Argonne National Laboratory

Charlie Catlett has been involved in Internet and advanced technology deployment and research for nearly two decades, beginning as part of the team that deployed the NSFNET backbone network in 1986. Charlie currently directs the I-WIRE project, a dark fiber and WDM transport network infrastructure connecting 10 sites in the Chicago area. I-WIRE today provides lambda services to projects including the NSF TeraGrid and Optiputer projects. Charlie is also Executive Director of the TeraGrid project, a $90M National Science Foundation initiative to build a Grid system with high performance computing, storage, and visualization facilities at Argonne National Laboratory, Caltech, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center. Since 1999 Charlie has also served as Chair of the Global Grid Forum, a rapidly growing middleware standards body with over 40 working groups and research groups developing specifications, best practices, and informational documents for Grid computing. As GGFs first chair, Charlie has led the development of GGFs processes, organization, governance, and culture as well as establishing a parent not-for-profit company to manage GGFs activities. Prior to joining Argonne in 2000, Charlie was Chief Technology Officer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). As a founding member of the NCSA team in 1985, Charlie was instrumental in establishing NCSA's leading-edge capabilities in networking, distributed systems, metacomputing, and clustering. Charlie was part of the original NSFNET backbone team in the mid 1980's and led NCSA's research in Gigabit networks, becoming Chief Technology Officer in 1996. With Larry Smarr, Charlie authored a seminal paper in 1992, "Metacomputing," in the Communications of the ACM, from which the concept of Grid computing evolved. That same year Charlie's paper "In Search of Gigabit Applications," published in IEEE Network, received the Fred W. Ellersick award for best paper in an IEEE journal. His most recent publication is "Standards for Grid Computing: Global Grid Forum," to appear in the Journal of Grid Computing.

Richard is Executive Director of the AMTEX Partnership, a Research and Development collaboration between the integrated textile industry and the laboratories of the United States Department of Energy. He assumed this position in 1993. Born in Springfield, IL, Richard was graduated from Millikin University in 1956 and received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in chemistry from the University of Utah in 1961. Before assuming the AMTEX position, he was Vice President for Research at the DuPont Company where he was responsible for Corporate R & D activities. He was responsible for DuPont's long-range programs in chemistry, physics, materials science, biology and computation. Richard is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the New York Academy of Science. He is Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the University of Delaware Research Foundation, a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Chicago for the Argonne National Laboratory, chairs the Science and Technology Advisory Committee for Argonne, and is on the Review Committee for the Technology and Safety Analysis Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Dr. Ian Foster, co-author of "The Grid: Blueprint for a New ComputingInfrastructure", is an internationally recognized researcher and leader in the area of Grid computing. Dr. Foster is Associate Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. The Distributed Systems Lab that he heads at Argonne and Chicago is home to the Globus Toolkit, the open sourcesoftware that has emerged as the de facto standard for Grid computing. His awards include the GII Next Generation Award and the Lovelace Medal.

Phillip Finck is Deputy Associate Laboratory Director of Applied Science and Technology and National Security for Argonne National Laboratory, operated by the University of Chicago for the Department of Energy. Finck coordinates all nuclear energy related activities at Argonne, including the development of an experimental program that intends to safely recycle nuclear waste. Dr. Finck spoke with Earth & Sky's Jorge Salazar about his vision of sustainable use of nuclear energy through reprocessing spent nuclear fuel .

Stephen Ban is the Director of Technology Transfer at Argonne National Laboratory, a major center of science and engineering research in the Chicago area operated by the University of Chicago for the Department of Energy. Argonne provides solutions to critical energy, environmental, and security problems through research, development, and transfer of technology to industry partners. Dr. Ban is responsible for leadership of Argonne efforts in intellectual property stewardship, technology exchange with industry, cooperative program development, implementation of commercialization strategies, and identification/launch of new ventures and start ups. Prior to joining Argonne, Dr. Ban was the President of the Gas Research Institute (GRI); in this position he led the gas industry's major cooperative research program in developing advanced natural gas technologies. During his tenure, GRI brought more than 300 new gas related products, processes, and technologies into commercial use through joint research and commercialization programs with industry, government, and academic partners. The focus of the program was basic and applied research to reduce the cost of finding and producing natural gas and to develop new utilization technologies with increased benefits to gas users. Before joining GRI, Dr. Ban led research programs in industry at the Bituminous Materials Company in Terre Haute, Indiana, and Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Ban is currently a member of the Board of Directors of UGI Corporation, a national propane marketer and a member of the Board of Directors of Energen Corporation, a natural gas producer and distributor. He is also on the Board of Advisors of the Illinois Technology Enterprise Center (Argonne). Dr. Ban holds degrees in engineering and engineering science from the Rose Hulman Institute of Technology and the Case Western Reserve University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the states of Indiana and Ohio.

John Veil is the manager of the Water Policy Program for Argonne National Laboratory in Washington, DC, where he holds the rank of senior scientist. He analyzes a variety of energy industry water and waste issues for the Department of Energy. Mr. Veil has a B.A. in Earth and Planetary Science from Johns Hopkins University, and two M.S. degrees in Zoology and Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland. Before joining Argonne, Mr. Veil managed the Industrial Discharge Program for the State of Maryland government where he had statewide responsibility for industrial water pollution control permitting through the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), Underground Injection Control (UIC), and oil control programs. Mr. Veil also served as a faculty member of the University of Maryland, Department of Zoology for several years. Mr. Veil has published many articles and reports and has made numerous presentations on environmental and energy issues.

Dr. Zeman, a certified health physicist, is an expert on radiation health matters. Dr. Zeman served a 20-year career as a Radiation Health Officer in the U.S. Navy Medical Service Corps, and retired from the U.S. Navy with the rank of Commander. He currently holds the position of Radiological Safety Officer at Argonne National Laboratory, and previously held the position of Radiological Control Manager at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has also worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies as Manager of Radiation Protection and Product Safety. In the Navy, Dr. Zeman's assignments included Radiation Safety Officer for the National Naval Medical Center, and research scientist and research programs manager at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute of the Defense Nuclear Agency. While serving at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Dr. Zeman was active in research on the biological effects of ionizing radiation, and supported the activities of NATO Research Study Group 5 on the potential effects of nuclear weapons in battlefield situations. He has authored a number of publications on ionizing radiation effects and measurements.

Larry Turner, after 26 years as a resident of Naperville and a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory, is now living in Fredericksburg, Virginia. His poems have appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, Kansas Quarterly, and a number of other magazines. His first book of poetry, Stops on the Way to Eden and Beyond, was published by Arbor Hill Press, as were his chapbooks The Girl with Blue-Eyed Parents and Brave New World, as Goofy as the Old One. His newest chapbook Quantum Waves and Nineveh's Cat is currently seeking a publisher. He produced a series of televised poetry readings by area poets for cable access television. He is past president of the Illinois State Poetry Society, and currently a member of the Riverside Writers of Fredericksburg and vice-president for Northern Virginia of the Poetry Society of Virginia.

Dr. Lenneal Henderson is currently Distinguished Professor of Government and Public Administration and Senior Fellow at the William Donald Schaefer Center for Public Policy and a Senior Fellow in the Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics at the University of Baltimore where he was formerly a Henry C. Welcome Fellow. For 2001-2006, he serves as the Daniel T. Blue Endowed Professor of Political Science at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina. He was recently selected as a Fulbright Senior Specialist by the Council on the International Exchange of Scholars and the U.S. Department of State. He has also served as a Panelist for the Review of Foreign Service Officer Promotions. He also served as Faculty of both the School of Human and Organizational Development and the School of Educational Leadership and Change at the Fielding Graduate Institute. In November 2000, he delivered a paper for the International Division of the Urban Land Institute in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on the strategies of various large cities in the world to revitalize themselves and traveled to Tallin, Estonia to both give a paper on peace, economic development and global demographic trends and establish a partnership between two universities in Estonia and the University of Baltimore. Along with economist Michael Bell, he founded the Center for Effective Local Democracy in South Africa as a citizen-based project and a way of using peace economics to heal the conflicts in post-apartheid South Africa. The first project was the building of a secondary school in the village of Kullelle which opened in November 2001. He was also instrumental in the establishment of an exchange program between the Centro de Investigacion de Docencia y Economia in Mexico and taught there in January 2001. In December 2001, he was part of the Citistates Delegation to Cuba examining how the Cubans address urban housing, community development, architecture and public administration issues as they transition to a new future. In June 2002, he and his Dean conducted a two-week intensive course on Federalism at the Tallin Technical University in Estonia. In December 2002, he travel to Jaipur, India to attend the midterm conference of the International Political Science Association focused on inter-ethnic and international peace strategies and options. Born in New Orleans and raised in the housing projects of San Francisco, California, he was former Head of the Department of Political Science, Director of the Bureau of Public Administration and a Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He served as a Policy Analyst in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy and Evaluation at the United States Department of Energy from 1977-79 working on both the International Energy Agency and on small scale renewal energy projects in Guyana, Trinidad-Tobago, Barbados and Jamaica; and as Vice President for Energy Management and, subsequently, Vice President for Science and Technology at the Ronson Management Corporation of Alexandria, Virginia, managing contracts with the Bonneville Power Administration, the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Since 1990, he has served as a Part Time Scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory conducting and publishing studies on household energy consumption and expenditure, environmental justice and electricity deregulation. He has also served as a consultant to the Edison Electric Institute and to the Tata Energy Research Institute of Bombay and New Delhi, India. He is a life member of the Indian Institute of Public Administration in Delhi, India. His books include Black Political Life in the United States, Administrative Advocacy: Black Administrators in Urban Bureaucracies, The New Black Politics: The Search for Political Power (Edited with Michael Preston and Paul Puryear), Public Administration and Public Policy: A Minority Perspective (with Lawrence...

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Dr. Michael Wang has a Ph.D. degree in environmental studies from the University of California at Davis. He is a vehicle/fuel system analyst in Center for Transportation Research at Argonne National Laboratory specializing on energy and environmental impacts of motor vehicle technologies and transportation fuels. Dr. Wang has been working in the area of evaluating emission and energy impacts of new transportation fuels and advanced vehicle technologies for over 18 years. He has developed the GREET (Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation) model at Argonne National Laboratory. The model calculates energy use and emissions of various transportation fuels and vehicle technologies and is being used by governmental agencies, industries, and public interest groups worldwide. He has conducted studies to evaluate energy and emission effects of vehicle/fuel systems for U.S. Department of Energy, state of Illinois, the General Motor Corporation, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Wang is the chairman of the International Subcommittee on Transportation Energy and Alternative Transportation Fuels of the Transportation Research Board. Dr. Wang is a member of the Energy Conservation Committee of the Transportation Research Board, National Research Council. He is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineer, the Air and Waste Management Association, and North American Chinese Overseas Transportation Association. Dr. Wang has served on technical advisory committees for several major international studies on advanced vehicle technologies and transportation fuels conducted by or for governmental agencies, automotive companies, and energy companies in North America, Europe, and China. During his professional career, Dr. Wang has produced more than 130 publications and gave invited presentations in many domestic and international professional conferences.

Rachana is a Senior Software Developer at Argonne National Laboratory and has been with the Globus group for the last five years, working on various aspects of the Globus Toolkit. She leads the development efforts on security components of the toolkit and is the technology coordinator for Java WS Core component. She also is Argonne's project coordinator for Earth Systems Grid (ESG), working specifically on design and development of security and server side processing of climate data for ESG-CET infrastructure. She started working on distributed computing as a Research Assistant at the Extreme Computing Lab at Indiana University, where she completed her Masters in Computer Science in 2002.

Stephan W. Wegerich is Chief Scientist at SmartSignal, which he joined in 1999 after working six years at Argonne National Laboratory as a researcher in the Reactor Analysis Division. While at Argonne, Wegerich focused his research on solving various multi-dimensional signal processing problems and the development of the multivariate state estimation technique (MSET), which is the precursor to SmartSignal's current technology base. He is a recipient of the 1998 RD-100 award for his contributions to the development of MSET. Mr. Wegerich was recently named one of Chicago's "Top 40 under 40" by Crain's Chicago Business in 2003. He is the holder of 22 issued patents, and he currently has 22 additional patent applications pending. Mr. Wegerich is a specialist in signal processing and pattern recognition and has an extensive list of publications and presentations. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Southern Illinois University and an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Mr. Uram is a Senior Software Developer at Argonne National Laboratory with experience in visualization, computer-aided design, and computer-aided engineering software. His current work focuses on software for collaborative environments, and their use in scientific contexts. Mr. Uram received his degree from the School of Engineering at the University of Michigan.

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