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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Organization CS Computing Sciences
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With this letter I would like to support Santosh Dubey's application
for the Luis W.\ Alvarez Fellowship in Computing Sciences.
% a postdoctoral position at you institution.

From August 2006 to August 2008 Santosh completed with me his Master
of Science degree in Scientific Computing (Physics track) at FSU's 
School of Computational Science (now Department of Scientific Computing).

For a master student Santosh was highly successful and participated
in two publications, one as my sole co-author in Physical Review 
Letters. In this paper we developed a simple kinematical approach 
for phase conversion in finite volumes, based on the 
Kolmogorov-Johnson-Mehl-Avrami theory. Reliably, Santosh 
did most of the numerical work. In a follow-up paper together with 
Alexei Bazavov, one of my Ph.D.\ students at that time, we applied 
this approach to the 3D Potts model and published in Nuclear Physics B.

In 2008 I returned from the School of Computational Science to the
Physics Department and did no longer take students in Scientific 
Computing. As Santosh pursued a Ph.D.\ degree in Scientific Computing,
it became necessary for him to switch professors and I did not follow
up on details of his Ph.D.\ work, though he visited me occasionally
and talked about his research. In these discussion I found him always 
very knowledgeable. Certainly, Professor Anter El Azab will give you 
an account of Santosh's dissertation.

From my experience, I recommend Santosh strongly and like also to 
emphasize his very pleasant personality.
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Sincerely yours,\par
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Bernd Berg

(Dirac Professor of Physics)
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Sincerely yours,\par
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Bernd Berg

Dirac Professor of Physics
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