Other UMN Centers
Army High Performance Computing Research Center
The Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC)
conducts computational science research in areas of defense technology that are
important to the Army and the Department of Defense. The center promotes
research collaborations between its seven partner institutions and the Army.
AHPCRC also supports educational programs designed to encourage students to
pursue careers in high performance computing.
Charles Babbage Institute of Computer History
The Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) is an archives and research center dedicated to promoting the study of the history of computing and its impact on society. CBI provides fellowship support, preserves relevant documentation, and conducts original historical inquiry. CBI resources include an online collection of oral historiesÑmore than 300 interviews with people who are knowledgeable about the history of computers, software, and networking.
History of Science and Technology
The History of Science and Technology is a dynamic interdisciplinary field of scholarship that studies the development of science and technology in their broader cultural context. The field is growing rapidly as people realize that science and technology are themselves among the most important cultural phenomena of the modern age. The Program in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota ranks among the country's best. It offers both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, with comprehensive opportunities for advanced research and study in history of the physical sciences, the biological sciences, and technology. Within these areas, students are encouraged to make use of the perspectives and methods of intellectual, institutional, social, economic, and cultural history.
NSF Institute for Mathematics and Its
Applications
The NSF Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA) works
to close the gap between mathematical theory and its applications. The IMA
identifies problems and areas of mathematical research needed in other sciences
and encourages the participation of mathematicians in solving these problems.
The institute sponsors an annual program devoted to a specific topic,
workshops, and industrial problems seminars.
Institute for the Theory of Advanced
Materials in Information Technology
The Institute for the Theory of Advanced Materials in Information
Technology serves as a focal point for the creation of new knowledge and
computational tools for advanced materials, providing researchers with access
to high performance computational platforms and algorithms for the simulation
of materials. Research areas include the study of organic and plastic
semiconductors, low k dielectrics, dilute magnetic semiconductors and
spintronic devices, and carbon nanotubes and nanowires.
Integrative Graduate Education and
Research Traineeship
The IGERT for Nanoparticle Science and Engineering is funded
through the
NSF "Integrative Graduate Education and Traineeship" (IGERT) program.
Our group comprises students and faculty from 5 departments: Chemistry,
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Physics. The IGERT supports graduate
students through 2-year fellowships at stipends equal to that of the NSF
Graduate Fellowship. Fellowships will be awarded to students who are U.S. citizens
and domestic residents and who will perform nanoparticle research for the Ph.D.
thesis work. Students have co-advisors from 2
different departments. Research is currently conducted on projects on
nanostructured materials, nanoparticle based devices, development of
instrumentation and characterization methods for nanoparticles, the
environmental impact of nanoparticles, and on computational methods for
nanoparticle research. The IGERT also features a collaboration with Florida
A&M University as well as an international student exchange program with
the Universities of Duisburg (Germany) and Delft (The
Netherlands).
IT Center for Educational Programs
(ITCEP)
ITCEP develops and administers educational programs for K-12,
undergraduate, and graduate students in the area of mathematics, science, and
engineering. ITCEP's K-12 programs, which are offered during the academic year
and the summer, are designed to keep young students interested in mathematics,
science, and engineering, and to help them gain a sense of participation in
scientific culture and its impact on their lives.
Laboratory of Computational Science and Engineering
(LCSE)
The Laboratory of Computational Science and Engineering (LCSE)
provides a facility in which innovative hardware and system software solutions
to problems in computational science and engineering can be tested and applied.
The LCSE is built around strong and long-standing collaborations between
Laboratory researchers and the computer industry. It also has a mandate for
outreach to industries that now use or would like to use high performance
computing to expand their capabilities. Although the Laboratory builds new
combinations of computing elements and experiments with new computing
paradigms, the LCSE combines these functions with applications of the new
technologies, and thus provides significant high performance computing
resources to its users. The LCSE has a broad mandate to develop innovative high
performance computing technologies and capabilities in computational science
and engineering.
Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering (LCSE) The
Minnesota Geological Survey is a unit of the Newton Horace Winchell School of
Earth Sciences in the University of Minnesota. The Survey is the University
outreach center for the science and technology of earth resources in Minnesota.
The Survey conducts basic and applied earth science research, conveys that
information to the public through publications and service activities, and
promotes earth science education. Minnesota is its exclusive focus.
The St. Anthony Falls Laboratory is a teaching and research
facility of the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota. Our
goal is to advance the knowledge and understanding of environmental hydraulics,
turbulence, earthscape evolution, and climate/ ecosystem dynamics via high
quality experimental, theoretical and computational research. As a group, we
are committed to transferring that knowledge to the engineering community and
to the public through applied research and outreach activities.
Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation
The mission of the Supercomputing Institute is
supercomputing research. This includes all aspects of high-performance
computing and scientific modeling and simulation as well as graphics,
visualization, high-performance network communications, informatics, and data
mining.
Theoretical Physics Institute (TPI)
The William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (TPI) is a major
international center for research in theoretical physics. Its seven members are
major contributors to elementary particle, astro-particle, and condensed matter
physics; the research areas that are the foci of the Institute's research.
These research activities are supported by funds from the Institute's endowment
as well as from grants obtained from federal agencies such as the National
Science Foundation and the Department of Energy.