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Predicting chaos

November 2024 Updated: November 2024

A Caltech fellowship recipient works on the physics underlying turbulence, or the chaotic gain of energy when fluids move in unpredictable ways.

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Scale-tamer

October 2024 Updated: October 2024

A recent program alum interweaves large and small scales in wind-energy and ocean models.

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Exploring electrons

September 2024 Updated: September 2024

At UC Berkeley, a fellow applies machine learning to sharpen microscopy.

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Subduing software surprises

August 2024 Updated: August 2024

A Cornell University fellowship recipient works on methods for ensuring software functions as expected.

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‘Crazy ideas’

July 2024 Updated: July 2024

A UCSD engineering professor and former DOE CSGF recipient combines curiosity and diverse research experiences to tackle nanoscale questions and energy applications.

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Star treatment

July 2024 Updated: July 2024

A UT Austin-based fellow blends physics and advanced computing to reveal cosmic rays’ role in stellar events.

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New home for science and tech talk

July 2024 Updated: July 2024

With the fifth season’s first episode, a DOE CSGF-sponsored podcast launches a website.

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Bolt basics

July 2024 Updated: July 2024

A Rice University fellow simulates the ins and outs of the familiar fasteners in pursuit of lean machines.

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Computation across chemistry

June 2024 Updated: July 2024

A fellow uses his deep experience in math and computation to study electric fields in proteins, reactions in batteries and other chemistry problems.

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‘Putting it all together’

May 2024 Updated: July 2024

A Vanderbilt University fellowship recipient applies math, physics and computation to sort out semiconductor defects.

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Misty microphysics

April 2024 Updated: April 2024

A fourth-year fellow probes cloud droplets to boost climate predictions.

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Genomic field work

March 2024 Updated: March 2024

A UC Davis fellow combines computing, the corn genome and growing data to help farmers forecast biofortified crop production.

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Tracking space debris

February 2024 Updated: July 2024

 A Computational Science Graduate Fellowship recipient monitors threats to satellites in Earth’s ionosphere by modeling plasma waves.

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Decisive achievement

October 2023 Updated: October 2023

A computational sciences fellow models COVID-19 virus variants and examines how people weigh complex decisions.

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Learning climate

August 2023 Updated: August 2023

A Colorado State fellow employs machine learning for climate modeling, putting provenance behind predictions.

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Statistically significant

July 2023 Updated: August 2023

A LANL statistician helps cosmologists and epidemiologists grasp their data and answer vital questions.

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Cutting carbon, blocking blooms

June 2023 Updated: June 2023

Besides bioplastics research, the LANL Biofuels and Bioproducts team is studying carbon neutrality and applying machine learning to climate change-exacerbated algal blooms. The lab spearheads a DOE project that will bring carbon neutrality to New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana under the Intermountain West Energy Sustainability and Transitions (I-WEST) initiative. The region is […]

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Planet-friendly plastics

June 2023 Updated: June 2023

A Los Alamos team applies machine learning to find environmentally benign plastics.

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A split nanosecond

May 2023 Updated: May 2023

Sandia supercomputer simulations of atomic behavior under extreme conditions advances materials modeling.

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A colorful career

April 2023 Updated: April 2023

Argonne’s Joe Insley combines art and computer science to build intricate images and animations from supercomputer simulations.

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Mapping the metastable

March 2023 Updated: March 2023

An Argonne National Laboratory group uses supercomputers to model known and mysterious atomic arrangements, revealing useful properties.

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The human factor

January 2023 Updated: January 2023

A PNNL team works to improve AI and machine learning tools so that grid operators can feel confident using them.

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Simulation looped in

December 2022 Updated: December 2022

CogSim, a machine-learning approach modeled on the brain, coordinates simulations, experiments and data-analysis to yield results in fields from fusion energy to COVID-19.

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Justice adjustments

November 2022 Updated: November 2022

An Oak Ridge team applies supercomputing to environmental justice in a changing climate.

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Decoding disease

October 2022 Updated: October 2022

A CSGF fellow doggedly applies computational models to COVID-19 and cancer.

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