The U.S. Department of Energy will supply $10 million in funding for three projects that provide training and research opportunities in computational high energy physics.
The projects will involve graduate students working in “hardware software co-design, collaborative software infrastructure, and high-performance software and algorithms,” a news release said. Students will collaborate with the Energy Department's national labs on research projects such as software development.
Institutions receiving funding are Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, the University of University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of California in Santa Cruz, an awards list said.
“Future high energy physics discoveries will require large accurate simulations and efficient collaborative software,” said Regina Rameika, the Energy Department's associate director of science for high energy physics, in the release. “These traineeships will educate the scientists and engineers necessary to design, develop, deploy, and maintain the software and computing infrastructure essential for the future of high energy physics.”
High energy physics explores “the elementary constituents of matter and energy, the interactions between them, and the nature of space and time,” said the Department of Energy’s Office of Science’s website.
“Making future discoveries in high energy physics will require powerful computer simulations and software,” DOE Office of Science tweeted. “To prepare our workforce, @Energy is providing $10 million for classroom training and research opportunities in computational high energy physics."
