A study by researchers RENCI at UNC Charlotte researchers shows 570 percent increase in developed land since 1976.
Renowned historian and cyberinfrastructure pioneer to speak March 29
Orville Vernon Burton, a Clemson University history professor and renowned expert on Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War era, race relations and the history of the American South, will speak from 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., Thursday, March 29, in room 141 of the Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. Building, 201 S. Columbia St., Chapel Hill. A short reception will follow the talk. Read more
RENCI seeks proposals for Duke visualization program
Screenshot of the prostate cancer treatment planning tool developed by researchers at Duke University Medical Center and RENCI
RENCI is seeking two new Duke University research teams to participate in the RENCI at Duke Faculty Engagement Program in Applied Scientific and Information Visualization.
Computer scientist and pioneer of high-speed molecular dynamics simulations to speak at Carolina
David E. Shaw’s special-purpose supercomputer could help researchers understand malfunctions underlying many diseases. Read more
Coastal flood risks, present and future
Scientists can’t control coastal flooding caused by storm surge. But they can help government agencies and the public understand the risks from storm surge and wind waves in vulnerable areas like North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Read more
RENCI at UNC Charlotte studies Charlotte neighborhoods and the Great Recession
Researchers at RENCI’s UNC at Charlotte Engagement Center find that recession hits harder in neighborhoods with lower quality of life scores.
Read the full story here: http://ui.uncc.edu/story/charlotte-neighborhoods-recession-quality-of-life
Modeling the Perfect Fluid
This visualization starts with particles from a nuclear collision that are compressed and heated up to create a Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP), which looks like a “blob” in the video. Once the QGP expands and cools down, it decays again into particles that can be measured by the research team’s experiments. This is a so-called “hybrid’ model, that basically uses the Ultrarelativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics model (UrQMD), a microscopic model used to simulate (ultra)relativistic heavy ion collisons, to model very early and late reaction stages in the process. The model has been combined with a relativistic fluid dynamics calculation to depict the formation and evolution of a Quark-Gluon-Plasma.
Duke University physicist Steffen A. Bass uses big chunks of computing time to study the behavior of some of the universe’s most fundamental particles—quarks and gluons, which existed in an unbound state up until about a micro-second after the Big Bang. Read more
RENCI, Duke to build experimental networking infrastructure
CHAPEL HILL, Dec. 9, 2011–RENCI at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Duke University in partnership with IBM will lead a new project to build a nationwide test bed for networking and networked cloud computing. Read more
Tagged ExoGENI, GENI, National Science Foundation, Networking, ORCA
RENCI networking pros tapped for project to design the future Internet
CHAPEL HILL–RENCI’s networking research group is part of a team that will design a blueprint for a future version of the Internet.
The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, leads the $2.7 million, three-year project, named ChoiceNet, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. In addition to RENCI at UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University and the University of Kentucky have roles in the project. The project complements the work of the NSF program, Future Internet Architecture (FIA). FIA’s goal is to stimulate innovative and creative research to explore, design, and evaluate trustworthy future Internet architectures. Read more
Exploring the genetics of schizophrenia
RENCI’s Clark Jeffries and Dr. Diana Perkins of the UNC School of Medicine’s psychiatry department talk about their research that examines the genetic basis of schizophrenia in a Radio In Vivo interview.
