A new National Science Foundation report led by a University of Michigan professor underscores the importance of computer modeling and simulation in advancing science and engineering, and finds that the U.S. no longer leads in all aspects of this discipline.The report, “International Assessment of Simulation-Based Engineering and Science,” was written by a 9-member panel of researchers from leading U.S. universities. The panel was chaired by Sharon Glotzer, a U-M professor of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Physics, and Applied Physics.
This reminds me of the time my Materials Science Engineering committee shot down my proposal for a novel GPGPU MD algorith because they didn’t feel it was in the realm of Materials Science Engineering… so to them I quote the article below:
Also participating in the workshop are Brian Athey, U-M professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in the Medical School, who is briefing the participants on big data and data complexity, and Eric Michielssen, U-M professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, who is leading a session on the challenges of algorithm development for simulation.
