CISC Announces Spring 2018 Matchmaking Seminar Lineup

The Center for Interdisciplinary Scientific Computation (CISC) at Illinois Tech is announcing a series of faculty matchmaking seminars for spring 2018. The purpose of these informal seminars is to familiarize attendees with a faculty member’s research in scientific computation with an eye on facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration. They are not meant to be in-depth research…

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CISC Awards $40,000 Seed Grant

The Center for Interdisciplinary Scientific Computation (CISC) at Illinois Tech has awarded a $40,000 seed grant to Sonja Petrović and Lulu Kang, associate professors of applied mathematics, and Mahima Saxena, assistant professor of psychology.

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Chemistry’s David Minh Named CISC Associate Director

David Minh, assistant professor of chemistry, has been named associate director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Scientific Computation (CISC) at Illinois Tech. The CISC promotes and advances transformative research and education in computational science, particularly interdisciplinary collaborations across academic units. Fred Hickernell, professor of applied mathematics, is the director of the center. Minh’s responsibilities will include continuation of…

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CISC Frontiers in Scientific Computation Lecture “Community Software Ecosystems for High-Performance CSE: Opportunities and Challenges” by Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne

While high-performance computers provide unprecedented resources for scientific discovery, the computational science and engineering (CSE) community faces daunting productivity and sustainability challenges for parallel application development. Difficulties include the increasing complexity of multiscale and multiphysics applications, the imperative of portable performance in the midst of disruptive architectural changes, and the demand for greater reproducibility of simulation and…

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