5/30/2007

Biography

Bryan V. Oliver (Mπ03) was born and raised in Berkeley, CA. He received the B.S. degree in physics from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, in 1988 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in theoretical plasma physics from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 1991 and 1994, respectively. During his undergraduate studies he spent the 1985-86 academic year studying at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K., under the University of California, Education Abroad Program.

From 1986 to 1988, he worked at the Institute for Non-Linear Science at UCSD. In 1994, he obtained a National Research Council Postdoctoral appointment in the Plasma Physics Division at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C. From 1996 to 2005 he was a senior scientist at ATK-Mission Research, Albuquerque, NM and is presently manager of the Advanced Radiographic Technologies department at Sandia National Laboratories. His primary areas of expertise are in theory and simulation of intense electron and ion beam generation and propagation, MHD and electron Hall MHD (EHMHD), Z-pinches and X-ray radiography. He is presently working on optimizing radiation intensity from e-beam driven X-ray radiographic diodes and dynamic Z-pinches.

Dr. Oliver serves on the IEEE Pulsed-Power Sciences and Technology Committee.