The Virtual Experimentalists: these researchers are changing the way we look at materials

Focus on Materials Spring 2008 Publication Cover

Focus on Materials Modeling and Simulation - Spring 2008

Download this issue in PDF form

In this issue..

Features

The Virtual Experimentalists

The Virtual Experimentalists

Exploring new scientific frontiers through computation


Vincent Crespi

Vin Crespi Keeps a Couple of Steps Ahead of the Experimentalists

Thought experiments come to life


Janna Maranas

A Foot in Both Worlds, the Maranas Group Mixes Computation with Experiment

Polymers in motion

CyberScience

Cyberscience - A Collaborative Voyage of Discovery

Penn State jumps into the computation revolution

Jorge Sofo

The Materials Simulation Center: Guide to the Big Machines

MSC helps you add computing to your research

Research Computing and Cyberinfrastructure

Crunching Numbers with the Research Computing Group

High performance computing explodes on campus.

Zi-Kui Liu

Q & A with Zi-Kui Liu

A national center for rational materials design

Departments

Carlo Pantano

Director's Message
Pioneers of Materials

Pioneers of Materials: Gerald G. Johnson, Jr.

Pioneer of scientific computing: he wrote the program, but he never took the course.

Coray Colina

Faculty Spotlight: Coray Colina - building Virtual Bridges Across the Borders of Science

Nobody gets hurt when these experiments go wrong