CSCDR faculty members have been awarded $600,000 for a new computer cluster from the Department of Defense's Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). These funds will allow CSCDR faculty and their students to continue their cutting-edge research in scientific computing and data science.

Professor Robert Fisher (Physics), received a $550K research grant through NASA’s Astrophysics Theory Program. Fisher will research supernovae, which are used as cosmic mile markers to understand the size, composition, and ultimate future of the universe.

CSCDR faculty member, Scott Field, along with collaborators at U. Mississippi and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developed a new methodology for learning about black hole dynamics from gravitational wave measurements.

Dr. Gaurav Khanna, Adjunct Professor, CSCDR Associate Director, and longtime Physics researcher at UMass Dartmouth was recently elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) by the APS Council of Representatives. Khanna is the first APS Fellow in the history of the University.

Ben Burnett (current PhD student and CSCDR HPC technician) won Outstanding Student Paper Award for his work Performance Evaluation of Mixed-Precision Runge-Kutta Methods. The work was carried out with his advisor, CSCDR director Sigal Gottlieb, CSCDR faculty member Alfa Heryudono, and PhD alumni Zachary Grant.

Congratulations to alumni Suoqing Ji (advised by CSCDR faculty Bob Fisher), who is joining the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Ji earned his M.S. degree in physics at UMassD in 2013 before going to UC Santa Barbara for his Ph.D. Most recently, he has been a Sherman Fairchild Prize postdoctoral fellow at Caltech.

CSCDR faculty Scott Field received a $210,000 NSF award to produce new algorithms and computer programs aimed at building novel gravitational wave models from generic black hole mergers.

Quanta Magazine just published a detailed story about a new EMRI Surrogate model. The story features CSCDR faculty Scott Field and Gaurav Khanna and CSCDR students Nur Rifat and Tousif Islam.

CSCDR student Tousif Islam, was selected as a KITP Graduate Fellow. This prestigious fellowship offers a unique opportunity for a select group of doctoral students to undertake a long-term stay at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics located at UC Santa Barbara.

In honor of Women's History Month, The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has spotlighted SIAM member, fellow, and associate editor Dr. Sigal Gottlieb for her contributiosn to mathematics and scientific computing. The SIAM article can be found here.

An NSF-DMS award was given to Firas Kahatib (PI) of the computer science department on Incorporating Crystallography and Cryo-EM tools into Foldit. This project aims to improve the capabilities of Foldit to enable scientists and citizen scientists alike to accurately build biological structures of varying types and sizes. This capability could strongly improve science’s ability to understand the basis of many biological phenomena. In addition to these scientific benefits, this project benefits both science education and society as a whole. This new capability will enhance the variety and quality of educational options using Foldit, improving it as a major interface between the scientific community and society.

Professor Gaurav Khanna uses intensive numerical simulations to generate new results on unexpected black hole hair. Their journal publication can be found here.

Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor and CSCDR faculty Arghavan Louhghalam received an NSF CAREER award to support her research, An Integrated Framework for Resilience Analytics: From Physics-based Modeling of Building Components to Dynamics of Community Level Recovery. The CSCDR congratulates Professor Arghavan on this significant accomplishment.