Prof. Bernard Pailthorpe

Research Interests

Honours and PhD projects - 2004 - 2005

Selected Publications

Journal Articles and Proceedings

Bordes, N., W.P. Bleha, B. Pailthorpe "Compact Tiled Display with uniform illumination". Journal of Electronic Imaging, 12(4), pp682-9, 2003.

Pailthorpe, B. A., Bordes, N. S., Bleha, W.P, Reinsch, S & J. Moreland, "High resolution display with uniform illumination". Proc. Asia Display, p1295-1298, 2001.

N. S. Bordes, Wickham, S., Bleha, W.P and B A Pailthorpe, "Seamless tiled projector display" SPIE's 16th Annual International Symposium on Aerospace/Defence Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, 1-5 April 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA ( April 2002).

C. Ormerod, N. S. Bordes and B. A. Pailthorpe, "Characterising Coupled Map Lattices", Proc. HPC-Asia, (2001).

D.R. Nadeau, J. Genetti, S. Napear, B A Pailthorpe; and C. Emmart, E Wesselak & D Davidson. "Visualising the Orion Nebula", IEEE Visualisation (2000).

D.R. Nadeau, J. Genetti, S. Napear, B A Pailthorpe; & C. Emmart, E Wesselak & D Davidson. "Visualising Stars and Emission Nebula", EuroGraphics, (2000).

W. Wang, R. Morrison, L. Leslie, B. Pailthorpe & E. Spark. Automated Visualisation of Weather Forecasts; Int. Conference on Urban Climatology (1999).

B A Pailthorpe, D. Mitchell & N. S. Bordes, Thermal Diffusion in Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Thin Film Diamond Deposition, Thin Solid Films. 332, 109-112, 1998. Conference Proceedings

V Chirita, B A Pailthorpe & R E Collins, Non-equilibrium energy & momentum accommodation coefficients of Ar atoms scattered from Ni(001) in the thermal regime: A molecular dynamics study, Nucl. Instr. & Methods in Phys. Research B129, 465 - 473, 1997.

NA Marks, DR McKenzie, BA Pailthorpe, M Bernasconi and M Parrinello, "Microscopic structure of tetrahedral amorphous carbon", Physical Review Letters, 76(5), 768 - 771 (1996).

V. Chirita, B. A. Pailthorpe and R. E. Collins. "A molecular dynamics study of low energy Ar scattering by the Nickel (001) Surface". J. Phys. D , 26, 133-142 (1993).

D. R. Mckenzie, D. Muller and B. A. Pailthorpe, "Compressive Stress Induced Formation of Thin Film Amorphous Diamond". Physical Review Letters, 67, 773-776 (1991).

B. A. Pailthorpe. "A molecular dynamics study of atomic processes at the low temperature diamond (111) surface". J. Applied Physics, 70, 543-547 (1991).

P. Mahon, B. A. Pailthorpe and G. Bacskay. "A quantum mechanical calculation of interatomic interactions in diamond". Philos. Mag. B, 63(6), 1419-1430 (1991).

B.D. Hughes, B A Pailthorpe and L.R. White, "The translational and rotational drag on a cylinder moving in a membrane". J. Fluid Mechanics, 110, 349-372 (1981).

B. A. Pailthorpe ,D.J. Mitchell and B.W. Ninham, "Solvent structure in particle interactions. Part 1 - The asymptotic regime; Part II - Forces at Short Range". J. Chem. Soc. Faraday II, 74, 1098-1115; and p1116-1125 (1978).

Book Chapters

B. A. Pailthorpe and N. S. Bordes. "Scalable volume visualization, ranging from astrophysics, through brain mapping, to oceanography". In Simulation and Visualization on The Grid; B. Ernquist, L. Johnsson, M Hammill & F. Short (Eds.); Lecture Notes in Computational Science, p122-134 (Springer-Verlag, 2000).

K.R. Lester, P. McCrea & B. A. Pailthorpe. Computational Engineering: the key to Australia's future. Invited contribution to "The Role of Mathematics in Modern Engineering", edited by A. K. Easton & J. M. Steiner (Studentlitteratur, Lund, 1996).

D R McKenzie, N A Marks, P Guan, B A Pailthorpe, W D McFall and Y Yin, Energetic Condensation as a Means of Inducing the Growth of Films Containing High Pressure Phases, Topics in Applied Physics, Springer-Verlag, 3, 250 - 261, (1996).

P Guan, D R McKenzie and B A Pailthorpe, "Patterns of energetic dissipation in 3D lattices after ion impact"; in Ion Beam Modification of Materials, Elsevier Science, ed by J.S. Williams, R.G. Ellisman and M.C. Ridgway. p702 - 705, (1996).

Highlights

Wide experience in undergraduate and postgraduate education in physics: including innovative classes in Biophysics and Computational Physics; supervised some 20 postgraduate students, with some 60 publications.

Established Sydney VisLab - a national computational science and engineering facility serving NSW; now with a commercial shopfront at the Australian Technology Park.

Recent research in supercomputer modelling of carbon thin films: classical and quantum molecular dynamics; understanding mechanism of diamond formation; statistical analysis of databases.

On-going NSF appointment as a Senior Visiting Fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Centre, USA.

Significant role in building up advanced computing infrastructure to support a broad spectrum of research and advanced training; with substantial funding track record.

Serves on Boards: VisLab (chair); ACSF; NSWCPC and SPAN (CSU).

Advice to Government on High Performance Computing and Communications:

1. ARC National Strategy (1994);
2. Prime Minister's Science & Engineering Council presentation (9 Dec 1994), resulting in new HPCC funding program;
3. National HPCC Advisory Board (1997-)
4. HPC-Asia international organising committee (1997-).

Organised and led one of the first successful (national) Co-operative Multimedia Centre proposals (April 1995) - Access Australia CMC.

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