News Archives

August 2008

Professors Eitan Tadmor (Math/CSCAMM/IPST) and Thanos Tzavaras (Math) were awarded a National Science Foundation Focus Research Group (FRG) grant: Kinetic Description of Multiscale Phenomena: Modeling, Theory and Computation.
This is a collaborative award which involves researchers from the universities of Maryland (as the lead institution), Brown, Iowa State, Wisconsin-Madison, Arizona State, Texas-Austin and Toulouse, France. The FRG will be housed at CSCAMM. Among its goals, this FRG is expected to provide a platform for interdisciplinary interactions with researchers from related disciplines working on kinetic descriptions of complex phenomena, including those from the DOE Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics (CMPD) which is also housed in CSCAMM.
More can be found at http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/frg

Professor Doron Levy (CSCAMM/Math) and Professor Wolfgang Losert (Physics/IREAP/IPST) have organized a Research Interaction Team (RIT) on Cancer Dynamics.  [colloquium schedule]

Paul Cassak’s thesis entitled Catastrophe Model for the Onset of Fast Magnetic Reconnection, advised by Professors James F. Drake and Michael Shay, was awarded the 2008 F. L. Scarf dissertation award by the Space Physics and Aeronomy Section of the American Geophysical Union. Paul Cassak graduated in 2006 while being supported by the Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics (CMPD).

July 2008

Professor Bill Dorland (Physics/CSCAMM) will be Director of the University of Maryland Honors Program beginning January 1, 2009. [announcement from Associate Provost Hamilton]

June 2008

Professor Doron Levy (Math/CSCAMM) was recently recognized (also here) for his contributions towards developing a cure for Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia. His joint work with professors of medicine was recently publicized in the NSF discoveries webpage here; you can also watch Levy’s interview here

Radu Balan (Math/CSCAMM) was a awarded an NSF grant on “Nonlinear Signal Processing and Wireless Communications using Frames and Operator Theory”

May 2008

Bill Dorland's (Physics/CSCAMM/IREAP) proposal “Fluctuations Spectra and Anomalous Heating in Magnetized Plasma Turbulence” won a 2008 DOE INCITE award for 4M hours of computer time for turbulence calculations.

January 2008

New International Master Program: "MathMods - Mathematical Modeling in Engineering: Theory, Numerics, Applications", funded by the European Union.  Starting in 2008/2009 non-European students may receive grants from the EU to attend the course.

The paper A multi-block infrastructure for three-dimensional time-dependent numerical relativity, by Erik Schnetter, Peter Diener, Ernst Nils Dorband and Manuel Tiglio; Class. Quantum Grav. 23 No 16 S553-S578 (2006) has been selected by the Editorial Board of Classical and Quantum Gravity as one of the highlights of years 2006-2007.

December 2007

CSCAMM welcomes Ryusuke Numata as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics

The paper A multi-block infrastructure for three-dimensional time-dependent numerical relativity, by Erik Schnetter, Peter Diener, Ernst Nils Dorband and Manuel Tiglio; Class. Quantum Grav. 23 No 16 S553-S578 (2006) has been selected by the Editorial Board of Classical and Quantum Gravity as one of the highlights of years 2006-2007.

September 2007

Radu Balan gave a lecture entitled "Estimator for Number of Sources using Minimum Description Length Criterion for Blind Sparse Source Mixture" at ICA 2007, September 11.

May 2007

The Washington-Baltimore SIAM Spring Meeting 2007 featured a lecture by Professor Eitan Tadmor: "Separation of Scales: Spectral Edge Detection and Hierarchical Decompositions in Images".  The meeting was held Wednesday, May 2.

January 2007

Congratulations to Bin Cheng who won the Spotlight on Graduate Research Competition of 2006-07 Monroe Martin Prize for his talk "On the Long Time Regularity of the Shallow Water Equations".

August 2006

Congratulations to Christopher Blakely who won the student paper/presentation competition at the 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics in Los Angeles, CA (July 2006). More on his lecture on “Hybrid Meshless / Spectral-Element Method for Geophysical Fluid Dynamics on the Sphere” can be found here. 

Christopher Blakely will talk on his Hybrid Meshless/Spectral-Element Method for Geophysical Fluid Dynamics on the Sphere at the 7th World Congress on Computational Mechanics in Los Angeles, CA (July 2006).  More can be found here.

Bin Cheng will present his work on the Long Time Regularity of the Shallow Water Equations at the Eleventh International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems in Lyon, France, and at SIAM Conference on Analysis of PDEs in Boston, MA (July 2006).

Dongming Wei will present his work on the Conditional Global Regularity of the 1D Euler-Poisson Equations with Pressure at the SIAM Conference on Analysis of PDEs in Boston, MA (July 2006).

Weigang Zhong will give a talk on Entropy Stable Approximations of Navier-Stoke Equations with No Artificial Numerical Viscosity at the Eleventh International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems in Lyon, France, and at SIAM Conference on Analysis of PDEs in Boston, MA (July 2006).

Ning Jiang was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

Congratulations to Dr. William Dorland on being elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society.

May 2006

*Posted* lectures and tutorials from the CSCAMM workshop on High Frequency Wave Propagation

Daniel Dunlavy was awarded the post-doctoral John von Neumann Research Fellowship in Computational Science at Sandia National Laboratories

Eitan Tadmor referenced in National Cancer Institute's Cancer Bulletin for his contributions to the Center for Cancer Research

The DOE Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics (CMPD) was awarded jointly to the University of Maryland and UCLA. In Maryland, CMPD will be hosted by CSCAMM

May 2005

Congratulations

Daniel Dunlavy was awarded the post-doctoral John von Neumann Research Fellowship in Computational Science at Sandia National Laboratories

March 2005

MONROE H. MARTIN PRIZE

THE INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY at the UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, College Park, is pleased to announce the Seventh Monroe H. Martin Prize. The prize will be awarded for an outstanding paper in applied mathematics (including numerical analysis) by a young research worker. Candidates must be residents of North America and have not reached their 36th birthday by July 31, 2005. The submitted paper must be by a single author and have been published or accepted for publication in the open literature. The work must not have been performed in connection with the completion of requirements for an academic degree. The candidate must neither be, nor have been, affliated with the University of Maryland.

Applications from qualified candidates, or nominations, are solicited for the Monroe H. Martin prize. Entries should include a copy of the paper or contribution, with a covering letter, and for full consideration be submitted before July 31, 2005 to

Dr. R. Roy, DIRECTOR
INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND 20742-2431

The award will be announced by November 1, 2005. The recipient will be asked to present his or her work at the Monroe H. Martin Lecture at the University of Maryland in December, 2005, and will be awarded a prize of $5,000 plus travel expenses.

The Monroe H. Martin prize was established to commemorate the achievements of Professor Emeritus Monroe H. Martin, former Director of the Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics, and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland.
Previous prize winners are Neil Berger (1975), Marshall Slemrod (1980), Jonathan Goodman (1985), Marek Rychlik (1990), A. M. Stuart (1995), Z. Xia (1995), R.J. McCann (2000), and Y. Grabovsky (2000).
 

May 27, 2004

A new DOE fusion science center, the Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics (CMPD), was awarded jointly to the University of Maryland and UCLA. In Maryland, CMPD will be hosted by CSCAMM.

From CMPS News: On May 27, Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, Director of the Department of Energy's Office of Science, announced the selection of the University of Maryland/University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Rochester to host two new Fusion Science Centers. "These two Fusion Science Centers will strengthen basic research into the frontiers of fusion science, a central mission of the department’s fusion energy sciences program,” Dr. Orbach said. “The centers will train students to meet the U.S. fusion program’s future needs and help our fusion program communicate about our progress and accomplishments with the broader scientific community.” The University of Maryland and UCLA will jointly host the Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics (CMPD) using facilities at both of the schools. WILLIAM DORLAND, Physics/CSCAMM/IREAP, is the Co-Principal Investigator and will direct UMD’s participation in CMPD which is housed within the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM) – a recent major initiative within the College to promote research activity in new algorithms and mathematical modeling in the physical sciences. DOE funding for the University of Maryland/UCLA-led Fusion Science Center will total $6.4 million over five years." http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/cmpd/

February 26, 2004

Article from The Diamondback discusses the Access Grid Node operated by CSCAMM.

September 17, 2003

Mr. James Gehrig, CSCAMM friend and benefactor, died at his home in Alexandria, VA.

August 6, 2003

Mr. James Gehrig, retired Staff Director of the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, donated his expansive collection of mathematics and physical sciences books to help establish a library at the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling.