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James Sexton:
(B.A. [Mod.], Theoretical Physics, Trinity College Dublin, 1980; Ph.D.,
Theoretical Physics, Columbia University, 1986) is Research Staff Member at
the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM Corporation, where he is
responsible for applications for IBM Blue Gene architectures. Dr. Sexton
has had prior appointements at Fermilab (1984-1986), at the Princeton
Institute for Advanced Studies (1986-1988), at IBM T. J. Watson Research
Center (1988-1991).
Prior to his arrival at IBM in 2004, Sexton was Professor of Physics at
Trinity College Dublin. Among his
honors, he is a multiple winner of the Gordon Bell Prize in
high-performance computing (two awards in 2006, one in 2005)in
collaboration with LLNL. Although a theoretical high-energy physicist by
background, his areas of interest cover broad ground. His output includes
publications in quantum field theory, quantum chromodynamics (QCD),
statistical mechanics, computational physics, molecular dynamics, and
medicine.