Chris Piaszczyk  - Bio.

   Chris Piaszczyk is a systems engineer at the Northrop Grumman
   Corporation in Bethpage, New York.  He is currently working for
   their Advanced Systems and Technology Division in the Energy
   Systems Group as a leader of the Reliability, Availability, and
   Maintainability (RAM) design and analysis of advanced accelerator
   applications.  He is also a co-developer of the Accelerator Systems
   Model - a computer code which is used for optimization of 
   accelerator systems.  Chris Piaszczyk joined the Grumman's Energy
   Systems ten years ago and worked on many accelerator projects,
   including the Accelerator Production of Tritium, Spallation
   Neutron Source, International Fusion Materials Irradiation
   Facility, Neutral Particle Beam Concept Development, and the
   Neutral Particle Beam Space Experiment.  He holds a doctorate in
   Applied Mechanics from the Polytechnic Institute of New York and a 
   masters degree, also in Applied Mechanics, from the Polytechnic
   Institute of Warsaw in Poland.  He can be reached by phone at
   (516) 346-3625 or via email at:  chris_piaszczyk@atdc.northgrum.com