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| Advanced Scientific Computing Research |
| ASCR Welcomes Two New Program Managers |
| Karen Pao and Lucy Nowell have recently joined the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) contingent of Program Managers. |
| Karen Pao (figure 3) is Program Manager for ASCR's applied math base programs. Karen says, "This is sort of a homecoming for me, as my training is in numerical analysis, and I did research in computational fluid dynamics before the twisted ways of fate brought me to DOE/NNSA HQ." Her biggest surprise at ASCR is the partition of "Base" and "SciDAC". She adds, "To me the boundary is never well-defined, can never be well-defined, and shouldn't be well-defined." |
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Karen Pao. |
Figure 4. Lucy Nowell. |
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| Karen Pao worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for nearly 20 years. Karen's career at LANL has been a series of brushes with greatness, including an early-career exposure to high-performance computing and benchmarking, experimentation with C++ array class libraries, designing numerical schemes for slightly compressible flows, and, most recently, performing simulations and analyses of underground nuclear test output in the Hallowed Halls of the famous Top-Secret X-Division. She was on assignment with the fabled Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Program at the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration Headquarters (DOE/NNSA HQ), where her primary assignment was to devise the ASC National Verification & Validation Strategy, when she decided to stay in Washington, DC for good. Karen received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from UCLA in 1993. |
| Lucy Nowell (figure 4) will focus on ASCR's Data and Visualization programs. She comes to ASCR after an IPA assignment from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to the National Science Foundation (NSF), where she was program director of the Office of Cyber-Infrastructure, in charge of the portfolio on data, data analysis, and visualization. Although the work is similar, she sees a big difference between the two agencies: "DOE is a mission agency, while NSF is very proudly not mission-driven, and supports a great deal of curiosity-driven research. NSF feels very much like an academic community and people there sometimes forget they are part of a federal agency, which is clearly not the case here." |
Before going to NSF, Lucy was a Program Manager with the Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA), where she managed the programs on Novel Intelligence from Massive Data (NIMD), Geospatial Intelligence Information Visualization (GI2Vis), and Advanced Research in Interactive Visualization for Analysis (ARIVA). At PNNL, Lucy worked with the team that designed and developed the award-winning OmniViz bioinformatics software and contributed to patented user interface designs for ThemeRiverTM and AniViz (animated visualization).
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in association with Argonne National Laboratory, for the US
