Arghavan Louhghalam (PI) and Mazdak Tootkaboni (co-PI) were awarded $224,341 through National Science Foundation CMMI division to study A Data-centric Uncertainty-informed Framework for Resilience Analytics of Critical Infrastructure Under Extreme Climate Events.

Center Directors served as guest editors of a special issue of CiSE titled Supercomputing-Enabled Advances in Science and Engineering. The issue is available here."

The recent New York Times article, Does Climate Change Have Anything to Do With Floods in Thailand?, features CSCVR faculty member Amit Tandon. Professor Tandon studies ocean systems using a combination of analytical modeling and high-performance computing techniques.

CSCVR faculty members Sigal Gottlieb (PI), Vanni Bucci (co-PI), Yanlai Chen (co-PI), Geoffrey Cowles (co-PI), Bo Dong (co-PI), Scott Field (co-PI), Alfa Heryudono (co-PI), Gaurav Khanna (co-PI), Maricris Mayes (co-PI), Mehdi Raessi (co-PI), Amit Tandon (co-PI), and Mazdak Tootkaboni (co-PI) were recently awarded $643,899 through the Office of Naval Research's Defense University Research Instrumentation Program, “A Heterogeneous Terascale Computing Cluster for the Development of GPU Optimized High-order Numerical Methods”. These funds will allow the CSCVR to bring a new, state-of-the-art supercomputing cluster to the UMassD campus.

Data Center Dynamics just published a thoroughly researched story about Sony PlayStations and their supercomputing legacy, with a detailed interview with our own, Professor Khanna. The story appears on page 44 of the April/May issue.

In the attempt to treat several digestive ailments such as inflammatory or allergic diseases, doctors and scientists did not have an accurate prediction system to find the right balance of bacteria to produce a healthy gut. But now, due to the research conducted by CSCVR faculty member Vanni Bucci alongside colleagues at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a prediction model exists that could yield effective tools in the quest for digestive health. Read more about their work here.

Dr. Gaurav Khanna published a paper that sheds new light on space's most mysterious phenomena. With collaborators, Dr Khanna demonstrates the existence of extreme black holes that until now were thought to be theoretical and unobservable. Extreme black holes differ from traditional black holes because they have the fastest possible spin allowed by Einstein’s theory of relativity. This work upends conventional wisdom on extreme black holes, which presumed these objects were unstable, and thus did not exist in nature.

UPDATE: This work was recently featured on local ABC6 news, where PhD students Alec Yonika and Caroline Mallary describe their exciting contributions to this work. Also catch the radio interview and a story in Forbes magazine!

Zachary J. Grant of University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth received the 2017 SIAM Student Paper Prize and presented his winning paper at the SIAM Annual Meeting, held July 10-14, 2017 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. SIAM recognized Grant for the paper, Explicit Strong Stability Preserving Multistage Two-Derivative Time-Stepping Schemes, co-authored with Andrew Christlieb of Michigan State University, Sigal Gottlieb of the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and David C. Seal of the United States Naval Academy. The paper was published in Journal of Scientific Computing in 2016. An interview with Zach appears in SIAMs spotlight and campus highlights.

CSCVR Director Prof. Gaurav Khanna's recent paper with Richard was one of small handful of papers selected for special recognition by the Classical & Quantum Gravity journal. It appears on their 2017 Highlights listing.

Alec Yonika, PhD candidate, and Izak Thuestad, MS candidate, have recently published their research findings on different aspects of black hole physics in top research journals."