Robert T. Fisher DOE ASC Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes, and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (rtfisheruchicago.edu). Dr. Fisher received his Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 2002 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is currently a member of the DOE/ASC FLASH Center astrophysics group and a research scientist in the department of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago. His research interests include the fundamental physics of turbulent flows, type Ia supernovae, star formation, numerical algorithms, and high-performance computing.

Leo P. Kadanoff Department of Physics and Department of Mathematics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (leopuchicago.edu). Mr. Kadanoff received his Ph.D. degree in physics from Harvard in 1960. He is a professor of physics at the University of Illinois, Brown University, and the University of Chicago, where he presently has emeritus status. He is President of the American Physical Society. His research interests include the fundamental physics of turbulent flows, interface motion, applied mathematics, and the critical analysis of scientific computing.

Don Q. Lamb DOE ASC Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes, and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (lamboddjob.uchicago.edu). Dr. Lamb is the Louis Block Professor in astronomy and astrophysics and a faculty member at the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago. He is the director of the DOE/ASC Alliance FLASH Center. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research interests include type Ia supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, galaxy clusters, and high-performance computing.

Anshu Dubey DOE ASC Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes, and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (dubeyflash.uchicago.edu). Dr. Dubey received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from Old Dominion University in 1993. She joined the University of Chicago as a Research Associate in astronomy and astrophysics in 1993, and then she moved to the FLASH Center in 2002. At the FLASH Center, she leads the code group responsible for design, development, and support of the FLASH code.

Tomasz Plewa DOE ASC Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes, and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (tomekuchicago.edu). Dr. Plewa is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Chicago. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in theoretical astrophysics from the Warsaw University and spent several years at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, where he worked on the development of adaptive methods in application to astrophysical flows. His research focuses on problems related to core-collapse and thermonuclear supernovae, mixing processes, laboratory astrophysics, code validation, and development of high-performance multiphysics simulation tools.

Alan Calder DOE ASC Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes, and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (acaldermail.astro.sunysb.edu). Dr. Calder received his Ph.D. degree from Vanderbilt University in 1997. He subsequently held research positions at NCSA and the University of Chicago and is now a Senior Research Scientist at SUNY, Stony Brook. His research interests include the physics of supernovae, large-scale computing, and validation of simulation codes with respect to experimental data.

Fausto Cattaneo DOE ASC Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes, and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (cattaneoflash.uchicago.edu). Dr. Cattaneo received his Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from Cambridge University in 1984. He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral associate at the University of Colorado and the University of Chicago. Currently, he is jointly Associate Professor in the department of astronomy and astrophysics and the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago, and is affiliated with the DOE/ASC Alliance FLASH Center. Dr. Cattaneo is a Computational Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. He is interested in computational fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics.

Peter Constantin Department of Mathematics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (constcs.uchicago.edu). Dr. Constantin received his Ph.D. degree in mathematics in 1981 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His interests include active combustion, complex fluids, singularities in fluids, and turbulence. He is Louis Block Professor at the University of Chicago.

Ian Foster Department of Computer Science, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (fostermcs.anl.gov). Dr. Foster received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Imperial College, London, in 1988. He is currently Director of the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, and professor of computer science at the University of Chicago. His research interests include distributed computing and computational science.

Michael E. Papka DOE ASC Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes, and Department of Computer Science, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (papkaflash.uchicago.edu). Mr. Papka is the Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for Computing and Life Sciences at Argonne National Laboratory and a Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute (a joint effort between the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory) as well as the visualization group leader at the DOE/ASC Alliance FLASH Center. His interests include the visualization and data analysis of large datasets.

Snezhana I. Abarzhi DOE ASC Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (snezhaflash.uchicago.edu). Dr. Abarzhi received her Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics and mathematics in 1994 from Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow. Her current research interests include turbulence and turbulent mixing, multiscale processes and nonlinear physics, and stochastic and applied analysis in fluid dynamics, plasmas, and astrophysics.

Shimon M. Asida DOE ASC Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (sasidaphys.huji.ac.il). Dr. Asida is a lecturer at the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he received his Ph.D. degree in physics in 1998. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arizona at Tucson and had a sabbatical at the FLASH Center at the department of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago. His research interests include unstable flows, convection in stars, and type Ia supernovae modeling.

Paul M. Rich DOE ASC Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (richpflash.uchicago.edu). Mr. Rich received his M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Chicago in 2006. He is currently a Scientific Programmer in the code group of the ASC FLASH Center. His research interests include high-performance computing, parallel architectures, and terascale data analysis and post-processing.

Chad C. Glendenin DOE ASC Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (chaduchicago.edu). Mr. Glendenin received a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree from the University of Chicago. He is currently a member of the DOE/ASC Alliance FLASH Center visualization group and a Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago department of geophysical sciences.

Katie Antypas DOE ASC Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (kantypaslbl.dot.gov). Ms. Antypas received her M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Chicago. She is currently a high-performance computing consultant at NERSC at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She previously worked in the code group at the DOE/ASC Alliance FLASH Center as a scientific programmer.

Daniel J. Sheeler DOE ASC Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (sheelerflash.uchicago.edu). Mr. Sheeler received his M.S. degree in computer science and his B.A. degree in physics both from the University of Chicago. He currently works as a Scientific Programmer on the ASC FLASH project in the department of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago.

Lynn B. Reid DOE ASC Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (lynnreidflash.uchicago.edu). Dr. Reid is a scientific programmer at the FLASH Center in the department of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago. She received her master's degree in applied mathematics from the University of Dundee in 1987 and a doctorate in environmental engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996.

Brad Gallagher DOE ASC Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (jbgallagflash.uchicago.edu). Mr. Gallagher is a Senior Programmer in the DOE/ASC FLASH visualization group in the department of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago. His interests include scientific visualization and the development of parallel tools to help analyze large datasets.

Shawn G. Needham DOE ASC Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (shawnflash.uchicago.edu). Mr. Needham received his M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Chicago and his B.A. degree in psychology from Northwestern University. He currently works as the Systems Administrator for the ASC FLASH project in the department of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago.