Thomas V. Russo

• Address: Go ahead and email if you really need this. E-mail: russo@swcp.com

• Date of Birth: Sometime in '63

• Citizenship: USA

• Present position: Senior Member of Technical Staff,
  Sandia National Laboratories, December 1998-present.

• Education: Ph.D. , Chemical Physics, Columbia University, Feb. 1993. Thesis advisor: R. A. Friesner. Thesis Research: Electronic structure calculation on large molecules. M. Phil., Columbia University, October 1992.

  Ph.D. candidate, Physics 1986-1990, University of Texas at Austin. Advisor: H. L. Swinney Research: Nonlinear Dynamics, numerical and experimental study of pattern formation in chemical reaction-diffusion systems.

  M.A. Physics, Hunter College, CUNY, 1986. Advisor: R. L. Varley. Thesis topic: Chaos in nonlinear oscillator systems.

  B.A. Physics/Special Honors Curriculum, Hunter College, CUNY, 1986.

• Research interests: Software design. Electronic structure calculation. Numerical methods for solving differential equations. Computer languages.

• Publications:

  M.A. Pietsch, T.V. Russo, R.B. Murphy, R.L. Martin, and A.K. Rappe, LReO3 Epoxidizes, cis-Dihydoxylates, and Cleaves Alkenes as Well as Alkenylates Aldehydes: Toward an Understanding of Why, Organometallics 17, 2776-2719 (1998).

  T.V. Russo, R.L. Martin and P.J. Hay, Effective Core Potentials for DFT Calculations , Journal of Physical Chemistry 99 , 17085-17087 (1995).

  T.V. Russo, R.L. Martin, P.J. Hay and A.K. Rappe, Vibrational Frequencies of Transition Metal Chloride and Oxo Compounds Using Effective Core Potential Analytic Second Derivatives, Journal of Chemical Physics 102, 9315-9321 (1995).

  T.V. Russo, R.L. Martin and P.J. Hay, Application of Gradient-corrected Density Functional Theory to the Structures and Thermochemistries of , , and , Journal of Chemical Physics 102, 8023-8088 (1995).

  G.J. Tawa, R.L. Martin and T.V. Russo, Solvation Free Energy Calculations Using a Continuum Dielectric Model for the Solvent and Gradient-Corrected Density Functional Theory for the Solute, J. Phys. Chem., 100 (5), 1515 - 1523.

  T.V. Russo, R.L. Martin and P.J. Hay, Density Functional Calculations on First Row Transition Metals, Journal of Chemical Physics 101, 7729-7737 (1994).

  B.H. Greeley, T.V. Russo, D.T. Mainz, R.A. Friesner,J.M. Langlois, W.A. Goddard III, R.E. Donnelly, and M.N. Ringnalda, New Pseudospectral Algorithms for Electronic Structure Calculations: Length Scale Separation and Analytical Two-Electron Integral Corrections, Journal of Chemical Physics 101, 4028-4041 (1994).

  A. Arneodo, J. Elezgary, J. Pearson, T. Russo, Instabilities of Front Patterns in Reaction-Diffusion Systems, Physica D 49, 141-160(1991).

  T. Russo, Modeling of a Silver-Perturbed Belousov-Zhabotinskii Oscillator, J. Phys. Chem. 94, 4120-4122 (1990).

  J.A. Vastano, T. Russo, and H.L. Swinney, Bifurcation to Spatially Induced Chaos in a Reaction-Diffusion System, Physica D 46, 23-42, 1990

  R.A. Friesner, L.S. Tuckerman, B.C. Dornblaser, T.V. Russo, A Method for Exponential Propagation of Large Systems of Stiff Nonlinear Differential Equations, J. Sci. Comput. 4, 327-354 (1989)

  B. Gillam, D. Chambers, T. Russo, Postfusional Latency in Stereoscopic Slant Perception and the Primitives of Stereopsis, J. Exp. Psy.: Human Percept. and Perf., 14, 2, 163-175, (1988)

• Employment History:

• Dec 1998-present: Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, Electrical and Microsystems Modeling Department. Development of programs for semiconductor device modeling and electronic circuit simulation on massively parallel computers.
• Dec 1995-Dec 1998: Limited Term PhD Appointee, Sandia National Laboratories, Advanced Materials and Device Physics and Computational Materials Science Departments. Design of algorithms for real-space density-functional calculations on periodic systems.
• Jan 1993-Dec 1995: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Physics Group. Research on electronic structure of molecules. Develop software to perform density functional calculations on molecules. Modify this software to run on LANL's CM-5 massively parallel processor. Have also worked on adding other features to existing electronic structure code.
• Sept. 1990-Dec. 1992: Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University. Designed and maintained large components of 60,000+ line Fortran program for calculation of the electronic structure of large (200+ atoms) molecules. This program is now part of a commercial product marketed by Schroedinger, Inc. Programming on vector supercomputers including Cray-YMP.
• June. 1987-Jul. 1990:Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Texas at Austin. Performed experiments on chemical reaction-diffusion systems, which included designing and machining apparatus. Wrote software for simulation of reaction-diffusion systems. Projects include participation in design, implementation and testing of a novel differential equation integrator for large systems of equations, and the design and implementation of a program to convert chemical reactions in chemist's notation into Fortran programs for simulation of reaction networks using the Unix utilities YACC and LEX. Wrote several image-manipulation programs and 3D surface and curve drawing programs on SGI workstations using the GL graphics library. Miscellaneous duties included serving as system manager on network of SGI Unix workstations, and integrating PCs and Macintoshes into the network using NFS and an Appletalk gateway. Wrote interactive image acquisition and processing software for IBM PCs. Also responisible for new equipment purchases. Scientific programming on Cray supercomputer.
• Sept. 1986-Jan 1988 Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin. Taught physics lab classes for pre-med students. Third semester (overlapping with RA above) taught 1 class and served as ``head TA'', responsible for setting up lab and overseeing junior TAs.
• 1985-1988:Sole proprietor of software development, marketing and consulting company. Company was named Renaissance Software Systems from 1985 to 1987. From 1987-1988 it was named Probability Distribution. Consulting for College of Optometry (see below) 1985-1986, continuing work done as employee. Developed and marketed Fourier analysis software for Macintosh computers 1985-1988.
• Dec. 1982- June 1985:State University of New York, State College of Optometry. Positions held: Technical Specialist 1982-1983, Computer Analyst 1983-1985. Responsible for software development for experiments in human visual perception. Software developed included programs to produce 3-dimensional still and animated figures, stereo pair graphics, data acquisistion, control, and analysis for response time experiments.
• Jan. 1985-june 1986 Adjunct lecturer, Department of Physics, Hunter College of CUNY. Taught remedial math class (one semester) and freshmen physics classes. Responsible for setting homework, exams and assigning final grades.
• June 1985-Sept. 1985 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Physics, Hunter College of CUNY. Research in dynamics of conservative dynamical systems.
• Sept. 1984-Jan 1985 Laboratory instructor, Department of Physics, Hunter College of CUNY. Taught undergraduate physics laboratory classes.
• Jan. 1982-Dec. 1982:Undergraduate Research, Department of Physics, Hunter College of CUNY. Wrote software for experimental data acquisition and control of experiments in the acoustics of stringed instruments.

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