Pamela J. Williams will talk about her past experience as a computational scientist at Sandia National Laboratories and as a supply chain management consultant with LMI. Pamela J. Williams is a member of the Supply Chain Management group at LMI, a not-for-profit consulting firm. Her analyses and research include enterprise business systems, mathematical forecasting, and mathematical modeling tools. She also is an adjunct professor in the Science Technology and Business Department at Northern Virginia Community College. Prior to joining LMI, Williams worked at Sandia National Laboratories from 1998 to 2008. There she developed software to solve simulation-based optimization problems and conducted uncertainty quantification analyses for the Department of Energy’s Hydrogen Macro-System Model. Dr. Williams has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Kentucky as well as a master’s degree and PhD in computational and applied mathematics from Rice University.