Presentation Title: Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Qualification for Engineering Applications.

Biography: William L. Oberkampf has 39 years of experience in research and development in fluid dynamics, heat transfer, flight dynamics, and solid mechanics. He has worked in both computational and experimental areas and during the last 20 years he has emphasized research and development in methodologies and procedures for verification, validation, and uncertainty estimation in computational simulations. He has over 160 journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, and technical reports. He has taught 30 short courses in the field of verification and validation. He received his B.S. degree in 1966 and his PhD in 1970 from the University of Notre Dame, and his M.S. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1968. He served on the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin for 9 years and after 29 years of service at Sandia National Laboratories he recently retired as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is completing a book on verification and validation that will be published by Cambridge University Press.

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