Congratulations to the Cyber Center 2010 SIRG recipients!
August 9, 2010
The Cyber Center is very pleased to be able to continue supporting valuable doctoral research at Purdue through our SIRG (Special Incentive Research Grant) award. We received a significant number of very strong proposals, each well deserving of support. We want to express our appreciation to everyone who applied. Awards have been made for the following four proposals, with each award funding one doctoral student for the 2010-2011 Academic Year.
Enabling Continental Scale Water Resource Management: Adding Value to State and Federal Agency Large Heterogeneous Data Sets
Dr. Lou Si, Dr. Loring Nies, Dr. Chad Jafvert A Data Intensive High Performance Simulation & Visualization Framework for Disease Surveillance Dr. Arif Ghafoor, Dr. David Ebert The Ionomics Atlas: Mapping Ionomic Loci to the Landscape Dr. David Salt, Dr. Mourad Ouzzani An Innovative Simulation Tool for Real-time Hybrid Testing of Mechanical Systems Dr. Shirley Dyke, Dr. Rudolf Eigenmann
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