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\line{\hfil Prof. Geoffrey Fox,}
% \line{\hfil North-East Parallel Architecture Center,}
\line{\hfil North-East Parallel}
\line{\hfil Architecture Center,}
\line{\hfil Syracuse University,}
\line{\hfil Syracuse, NY 13244.}
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\line{\hfil Tel: (315) 443-1723}
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\line{\hfil 7/1/91}

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Dear Ms. Izdior,
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I am hereby requesting that an H-1 petition be submitted on behalf of
Dr. Paul D. Coddington for the temporary position of Research Associate 
in our Department of Physics for the period August 21, 1991 to August 20,
1992. 
A detailed statement setting forth the beneficiary's proposed
duties and responsibilities, as well as the educational requirements for 
the proposed position, with attention to how the beneficiary's 
education and research experience relates to the position, is outlined
below.

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\quad 1) {\bf Duties and Responsibilities:} The proposed position is for
research in computational physics and parallel computing, and in
particular parallel algorithms for physics problems.
The position is in the Physics Department, but the recipient will be
associated with the Syracuse Center for Computational Science (SCCS) 
and the North-East Parallel Architecture Center (NPAC).

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\quad 2) {\bf Education/Scholarly Requirements:} The above duties and 
responsibilities require a doctoral degree in physics, and experience
in using different types of parallel computers, in particular the
Connection Machine and the nCUBE and Intel Delta machines, for doing
computer simulations in physics. Experience with parallel languages
and parallel algorithms is also required.

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\quad 3) {\bf Dr. Coddington's Education/Scholarly Achievements in Relation
to the Proposed Position:} Dr. Coddington is exceptionally well
qualified for the proposed position. He holds a B.Sc. in physics and
mathematics, and a Ph.D. in physics. His doctoral thesis involved 
computer simulations of problems in lattice field theory using large
parallel computers of the type to be used in the proposed research.
He has had 7 years of experience in using parallel computers for 
scientific computation, and in that time has worked with 
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% arrays, the nCUBE-1 and nCUBE-2, the Symult S2010, the Connection
% Machine, the BBN Butterfly, the Encore Multimax, and the Intel Delta, 
several different parallel computers, languages and operating systems.
He has published papers on results in computational physics as well as 
parallel algorithms. 
He has worked for me for the past 3 years, first in the Caltech Concurrent 
Computation Group, and then for the past year in the Physics Department
at Syracuse University, as part of the SCCS project.

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I am enclosing the following documents attesting to Dr. Coddington's
distinguished merit and ability:

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\item{(1)} Dr. Coddington's Ph.D. diploma from Southampton University.

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\item{(2)} Letters of recommendation from Profs. Jeffrey Mandula and
John Townsend.

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\item{(3)} Dr. Coddington's Curriculum Vitae, resume of research experience,
and publication list.

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Thank you for your assistance in preparing this H-1 petition. Please do
not hesitate to contact me if additional information is required.

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Sincerely yours,
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Prof. Geoffrey Fox, 

Director, North-East Parallel Architecture Center.
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