2007 Summer Fellows Awardees

Yaohang Li (Computer Science, North Carolina A&T State University) plans to work with NCSA's Eric Jakobsson and Rick Kufrin in an effort to improve the resolution of computationally predicted protein structures.

Farzad Mashayek (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago) will work with NCSA's Nahil Sobh and David Bock on the simulation of novel biofuel liquid combustors.

Vetle Torvik (Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago) will work with Noshir Contractor, leader of the Science of Networks in Communities research group at NCSA, to identify and quantify factors that influence the formation of scientific collaborations.

Thanh Truong (Chemistry, University of Utah) will build on the work initiated during his 2006 summer fellowship. He will again work with NCSA's Tim Cockerill and Doru Marcusiu on the CSE-Online cyberenvironment, focusing on integrating a database of molecular properties derived from quantum chemistry calculations.

Shaowen Wang (Geography, University of Iowa) will work with Luc Anselin, an NCSA senior researcher and professor in the Geography Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Wang and Anselin will develop new features for GISolve, a TeraGrid Science Gateway for geographic information science.

Paul Woodward (Astronomy, University of Minnesota) has adapted his PPM gas dynamics applications to run on a novel computer architecture, the IBM Cell processor. During his fellowship he will work with NCSA's Innovative Systems Laboratory and with NCSA chief science officer Bob Wilhelmson, an atmospheric scientist, with the goal of better understanding how applications will need to be adapted for future petascale computing systems.