Mike McKerns
 

Selected Publications

Books

  1. -B. Fultz, T. Kelley, M. McKerns, J. Lin, J. Lee, O. Delaire, M. Kresch, M. Aivazis, Experimental Inelastic Neutron Scattering (in preparation).

  2. -M. McKerns, Characterization of Molecular Structure, Excited-state Absorption, and Nonlinear Optical Response of Metallotexaphyrin Complexes, Doctoral Dissertation (University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2002).


Journal Articles

  1. -M. McKerns, J. Harrison, C. Lawson, G. Gray, “Correlating structure and bond character to electronic hyperpolarizability and spectral response for a series of conjugated organic molecules”, (in preparation).

  2. -T. J. Sullivan, M. McKerns, D. Meyer, F. Theil, H. Owhadi, M. Ortiz, “Uncertainty quantification for legacy data observations of Lipschitz functions”, Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Analysis (submitted 2012).

  3. -M. Adams, A. Lashgari, B. Li, M. McKerns, J. Mihaly, M. Ortiz, H. Owhadi, A.J. Rosakis, M. Stalzer, T.J. Sullivan, “Rigorous model-based uncertainty quantification with application to terminal ballistics – part II.  systems with uncontrollable inputs and large scatter”, Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids (submitted 2011).

  4. -A.A. Kidane, A. Lashgari, B. Li, M. McKerns, M. Ortiz, H. Owhadi, G. Ravichandran, M. Stalzer, T.J. Sullivan, “Rigorous model-based uncertainty quantification with application to terminal ballistics – part I.  systems with controllable inputs and small scatter”, Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids  (submitted 2011).

  5. -T.J. Sullivan, U. Topcu, M. McKerns, H. Owhadi, “Uncertainty quantification via codimension-one partitioning”, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 85, 1499 (2011).

  6. -C.W. Li, M.M. McKerns, B. Fultz, “A Raman spectroscopy study of phonon anharmonicity of zirconia at elevated temperatures”, Journal of the American Ceramic Society 94(1), 224 (2011).

  7. -H. Owhadi, C. Scovel, T.J. Sullivan, M. McKerns, M. Ortiz, “Optimal uncertainty quantification”, SIAM Review (submitted 2010, revised 2011). 

  8. -J.B. Keith, J.R. Fennick, D.R. Nelson, C.E. Junkermeier, J.Y.Y. Lin, C.W. Li, M.M. McKerns, J.P. Lewis, B. Fultz, “AtomSim: web-deployed atomistic dynamics simulator”, Journal of Applied Crystallography 43, 1553 (2010).

  9. -C.W. Li, M.M. McKerns, B. Fultz, “A Raman spectroscopy study of phonon anharmonicity of hafnia at elevated temperatures”, Physical Review B 80, 054304 (2009).

  10. -A. VanEngen Spivey, V. Fedorov, M. McKerns, C. Lawson, S. Mirov, “Amplification of narrow line LiF:F2+** color center laser oscillation”, Optics Communications, 254, 290 (2005).

  11. -M. McKerns, W. Sun, C. Lawson, G. Gray, “Higher-order triplet interaction in energy-level modeling of excited-state absorption for an expanded porphyrin cadmium complex”, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 22(4), 852 (2005).

  12. -C. Byeon, M. McKerns, W. Sun, T. Nordlund, C. Lawson, G. Gray, “Excited state lifetime and intersystem crossing rate of asymmetric pentaazadentate porphyrin-like metal complexes”, Applied Physics Letters, 84(25), 5174 (2004).

  13. -P. Mouroulis, M. McKerns, “Pushbroom imaging spectrometer with high spectroscopic data fidelity: experimental demonstration”, Optical Engineering, 39, 808 (2000).

  14. -W. Sun, C. Byeon, M. McKerns, C. Lawson, G. Gray, D. Wang, “Optical limiting performances of asymmetric pentaazadentate porphyrin-like cadmium complexes”, Applied Physics Letters, 73(9), 1167 (1998).

  15. -W. Sun, C. Byeon, M. McKerns, C. Lawson, J. Dunn, M. Hariharasarma, G. Gray, “Oxidative enhancement of the (3) values of solutions of cis-Mo(CO)4L2 (L = PPh3, AsPh3, PPh2Np) complexes as measured by DFWM”, Optical Materials, 11, 87 (1998).


Proceedings

  1. -M.M. McKerns, L. Strand, T. Sullivan, A. Fang, M.A.G. Aivazis, “Building a framework for predictive science”, Proceedings of the 10th Python in Science Conference, (accepted 2011).

  2. -T.J. Sullivan, M. McKerns, U. Topcu, H. Owhadi, “Uncertainty quantification via codimension-one domain partitioning and a new concentration inequality” Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2(6), 7751 (2010).

  3. -P.A. Kienzle, N. Patel, M. McKerns, “Parallel kernels: an architecture for distributed parallel computing”, Proceedings of the 8th Python in Science Conference, 36 (2009).

  4. -M. McKerns, Q. Wei, C. Lawson, S.B. Mirov, G.M. Gray, “Studies of metal organic complexes with a powerful tunable laser”, Frontiers in Optics, OSA Technical Digest MT19 (2003).

  5. -W. Sun, M. McKerns, C. Lawson, G. Gray, C. Zahn, D. Wang, “Solvent effect on third-order nonlinearity and optical limiting ability of a stilbazolium-like dye”, Proceedings of SPIE, 4106, 280 (2000).

  6. -W. Sun, C. Byeon, M. McKerns, C. Lawson, S. Dong, D. Wang, G. Gray, “Characterization of third-order nonlinearity of [(CH3-TXP)Cd]Cl”, Proceedings of SPIE, 3798, 107 (1999).

  7. -W. Sun, C. Byeon, M. McKerns, C. Lawson, G. Gray, D. Wang, “Relationship between chemical structure and optical limiting properties of asymmetric pentaazadentate porphyrin-like metal complexes”, Proceedings of SPIE, 3472, 127 (1998).

  8. -W. Sun, C. Byeon, M. McKerns, C. Lawson, J. Dunn, M. Hariharasarma, G. Gray, “Enhancement of the third-order susceptibilities of cis-Mo(CO)4(PPh3)2 solution by oxygen in different solvents”, Proceedings of SPIE, 3472, 108 (1998).


Technical Reports

  1. -M. McKerns, M. Aivazis, M. Stalzer, “Exploring the CACR Scientific Engineering Pipeline”, Caltech CACR Technical Report (August, 2011).

  2. -B. Fultz, G.G. Long, K.W. Herwig, et al., “Report from Workshop on Computational Scattering Science 2010”, NSF / DOE BES Technical Report (January, 2011).

  3. -M. McKerns, H. Owhadi, C. Scovel, T.J. Sullivan, M. Ortiz, “The optimal uncertainty algorithm in the mystic framework”, Caltech CACR Technical Report (August, 2010).

  4. -B. Fultz, M. Aivazis, M. McKerns, S. Billinge, P. Butler, P. Kienzle, T. Swain, E. Ustundag, “DANSE diversity strategic plan”, NSF Technical Report (September, 2007).

  5. -B. Fultz, M. McKerns, “Accomplishments under the DANSE CED design effort”, NSF Technical Report (December, 2005).

  6. -M. McKerns, J. McCorquodale, B. Fultz, “Distributed analysis of neutron scattering experiments on the TeraGrid”, ORNL Technical Report (May, 2005).