Thirteen U. of I. faculty members 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 2015-16 NCSA Faculty Fellows and their projects:
- Aleksei Aksimentiev, physics,“Patchwork Molecular Dynamics: A New Paradigm for Hardware-Accelerated Large-Scale All-Atom Simulations of Biological Systems.”
- William Barley, communication,“Interdisciplinary Work in a Highly Technical Context: Uncovering Successful Strategies and Potential Costs of Collaboration.”
- Davide Curreli, nuclear, plasma and radiological engineering,“Development of an HPC Platform for Plasma-Material Interactions and Nanostructuring.”
- Jana Diesner, library and information science, “Predictive Modeling for Impact Assessment.”
- Ahmed Elbanna, 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, mechanical science and engineering, and Lucas Wagner, physics, “QMCDB: A Living Database to Accelerate Worldwide Development and Usage of Quantum Monte Carlo Methods.”
- Andrew Ferguson, materials science and engineering, “Computational Design of Hepatitis C Virus Vaccine Immunogens.”
- Larry Di Girolamo, atmospheric sciences, “The Terra Data Fusion Project.”
- Karrie Karahalios, computer science, and Kevin Hamilton, art and design, “From Algorithmic Awareness to Algorithmic Action.”
- Paul Ricker, astronomy, “Using Accelerator Hardware to Improve Subresolution Modeling in Astrophysical Simulations.”
- Joaquin Vieira, astronomy, “The Dark Energy Survey and The South Pole Telescope: Combining Data Sets and Building Collaborations.”
Abstracts of these projects and more information about the NCSA Fellowship program are online.
