From left, Chris Siefert (Sandia National Laboratories), Michael Parks (Sandia National Laboratories), Michael Wolf (University of Illinois), and Eric Cyr (University of Illinois) at dinner at the El Pinto New Mexican restaurant in Albuquerque, July 2008.

From left, Mike Parks (Sandia National Laboratories), Burak Aksoylu (Louisiana State University), and Irina Craciun (Louisiana State University) at dinner at the Elephant Bar restaurant in Albuquerque, February 2008.

Dinner at an Italian restaurant during ICIAM07. At the front table (from left) Jim Nagy (Emory University), Tammy Kolda (Sandia National Laboratories), Daniel Fan (Emory University), and (from right) Eric de Sturler (Virginia Tech), Michael Parks (Sandia National Laboratories), Julianne Chung (Emory University), and Malena Español (Tufts University). Photo credit: Misha Kilmer (Tufts University). Zurich, Switzerland, July 2007.

Michael Parks (Sandia National Laboratories) and Rebecca Hartman-Baker (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) during a break at the Barrett Memorial Lectures at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, April 2007.

Neyland Stadium on the campus of the University of Tennessee, April 2007. The stadium seats 104,079, and is the third largest football stadium in the United States.

From left, Jeremy Templeton, Santiago Badia, Mike Parks, and Greg Wagner (all Sandia National Laboratories) during a break at the Second Atomistic-to-Continuum Coupling Methods Workshop at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, April 2007.

From left, Mike Parks (Sandia National Laboratories), Alice de Sturler, Mary Soules (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), Sally Kelley, Nancy Parks, Nathaniel Parks, Isabelle de Sturler, and Eric de Sturler (Virginia Tech) at dinner at Vincent's Ristorante in Blacksburg VA., October 2006.

From left, Mike Parks (Sandia National Laboratories), Chris Beattie, and Eric de Sturler (both Virginia Tech department of Mathematics) after a math department colloquium at Virginia Tech, October 2006.

From left, Virginia Tech graduate student James (Jody) Neel and Mike Parks (Sandia National Laboratories) at dinner at Macados in Blacksburg, VA, October 2006.

From left, Mike Parks (Sandia National Laboratories), Illinois Graduate Student Chris Siefert, and Greg Mackey (also Sandia National Laboratories) at dinner at the El Pinto New Mexican restaurant in Albuquerque, August 2005.

From left, Marcia Roummel (University of Wisconsin), Peter Arbenz (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), David Kincaid (University of Texas), Christina C. Christara (University of Toronto), Andreas Stathopoulos (College of William and Mary), Mike Parks (Sandia National Laboratories), and Julian Langou with his family (University of Tennessee) at dinner at a Greek restaurant during the IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computing in Toronto, May 2005.

From left, Daniel Szyld (Temple University) and Mike Parks (Sandia National Laboratories) at the IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computing in Toronto, May 2005.

The south side of the Ontario Legislature in Queen's Park, Toronto, May 8, 2005. Probably the most well-recognized photograph of this building appears here.

From left, Mike Parks (Sandia National Laboratories), Illinois graduate student Chris Siefert, and Jim Jiao (Georiga Tech) at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering in Orlando, February 2005.

From left, Illinois graduate student Chris Siefert, Mike Parks (Sandia National Laboratories), and Illinois graduate student Shun Wang at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering in Orlando, February 2005.

A graduation present in a brown paper bag, signed by several faculty members and fellow graduate students. But what could it be? Ahh... Golden Bullet! Credit to Bill Cochran for thinking this one up, and Chris Siefert for gathering signatures. Champaign-Urbana, December, 2004.

From left, graduate student Shun Wang, Prof. Eric de Sturler, graduate student Chris Siefert, Prof. Michael Heath, graduate student Michael Parks and his wife Nancy, Rebecca Hartman-Baker, Prof. Stephen Bond, and graduate students Kristine Cochran, Bill Cochran, and Zhen Cheng at the home of Prof. de Sturler celebrating the successful Ph.D. thesis defense by Michael Parks, December 2004.

Mike Parks (center) with his Ph.D. final exam committee, from left, Profs. Keith Hjelmstad (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Michael Heath, Eric de Sturler (major advisor) and Paul Saylor, December 2004.

From left, Prof. Stephen Bond, graduate student Chris Siefert, Prof. Robert Skeel, graduate student Mike Parks, and Prof. Michael Heath at a Numerical Analysis lunch at Za's Italian Cafe, December 2004.

Mike Parks, left, with his advisor Professor Eric de Sturler, on the occasion of his successful PhD preliminary examination, June 2004.

Mike Parks, center, with members of his doctoral committee, from left, Professors Michael Heath, Paul Saylor, Eric de Sturler (major advisor), and Robert Dodds (Civil and Environmental Engineering) on the occasion of Parks' successful PhD preliminary examination, June 2004.

From left, graduate student Mike Parks, Professor Eric de Sturler, graduate student Chris Siefert, Professor Stephen Bond, graduate student David Hardy, and Professor Michael Heath at a Numerical Analysis lunch at Dos Reales Mexican restaurant, May 2004.

From left, graduate students Chris Siefert and Michael Parks with Professors Misha Kilmer (visiting from Tufts University) and Eric de Sturler, May 2004.

Left to right: Professor Michael Heath with graduate students Evan VanderZee and Naomi Caldwell, undergraduate student Jessica Schoen, graduate students Michael Parks and Rebecca Hartman-Baker, and Rebecca's husband Jeff in Prof. Heath's home, January 2004.

Left to right: graduate students Bill Cochran, Evan VanderZee, Michael Parks, and Naomi Caldwell, Professor Michael Heath, undergraduate student Jessica Schoen, graduate student Rebecca Hartman-Baker and her husband Jeff, Michael Parks' wife Nancy, graduate students Vanessa Lopez and Zhen Cheng, and Zhen's guest in Prof. Heath's home, January 2004.

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