Mission
The mission of ICS@PSU is to advance the science of discovery through
computational modeling and simulation and multi-modal data integration analysis. ICS@PSU was developed to enhance Penn State's national
and international presence and stature in cyberscience by
growing its foundational core and advancing its frontiers in the
Environmental, Life, Materials, Social Sciences. ICS@PSU will develop
and coordinate activities that engage the Penn State community
toward:
- Promoting foundations - meeting the need for an authoritative
source for fundamental principles and practices of modeling,
computation and information analysis, and verification and validation,
underlying simulation based discovery across disciplines.
- Expanding frontiers - including new and emerging directions
of broad scientific and societal impact such as predictive modeling
of infectious disease dynamics, Internet security, clean energy,
and tailored materials.
- Growing participation - reaching out to the community
of students, faculty, and industrial affiliates
through increased support for travel, training
and internships.
- Enhancing visibility - developing new venues for dissemination
of Penn State computational science research, including developing
science gateways on the NSF national TeraGrid cyberinfrastructure,
linking with international e-science systems, and co-organizing
workshops and symposia with other Penn State institutes and
professional societies.
ICS@PSU will promote this enterprise through coordination of computational
infrastructure and instrumentation for simulation, data management
and visualization, sponsorship of graduate and undergraduate
training, and strategic targeting of funds to support research
groups tasked with developing multiple large-scale high-impact
research proposals.
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