National Science Foundation advanced computing consortium. ###

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