Scott A. Mitchell

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

Sandia National Laboratories

My department has an opening in statistics on informatics graphs. This is initially for 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 recent projects include desiging a MANET protocol, an researching validation process guidelines of computer models of how humans think. My current projects include military logistics siumlation, computational topology, and "forecasting" (uncertainty, statistics, and graph algorithms) over large-scale informatics graphs.

Time will tell what sticks.


Scott's pages:

  • Papers 2007+
  • Some web pages from my past life as a manager
  • I used to manage the Optimization and Uncertainty Estimation department
  • Scott's Meshing and Cubit-related pages
  • Scott's Computational Geometry triangulation papers and programs
  • 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.


    Links:

  • My department doesn't have its own page, but the CCIM Center does.
  • Department 1411, Optimization and Uncertainty Estimation
  • Dakota optimization and uncertainty analysis framework
  • Scott's CG triangulation papers and programs
  • Scott's Meshing and Cubit-related pages.
  • Cubit mesh generation tool suite
  • DOE ASC (formerly ASCI)
  • Sandia ASC (formerly ASCI)
  • DOE MICS
  • Sandia MICS
  • Patrick Knupp
  • Hex mesh existence proof
  • Whisker Weaving (WW) basic ideas
  • Reliable WW via curve contraction
  • WW knives
  • Resolving two faces sharing two edges in WW
  • All-hex geode-template
  • Mesh improvement abstract
  • Mesh improvement paper
  • Choosing corners for mapped meshing
  • Interval assignment
  • Steve Vavasis at Waterloo
  • QMG quadtree/octree mesh generator
  • International Meshing Roundtable International Meshing Roundtable
  • Computational Geometry Bibliography is a good place to look up papers.
  • Mathtools.net is a good place to look up scientific computing resources.
  • Sandia Anywhere.
  • Sandia's IRN
  • Sandia Home Page.
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    Last modified: 17 January 2007