John Driscoll has been named this year’s recipient of UMass Dartmouth’s Outstanding Scholarship by an Undergraduate Student award - an honor bestowed on only one undergraduate annually in recognition of exceptional research. Under the guidance of CSCDR Director Sigal Gottlieb, John has developed efficient strategies for solving nonlinear partial differential equations using an implicit additive Runge-Kutta time-integration method. He is also collaborating with CSCDR faculty Zheng Chen, Scott Field, and Alfa Heryudono to characterize linear-operator behavior in neural ODE systems for unmanned underwater vehicle applications. His efforts have already resulted in a co-authored paper and several presentations at national conferences.

CSCDR faculty member Vijay Varma was featured in a recent story about using Purdue’s Anvil supercomputer to explore the physics of cataclysmic space-time events and help shed light on the nature of one of the Universe’s fundamental forces: gravity. You can read all about it here!

CSCDR member Collin Capano had his work recently featured in Nature. The article discusses a major discovery in astrophysics by observing new features in blackhole ringing. Researchers, including Collin Capano, analyzed data from the LIGO and Virgo detectors, finding evidence of novel vibrations produced by a newly formed black hole as it settled into a spherical shape. This black hole, created by the largest merger ever detected, challenges some accepted theories due to its massive size, equivalent to 150 times the mass of the Sun. This discovery marks the first time such post-merger vibrations, a long-theorized phenomenon, have been observed. For more details, you can read the full article on Nature's website.