John Cary, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Professor John R. Cary graduated with a BA in Math and Physics from the University of California, Irvine, and received his MA and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley. Prof. Cary spent two years at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and four years at the Institute for Fusion Studies (University of Texas).
From there, Prof. Cary went to the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder, where he has been the primary graduate thesis advisor for nine graduate students. At CU, Prof. Cary has served as the Director of the Center for Integrated Plasma Studies and as Chair of the Department of Astrophysical, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences.
Professor Cary's research is in the areas of computational physics, plasma physics, beam physics, and nonlinear dynamics. He has published more than one hundred articles in refereed journals, and has given more than fifty invited talks. His current interests include high-performance computing and distributed computing, especially as applied to the analysis of physical systems.
Sample Publications
N. Xiang, J. R. Cary, D. C. Barnes, and J. A. Carlsson, Low-noise electromagnetic delta-f particle-in-cell simulation of electron Bernstein waves, Phys. Plasma 13, 062111 (2006).
A. V. Fedotov, D. L. Bruhwiler, A. O Sidorin, D. T. Abell, I. Ben-Zvi, R. Busby, J. R. Cary, and V. N. Litvinenko, Numerical Study of the Magnetized Friction Force, Phys. Rev. ST/AB 9, 074401 (2006)
C. G. R. Geddes, Cs. Toth, J. van Tilborg, E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder, J. Cary, and W. P. Leemans, "Guiding of relativistic laser pulses by preformed plasma channels," Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 145002 (2005).
K. Sonnad and J. R. Cary, "Control of beam halo formation through nonlinear damping and collimation," Phys. Rev. ST/AB 8, 064202 (2005).
C. G. R. Geddes, Cs. Toth, J. van Tilborg, E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder, D. Bruhwiler, C. Nieter, J. Cary, and W. P. Leemans, "Production of high-quality electron bunches by dephasing and beam loading in channeled and unchanneled laser plasma accelerators," Phys. Plasmas 12 (5), 056709 (2005).
J. R. Cary, R. Giacone, C. Nieter, D. L. Bruhwiler, "Clean beams from optical injection with a cleanup pulse," Phys. Plasmas 12 (5), 056704 (2005).
J. Lee and J. R. Cary, "Longitudinal Cooling of Non neutral Plasma by Energy Exchange," Phys. Rev E 71, 036406 (2005).
D. E. Post, D. B. Batchelor, R. B. Bramley, J. R. Cary, R. H. Cohen, P. Colella, S. C. Jardin, "Report of the Fusion Simulation Project Steering Committee," J. Fusion Energy 23 (1), 1 (2004 journal date but published 2005).
S. Shasharina, R. Eger, J. Cary, "Data Grid for Fusion Simulations and Experiments," Comp. Phys. Comm. 164 (1-3), 134-137 (2004).
S. Shasharina, R. Eger, J. Cary, "FarSight: Application for Remote Visualization," Comp. Phys. Comm. 164 (1-3), 402-407 (2004).
Ireneuz Szczesniak and John R. Cary, "dxhdf5: A Software Package for Importing HDF5 Physics Data into OpenDX," Comp. Phys. Comm. 164 (1-3), 365-369 (2004).
Dimitre A. Dimitrov, Richard Busby, John Exby, David L. Bruhwiler and John R. Cary, "Secure Web-based invocation of Large-Scale Plasma Simulation Codes," Comp. Phys. Comm. 164 (1-3), 464-467 (2004).
C. G. R. Geddes, Cs. Toth, J. van Tilborg, E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder, D. Bruhwiler, C. Nieter, J. Cary, and W. P. Leemans, "High-quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator using plasma-channel guiding," Nature 431, 538-541 (Sep. 2004).
K. Sonnad and J. R. Cary, "Finding a nonlinear lattice with improved integrability using Lie transform perturbation theory," Phys. Rev. E. 69, 056501 (2004).
C. Nieter and J. R. Cary, "VORPAL: a versatile plasma simulation code", J. Comp. Phys. 196, 448-472 (2004).