Dr. Kirk E. Jordan

Senior Program Manager Scientific and Technical University Relations
IBM T. J.Watson Research Center
IBM Corporation
404 Wyman Street
Waltham, MA 02454
Phone: 781-895-2079
Fax: 781-895-2886
E-mail: kjordan@us.ibm.com

Kirk E. Jordan is senior program manager scientific and technical in the University Relations Department of IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center where he is involved in building research relationships between IBM and universities, particularly in the area of computational science. Jordan has been involved in the solution of physical phenomena using high-performance computers for some time having been a senior computational scientist at Kendall Square Research Corporation. Before joining KSR, Jordan was computational science advisor to Thinking Machines' Marketing Group, where he was involved with the development of fast algorithms for the solution of partial differential equations that exploited the architecture of Thinking Machines' systems. While at Exxon Research and Engineering, he worked on numerical methods for the computer simulation of physical phenomena and later served as ERE's supercomputing technical coordinator. He has held a grant at Argonne National Laboratory, taught at SUNY-Oswego and Rutgers, and been active on scientific committees on supercomputer issues. Jordan's main research interests lie in the efficient use of advanced architecture computers for the numerical solution of partial differential equations arising from large-scale scientific computing problems and the visual representation of information arising from such simulations.