2007 CSE Advance
On January 22, 2007 faculty from many different disciplines convened to discuss the future of CCSE at UC Davis.
Introduction
Computational Science and Engineering is an emerging area of research. This introductory presentation outlines efforts on other campuses as well as the leading organizational structures here at UC Davis.
Organizers and Participants
Faculty from many different campus entities were in attendance. Here is a full list of participants with links to websites and email addresses. The following are the organizers.- Mark Asta
- Jim Crutchfield
- Ken Joy
- Bill McCurdy
- Richard Scalettar
Goals
This agenda and goals presentation states that the goals of this Advance are to create a unified recommendation on education in CSE at Davis (graduate and undergraduate) and the potential role of the CCSE, the potential for new collaborative research grants and training grants, and the organizational, leadership and service structures for the CCSE.
Research Groups
- Computational Bio Physics/Chemistry
- Computational Materials presented by Mark Asta
- Complex Systems presented by Jim Crutchfield
- Computational Transport Phenomena presented by Jean-Pierre Delplanque
- Networks presented by Raissa D'Souza
- Data Management, Analysis and Visualization presented by Ken Joy
- Computational Environmental/Geological Sciences presented by Louise Kellogg with a short simulation of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake as viewed from Santa Rosa and a short simulation on polar ice cap predictions.
- Computational Applied Mathematics presented by Naoki Saito
Service
Pete Siegel gave a presentation on research computing at UC Davis. Siegel focuses on the service component of research computing.
Recap
What followed was a summary presentation by Bill McCurdy that restated the Advance goals and set up Straw-Man Proposals.
The organizers have made available some summary notes from the advance. It includes comments from the participants and a running log of the discussions.
Final Report
The final report is now available. It was published on April 5th, 2007.
Response
Dean Ko and Dean Lavernia have produced a response to the final report.