John Robert Cary Tech-X/University of Colorado at Boulder

John R. Cary is a professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and he is CEO of Tech-X Corporation, a Boulder, CO research corporation, which he co-founded in 1994. At the University of Colorado, Prof. Cary has served as department chair, center director, and Area Teaching Scholar for the Natural Sciences and was the recipient of the Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Research and Creative Work in 1994. Tech-X Corporation has 54 employees with expertise across a broad range of physics and computer science. Professor Cary received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley. His prior positions were at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Institute for Fusion Studies at the University of Texas. Professor Cary’s interests are in plasma physics, beam physics, and nonlinear dynamics, as well as in the application and development of modern computing techniques to computational physics. He has more than 100 refereed journal articles on various aspects of physics and computation. His recent work includes architecting and developing VORPAL, an object-oriented, highly flexible plasma simulation application that works efficiently on workstations as well as supercomputers. Professor Cary has chaired multiple national committees for the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society (APS) and served on many others for the APS, of which he is a fellow.