Much of mathematics involves so-called forward problems. These problems begin with a model of a physical system — say, a ball rolling down an incline plane — and researchers use parameters, such as ...

You could excuse Abigail Poteshman for taking a meandering path during her scientific career. While still in high school, she joined her first lab to conduct cancer cell experiments. Now, on the verge ...

Real-world modeling problems are rife with uncertainty and complicated interactions. To maximize profits, companies consider resource availability, environmental consequences, tax repercussions and ...

Environmental scientist Marianne Cowherd grew up in Michigan and loved snow. “My favorite thing was having school cancelled and going sledding,” she says. “But I never thought of snow as a water ...

Rahul Sahay’s quantum mechanics research started at his undergraduate school, the University of California, Berkeley. For his final project, working with DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship ...

A schematic of a quantum circuit used to study quantum gravity. A one-dimensional magnet enters the circuit at the circle’s circumference and a model of gravity is produced at the black dots. The blue ...

Alex Ballow works as a translator, not of human tongues but of the languages of math and physics. “I have refused to choose between math, physics and computer science during my career,” she says.

Computers are embedded in almost all aspects of daily life, including medical and defense applications where lives are at stake. Computer scientist Ariel Kellison of Cornell University works on ...

Like many aspiring astronomers, a young Margot Fitz Axen grew even more fascinated by the field after reading Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time. “Even in high school,” says Fitz Axen, now an ...

With the fifth season's first episode, a DOE CSGF-sponsored podcast launches a website. The Science in Parallel podcast’s new website is now live. The SiP website coincides with the start of Season ...

A fellow uses his deep experience in math and computation to study electric fields in proteins, reactions in batteries and other chemistry problems. Santiago Vargas is the computational Swiss Army ...

Laura Nichols is always solving problems, whether that’s doing logic puzzles in her head or using supercomputers to study defects in semiconductor materials. She says, “Riding in the car, growing up, ...