But I liked understanding the nuts and bolts of how things work. So as an undergraduate at Duke University, I knew I wanted to study physics. The Human Genome Project had just come out, and I was ...

In her doctoral research at Columbia University, Ganguly creates models of the neuronal connections in the fruit fly brain ...

Much of mathematics involves so-called forward problems. These problems begin with a model of a physical system — say, a ball rolling down an incline plane — and researchers use parameters, such as ...

You could excuse Abigail Poteshman for taking a meandering path during her scientific career. While still in high school, she joined her first lab to conduct cancer cell experiments. Now, on the verge ...

Computational Science at the National LaboratoriesDEIXIS: Computational Science at the National Labs is the frequently updated online companion to the eponymous annual publication of the Computational ...

A Georgia Tech fellow models renewable energy and other problems with ever-changing unknowns. Real-world modeling problems are rife with uncertainty and complicated interactions. To maximize profits, ...

Environmental scientist Marianne Cowherd grew up in Michigan and loved snow. “My favorite thing was having school cancelled and going sledding,” she says. “But I never thought of snow as a water ...

A Harvard University fellowship recipient works to create quantum phases of matter.

A Montana State fellow charts a path from physics and modeling to a form of pure math called category theory.

Cancer biology gets the supercomputing treatment on Oak Ridge's Summit and Lawrence Livermore's Sierra.

High-performance computing (HPC) is only as valuable as the science it produces. To that end, a National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) project at Lawrence Berkeley National ...

A computational mathematician finds a national lab ideal for a highly collaborative career. Stefan Wild came to Argonne National Laboratory in the summer of 2006 for what was to be a four-month summer ...