Welcome to my home page. Here you will be able to find out a little about me and my fiancee', Stacy J. Fox.
I am currently employed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a computational physicist. This really is a fellowship to finance my doctoral research in computational science at University of California, Davis. This is also misleading: the department is officially the Department of Applied Science in the College of Engineering. Furthermore, much of the department is actually in Livermore, on the east side of the Laboratory. This is good insofar that it makes collaboration with laboratory personnel and programs (read money) but bad in that many of the niceties and perks of college life are denied us.
To read more about my research in the area of localized basis function methods of solving time dependent non-linear partial differential equations, click here when I get around to writing that page.
1981-1985
As may be obvious, I was not only a techer, but more importanltly a flem. For those of you who don't know, a flem is a higher life form at Caltech that lives in Fleming House. A translation guide between houses and inhabitants follows:
A lot of interesting information can be found on Kurt Lemke's home page. Also the fleming home page has current information.
As I was preparing to graduate from Caltech back in 1985 I had some form of anxiety attack: What was I thinking? Engineers spend their entire life behind a desk in a little cubucle, right? Well my solution to avoid that was to sign up for the Nuclear Navy. A subsequent disqualification for submarine duty due to bad eyesight sent my to USS Enterprise where I got to play with my own little nuclear reactors.
After Enterprise, I joined the Paul F. Foster (DD-964), the second of many Spruance class destroyers. We saw a lot of action in the Persian gulf crisis in 1991. We spotted 4 floating mines and two floating iraqis, one of which we picked up and stowed in a meat locker. The experience was horrible. When ordered from the squadron to pick up the second, our captain refused to comply; I NEVER admired him more than just then.
Family
back in Oregon
I grew up in Portland, Oregon with my mother, father, and a couple of sisters. We were never very close to my mother's family, so the picture at right is (from left to right) my father Chalis, sister Juleen, mother Elizabeth, uncle Julian, sister Kathleen, grandmother Mildred, uncle Zane, and my aunt Cora. Way back when we all lived in California, now uncle Zane is the only holdout, steadfastly defending his homestead in Redding CA.
Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory
Riddle du Jour
If you have comments or suggestions, email me at glayde@llnl.gov