FSU - Department of Scientific Computing

The FSU Resource Fair, part of the New Student Family Program, is closing, but if you have questions about our undergrad program in ComputationAL Science -- we are here all summer on the top floor in the Dirac library (Scientific Computing https://www.sc.fsu.edu), talk to our advisor (https://www.sc.fsu.edu/advising)

The HEDLA 2024 conference, organized by the Department of Scientific Computing and hosted by the Hotel Duval, brought together over 100 scientists from the US, Europe, and Asia to share information about their progress and plan for future research projects at the intersection of astronomy, astrophysics, and high-energy density plasma laboratory experiments. Participants contributed over 120 original presentation abstracts, including more than 30 posters. About one third of conference attendees were students.

The conference highlight was a banquet dinner special lecture by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientist, Dr. Daniel Casey, about current status of the laser fusion experiments conducted at the National Ignition Facility.

Please visit the conference website at hedla2024.sc.fsu.edu for more information including conference topics, program, and in the near future a complete set of conference presentation recordings.

FSU to host international astrophysics conference May 20-24 - Florida State University News This week, Florida State University will host scientists from around the world for an interdisciplinary astrophysics conference featuring presentations from […]

"Artificial intelligence and related technologies – such as machine learning, large language models, and neural networks – are advancing at a rapid pace. As AI is used increasingly in daily life and work, the National Academies are advising the nation on AI use, policy, ethics, and development."

Shaping the Future of AI | National Academies Artificial intelligence and related technologies – such as machine learning, large language models, and neural networks – are advancing at a rapid pace. As AI is used increasingly in daily life and work, the National Academies are advising the nation on AI use, policy, ethics, and development.

We are pleased to announce the release of our Fall 2023 Department of Scientific Computing Newsletter!

Front Page Story: "Emeritus Professor continues high level research"

Emeritus Professor I. Michael Navon, an international leading authority in reduced order modeling, optimal control for numerical weather prediction and fluid dynamics, large-scale minimization, non-smooth optimization and adaptive sensor location continues to make substantial contributions to Scientific Computing since his retirement in 2015. He is the highly cited author of over 400 peer reviewed publications who has enriched the intellectual life of the program, always eager to bring in new research ideas or advise in new research topics. He has served as an invaluable mentor for new faculty members and graduate students.

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Fall 2023 Newsletter - Emeritus Professor continues high level research Fall 2023 Newsletter - Emeritus Professor continues high level research Emeritus Professor continues high level research Emeritus Professor I. Michael Navon, an international leading authority in reduced order modeling, optimal control for numerical weather prediction and fluid dynamics, large-scale...

Congratulations to FSU - Department of Scientific Computing student Liam White!

Meet Liam White, a doctoral student at Florida State University pursuing a degree in computational science through the FSU - Department of Scientific Computing. Read more about his research with the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute, Florida State University and his current role at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, here: fla.st/NQMSBI6U

📷: Ferran Rivas

Congratulations to Brandon Gusto for being a 2024 SMART SEED Grant Program recipient!

- Brandon Gusto - Naval Undersea Warfare Center - Newport Division – Advanced Computing and Software

https://www.sc.fsu.edu/news-and-events/headlines/1754-scientific-computing-doctoral-grad-awarded-exclusive-seed-grant

Scientific Computing doctoral grad awarded exclusive SEED Grant TALLAHASSEE, October, 2023 Brandon Gusto, a 2023 Scientific Computing Ph.D. graduate, was recently awarded a SMART SEED Grant by the Department of Defense SMART Scholarship-for-Service Program. SMART SEED Grants are reserved for SMART Scholars who have obtained a Ph.D. in their chosen discipline and...

Multiphysics is pretty much the keyword when it comes to exascale simulations […]. "Heat transfer, fuel performance, fluid dynamics, structural mechanics—we're working more and more toward coupling all of our tools together as tightly as we can to figure out these multiphysics questions."

Researchers prepare for exascale supercomputer simulations of nuclear reactors Nuclear energy is responsible for approximately one-fifth of total electricity used in the U.S., and nearly half of the country's renewable electricity. Most of the reactors generating this electricity were built decades ago. The construction of new nuclear reactors that use advanced technologies an...

“Over the past several years, there has been a torrent of studies that have consistently demonstrated how powerful “machine eyes” can be, not only compared with medical experts but also for detecting features in medical images that are not readily discernable by humans.”

As artificial intelligence goes multimodal, medical applications multiply Machines don’t have eyes, but you wouldn’t know that if you followed the progression of deep learning models for accurate interpretation of medical images, such as x-rays, computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, pathology ...

We recently hosted our new student orientation to welcome our incoming FSU Data Science Program cohort. We're looking forward to a great fall semester together at Florida State!

AI for Scientific Discovery Workshop
with virtual participation option (see below)

Join the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a workshop on AI for scientific discovery!

The goal for this meeting is to explore the future of AI in terms of its role as an autonomous researcher performing scientific discovery. This includes where AI stands, where it needs to go, and which disciplines should have increased investment for the utilization of AI scientists. Sessions for the workshop will include what it means to be an AI scientists, societal aspects of AI, hurtles to achieve AI independent scientific discovery, and steps in the direction of an AI grand challenges. The workshop will also explore the ethical aspects and potential pitfalls that loom for AI scientists throughout.

When
Day 1: Thursday, October 12, 2023, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. ETDay 2: Friday, October 13, 2023, 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. ET

Where
Attend virtually:
Follow the link provided below. You will receive the relevant link(s) to attend virtually via email.

AI for Scientific Discovery - A Workshop Register for this event from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Arts and Sciences graduates to be honored Aug. 4 at FSU Summer 2023 commencement | Arts and Sciences Florida State University is set to celebrate its Summer 2023 graduates Friday, Aug. 4 with commencement ceremonies at the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center.

Congratulations to FSU - Department of Scientific Computing student Dorianis Perez for being featured in the Summer 2023 edition of SPECTRUM!

Atmospheric Ignition | Arts and Sciences As lightning strikes dry brush and fires begin to blaze, miles of forest are suddenly overtaken by a sinister orange glow. Firefighters work to control the blaze on the ground while aerial tankers buzz overhead, dropping thousands of gallons of water from above in an effort to quench the flames. Fro...

Scientific Computing doctoral candidate Tara Khodaei, department Chair Peter Beerli, and Megan Owen of the Mathematics Department at CUNY have published an article in PLOS ONE, a multidisciplinary, open access peer-reviewed journal. PLOS ONE publishes primary research, systematic reviews, qualitative research, protocols, and submissions describing methods, software and databases.

The article, "Geodesics to characterize the phylogenetic landscape" introduces a new phylogenetic method that allows the investigation of intermediate regions between phylogenetic trees of interest, exploring locally optimal trees in topological clusters of treespace, and potentially finding trees of high likelihood unexplored by other algorithms.

Geodesics to characterize the phylogenetic landscape Phylogenetic trees are fundamental for understanding evolutionary history. However, finding maximum likelihood trees is challenging due to the complexity of the likelihood landscape and the size of tree space. Based on the Billera-Holmes-Vogtmann (BHV) distance between trees, we describe a method to...

"A new report from Los Alamos National Lab sounds alarms over the declining number of Fortran programmers, the shrinking number of efforts to teach Fortran, and the reduced appetite of scientists and developers to learn Fortran."

LANL Report – Looming Fortran Talent Scarcity is Threatening A new report from Los Alamos National Lab sounds alarms over the declining number of Fortran programmers, the shrinking number of efforts to teach Fortran, and the reduced appetite of […]

Ivo Babuška, mathematician known for Finite Element Method breakthroughs, dies at 97.

Ivo Babuška, Mathematician Known for Finite Element Method Breakthroughs, Dies at 97 Babuška was world-renowned for his studies of the finite element method (FEM) and proof of th...

Explore the latest applications of machine learning on April 22, 2023, as Florida State University hosts the 2023 Machine Learning Conference! Submit your presenter abstract by March 18 and be sure to register by April 10.

Register now: fla.st/7KOKZM17
To learn more about the event, visit datascience.fsu.edu/mlx

Ethical hackers needed:

Department of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office Launches Hack the Pentagon Website

DoD Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office Launches Hack the Pentagon Website The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office Directorate for Digital Services launches a website to accompany their long-running program: Hack the Pentagon. Vetted, independent security

For the first time, U.S. National Science Foundation-supported researchers at the University of California San Diego have created an atomic-level computer model of the H1N1 virus that reveals new vulnerabilities through glycoprotein "breathing" and "tilting" movements. This work, published in ACS Central Science, suggests possible strategies for the design of future vaccines and antivirals against influenza.

Computer model of influenza virus shows universal vaccine promise Each year there are an estimated 1 billion cases of influenza, including 3-5 million severe cases and up to 650,000 influenza-related respiratory deaths…

"Climate science and autonomous experimentation are a subset of the fields that might use this method; a scaled-up Gaussian process could be an important tool for research in any area that deals with high data yields, particularly as machine learning becomes ubiquitous across disciplines and research settings. Other possible areas that might adopt the Gaussian process include mechanical systems modeling (the field that includes robotics) and battery and energy storage technology."

New Math Methods and Perlmutter HPC Combine to Deliver Record-Breaking ML Algorithm March 14, 2023 — Using the Perlmutter supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have devised a new mathematical method […]

Register now for our 2023 machine learning conference!

Explore the latest applications of machine learning on April 22, 2023, as Florida State University hosts the 2023 Machine Learning Conference! Submit your presenter abstract by March 18 and be sure to register by April 10.

Register now: fla.st/7KOKZM17
To learn more about the event, visit datascience.fsu.edu/mlx

Our Jhamieka is one of the recipients 😀🎉

Fourteen FSU graduate students join latest cohort of McKnight Fellows - Florida State University News Fourteen Florida State University graduate students from underrepresented populations are part of the 2022-2023 cohort of McKnight Doctoral and Dissertation Fellows, funded by the Florida Education Fund, or FEF. The FEF’s McKnight Doctoral and Dissertation Fellowship Programs are designed to addre...

https://www.sc.fsu.edu/newsletter/fall-2022

We are pleased to announce the release of our Fall 2022 Department of Scientific Computing Newsletter!

Front Page Story: "Fire Resilience Project awarded Collaborative Accelerator Grant"

Associate Professor Bryan Quaife, along with an interdisciplinary team of university faculty, was awarded the first Collaborative Accelerator through FSU’s Council on Research & Creativity. The team received a $50,000 award for seed money to generate preliminary data for a larger funding request that will be submitted this year.

Fall 2022 Newsletter - Fire Resilience Project awarded Collaborative Accelerator Grant Fall 2022 Newsletter - Fire Resilience Project awarded Collaborative Accelerator Grant Fire Resilience Project awarded Collaborative Accelerator Grant Associate Professor Bryan Quaife, along with an interdisciplinary team of university faculty, was awarded the first Collaborative Accelerator through...

Florida State University professor and FSU - Department of Scientific Computing chair Peter Beerli creates software that allows scientists to learn more about evolutionary processes. Click the link to read the full story about his passion for complex data methods at FSU College of Arts & Sciences: fla.st/ZXVVCTQ9

fluid dynamics and non-Newtonian fluids 😎

Oxford scientists crack case of why ketchup splatters from near-empty bottle Squeezing more slowly and doubling diameter of the nozzle can help prevent splatter

Prof. David Keyes from Extreme Computing Research Center giving the spotlights webinar yesterday!

“Algorithms improve exponents; Moore only adjusts the base.”

Power to algorithms 💪🏼



via Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

David Keyes - Efficient Computation through Tuned Approximation HPC4ALL: webinar talk from Prof. David Keyes organized by

From Fortran to arXiv.org, these advances in programming and platforms sent biology, climate science and physics into warp speed.

Ten computer codes that transformed science

“Machine learning models can be used to help both the design and ex*****on of experiments in nuclear physics. They can also be used to aid in the analysis of those experiments' data, of which there is often in excess of petabytes.”

Machine learning takes hold in nuclear physics Scientists have begun turning to new tools offered by machine learning to help save time and money. In the past several years, nuclear physics has seen a flurry of machine learning projects come online, with many papers published on the subject. Now, 18 authors from 11 institutions summarize this ex...

Join us this week for our FSU Data Science Program Virtual Information Session to learn more about our program at Florida State University! The event begins on Zoom at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, October 12. Register here: http://fla.st/R76ZUNIP

Departmental Happy Hour tonight was fun