Sample Computational Research
n Computational Chemistry (King, Kofke, Coppens, Furlani, Tilson, Lund,
Swihart, Ruckenstein, Garvey)
q Algorithm development & simulations
n Groundwater Flow Modeling (Rabideau, Jankovic, Becker, Flewelling)
q Predict contaminant flow in groundwater & possible migration into streams and lakes
n Geophysical Mass Flows (Patra, Sheridan, Pitman, Bursik, Jones, Winer)
q Study of geophysical mass flows for risk assessment of lava flows and mudslides
n Bioinformatics (Zhou, Miller, Hu, Szyperski – NIH Consortium, HWI)
q Protein Folding: computer simulations to understand the 3D structure of proteins
q Structural Biology; Pharmacology
n Computational Fluid Dynamics (Madnia, DesJardin, Lordi, Taulbee)
q Modeling turbulent flows and combustion to improve design of chemical reactors,
turbine engines, and airplanes
n Physics (Jones, Sen)
q Many-body phenomena in condensed matter physics
n Chemical Reactions (Mountziaris)
n Molecular Simulation (Errington)