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: February, 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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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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Decoding disease

October, 2022 Updated: October, 2022

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

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River of data

September, 2022 Updated: September, 2022

Oak Ridge-developed open-source software is helping model watersheds and related climate issues the world over

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Fast fade

February, 2022 Updated: February, 2022

A DOE CSGF recipient studies transients, celestial objects that appear suddenly and rapidly fade.

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Optimized for discovery

October, 2021 Updated: August, 2022

A computational mathematician finds a national lab ideal for a highly collaborative career.

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Crafting community

August, 2021 Updated: August, 2021

The Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship celebrates 30 years of cultivating leaders and innovators.

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New podcast features labs and fellows

July, 2021 Updated: July, 2021

Series celebrates DOE Computational Science Fellowship’s 30th anniversary.

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Luck and learning

July, 2020 Updated: August, 2021

Friends – and computational science fellows – team up with Toyota and Berkeley Lab, combining serendipity and machine learning in a search for sustainable-energy materials.

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Pandemic view – plus privacy

April, 2020 Updated: September, 2023

A fellow helps guide an international volunteer effort to develop COVID Watch, a mobile telephone application that prioritizes privacy.

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Beyond the tunnel

January, 2020 Updated: October, 2020

Stanford-led team turns to Argonne’s Mira to fine-tune a computational route around aircraft wind-tunnel testing.

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Efficiency surge

September, 2019 Updated: October, 2020

A DOE CSGF recipient at the University of Texas took on a hurricane-flooding simulation and blew away limits on its performance.

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Robot whisperer

July, 2019 Updated: November, 2021

A DOE computational science fellow combines biology, technology and more to explore behavior, swarms and space.

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Higher learning

August, 2018 Updated: October, 2020

Computational Science Graduate Fellow Alnur Ali rides an early career at Microsoft to the upper ranks of machine-learning research.

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A fusion fix

December, 2017 Updated: November, 2021

Graduate fellow leads software project to head off damaging fusion energy disruptions.

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Virtual vessels

September, 2017 Updated: October, 2020

The circulatory simulations a Computational Science Graduate Fellowship alumna now at Duke University could help physicians choose the best treatments before operating.

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Ditching intuition

May, 2017 Updated: October, 2020

Replacing lab tedium for efficiency, SLAC-Stanford team taps machine learning to screen for chemicals with promising properties.

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Slippery subject

February, 2015 Updated: September, 2023

University of Texas researchers are out to improve computational models of ice sheets by refining estimates of basal friction: how much rocks and earth slow the sheet’s movement.

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Universe in a day

November, 2014 Updated: May, 2023

A team working on the Titan supercomputer simulates the biggest thing of all in a flash, then shares.

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Back to the hydrogen future

October, 2014 Updated: October, 2014

At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Computational Science Graduate Fellowship alum Brandon Wood applies the world’s most sophisticated molecular dynamics codes on America’s leading supercomputers to model hydrogen’s reaction kinetics.

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After the thaw

February, 2014 Updated: February, 2014

Simulations of melting permafrost promise changes in climate modeling.

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Foiling airflow error

June, 2013 Updated: June, 2013

Portraying airflow over wings and other fluid movement is tricky. A Department of Energy award for early-career researchers is helping a former DOE CSGF fellow devise mathematical methods to decrease the error rate in fluid modeling.

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Cosmic questions

March, 2013 Updated: March, 2013

MIT’s Dragos Velicanu is helping sort through data from the Large Hadron Collider for clues to the mysteries surrounding the strong force and the early universe.

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