14 Illinois researchers selected for NCSA Fellowships May 11, 2015 Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Fourteen 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 Amy Marshall-Colon (assistant professor, Plant Biology)Plants in silico: A multi-scale modeling platform 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. Disclaimer: Due to changes in website systems, we've adjusted archived content to fit the present-day site and the articles will not appear in their original published format. Formatting, header information, photographs and other illustrations are not available in archived articles. News Archive