Category: General

  • Congratulations to Our Graduates!

    Congratulations to Our Graduates!

    Congratulations to everyone affiliated with the Penn Institute for Computational Science who has graduated this year. We are excited to see where you all end up! Scientific Computing M.S.E. Graduates Santnam Bakshi Yingzhe Chen Ziying Chen Rajnish Gupta Brandon Jones Jeffrey Li Xinrui Li Yunjie Qu Tarun Raheja Vaibhav Sahu Wangsheng Song Lei Sun Ziting…

  • SCMP Hiking Trip Highlights

    SCMP Hiking Trip Highlights

    On Sunday, April 14th, 2024, a group of SCMP students went hiking in Cape May, New Jersey. All photos are taken by Scientific Computing Master’s student Dominik Kau. See below for more photos from their trip!

  • Genesis Quiles-Galarza Dissertation Defense

    Genesis Quiles-Galarza Dissertation Defense

    Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering PhD student Genesis Quiles-Galarza will present her dissertation defense on Friday, April 19th at 3:30 PM in Raisler Lounge. Genesis is advised by Aleksandra Vojvodic. Her thesis will be titled, “Identifying Material Fingerprints of Relevance to Understand Adsorbate-Surface Interactions Using First Principles Modeling and Machine Learning.”

  • CBE Fourth Year Seminars with PICS Students

    CBE Fourth Year Seminars with PICS Students

    Two PICS students and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering PhD students, Jeongmoon Choi and Kshitiz Parihar, will be presenting CBE Fourth Year Seminars this Friday, March 1st. Jeongmoon Choi Fourth Year Seminar Jeongmoon Choi’s fourth year seminar, titled, “Identifying Ice-Philic Patches to Inform the Ice Binding Sites of Antifreeze Proteins,” will be held in Towne 225…

  • PICS Annual Report 2023: In Numbers

    PICS Annual Report 2023: In Numbers

    Over the past year, PICS faculty and researchers have published 244 papers, received a total of 26 faculty and student honors, and has offered plenty of events such as the colloquia and workshops often held in PICS 534. Please see the attached graphic for more information on the PICS annual report of 2023, in numbers.

  • 4th Year Seminar: “Computational prediction of MXenes for hydrogen chemistries” with Yamilee Morency

    4th Year Seminar: “Computational prediction of MXenes for hydrogen chemistries” with Yamilee Morency

    Yamilée Morency, PICS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Ph.D. student and advisee of Dr. Aleksandra Vojvodic, will be presenting a 4th year seminar in Towne 225, Raisler Lounge on Friday, February 16th at 12:30 PM. Lunch will be provided for up to 40 individuals. Read more about Yamilee’s seminar below. Title: Computational prediction of MXenes for…

  • PICS Colloquia Fall 2023

    PICS Colloquia Fall 2023

    Below you can find a full schedule of the colloquia planned for fall 2023. Please check the events calendar or Colloquia webpage for updates on dates and times for the colloquia! You can also fill out the contact form to join our listserv so you can be notified of upcoming colloquia.

  • Congratulations to all of our graduates!

    Congratulations to all of our graduates!

    A big congratulations to all of our PICS graduates. This includes all of the students in the Scientific Computing Master’s Program and students working with PICS core faculty. Master of Science in Engineering in Scientific Computing Graduates Abhinav AtrishiJingxuan BaoWei-Kai ChangMeng-Chuan ChangQihang, DaiYaoqi DengShiwei GeDhruv GuptaJiawei He Wei-Shen LeeZesheng LiuRichard OuLynx QiuRui TanPeiran XuAnusha PhadnisLucan…

  • PICS Annual Report 2022

    PICS Annual Report 2022

    Here are some numbers on the Penn Institute for Computational Science (PICS) in 2022.

  • PICS Winter 2021 Newsletter

    PICS Winter 2021 Newsletter

    News and Accolades Professor César de la Fuente and his group have a new paper out in Nature Methods, “Mining for encrypted peptide antibiotics in the human proteome,” they have also been working to create faster and cheaper COVID-19 Testing With Pencil Lead. Professor Danielle S. Bassett  was named a 2021 American Physical Society Fellow and a 2021 highly cited researcher. Professor Vivek Shenoy was also listed…