Michael S. Warren, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

 

Michael S. Warren is a staff member in the Theoretical Astrophysics Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. (1994) in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a B.S. in physics and B.S. in engineering and applied science from the California Institute of Technology (1988). His research in computational astrophysics extends from modeling the behavior of supernova explosions to understanding the structure and evolution of the universe. Warren has been a frequent user of many of the fastest parallel machines in the world for the past 15 years. He is a four-time winner of the Gordon Bell prize for significant achievement in parallel processing (1998, 1997 [two], and 1992), and the co-winner of the Intel Grand Challenge Computing Award (1992).