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Brian Anderson is a post- doctoral research associate in the Geophysics Group of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He earned his Ph.D. in Acoustics from The Pennsylvania State University (PSU), and a M.S. and B.S. in Physics from Brigham Young University (BYU). While at PSU, Brian was
awarded a University Graduate Research Fellowship, a College of Engineering Fellowship and an Audio Engineering Society Educational Foundation Grant. Brian has served on the Acoustical Society of America’s Student Council and as the Chairman of the BYU student section of the Audio Engineering Society. Brian is an experimentalist and his research interests are centered on electro-acoustic transduc- tion, and source characterization, but also include many other areas of acoustics. Brian loves to spend time outdoors with his family including his two sons, Travis and Lucas (pic- tured above), and his wife Angela.
Carène Larmat is a postdoctoral research associate in the Geophysics Group of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her main research topic is Time Reversal earthquake loca- tion. She previously worked in numerical seismology with Dr. J. Tromp at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, CA. She earned her Ph.D. in deep Earth geo-
physics from the IPGP, the Institute of Physics of the Globe, France. She obtained a M.S. of Geophysics from IPGP and undergraduate degree from the University of Rennes, France. She enjoys life in general.
TJ Ulrich is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Geophysics Group of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. TJ earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Physics at the University of Nevada, Reno studying elastic properties of
solids using Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy (RUS). Before entering the graduate program in physics, he received a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, also from the University of Nevada, Reno, which he put to use examining high temperature coatings on super-alloys used in aircraft turbine engines. Other research interests include the use of ultrasound and nonlinear elasticity for developing medical diagnostics, and instrumentation development (hardware and software). When there is snow, TJ enjoys hitting the slopes, family in tow, and teaching his girls (Kay, Charlotte, and Delaney also pictured) how to ski.
Michele Griffa is a postdoc- toral research associate in the Geophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the Polytechnic Institute of Torino and his M.S. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Torino (Italy). His main research interests include Nonlinear Elasticity,
Computa-tional Physics, High Perfor-mance (Scientific) Computing, especially Cluster Computing, Ultrasonic and Seismic Imaging, Inverse Problems, Array Signal Processing, Computational Systems Biology (especially modeling and simulation of biophysical/biomechanical processes involved in tumor growth) and Mathematical Systems Theory. He holds the position of external collaborator at the Dept. of Physics, Polytechnic Institute of Torino. He collaborates also with the Bioinformatics and High Performance Computing Lab of the Bioindustry Park of Canavese (Colleretto Giacosa, Italy) on R&D themes about modeling and simulation in the Life and Biomedical Sciences. He has been a member of the Center for the development of a Virtual Tumor (CViT), a project within the NCI-NIH's Integrative Cancer Biology Program (ICBP).
Paul Johnson is a senior technical staff member in the Geophysics Group at the Los Alamos National Lab- oratory, leading the team working on elastic nonlinear studies in solids as well as the work on time reversal in solids. Paul also works on studies of granular media in relation to earthquake
source properties as well as medical applications of acoustics. Paul is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. His passion is painting and study of art history, in tandem with living and traveling in foreign places with his wife, Susan Meadows.
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