Prof. Bernard Pailthorpe

R&D Interests

Career Highlights

Bernard Pailthorpe has built up advanced computing research infrastructure over some two decades, with with a substantial funding track record. In 1992 he established Sydney VisLab as a component of the national advanced computing infrastructure. He was a member of the team that presented to PMSEC in Dec’94, leading to the establishment of APAC.

During 1999-2000 he directed the Interaction Environments research program for the 50-member NSF-funded NPACI consortium, which produced state-of-the-art algorithms and software systems for the analysis of the largest experimental data sets and simulation results. This work secured a cover feature in the premier journal, Science. (Nov 10, 2000), on behalf of NPACI  and the UCSD Cancer Centre. The group generated part of the opening show for the new Hayden Planetarium in Manhatten, on Jan. 1, 2000.  Simultaneously he was a Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD.

He moved to the new Chair of Computational Science at UQ in 2003; and became CEO of Queensland's advanced computing consortium, QCIF Ltd; and has twice won its substantial funding renewals from State and Federal governments.

He contributed to the planning of the NCRIS ICT program (5.16 PfC), specifically coordinating and writing the Interoperations and Collaborations Infrastructure (ICI) investment plan that was awarded $20m nationally; and led to the formation of ARCS. He Chaired the ICI interim Executive Committee, comprising all state partners.

He was Director of The Science Foundation for Physics  (U. Sydney, 2000), which is dedicated to science education, particularly for high-school students and teachers.

He won one of the first Co-operative Multimedia Centres  - Access Australia CMC (1995).His earlier esearch was on supercomputer modelling of carbon thin films, via classical and quantum molecular dynamics and led to an understanding of thin-film mechanism of diamond formation.

Recent talks

July 2008 - QuestNet-08:  OptIPortal, networks

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Selected Publications

Journal Articles and Proceedings

• T Gill, S Phinn and B Pailthorpe,  "Estimates of bare ground and vegetation cover from advanced spaceborne thermal emission and reflection radiometer short-wave infrared reflectance imagery", J. Applied Remote Sensing  (SPIE),  (2008).

• O Pettersen, N Bordes, S Ulm, D Gwynne, T Simmich and B Pailthorpe. “Grid Services for e-archaeology”,  in “Conferences in research and practice in IT - Proc. AusGrid2008”, W Kelly & P Roe  (eds.), 82, pg x-x+9  (ACS,  2008).

• D Woolford, G Ericksson, R Rothnagel, D Muller, MJ. Landsberg, R S. Pantelic, A McDowall, B Pailthorpe, P R. Young, B Hankamer, J Banks, “SwarmPS: Rapid, semi-automated single particle selection software”, J. Structural Biol. 157,  174-188  (2007).
• Pantelic RS, Rothnagel R, Huang CY, Muller D, Woolford D, Landsberg MJ, McDowall A, Pailthorpe B, Young PR, Banks J, Hankamer B, Ericksson G, “The discriminative bilateral filter: An enhanced denoising filter for electron microscopy data”, J. Structural Biol. 155, 395-408  (2006).

• Martin, R., N. Bordes, and B. A. Pailthorpe, "Semi-automatic feature delineation in medical images", Proc. Information Visualisation 2004 (ACS), 35, p127-132 ( 2004).

• Bordes, N., W.P. Bleha, B. Pailthorpe "Compact Tiled Display with uniform illumination". J. Electronic Imaging, 12(4), pp682-9 (2003).

• Bordes, N. W. Bleha & B. Pailthorpe, "Design and characterization of an ultra-resolution seamlessly tiled display for data visualization", SPIE Aerosense, 5080, p280-288 (2003).

• N. Bordes, S. Wickham, W.P. Bleha, and B. A. Pailthorpe, "Seamless, tiled projection display", Proc. SPIE Aerosense, Cockpit Displays, 4712, pp 274-281 (2002).

• Bordes, N. S., M. Doherty,  T. Hugh and B A Pailthorpe, "3D Visualisation of Tumours and Blood Vessels in Human Liver", Proc. Visualisation 2002 (ACS), 22, p27-31 ( 2002).

• Pailthorpe, B. A., Bordes, N. S., Bleha, W.P, Reinsch, S & J. Moreland, "High resolution display with uniform illumination". Proc. Asia Display, p1295-1298 (2001).• D.R. Nadeau, J. Genetti, S. Napear, B A Pailthorpe; and C. Emmart, E Wesselak & D Davidson.  "Visualising Stars and Emission Nebula", Computer Graphics Forum, 20, p27-33, (2001).

• R. Carson, N. Bordes and B A Pailthorpe,  "An Archetypal Representation of the History of the US Economy",  Gather/Scatter (SDSC) 13, p14 (1997)

• NA Marks, DR McKenzie, BA Pailthorpe, M Bernasconi and M Parrinello, "Microscopic structure of tetrahedral amorphous carbon", Physical Review Letters, 76(5), 768 - 771 (1996).

• N A Marks, D R McKenzie, B A Pailthorpe, M Bernasconi and M Parrinello, Ab initio simulations of tetrahedral amorphous carbon, Physical Review B, 54, 9703 - 9714 (1996).

• D. R. Mckenzie, D. Muller and B. A. Pailthorpe, "Compressive Stress Induced Formation of Thin Film Amorphous Diamond". Physical Review Letters, 67, 773-776 (1991).

• B.D. Hughes, B A Pailthorpe and L.R. White, "The translational and rotational drag on a cylinder moving in a membrane". J. Fluid Mechanics, 110, 349-372 (1981).

• B. A. Pailthorpe ,D.J. Mitchell and B.W. Ninham, "Solvent structure in particle interactions. Part 1 - The asymptotic regime; Part II - Forces at Short Range". J. Chem. Soc. Faraday II, 74, 1098-1115; and p1116-1125 (1978).

Books Chapters and Books

• N Bordes, S Ulm, O Pettersen, K Murphy, D Gwynne, W Pagnon, S Hungerford, P Hiscock, J Hall and B Pailthorpe. “Data Grid for the Management, Reconstruction, Analysis and Visualisation of Archaeological Data”,  in “An Archaeological Life: Papers in  Honour of Jay Hall”, S. Uld (ed.), ATSICRU, UQ.  7, p251 ( 2006).

• Nicholls, J. and Pailthorpe, B. A (eds). “From Zero to Infinity” (Tandem Group, 2003).

• B. A. Pailthorpe and N. S. Bordes. "Scalable volume visualization, ranging from astrophysics, through brain mapping, to oceanography". In Simulation and Visualization on The Grid; B. Ernquist, L. Johnsson, M Hammill & F. Short (Eds.); Lecture Notes in Computational Science, p122-134 (Springer-Verlag, 2000).

• K.R. Lester, P. McCrea & B. A. Pailthorpe. Computational Engineering: the key to Australia's future. Invited contribution to "The Role of Mathematics in Modern Engineering", A. K. Easton & J. M. Steiner (Eds), (Studentlitteratur, Lund, 1996).

• D R McKenzie, N A Marks, P Guan, B A Pailthorpe, W D McFall and Y Yin, Energetic Condensation as a Means of Inducing the Growth of Films Containing High Pressure Phases, Topics in Applied Physics, Springer-Verlag, 3, 250 - 261, (1996).

• P Guan, D R McKenzie and B A Pailthorpe, "Patterns of energetic dissipation in 3D lattices after ion impact"; in Ion Beam Modification of Materials, Elsevier Science, ed by J.S. Williams, R.G. Ellisman and M.C. Ridgway. p702 - 705, (1996).

Interests

Sailing on Sydney harbour

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