HENRY NEEMAN

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Welcome to Henry Neeman's homepage!

ABOUT ME

Hi, I'm Henry Neeman (hneeman@ou.edu). The pictures of me (above) are actually relatively good -- I'm much more of a dork in person.

Welcome to my lame homepage. I'm no longer bothering to promise it'll get better.

Want to know where I am? Now you can check out my 2008 travel schedule, my 2007 travel schedule, my 2006 travel schedule, my 2005 travel schedule, my old 2004 travel schedule and my old 2003 travel schedule.

WORK

Curriculum Vita

You can have a look at my Curriculum Vita in both PostScript and PDF formats.

Office

I work at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK, where I'm the Director of the OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER) -- which is a division of OU Information Technology -- as well as an adjunct assistant professor in the School of Computer Science, and a research scientist at the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms. My office is 1100 Stephenson Research & Technology Center (it used to be in in 1252 Sarkeys Energy Center).

Teaching

I've been teaching CS 1313, Computer Programming for Non-majors, since Spring 2000, except for Fall 2001 and Spring 2005. I also taught CS 2413 in the summer of 2000.

In Fall 2003 and summer 2005, I also co-taught ChE 5480, a course that combined nanotechnology and supercomputing. I taught the supercomputing part (surprise!).

Previous Work

Before this job, I was a postdoctoral research associate (and before that, a grad student) working under Michael Norman at the Laboratory for Computational Astrophysics, part of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Mike has moved to the University of California, San Diego, where he's taken a faculty position in the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences.

EDUCATION

I finished my PhD in UIUC's Department of Computer Science in May 1996 (though officially it's recorded as October), working under advisors Michael Heath, Michael Norman and Dennis Gannon. Also on my committee were Paul Saylor, Faisal Saied and Don Hearn. My dissertation title was "Autonomous Hierarchical Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Multiscale Simulations."

Thanks to the UIUC CS department, you can download my thesis in PostScript or PDF format. WARNING! It's 11Mb of PostScript, including two full color renderings.

As part of my dissertation, I developed HAMR, the Hierarchical Adaptive Mesh Refinement system, which is an autonomous, general-purpose structured adaptive mesh refinement system for multiscale simulations that implements the SAMR strategy of Marsha Berger -- now a professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University -- and various collaborators.

I also picked up an MS in computer science along the way, under Dennis and Don. My master's thesis was called "Visualization Techniques for Three-Dimensional Flow Fields," and I wrote it while working for Dennis at the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development, just next door to Beckman.

Before UIUC, I went to the State University of New York at Buffalo, where I got a BS in computer science and a BA in statistics. While at UB, I also worked as a programmer, research assistant and lab teaching assistant for Beverly Bishop, a professor of physiology. I developed software for running experiments in a neurophysiology lab course, and for conducting research into the relationship between spatiotemporal movement and motor neuron activity in human chewing.

PERSONAL

I'm married to Rebecca (Mashburn) Neeman. Our first child was born recently. Here's some pictures.

I was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, where my parents still live. I have two sisters (try Alisa's webpage). I'm the baby of the family. About my brother Ed, see below.

Much of my copious free time is spent ballroom dancing. I teach for the Sooner Ballroom Dance Club at OU, and I'm a former officer of the Dancing Illini, which is the ballroom club at UIUC.

I also like movies, reading, biking and figure skating.

I'm a big fan of spiny echidnas.

There's a band in Columbus, Ohio called The Neemans. They even have a song called Lisa. Unfortunately, it looks like they may have gone out of business, since their new website is defunct.

ABOUT MY BROTHER ED

My older brother Ed, who I loved very much, died on Saturday August 19 2000. I miss him terribly.

DISCLAIMER

Links on these pages to non-university sites do not represent endorsement by the University of Oklahoma or its affiliates. None of the content on this or any other of my web pages is guaranteed to be correct, useful or even especially interesting, nor should it be construed as officially sanctioned by the University of Oklahoma, the Center for Analysis & Prediction of Storms, the OU School of Computer Science, the OU Department of Information Technology, or anyone else of the remotest consequence. So there.

Maintained by Henry Neeman (hneeman@ou.edu)

URL: http://hneeman.oscer.ou.edu/