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Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES)

Multidisciplinary field focused on computational methods and computers for scientific discovery and engineering applications. Provides infrastructure and leadership for interdisciplinary programs in computational engineering and sciences.

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Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES)

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  1. Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) Karen E. Willcox Director, ICES August 2018

  2. What is CS&E? CS&E – Computational Science and Engineering : The multidisciplinary field concerned with the study, development, and use of computational methods and computers to enable scientific discovery and engineering applications. Computational Science and Engineering (CS&E) Mathematics & Mathematical Modeling Science & Engineering Computer Science

  3. ENGINEERING Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics Biomedical Engineering Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering Electrical & Computer Engineering Mechanical Engineering Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering ICES Mission Participating Departments & Centers5Schools & Colleges ◦ 23 Academic Departments ◦ 118 Affiliated Faculty (45 Core) To provide the infrastructure and intellectual leadership for developing outstanding interdisciplinary programs in research and graduate study in areas of computational engineering and sciences. JACKSON SCHOOL OF GEOSCIENCES Geological Sciences Institute for Geophysics NATURAL SCIENCES Astronomy Chemistry Computer Sciences Integrative Biology Mathematics Molecular Biosciences Physics Statistics and Data Sciences McCOMBS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Department of Information, Risk, & Operations Management Finance Marketing Administration DELL MEDICAL SCHOOL Diagnostic Medicine Neurology Women’s Health

  4. ICES People • 118 Affiliated Faculty • 45 ICES Core Faculty • 76 Research Staff (41 Postdocs) • 6 ICES Postdoctoral Fellows • 27 Administrative Staff (Sysnet & Clerical) • 80CSEM Students (38 US) – 15 New in 2018 -19 • 33 CSEM and NIMS Fellows • 38 Visiting Faculty Fellows (2016 -17) Total: > 320

  5. ICES People ICES Participant Distribution Affiliated Faculty by Department

  6. UT Executive VP and Provost Maurie McInnis Vice President for Research Daniel Jaffe Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences Director Karen E. Willcox Deputy Director R. Moser Policy Board Board of Visitors ICES Advisory Board Associate Director & Assistant VP for Research J. Bass Administrative Staff Technical Staff CSEM Program T. Arbogast (Chair) C. Dawson (Adisor) Administrative Manager F. Bridgewater Assistant Directors L. Demkowicz-Engineering W. Beckner-Natural Sciences Research Centers and Groups Cardiovascular Simulation M. Sacks, Dir. Computational Life Sciences & Biology R. Elber, Dir. Applied Mathematics I. Gamba, Lead Computational Geosciences & Optimization O. Ghattas, Dir. Computational Hydraulics C. Dawson, Lead Autonomous Systems U. Topcu, Lead Computational Research in Ice and Ocean Systems P. Heimbach, Lead. Distributed & Grid Computing K. Pingali, Dir. Computational Molecular Sciences G. Henkelman, Dir. Electromagnetics / Acoustics L. Demkowicz, Lead Computational Visualization Center C. Bajaj, Dir. Computational Materials J. Chelikowsky, Dir. Computational Mechanics T. Hughes, Lead Parallel Algorithms for Data Analysis and Simulation G. Biros, Lead. Numerical Analysis B. Engquist, Dir. Subsurface Modeling M. Wheeler, Dir. Computational Oncology T. Yankeelov, Dir. Predictive Engineering & Computational Sciences R. Moser, Dir. Science of High-Performance Computing R. Van de Geijn, Lead

  7. Industry Sectors Represented 6 Companies/Labs Involved 30 Affiliates/Partners Programs 2 Student Internships 15 Interaction With Industry

  8. National and International Programs • MoU’s - Targeting Cooperative/Collaborative Research with... • Federal University of Rio De Janerio • International Center for Numerical Methods • in Engineering • LaboratorioNacional De ComputacaoCientifica • Portuguese University Consortium - Colab • Sandia Corporation (renewed) • Texas Heart Institute • UniversitatPolitecnica De Catalunya • RWTH Aachen University • The Technical University of Munich • JTO Visitor’s Program

  9. The CSEM Program • Ph.D. and M.S. in Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics • Management: Graduate Studies Committee • Chair: Todd Arbogast • Graduate Advisor: Clint Dawson • Qualification Areas • Area A: Applicable Mathematics • Area B: Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation • Area C: Mathematical Modeling and Application • CSEM & NIMS Fellowship Programs • 19 CSEM Fellows & 14 NIMS Fellows 80 Students Enrolled 38 Students from US (15 New Students 2018-19) 54 GSC Faculty 118 Affiliated Faculty

  10. CSEM Program Statistics Enrollment and Degrees Awarded 1998-2016 First Job After Graduation Degrees Awarded 2016-17: 7 - PhD’s 13 - MS 2017-18: Project 11 PhD’s

  11. ICES Undergraduate Certificate Program In May 2009, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved The Computational Science & Engineering Certificate Program administered by the Institute. • Mission: • Introduce undergraduates at the junior and senior level to in-depth study and research in CS&E • Scope: • Students take 18 credit hrs. including a 3 hr. research project • Students GPA in certificate courses > 3.0 • Courses are selected from an approved list in Mathematics, Basic Programming, Advanced Computing, Numerical Applications • Students receive a certificate and recognition on their transcript • 88 students were enrolled in 2017-18 and 14 received certificates

  12. ICES Seminar Series • Meets Twice Weekly • 50 Seminars this Past Year • Other Seminar Series in ICES • Numerical Analysis Series • Molecular Biophysics Series • ICES Forum • Student Forum Aluru Bukowski Ainsworth Ling Giustino Giessibl Khajah Castillo Zarins Isakson Vemaganti

  13. Peter O’Donnell Building for Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences

  14. Tera/Peta-Scale Computing Systems Maintained by TACC at the Pickle Research Center Stampede 2 - Dell-Intel-Seagate Phase 1 - 12.8 PFLOPS (June 2017) Phase 2 - 18 PFLOPS (Fall 2017) Ranked 12thin the world Top500 (June 2017) Cray XC40 Cluster (Lonestar5) 30,048 Cores ~1.25 PFLOPS Online January 2016 Ranked 129thin the world Top500 (June 2017) ICES has ~25 M hours in dedicated time on Lonestar5.

  15. ICES Computing Clusters Euclid 184-Cores Halifax 1344-Cores BEVO3 180-Cores Ronaldo 120-Cores Stampede 512-Cores Junior 184-Cores Prism2 64-Cores Sverdrup 1008-Cores Plus 4 new Clusters in 2017 each with 640 Cores (Stampede nodes).

  16. ACES Visualization Laboratory Stallion – Tiled Display 80 – 30” flat panel monitors 328M Pixels Sony High-Resolution Projector 20’ x 11’ display Lasso – 12 Megapixel Touch Display System

  17. Research at ICES Tumor Growth Modeling Oil Spills & Hurricane Surge Mantle Convection Cardiovascular Modeling - Heart Valves DNA Synthesis Subsurface Modeling Drug Design Aneurysms & Blood Flow Modeling Visualization & Image Processing Ocean & Atmospheric Modeling Spacecraft Re-entry New Materials for Solar Cells Atomic Force Microscopy Communications Devices Earthquakes

  18. Thank You

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