Spring 2008
In This Issue:
Materials Modeling and Simulation
Features:
The Virtual Experimentalists
Exploring new scientific frontiers through computation
Vin Crespi Keeps a Couple of Steps Ahead of the Experimentalists
Thought experiments come to life
A Foot in Both Worlds, the Maranas Group Mixes Computation with Experiment
Polymers in motion
Cyberscience - A Collaborative Voyage of Discovery
Penn State jumps into the computation revolution
Director's Message
In this issue, we will introduce you to a handful of the many individuals and groups on campus who are using the tools of computation to rapidly advance the science and technology of materials, advances that are crucial to our economic future.
The Materials Simulation Center: Guide to the Big Machines
MSC helps you add computing to your research
Crunching Numbers with the Research Computing Group
High performance computing explodes on campus
Q & A with Zi-Kui Liu, Director, Center for Computational Materials Design
A national center for rational materials design
Faculty Spotlight: Coray Colina - Building Virtual Bridges Across the Borders of Science
Nobody gets hurt when these experiments go wrong
Pioneers of Materials: Gerald G. Johnson, Jr. - Pioneer of Scientific Computing
He wrote the program, but he never took the course
