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From Director J. Tinsley OdenA record number of ICES graduate students will complete their PhDs this year, and a record number of undergraduates will serve internships at the institute this summer. So it was timely when Peter O'Donnell
remarked that our students are ICES' star products during our 10th anniversary celebration and building dedication. We have the highest appreciation for our
like-minded partners, the O'Donnells, who have now graciously allowed us to use
their name on the building they gifted to perform this important work. Read on to see how ICES and its friends keep the tower glowing.
 | | On Christmas Eve 2002, the 32nd and final draft of a proposal creating the new academic and research institute called ICES was submitted to the O'Donnell Foundation. The new institute added a huge spectrum of new disciplines under the umbrella of computational science, and 10 years
later the faculty are among the most influential
in the world. To celebrate ICES' 10th anniversary, the UT tower glowed orange and Peter and Edith O'Donnell lent
their name to ICES' home. Read more. |
 | | Peter O'Donnell, president of the O'Donnell Foundation and namesake for the
O'Donnell Building for
Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences that houses ICES, received a
Presidential Citation from The University of Texas at Austin. President Bill
Powers presented the citations in a
ceremony on March 6. The university created the citations in 1979 to recognize the
extraordinary contributions of individuals who personify the university's
commitment to transforming lives.
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 | | "It's when all this fails that they pick up a phone and call us," says Leszek Demkowicz, the leader of the ICES Electromagnetics and Acoustics Group. Demkowicz has gotten quite a few phone calls over the years. Oil companies have called him about modeling streamers, three-mile long tools that map what's under the sea floor while skimming along the ocean surface. And a phone call from a friend with a deaf daughter started his research on the acoustics of the human head. Read more. |
 | | Five faculty received ICES' 2013 W. A. "Tex" Moncrief Grand Challenge Awards, based on their compelling research related to the Grand Challenges in computational engineering and sciences. Read more. |
 | | Jeffrey Haack, a postdoctoral
researcher under ICES professor Irene Gamba, has been awarded $168,000
from the National Science Foundation to study high performance computing in
computational kinetic theory. The work has applications in atmospheric entry problems
for aircraft and satellites, nano- and micro-scale
engineering, shock wave structure, plasma interactions, and fusion
modeling. Read more. |
 | | ICES professors Clint Dawson and Marc Hesse have won the top two prizes awarded by the Society for Industrial and
Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Geosciences. Dawson, leader of ICES
Computational Hydraulics Group won the career prize. Hesse, a geological sciences professor, won the junior scientist prize. Read
more. |
 | | In late April, ICES is hosting the first in a series of ongoing thematic workshops aimed at bringing together top researchers in a specific computational discipline. This first workshop on April 28-May 1, will center
on multiscale modeling.
Seventeen faculty from across the country will present
lectures and their students will present posters on multiscale modeling, a technique that has become
increasingly important across disciplines.
"Engineering works at all scales and it's a real tough problem to cross these
scales," said J. Tinsley Oden, director of ICES. "Traditional
compartmentalization is becoming completely obsolete."
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