MCS Division Collaborations

At MCS, we believe that the key to solving challenging scientific and engineering problems is collaboration. Our computer scientists, mathematicians, and computational scientists combine forces both within the Laboratory and with other leading research organizations and agencies on a wide variety of projects.

• Awardee of the DOE Defense Programs Academic Strategic Alliances Center through the University of Chicago
• MCS is providing essential computer science expertise for astrophysics studies

• Joint project of the University of Chicago and Argonne
• Addresses challenging problems in the arts, sciences, and humanities requiring large-scale computation and communications
Ian Foster, Associate Division Director of MCS, is also Director of the Computation Institute

• Integrating geographically distributed computations and information services

• Joint project with Northwestern University
• Accelerating awareness and use of advanced optimization software in industry, government, and academia
• Email interface to NEOS Server providing the latest optimization techniques
• NEOS Guide provides information about and case studies of optimization algorithms and applications
• Library of NEOS tools contains advanced optimization software