SEAS Hosts High-Performance Computing and Applications Symposium

Approximately 60 people attended the GW Symposium on High-Performance Computing and Applications hosted by SEAS and held at the Marvin Center on October 18th.

The symposium was conceived to provide a forum to showcase advanced computing work at GW and to learn about the direction and key programs of the federal government in high performance computing. It was the first of an annual series of conferences that SEAS intends to host to explore common grounds among our faculty, federal labs/agencies, and industry for joint efforts to advance multidisciplinary computational science and engineering research frontiers.

Among the topics covered at the symposium were computational fluid dynamics, crash analysis simulations, advanced computer systems and programming models, computational high-energy physics, and computational chemistry. Faculty from departments across SEAS and the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences noted that in spite of their interests in different scientific problems, the mathematical frameworks and the computational techniques to solve these problems are often similar and, therefore, provide fertile grounds for productive collaboration.

In addition to the presentations given by SEAS and other GW faculty, leaders from various federal agencies and government laboratories also addressed the symposium. Among them were the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National Science Foundation, Naval Research Laboratory, and the U.S. Department of Transportation.