SCS hosting 4th Annual Meeting of Florida Society for Materials Simulation (FSMS)

The 4th Annual Meeting of the Florida Society for Materials Simulation (FSMS) is held at the School of Computational Science May 5-7, 2008. FSMS is an annual forum for faculty and graduate students of various State of Florida universities where they discuss progress in the field and plan mutual collaborations. Recently, FSMS faculty have won a National Science Foundation REU project to train undergraduate students in materials simulations. The 2008 meeting is attended by over 65 faculty, post doctors and graduate students from five Florida universities, FSU, UF, UCF, USF, and FIT. For more information, please contact Dr. Anter El- Azab. [More]

Deng Accepts Maryland Internship

S.S. Papadopulos and Associates has invited SCS doctoral student Hailin Deng for a summer internship position. S.S. Papadopulos is an environmental and water resource consulting firm established in 1979 to provide professional consulting services for groundwater issues, contaminant studies, remediation, geochemistry, and surface-water hydrology. Their services include Water Resource Studies, Contamination Studies, Remediation Feasibility Studies & Design, Geochemical Studies, Modeling, Database, GIS, and Mapping, Software Development, and Applied Research. They have nine locations, including offices in Beijing, Montreal and Waterloo. [More]

Grad Students Shine at SCS Computational Xposition

The School of Computational Science hosted guests from all over campus for our 2008 Graduate Student Research Xposition, held 3-5pm on Wednesday, April 9, 2008. The venue for the event was the SCS seminar room on the 4th floor of the Dirac Science Library. [More]

SCS Professor to present at Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux

The Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux is presenting a workshop March 31 - April 2 entitled Industrial Applications of Low Order Models Based on Proper Orthogonal Decomposition. Professor I. Michael Navon is one of the invited speakers. [More]

SCS Well Represented at Southeast SIAM Conference

The School of Computational Science will be well represented at the 32nd annual Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics Southeastern-Atlantic Section Conference (SIAM-SEAS 2008). Four members of the SCS will present their research - Professor I. Michael Navon, Dr. Vani Cheruvu, Dr. Yanzhi Zhang, and Hoa Nguyen - at the March 14-15 event. The conference will be held at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Professor Navon, one of thirteen invited speakers, will give a talk which discusses his research on nonsmooth optimization entitled, Application of Nonsmooth Optimization in Ensemble and Variational Data Assimilation Problems. Abstracts of each presentation are below. For more information on SIAM, go to www://siam.org. For more information on the conference, go to http://math.ucf.edu/~siamseas/siamseas08.html. [More]

Wei Yang Receives Outstanding Junior Faculty Award

Wei Yang, Ph.D., was awarded the Hewlett Packard Outstanding Junior Faculty Award by the American Chemical Society for his developments on "Problem Oriented Sampling Design Towards Quantitative Biomolecular Simulations." Wei was nominated for this national award by the FSU Chemistry Department and selected by his peers in the Computers in Chemistry Division of ACS. Hewlett Packard will formally present Wei with a $1000 check and a special gift on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at ACS's national meeting in New Orleans. For more information about ACS, go to www.acs.org. [More]

Bernd Berg earns prestigious Humboldt Research Award

A Florida State University researcher who has spent three decades investigating the mysteries of particle physics through computer simulations has achieved one of academia's top distinctions. Bernd Berg, the Dirac Professor of Physics at FSU, has been chosen to receive Germany's Humboldt Research Award, given to outstanding academics who are at the peak of their careers. [More]

Professor Michael Navon named to Editorial Board of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Please join the Editors and the Publisher in welcoming I. Michael Navon to the Editorial Board of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. Because of his expertise and contributions in computational fluid dynamics, Professor Navon will assist the Editorial Board with difficult reviews when needed, act as guest editor for special issues of the journal, promote the journal through submission of his work, and encourage colleagues to utilize the journal. [More]

Yousuff Hussaini elected fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

M. Yousuff Hussaini, the Sir James Lighthill Professor, is one of 30 fellows and three honorary fellows elected to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics for 2008. The AIAA bestows the distinction of "fellow" on members who have made notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences or technology in aeronautics or astronautics. [More]

Hoa Nguyen Accepted to Career Workshop

The School for Computational Science congratulates Hoa Nguyen, a PhD candidate in mathematics. She was recently accepted as one of only 9 participants in a Career Mentoring Workshop for women finishing their PhD's in the mathematical sciences. [More]