Additional Activities

Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics

Associate Director (2003-2006) of NSF-established national research institute in the mathematical sciences. Scientific oversight of semester-long programs, conferences, workshops and summer schools from their conception to their implementation.

Major programs included:

Proteomics: Sequence, Structure, Function, Spring 2004.
Grand Challenge Problems in Computational Astrophysics, Spring 2005.
Graduate Summer School: Intelligent Extraction of Information from Graphs and High Dimensional Data, Summer 2005.
Bridging Time and Length Scales in Materials Science and Bio-Physics, Fall 2005.
Securing Cyberspace: Applications and Foundations of Cryptography and Computer Security, Fall 2006.

Each of these brought together several hundred researchers, helping launch new collaborations and enhance the impact of emerging mathematical techniques across the scientific community.

Further responsibilities: contributing to secure first NSF renewal grant (2005-2010), serving as ex-officio member of governing and advisory boards, helping set institute's scientific directions, growing the summer undergraduate RIPS program and providing liaison with NSF, DOE and other sponsoring agencies.

Funding

Co-PI, DOE Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project DR 2006117: Physics of Algorithms (total budget: $4.9M)
October 2006 - September 2009
Senior Personnel, NSF award Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics renewal (total budget: $17M)
July 2005 - June 2010
PI, DOE Weapons Supported Research (WSR) Computer Science Research Foundation project New Approaches to Fault Tolerance (total budget: $232K)
October 2005 - September 2006
Co-PI, NSF ACT award AST-0442015: Intelligent Extraction of Information from Graphs and High-Dimensional Data (total budget: $200K)
July 2005
Co-PI, DOE Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project DR 20040141: Statistical Physics of Infrastructure Networks (total budget: $4.5M)
October 2003 - September 2006
PI, DOE Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project ER 20030137: Improving Local Search (total budget: $840K)
October 2002 - September 2005
Co-PI, DOE Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project ER 2000018: Extremal Optimization (total budget: $320K)
October 1999 - September 2002
Co-PI, DOE Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project ER 2000020: Combinatorial Optimization in Biology (total budget: $320K)
October 1999 - September 2002
NOTE: The Los Alamos LDRD program is the primary means of supporting basic research at LANL, which as a DOE laboratory is not eligible for NSF funding. Projects are selected by a peer-reviewed competition with a success rate of 10-20%.

Conference Organizing Committees

Algorithms, Inference, and Statistical Physics workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 2007
Phase Transitions in Computer Science symposium, Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Seattle, February 2004
Phase Transitions and Algorithmic Complexity workshop, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, June 2002
Computational Complexity and Statistical Physics workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 2001
Frontiers in Combinatorics workshop, Los Alamos, New Mexico, July-August 1998

Last modified: 17 Jan 2008