William A. Shelton

POSITION

Group Leader of the Computational Condensed Matter Physics Group , Computational Sciences Section ,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

EDUCATION

Ph.D.:

University of Cincinnati 1989, Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

Advisor:

Frank J. Pinski

Disseration:

The Electronic Structure Of the Substitutionally Disordered Compound Ba1-xKxBiO3

RESEARCH AREAS

Computational Science
Materials Science
Parallel Computation

RESEARCH PROJECTS

DOE-OSCAR-MICSS HPCCP Grand Challenge:

Materials, Methods, Microstructure & Magnetism
Performance Evaluation Research Center (PERC)
Spin Dynamics
Failure in Solids
Lightweight Batteries
Metal Particle Coarsening

SAMPLE PUBLICATIONS

1998-1999 Publications

Combining the QMR method with First Principles Electronic Structure Codes

(263360 bytes), submitted to ETNA

Stationary nature of the density-functional free energy: Application to

accelerated multiple-scattering calculations,

Physical Review B, 50 (1994), pp.14686-14689.

Electronic structures of disordered Ag-Mg alloys,

Physical Review B, 50 (1994), pp.11459-11459.

The Origin of Short-Range Order in Ag-Mg Alloys,

Acta metall. mater., 42 (1994), pp.3535-3538.

First Principles Simulation of Materials Properties (2722508 bytes),

Proceedings of SHPCC '94, Knoxville, TN, May 1994, pp.103-110.

Spin-Polarized KKR-CPA Calculations For Ferromagnetic CuNi Alloys,

Proceedings of the Symposium on Alloy Modeling and Design,

The Materials Society, October 1993.

Parallel Superconductor Code on the iPSC/860,

The Journal of Supercomputing, 6 (1992), pp.153-162.

(Gorden Bell Prize Winning Entry)

ADDRESS

Computational Condensed Matter Physics Group
Computational Sciences Section
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P.O. Box 2008, Bldg 6012
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6367
(615) 576-7932 (voice)
(615) 574-0680 (fax)

Email: sheltonwajr@ornl.gov

Last modified July 8, 1999