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| Project Summary |
| It is generally recognized that cross-breeding of scientific
disciplines is especially effective in producing important new
developments. For many of the most difficult
problems in science and technology,
the fundamental interactions are
well understood. The challenges are in the complexities that arise when
more than a few electrons or atoms or particles are involved.
This includes molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo methods,
quantum mechanics, vortex methods, and other methods.
These are the typical "many-body" problems
encountered across the range of scientific and engineering
disciplines. They are important in simulating gases, liquids,
materials, chemistry, aerodynamics, and biochemistry. Their solutions lie
in the use of high performance and massively parallel computers
coupled with improved algorithms in the hands of scientists
and engineers with the cross-disciplinary training to
deal with many-body problems. This IGERT program
takes advantage of the expertise of faculty
members from seven academic departments
(
Aerospace Engineering ,
Chemistry ,
Chemical Engineering ,
Computer Science and Engineering ,
Materials Science and Engineering ,
Mathematics , and
Physics
)
and three different
colleges
(
Engineering ,
Science , and
Earth and Mineral Science ,
). It incorporates courses,
research projects, summer internships, seminars and tutorials to train
students for leadership roles in advanced computational methods for
many-body systems. Students, especially women and minorities, will be
vigorously recruited. The program will
give students extensive experience in many-body
approaches and their implementation on high-performance and parallel
computers. It is designed to
train a new generation of scientists and engineers with breadth
and interdisciplinarity, with the technical skills and the experience
to lead in the solution of these many-body problems. |
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