Alireza Asadpoure (PI) was awarded $58,447. This research is supported by National Institutes of Health to develop a data-driven QSP software for a personalized cancer treatment.

David Markt Jr. (Graduate student of Mechanical Engineering) and his advisor Dr. Mehdi Raessi won the Milton van Dyke Award at the 2020 American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting for their Gallery of Fluid Motion video. Their work, focused on splashing of fuel drops, was also featured in Physics magazine.

Professor Sigal Gottlieb and Professor Gaurav Khanna awarded opportunity to Oak Ridge National Lab's Summit supercomputer. Their research project titled Mixed-Precision WENO Method for Hyperbolic PDE Solutions involves implementing and evaluating different computational methods for black hole simulations.

Yanlai Chen (PI) from the mathematics department led a large group of STEM researchers and educators in obtaining an NSF-DUE award for the Implementation of a Contextualized Computing Pedagogy in STEM Core Courses and Its Impact on Undergraduate Student Academic Success, Retention, and Graduation for $650,000. The co-PIs on this grant are Dean Pauline Entin, and Professors Sigal Gottlieb, Shakhnoza Kayumova, and Gaurav Khanna. The senior personnel involved in this grant are Dean Jean VanderGheynst and Professors Adnan El-Nasan, Scott Field, Robert Fisher, Maricris Mayes, Mehdi Raessi, and Mark Silby. This grant will provide financial support and mentoring to low-income students while including computation in STEM core courses.

An NSF-DMS award was given to Cheng Wang (PI) of the mathematics department on Collaborative Research: Efficient, Accurate, and Structure-Preserving Numerical Methods for Phase Fields-Type Models with Applications for $150,000. This is a collaborative research with lead PI Prof. Steven Wise (Mathematics, Univ. Tennessee Knoxville).

Professor Gaurav Khanna of the Physics department was recently awarded an NSF-PHY grant on Studies of Black Hole Binary Systems Using Time-Domain Perturbation Theory for $75,393.

CSCDR faculty Alfa Heryudono (PI; mathematics) and Mehdi Raessi (co-PI; engineering) were awarded a joint NSF grant to develop a Partition of Unity Multivariate Approximation for the Volume of Fluid Method. See the announcement here .

The College of Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion was presented to CSCDR faculty Dr. Arghavan Louhghalam. The selection committee noted her initiative to design and participate in workshops to increase participation of junior high and high school girls in civil and structural engineering, her involvement in the society of women engineers, and leadership in an effort funded by the National Science Foundation to support panels and workshops on approaches to increase diversity and inclusion in the field of engineering mechanics.

Nur Rifat, currently a masters student in the Department of Physics and member of the CSCDR, works on computational models used to simulate so-called template signals from systems like binary black holes. Until now, it was difficult to make predictions of what the gravitational wave signal was like during the merger of two black holes when one of the black holes is much larger than the other one. Rifat's new model allows scientists to generate precise template signals from such systems at an impressively fast rate. Rifat's new model was recently published in the top physics journal

CSCDR PhD student Caroline Mallary and CSCDR director Dr Gaurav Khanna discuss the theory of time travel and time loops in a two part podcast (part 1

Assistant Professor Arghavan Louhghalam (Civil & Environmental Engineering) and Associate Professor Mazdak Tootkaboni (Civil & Environmental Engineering) were featured in The New York Times for their app that uses crowdsourcing to measure and monitor the quality of roadways.

CSCDR Director, Dr. Gaurav Khanna, appeared as a guest on a new sci-fi podcast. Hear all about it here!