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KRIS STEWART – Director, Education Center on Computational Science & Engineering, and NPACI partnership activity for the CSU/SDSU

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
San Diego, California

Instructor - Dr. Stewart has done research on mathematical software for ordinary differential equations and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in numerical analysis, compiler construction and supercomputing at San Diego State University, where she joined the faculty in 1984.

SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER
San Diego, California

Senior Fellow - She has worked with the San Diego Supercomputer Center since 1986, first as a user, then as a Senior Fellow to develop curricula materials for the undergraduate supercomputing course at SDSU focusing on the Cray.

SUPERCOMPUTER TEACHER ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM
San Diego, California

Senior Fellow - In January 1992, she began working through UCSD Extension on an NSF funded program (STEP = Supercomputer Teacher Enhancement Program) to introduce computational science and high performance computing and communications (HPCC) to high school teachers in the San Diego county area.

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
San Diego, California

Director, Education Center for Computational Science & Engineering - on behalf of the California State University, housed at San Diego State University. This is part of the funding by the NSF for two partnerships for advanced computing infrastructure, the rebirth of the NSF Supercomputer Centers Program. The National Partnership for Advanced Computing Infrastructure (NPACI) is centered in San Diego and includes partner institutions from academia, research institutions and private commercial concerns. The National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA) is center in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois and comprises another broad ranging national partnership. Educators from both funded groups have been working together to fashion a national plan to facilitate the transfer of technology from the high performance sites among the partnerships to enfuse the curriculum, especially at the undergraduate level. The focus on undergraduate curriculum is the primary focus of Stewart's EC/CSE.

EDUCATION:

Masters, Computer Science, San Diego State University,
Consultant, Los Alamos National Laboratory
PhD, under Dr. Larry Shampine, UNM & Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas

SELECTED RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

June 1996, Dr. Stewart traveled to Washington, D.C. to receive the medal of recognition from the Smithsonian Institution for the STEP program, now a part of the permanent research collection of the Smithsonian’s American History Museum.

Questions? Send e-mail to cal@ucar.edu
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LAST UPDATED: 03/30/2000