Scott A. Mitchell's Home Page

Scott A. Mitchell

Principal Member of Technical Staff
Dept. 1415 Computer Science & Informatics
Computation, Computers, Information & Mathematics Center
Sandia National Laboratories

My department has a few job openings for informatics and statistics; apply before 3 April 2010. See also the department's careers page.
These positions may involve working on the same types of problems as the Network Grand Challenge LDRD project; I lead the "Forecasting" piece of this project.

I am currently doing technical work related to discrete math, informatics, and computational science. My recently concluded projects include desiging a MANET protocol, researching validation process guidelines of computer models of how humans think, low-bandwidth authentication, and a military logistics siumlator called CoreSim. Current projects include computational topology, and "forecasting" (uncertainty, statistics, and graph algorithms) over large-scale informatics graphs.

Time will tell.

I organized a workshop on combinatorial algebraic topology in late August 2009. We wrote a summary report.

Scott's pages:

CV April 2009 printable

Papers 2007+

Some web pages from my past life as manager of some programs and Sandia's Optimization and Uncertainty Estimation department. Years 2002-2007.

Scott's Meshing and Cubit-related pages. Mainly 1994-2002.

Scott's Computational Geometry triangulation papers and programs. Mainly 1991-1994.

Some Quotes I like

Personal interests

Contact:

Scott A. Mitchell
Sandia National Laboratories
P.O. Box 5800
MS 1316
Albuquerque, NM 87185-1316
Phone: (505) 845-7594
FAX: (505) 845-7442
E-mail: samitch@sandia.gov
Home Page(here): http://www.cs.sandia.gov/~samitch/

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Biography:

I received a B.S in Applied Math, Engineering & Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988. I received an M.S. (1991) and Ph.D. (1993) in Applied Math from Cornell University. I worked the summer of 1991 at Xerox PARC. Since Oct 1992 I've been at Sandia National Laboratories. I researched triangular and tetrahedral meshing algorithms via a computational geometry approach from 1992-1993. I was part of the Cubit project, doing mesh generation R&D from 1993-2000, and project leadership from 2000-2002. I did things like researching algorithms and existence proofs for hexahedral meshes and optimization for assigning the right number of edges locally so the model can be meshed globally. I managed the Optimization and Uncertainty Estimation department from 2002-2007. I served in various capacities on various programs, including LDRD (internal research program) and NNSA's ASC program. I decided I missed building things and figuring things out for myself and moved on to technical work in 2007. Time will tell what I do now.