Instute for Advanced Computaonal Science Robert J. Harrison, Director
[email protected] 1 What is IACS? • A muldisciplinary instute with a focus on computaonal and data science • $20M endowment to support 3 endowed chairs and operaons (~$13M) • 12 core faculty, 32 affiliate faculty, 100+ students with plans to grow to 16+ core and 150+ students • Newly renovated space – ~6000 sq. ., 17 faculty offices, 45 students • Vision and mission to excel, lead and serve • Educaon and research without walls 2 IACS Organizaonal Chart Vision Our vision is to be an internaonally recognized center in data and computaonal science, having vibrant muldisciplinary research and educaon programs, with broad leadership and benefit across Stony Brook and SUNY, and with demonstrated economic benefit to New York State. 4 IACS Faculty and Community Community • Benefing from our instuonal Community and intellectual leadership, educaon and training, shared resources, and online materials Affiliated Affiliated faculty & students • Collaborators and strategic partners • Have full access to IACS resources and student awards/fellowships Core faculty and students Core • Faculty have 50% appointment in IACS with MOU • Fundamentals and applicaons of computaonal science 5 IACS Core Faculty - I • Alan Calder (astro. phys.) Deputy Director • Barbara Chapman (comp.sci.) • Rezaul Chowdhury (comp. sci.) • Marivi Fernández-Serra (cond. ma.) 6 IACS Core Faculty - II • Robert J. Harrison (chemistry) Director • Predrag KrsBć • Xiangmin Jiao (app. math.) • Marat Khairoutdinov (atmos. sci.) 7 IACS Core Faculty - III • Artem Oganov (materials) • Ma Reuter (math/chem. phys.) • Arnout van de Rijt (sociology) 8 IACS Research Themes Numerics and algorithms: Numerics and Jiao, Chowdhury, Harrison, (all) algorithms Materials and chemistry by design: Producvity Materials and Fernández-Serra, Oganov, KrsBć, and chemistry by Harrison, Reuter performance design Interdisciplinary faculty in Social sciences and humanies: foundaons and van de Rijt (and affiliates) applicaons of computaonal science Physical, env.