Jiang Wang selected for UIUC Physics Graduate Travel Award
Jiang was selected for a UIUC Department of Physics Graduate Student Travel Award to partially support his attendance at the APS March Meeting 13-17 March 2017 in New Orleans, LA …
Greg Hart selected for Global Young Scientists Summit 2017
Greg was selected as an invitee of the Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) held at the Singapore University of Technology and Design during 15-17 January 2017. Organized by the National …
Bryce Thurston passes prelim exam
Bryce Thurston successfully passed his Physics prelim exam. Well done, Bryce!
Prof. Ferguson wins AIChE CoMSEF Young Investigator Award
Prof. Ferguson is the recipient of the 2016 Young Investigator Award for Modeling and Simulation, from the Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum (CoMSEF) of the American Institute of Chemical …
Ferguson and Wong publish PNAS paper on machine learning discovery and design of membrane active peptides
In a PNAS paper published online today “Mapping membrane activity in undiscovered peptide sequence space using machine learning” (http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1609893113) Prof. Ferguson and Ben Fulan (Math, UIUC) report a support vector …
Prof. Ferguson named on List of Excellent Teachers for Spring 2016
Prof. Ferguson was named on the Spring 2016 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, ranked as “Outstanding” (top 10%) as the instructor of MSE 458 Polymer Physical …
Jiang Wang’s paper on mesoscale modeling of asphaltene aggregation published in J. Phys. Chem. B
Jiang’s paper “Mesoscale simulation of asphaltene aggregation” has been published in J. Phys. Chem. B (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b05925). Asphaltenes constitute a heavy aromatic crude oil fraction with a propensity to aggregate and …
Andy Long’s paper on machine learning and design of digital colloid information storage elements published in Soft Matter
Andy’s paper “Nonlinear machine learning and design of reconfigurable digital colloids” in collaboration with Eric Jankowski (Boise State) and Carolyn Phillips (Neurensic Inc.) has been published in Soft Matter (http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6SM01156J). …
Rachael Mansbach presents educational innovation paper at the 2016 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
Rachael presents a conference paper “Computational Modules for the MatSE Undergraduate Curriculum” in the T308-Computers in Education Division Poster Session at the 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition in New …
Rachael Mansbach wins a 2016-17 CSE Graduate Fellowship
Rachael’s proposal “Mesoscale Molecular Simulations of Self-Assembling Organic Electronic Nanowires” was selected for a 2016-17 Computational Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. This award provides RA support, conference travel funds, and …