by U-M MICDE | Jul 9, 2020 | News, Research
With the recent resurgence of COVID-19 infections, testing has become central to an integrated, global response to the pandemic. Accurate, effective, and efficient testing can lead to early detection and prompt an agile response by public health authorities. Strategic...
by U-M MICDE | Jun 26, 2020 | Research
Appropriate accounting of greenhouse gas emissions is the first step to assign mitigation responsibilities and develop effective mitigation strategies. Consistent methods are required to fairly assess a region’s impact on climate change. Two leading reasons for the...
by U-M MICDE | Jun 4, 2020 | Feature, Research
Inhalation of micron-sized droplets represents the dominant transmission mechanism for influenza and rhinovirus, andrecent research shows that it is likely also the case for the novel coronavirus. Increasing evidence suggests that the transmission of infectious...
by U-M MICDE | May 18, 2020 | Educational, Feature, Research
Problem Solving using Computational Thinking, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) launched by the University of Michigan in November of 2019, has already drawn more than 1,200 learners from around the globe. The Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery &...
by U-M MICDE | Apr 2, 2020 | Feature, News, Research
The COVID-19 pandemic is producing massive amounts of information that more often than not lead to different interpretations. The accurate analysis of this daily input of data is crucial to predict possible outcomes and design solutions rapidly. These can only be...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 24, 2020 | Feature, HPC, News, Research
COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium On March 23, 3030 the White House announced the launch of a new partnership that aims to unleash U.S. supercomputing resources to fight COVID-19: the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium. The goal of the...
by U-M MICDE | Nov 4, 2019 | Events, Research
Over October 31 and November 1, 2019 MICDE hosted the 2019 Computational Mechanics Vision workshop that aimed to gather and synthesize future directions for computational mechanics research in the United States. Attended by more than 50 experts in various...
by U-M MICDE | Oct 14, 2019 | HPC, News, Research
A team led by Prof. Vikram Gavini (Professor of Mechanical Engineering and MICDE affiliate) and including Dr. Sambit Das (MICDE Fellow) and Dr. Phani Motamarri (Assistant Research Scientist and MICDE affiliate), is one of two finalists nominated for this year’s Gordon...
by U-M MICDE | Oct 7, 2019 | News, Research
MICDE fellow Anil Yildirim, a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Aerospace Engineering, is working towards improving the overall efficiency of commercial tube-and-wing aircraft. The current commercial aircraft design with underwing engines have been the norm since...
by U-M MICDE | May 28, 2019 | Educational, Research, SC2, SC2 jobs
Dr. Bala Chandran’s Research Group, Mechanical Engineering, TREE Lab Dr. Bala Chandran is seeking a highly motivated graduate (doctoral or masters) student interested in doing research in the broad area of understanding radiative heat transfer in granular and...
