Madeleine Kerr was a double major in physics and theater at Harvey Mudd College and studied acting at a London conservatory ...

“I love Venus,” she says. “It’s Earth’s evil twin.” The two planets are about the same size, but the differences are stark.

Notable program alum Amanda Randles models blood circulation — and is a role model for beginning scientists. Amanda Randles is the Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai associate professor of ...

Much of mathematics involves so-called forward problems. These problems begin with a model of a physical system — say, a ball rolling down an incline plane — and researchers use parameters, such as ...

A Georgia Tech fellow models renewable energy and other problems with ever-changing unknowns. Real-world modeling problems are rife with uncertainty and complicated interactions. To maximize profits, ...

A Montana State fellow charts a path from physics and modeling to a form of pure math called category theory. Alex Ballow works as a translator, not of human tongues but of the languages of math and ...

Materials scientist Luis Rangel DaCosta is applying machine learning methods to speed analyzing high-resolution images. The work fits Rangel DaCosta’s quest to understand puzzling phenomena. “When ...

Because most cancers are difficult to treat, scientists have long sought the disease’s Achilles’ heel. In some cases, identifying an errant protein or the biological pathway it uses to damage cells ...

High-performance computing (HPC) is only as valuable as the science it produces. To that end, a National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) project at Lawrence Berkeley National ...

A computational mathematician finds a national lab ideal for a highly collaborative career. Stefan Wild came to Argonne National Laboratory in the summer of 2006 for what was to be a four-month summer ...

As a child, Ian DesJardin found mathematics entrancing. “When you’re a little kid and believe magic is real, math and equations feel like spells,” he says. “They’re kind of this arcane knowledge that ...

A Colorado State fellow employs machine learning for climate modeling, putting provenance behind predictions. Weather so fascinated Jamin Rader in his high school years that he would compile forecasts ...