Mathematicians are obviously critical to the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research.  Now a recent study published in the Wall Street Journal lists mathematician, actuary and statistician as the top three occupations in the nation based on five different criteria: environment, income, employment outlook, physical demands and stress.
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The 2009 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) supercomputing allocations were awarded by DOE.  The program, which supports computationally intensive, large-scale research projects addressing some of the world's greatest scientific challenges, announced 66 projects that have been awarded access to some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers at DOE national laboratories.

A community of scientists, technical experts, and executives from DOE National Labs, universities, other Federal agencies, and industry collaborated through Town Hall meetings and regularly scheduled conference calls to develop a science-based, systems level case for a new, transformational approach to cyber security.

The report, “A Scientific Research and Development Approach to Cyber Security”, which is based on the community’s collaborations over the past 12 months, identifies and analyzes R&D opportunities from that systems-level perspective.
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The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) awards are intended to recognize some of the finest scientists and engineers who, while early in their research careers, show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of scientific knowledge during the twenty-first century.  ASCR is proud to recognize Fiscal Year 2007 PESACE award winner, Bert Debusschere, of Sandia National Laboratories, for introducing rigorous mathematical methods capturing stochastic uncertainties in computational biology and providing a framework for simulation-based discovery; and for service to the Sandia Diversity Council and Foreign National Networking Group.
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DOE’s Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility is home to the world’s first petaflop supercomputer dedicated to open scientific research. The new petaflops machine will make it possible to address some of the most challenging scientific problems in areas such as climate modeling, renewable energy, materials science, fusion and combustion.  Annually, 80 percent of Jaguar's resources are allocated through DOE's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, a competitively selected, peer reviewed process open to researchers from universities, industry, government and non-profit organizations.
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Engaging science communities to discuss scientific grand challenges and the role of scientific computing

ASCR is planning, in partnership with the other Science programs, a series of collaborative meetings, each focusing on the grand challenges of a specific scientific domain and the role for scientific computing in addressing those challenges.
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A panel of computational scientists, applied mathematicians, and computer scientists gathered in February 2008 to identify recent breakthroughs in computational science and enabling technologies, supported in a broad sense by ASCR through the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program, the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program, and/or its base program. Their report details the accomplishments that have significantly advanced a scientific frontier during the past 18 months.