May 12 — Thirteen faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been selected to receive one-year fellowships that will enable their research teams to pursue collaborative projects with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
NCSA’s fellowship program aims to catalyze and develop long-term collaborations between the center and campus researchers, particularly in the center’s six thematic areas of research: Bioinformatics and Health Sciences, Computing and Data Sciences, Culture and Society, Earth and Environment, Materials and Manufacturing, and Physics and Astronomy.
The 2015-2016 NCSA Faculty Fellows and their projects are:
- Aleksei Aksimentiev (associate professor, Physics)
Patchwork Molecular Dynamics: A New Paradigm for Hardware-Accelerated Large-Scale All-Atom Simulations of Biological Systems - William Barley (assistant professor, Communication)
Interdisciplinary Work in a Highly Technical Context: Uncovering Successful Strategies and Potential Costs of Collaboration - Davide Curreli (assistant professor, Nuclear Plasma and Radiological Engineering)
Development of an HPC Platform for Plasma-Material Interactions and Nanostructuring - Jana Diesner (assistant professor, Library and Information Science)
Predictive Modeling for Impact Assessment - Larry Di Girolamo (professor, Atmospheric Sciences)
The Terra Data Fusion Project - Ahmed Elbanna (assistant professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering)
At the Interface of Chemistry and Mechanics: Multiscale Modeling of Crack Dynamics in a New Class of Self-Healing Materials - Elif Ertekin (assistant professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering) and Lucas Wagner(research assistant professor, Physics)
QMCDB: A Living Database to Accelerate Worldwide Development & Usage of Quantum Monte Carlo Methods - Andrew Ferguson (assistant professor, Materials Science and Engineering)
Computational Design of Hepititis C Virus Vaccine Immunogens - Karrie Karahalios (professor, Computer Science) and Kevin Hamilton (professor, Art & Design)
From Algorithmic Awareness to Algorithmic Action - Paul Ricker (associate professor, Astronomy)
Using Accelerator Hardware to Improve Subresolution Modeling in Astrophysical Simulations - Joaquin Vieira (assistant professor, Astronomy)
The Dark Energy Survey + The South Pole Telescope: Combining Data Sets and Building Collaborations
For abstracts of these projects and more information about the NCSA Fellowship program, visit: http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/about/org/fellowships.
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Source: NCSA