NCSA headlines
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NCSA part of team developing tools to help governments deal with disasters
A $20 million award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology will be used to develop computer tools to help local governments decide how to invest resources to lessen the impact of extreme weather and other hazards. Read more
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NCSA collaborator Ryan Foley awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
Foley, a U of I professor of astronomy and physics, studies exploding stars and other celestial transient objects. He discovered and characterized Type Iax supernovae and uses Type Ia supernovae to measure the expansion and investigate the content of the universe. Read more
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ILLINOIS APPLICATIONS TO USE BLUE WATERS ARE DUE BY March 16
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are invited to apply by March 16 to use the powerful Blue Waters supercomputer. Read more
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Cornell researcher uses Blue Waters to identify flaws in system of space-based rainfall observation
Patrick Reed's study, published this month in Physical Review Letters, found that satellite-based flood prediction has weak spots, which could lead to major flooding that catches people by surprise. Read more
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Blue Waters aids plasma research
The UCLA Plasma Simulation Group’s simulation of a high-efficiency plasma wakefield accelerator was recently featured on the cover of the journal Nature. Read more
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Merle Giles one of HPCwire’s People to Watch for 2015
NCSA's director of business and economic development is selected as one of the "stars on the rise in high-performance computing." Read more
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Undergraduates can apply by March 20 for Blue Waters internship program
Undergraduate students from across the country are invited to apply for year-long Blue Waters internships. Read more
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Milwaukee Institute joins NCSA Private Sector Program
Partnership will provide Wisconsin-based companies with expanded computing, data, modeling, simulation, and analytics resources. Read more
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NCSA-CompGen Fellowships awarded to 2 graduate students
Arjun Athreya and Marcelo Cardoso dos Reis Melo will contribute to the development of NCSA’s Bioinformatics and Health Sciences research theme. Read more
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Donna Cox to speak at SXSW
NCSA visualization expert Donna Cox will be a member of a panel discussion about the art and science of transforming astrophysics data into cinematic movie sequences at the South by Southwest conference in March. Read more
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Best practices workshop on research computing to be held March 17-19
Professionals involved in operating and supporting campus research computing infrastructure are invited to participate in the Advancing Research Computing on Campuses: Best Practices Workshop. Read more
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Apply now for International Summer School on HPC Challenges
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan, and the United States are invited to apply for the sixth International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences, to be held June 21-26, 2015, in Toronto, Canada. Read more
