Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:26:47 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5.1 Last-modified: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 16:53:33 GMT Content-type: text/html Content-length: 2397 Kay A. Robbins

Kay A. Robbins

Professor

S. B. Mathematics (1971), Ph.D. Mathematics (1975)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Statement of Purpose: find simplicity in unexpected places.

Areas of Interest:

Summary of Research

My research interests fall into two areas --- systems and visualization. In the systems area I have been working protocols for dynamic terrain updates in distributed interactive simulations and on visualization of network protocols. My visualization work centers on modeling and animation of experimental data. Specifically my work combines image processing, visualization, and modeling to analyze video images of the dynamic modes of premixed flames. Physicists at the University of Houston led by Michael Gorman perform the experiments and theoretical analysis in conjunction with the visualizations.

Teaching - Fall 1996

Representative Publications

Practical UNIX Programming: A Guide to Concurrency, Communication and Multithreading, with S. Robbins, Prentice Hall, 1996.

"Buffered banks in multiprocessor systems," with S. Robbins, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 44(4) (1995) pp. 518-530.

"Relationship between average and real memory behavior," with S. Robbins, J. Supercomputing, vol. 8 (1994) pp. 209-232.

"Chaotic dynamics near the extinction limit of a premixed flame on a porous plug burner," with M. Gorman and M. el-Hamdi, Combustion Science & Tech., vol. 98 (1994) pp. 45-56.

"Real-time identification of flame dynamics," with M. Gorman, Applied Chaos, ed. by J. H. Kim and J. Stringer, John Wiley, (1992) p. 261-276.

The Cray X-MP: A Case Study in Pipelined Architecture and Vector Processing, with S. Robbins, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science #374, 1989.