New Faces

Refining finite elements

Want to simulate airflow around an airplane? Mathematician Brendan Keith can walk you through it. You’d start off with a… Read More

January 23, 2024

The forecast calls for stats

Extreme weather events have become more common and more intense than ever. In the past five years, the United States… Read More

December 19, 2023

Reconfiguring it out

With emerging, quantum-based logic gates and transistors, engineers will continue to shrink computer hardware and boost power and efficiency, even… Read More

December 14, 2022

Compile-o-matic

Editor’s note: The featured researchers, Johannes Doerfert and William Moses, will present their latest paper on parallel computation and compilers,… Read More

November 14, 2022

Seeing the big picture

With New Orleans' first COVID-19 deaths in March 2020, local pathologists autopsied victims in an urgent effort to tackle the… Read More

November 2, 2022

Banding together

The electromagnetic spectrum we rely on for communication and more has become a packed multilane freeway. Cellphones, WiFi, Bluetooth, radar,… Read More

October 18, 2022

Lessons machine-learned

Quantifying the risks buried nuclear waste pose to soil and water near the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Hanford site in… Read More

May 16, 2019

Structural analysis

Lin Lin’s University of California, Berkeley, website bio describes his research interest as “novel, efficient and reliable numerical algorithms and… Read More

July 9, 2018

The incredible shrinking data

Tom Peterka submitted his Early Career Research Program proposal to the Department of Energy (DOE) last year with a sensible… Read More

May 16, 2018

Reducing uncertainty

In scientific simulations, one sure thing is uncertainty. But a researcher at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories… Read More

February 14, 2018