August 4th, 2008: Several graduate research assistantships (GRAs) are available at MPDC for Ph.D. studies for Fall 2008
(for students already admitted to Cornell) and for applicants to Cornell's graduate programs for
the academic year 2008-2009. Applications will be considered for entrance to the Ph.D. program in
January 2009 or August 2009. For more information on these positions and how to apply,
please visit
this announcement.
September 15, 2008: Prof. N. Zabaras is an invited speaker on September 17th at the Department of Applied Mathematics
and Statistics seminar series at the
State University of New York at Stony Brook.
August 7th, 2008: Prof. Zabaras is an
invited speaker
at the United Technologies Research Center on August 8th.
August 1st, 2008: Dr. Baskar Ganapathysubramanian is joining the faculty of the
Mechanical
Engineering department at Iowa
State University in Ames, Iowa, as the William March Scholar in Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor.
July 10th, 2008: A grant award from the
Materials Design
and Surface Engineering
program of the
Civil,
Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation Directorate of NSF will support
MPDC for research on integrating multiscale modeling and statistical learning for the
design of polycrystalline materials.
The abstract for this award can be found here.
July 9th, 2008: A grant award from the
Computational
Mathematics
program of the
Mathematical
Sciences Directorate of NSF will support MPDC for research on stochastic multiscale PDE systems.
The abstract for this award can be found here.
June 15th, 2008: Prof. N. Zabaras will give the plenary lecture on the 6th Greek Association of Computational Mechanics (GRACM) International Congress
on Computational Mechanics in Thessaloniki, Greece, June 19-21, 2008.
May 22, 2008: Congratulations to several students from our laboratory for defending
their thesis or successfully passing their preliminary PhD or Qualifying exam. Baskar Ganapathysubramanian defended his PhD thesis (May 12, 2008).
Sethuraman Sankaran defended his PhD thesis (May 7, 2008).
Xiang Ma passed his Admission to Candidacy A-exam (May 6th, 2008).
Wei Li defended the Master
of Science exam (April 15, 2008). Babak Kouchmeshky passed his Admission to Candidacy A-exam (April 22, 2008).
February 1st, 2008: Prof. N. Zabaras is an invited speaker on February 8th at the 2008 Environmental
Engineering (ENVE) seminar series at the
University of
Connecticut.
January 4th, 2008: Prof. Zabaras will be offering `MAE715-Atomistic Modeling of Materials' this Spring. For more information
check the course web site.
November 12th, 2007: Baskar Ganapathysubramanian is the invited speaker at the Civil and Environmental Engineering
seminar
series at Cornell University.
November 9th, 2007: Prof. N. Zabaras speaks at the Scientific Computing Seminar at the
Applied Mathematics Division at Brown University.
July 23nd, 2007: The MPDC laboratory
participated in the USNCCM IX, 9th National Congress on Computational Mechanics,
San Francisco, CA, July 23-26, 2007, with five presentations. These presentations
can be reviewed below.
July 6th, 2007: An ARO (Materials Science Division) grant to MPDC will allow investigation
of ab initio based multibody energy expansions for the design of metallic materials with extremal properties. The executive
summary of our proposed work is given here.
June 11 and 12, 2007: Prof. N. Zabaras and Dr. H. Najb (Sandia National Laboratories)
offered a workshop (short course) on
`Uncertainty Quantification'
sponsored by the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR) and the Computational Science and Engineering program at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
May 22nd, 2007: Lijian Tan successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Multiscale modeling of the solidification
of multicomponent alloys"
on May 22, 10 am.
Links to his defense presentation and thesis can
be found here. Lijian is joining this summer the R&D staff of
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, Texas.
May 18th, 2007: Veera Sundararaghavan successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on
"Multi-scale Computational Techniques for Design of Polycrystalline Materials"
on May 18, 1 pm, TH 204.
Links to his defense presentation and thesis can
be found here. Veera is joining at the end of this summer as a tenure track Assistant Professor the faculty of the
Aerospace Engineering department at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
April 30, 2007: The second annual graduate student symposium on quantum mechanical modeling of
materials to take place May 9th, in Rhodes 178, 12-5 pm. More information on the symposium
schedule and links to presentations will be posted here.
April 24, 2007: Baskar Ganapathysubramanian's work on `data driven stochastic diffusion in
random heterogeneous media' was selected as a finalist in the 2007 Robert J. Melosh competition.
He presented his work at ETH Zurich,
Switzerland,
April 27, 2007. The schedule of this event is available
here
and more information on this
competion is provided on this link.
April 17, 2007: Veera Sundararaghavan, a graduate student from
the MPDC laboratory will be joining this Fall the Aerospace Engineering faculty
at the University of Michigan. This is only a small
indication of his great accomplishments in his four years in our laboratory. Warm congratulations
to him from all of us at MPDC!
March 1, 2007: The MPDC laboratory
participated in the TMS 2007 Annual Meeting and Exhibition,
Orlando, Florida, February 25th - March 1st, 2007
with seven presentations. These presentations
can be reviewed below for more details on our recent work.
July 14, 2006: The MPDC laboratory
participated in the The Seventh
World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Los Angeles, California, July 16-22, 2006
with nine presentations including a keynote lecture. These presentations
can be reviewed below for more details on our recent work.
May 11, 2006: A record number of MPDC graduate students completed their A/B exams within the last 2 weeks. In particular,
two MPDC members defended their PhD theses (S. Acharjee and B. Velamur Asokan) and two more (V. Sundararaghavan and
L. Tan) succesfully
passed their A-exams.
March 31, 2006: Professor N. Zabaras is elected Fellow of ASME.
March 20, 2006: An AFOSR-Computational Mathematics award through the DoD-DURIP program
will allow MPDC to acquire a 128-processor LINUX cluster dedicated to
robust materials design using multiscale mathematics and stochastic modeling. More information on this award is provided at this DoD web site.
March 15, 2006: The first annual graduate student symposium on quantum mechanical modeling of
materials to take place May 8th. More information on the symposium
schedule and links to presentations will be posted here.
February 1, 2006: A recent article of Lijian Tan & Prof. N. Zabaras on level set modeling of dendritic
solidification published on the Journal of Computational Physics is
featured on the
The ScienceDirect TOP25 Hottest computer science articles. This work can be reviewed from this link.
January 5, 2006: Professor N. Zabaras will be offering in the Spring of 2006 a
new graduate course on the simulation of materials at the atomic scale. Emphasis will be
given in determining material properties of solids, atoms and molecules
from the fundamental quantum mechanics equations for the
electrons (density functional theory). The course will include a variety of applications to nanotechnology.
December 21, 2005: Deep Samanta successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Computational techniques for
the analysis and control of alloy solidification processes"
on December 21, 2005.
Links to his defense presentation and thesis can
be found here. Deep is joining the Computational Mechanics R&D staff of
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in OH.
November 8, 2005: The MPDC laboratory
participated in the external review of the Sibley School (November 7-8, 2005) with a number of poster presentations
highlighting current research projects. These posters can be reviewed below for more details on our work.
August 26, 2005: Jingbo Wang successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Bayesian computational techniques for
inverse problems in transport processes"
on August 26, 2005.
Links to his defense presentation and thesis are
available here. Jingbo is joining the technical R&D staff of ExxonMobil Corp. in NJ.
August 1, 2005: A recent article
of the Cornell Supercomputing Theory Center (CTC)
is featuring
our work on materials-by-design.
July 27, 2005: MPDC laboratory members
participated in the USNCCM
VIII Congress in Computational Mechanics in Austin, TX, July
24-27,
2005, with a record of 10 paper presentations including 2 keynote lectures. Follow the links below
for reviewing these presentations.
June 18, 2005: The MPDC laboratory
participated in the MIT
III Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, June 14-17, 2005,
with 6 paper presentations. Follow the links below to review the papers presented in this meeting:
