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David E. Gilsinn, Ph.D.

	David E. Gilsinn, Ph.D.
Industry	Government
Title	Mathematician
Expertise	Nonlinear dynamical systems; approximation methods; linear algebra; statistics
Current Organization	National Institute of Standards and Technology
Type of Organization	Federal government research and development agency
Major Product	Research supporting national standards
Area of Distribution	International
University/Degree	B.S., Mathematics, Georgetown University, 1964; M.S., Mathematics, Rutgers University, 1966; Ph.D., Mathematics, Georgetown University, 1969
Born	January 25, 1943, Washington, D.C.
Honors & Awards	Dahlgren Medal, Georgetown University, 1964; Department of Commerce Bronze Medal (Group Award), 1994; The Applied Research Award (Group Award), National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1994; Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, inducted October 1999
Published Works	Numerous articles on dynamics, machine tool modeling, metrology, optics, computer language standards, and operations research, including "Constructing Galerkin's Approximations of Invariant Tori Using MACSYMA" (Nonlinear Dynamics, 1995)
Affiliations	Pi Mu Epsilon (National Honorary Mathematics Fraternity); Sigma Xi (Scientific Research Society); Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics; American Society for Precision Engineering; American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Hobbies & Sports	Reading, jogging, listening to music, computer programming, computer graphics
Career Accomplishments	Research over the past several years includes the following: tested algorithms that implemented interpolation and approximation of rural and urban terrain data by L1 Splines; implemented a thermal deformation prediction module for a turning center; computer algorithm designer for all aspects of the Molecular Measuring Machine (MMM) at NIST
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