In her doctoral research at Columbia University, Ganguly creates models of the neuronal connections in the fruit fly brain ...

Much of mathematics involves so-called forward problems. These problems begin with a model of a physical system — say, a ball rolling down an incline plane — and researchers use parameters, such as ...

You could excuse Abigail Poteshman for taking a meandering path during her scientific career. While still in high school, she joined her first lab to conduct cancer cell experiments. Now, on the verge ...

Computational Science at the National LaboratoriesA Georgia Tech fellow models renewable energy and other problems with ever-changing unknowns.

Real-world modeling problems are rife with uncertainty and complicated interactions. To maximize profits, companies consider resource availability, environmental consequences, tax repercussions and ...

Environmental scientist Marianne Cowherd grew up in Michigan and loved snow. “My favorite thing was having school cancelled and going sledding,” she says. “But I never thought of snow as a water ...

A schematic of a quantum circuit used to study quantum gravity. A one-dimensional magnet enters the circuit at the circle’s circumference and a model of gravity is produced at the black dots. The blue ...

Alex Ballow works as a translator, not of human tongues but of the languages of math and physics. “I have refused to choose between math, physics and computer science during my career,” she says.

Victor Zendejas Lopez worked on cars before he realized that his interests went far deeper under the hood. After high school, he sold auto parts, worked as a mechanic and eventually pursued an ...

When Mary-Francis LaPorte was growing up in Nebraska, she was surrounded by corn. Now as a quantitative geneticist and graduate student at University of California, Davis, she is studying crop traits ...

Because most cancers are difficult to treat, scientists have long sought the disease’s Achilles’ heel. In some cases, identifying an errant protein or the biological pathway it uses to damage cells ...

High-performance computing (HPC) is only as valuable as the science it produces. To that end, a National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) project at Lawrence Berkeley National ...