Jim Belak

San Francisco Bay Area United States

Senior Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Education

Applied Scientist in the Materials Science Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. My career has centered around the application of High Performance Computing to equilibrium and non-equilibrium problems in Condensed Matter Physics, including: order-disorder phase transition in solids; indentation, metal cutting and tribology of interfaces; shock propagation and spallation fracture; structure and dynamics of grain boundaries and defects in solids; and kinetics of phase evolution in extreme environments. These applications have required the development of new algorithms and application codes for emerging high performance parallel computers and the use of novel x-ray synchrotron...