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January 14, 2013
Gregory Voth receives theoretical chemistry award
CI faculty and senior fellow Gregory Voth received the 2013 Award in Theoretical Chemistry from the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society.more info >
January 14, 2013
MacArthur Foundation Grant Fuels Computational City Research
The Urban Center for Computation and Data, a new Chicago-based research center using advanced computational methods to understand the rapid growth of cities, will receive a $500,000 grant from the John D...more info >
January 4, 2013
Meshing the Universe
Researchers at Argonne, with collaborators at the University of Tennessee Knoxville and Kitware Inc., have developed a method for computing tessellations in parallel. The new method has been implemented in a prototype library, called tess, and its use demonstrated during simulations with a petascale cosmology code on the IBM Blue Gene/P at Argonne...more info >
December 20, 2012
Lois Curfman McInnes of MCS Elected Program Director of SIAG CS&E
Lois Curfman McInnes, a senior computational scientist in Argonne’s MCS Division, has been elected program director of the SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering (SIAG CS&E)...more info >
December 13, 2012
Catlett named director of Urban Sciences Center for Computation and Data
Charlie Catlett has been named director of the Urban Sciences Center for Computation and Data (UrbanCCD). The new center will bring together academic researchers, educators, architectural firms, and government agencies with the experts on computational research at the Computation Institute (CI), a joint initiative between the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, with the aim of applying advanced computational techniques to the design of smarter cities.more info >
December 13, 2012
Computational Urban Sciences Center Forms in the City of Big Data
The new Urban Center for Computation and Data (UrbanCCD) will apply the most advanced computational and data-driven techniques to the challenge of intelligent urban planning and design. The center will be initially funded by a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation that unites researchers from several Chicago institutions, city officials and private enterprise with the Computation Institute, a joint initiative between the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory...more info >
December 13, 2012
Blood Clots Are Ready for Their Close-Up
A new cutting-edge computer simulation of clot formation could improve treatments for stroke and heart attacks.more info >
December 4, 2012
Pavan Balaji named to Crain's 40 under 40 List
Pavan Balaji, computer scientist in Argonne’s Mathematics and Computer Science Division, has been named to Crain’s Chicago Business "40 Under 40: 2012."more info >
November 29, 2012
Argonne scientist Paul Fischer named AAAS fellow for contributions to computational fluid dynamics
Argonne senior computational scientist Paul Fischer has been named a 2012 fellow the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Fellows are elected for this honor by AAAS in recognition of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications...more info >
November 28, 2012
DOE researchers advance scientific computing with record-setting simulations
A team led by Argonne National Laboratory used the recently developed Hardware/Hybrid Accelerated Cosmology Codes (HACC) framework to achieve nearly 14 petaflops on the 20-petaflop Sequoia, an IBM BlueGene/Q supercomputer, in a record-setting benchmark run with 3...more info >
