Publications
These articles showcase research in cyberscience—we define cyberscience
in its broadest sense, to include advanced computing and information science to enable discovery
and design through modeling, simulation, data analysis and visualization.
Cyberscience A Collaborative Voyage of Discovery
Computational discovery is inherently multidisciplinary, and the NSF, which sponsors the broadest range of basic science research, has made it clear that they are interested in sponsoring interdisciplinary teams through their Office of Cyberinfrastructure, which is structured to corss the seven discipline based directorates..... (read more)
Gypsy moth management made more efficient, cost effective
A computer model that provides land managers with a more efficient and cost-effective approach for controlling gypsy moths and other invasive pests has been created by biologists at Penn State and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.....(read more)
Professor gives Congressional testimony on climate change
Bill Easterling, professor of geography and agronomy at Penn State and director of the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment, served as one of six expert witnesses who testified before the House Committee on Science and Technology as a representative of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its latest report, Climate Change 2007: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.
If the climate changes are accompanied by increasing climate variability and frequencies of extreme events, crop yield losses are likely to occur at even smaller mean temperature increases than if variability is unchanged. It can now be stated with higher confidence than before that climate change is likely to challenge food security among the world's poorest people located in the low latitudes. ....(read the transcript of his testimony)
Researchers examine how weather can be risky business for some firms
Liz Claiborne, Target and the makers of M&M candies all have meteorologists on their payroll. Now a team of Penn State meteorologists and economists are investigating how best to model weather's impact on various business sectors and how to educate future forecasters to understand and operate in a business atmosphere.....(read more)
IST researchers classify Web searches
Absence of clouds caused prehuman supergreenhouse periods
PSU Critical Zone Observatory to study soil formation, water flow
Uncovering the mechanisms of lightning varieties
Virtual Data, Virtual Worlds
Imagine hundreds of thousands of molecules whizzing around you. You are standing inside a chemistry experiment, zapping the molecules with lasers and watching the results occur. Another scientist joins you. Even though your labs are thousands of miles apart, you are both surrounded by the same experiment. The limiting distances of the real world are irrelevant. Sound futuristic? Technology is quickly making this kind of dancing with data a reality. First step is...(read more)
A Sheet of Flame
Who took this fiery portrait, how, and why? (find out)
Model Surface
Extreme Engineering
Crystals Within Crystals
Probing Questions - What is junk DNA, and what is it worth?
A Mammoth Job
Engineering: Fighting Cavities, A Sticky Situation, and Fractal of the Cost
Smart Search
Tipping the Scales
Space and Time: Einstein and Beyond
We think of space as a three-dimensional continuum which envelops us. We think of time as flowing serenely, all by itself, unaffected by forces in the physical universe.
These notions reigned for over two thousand five hundred years. In the middle of the 19th century, however, mathematicians discovered that Euclid's geometry, which we all learned in school, is only one of many possible geometries. (read more)
Penn State Astronomer’s Images of the First Stars Featured on Discovery Channel
Proto-stars show their Penn State blue and white.
New Technique to Tip Electron Spins Makes Way for All-Optical Quantum Computation in Solids
New Penn State Computer Cluster Enables Researchers to Probe the Universe
Penn State a Partner in New Global Data Grid
Supercomputer Simulations Reveal Strongest Carbon Nanotubes
Cloudy day won't rain on laser communications
''In the past, laser communications systems have been designed to depend on optical signal processing and optical apparatus,'' says Kavehrad. ''We coupled state-of-the-art digital signal processing methods to a wireless laser communications system to obtain a reliable, high capacity optical link through the clouds.'' (read more)
Architectural engineering's Srebric receives distinguished service award
$1 million Marcus gift establishes service enterprise engineering center
Two renowned neuroscientists join Penn State faculty
Computer model predicts outcome of DNA shuffling
Researchers Create Search Engine to Hunt Molecules Online
Results from this search engine are much more relevant than results returned by popular search engines (read more)
New Search Engine Ranks Tables by Title, Document Content, Text Reference
IST Researchers Experimenting with New Software to Study Emergency-Management Planning
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