CREST Center for Mesoscopic Modeling and Simulation

NSF CREST介观建模与仿真中心(CMMS)将与纽约城市大学亨特学院合作，在纽约城市大学(CUNY)城市学院建立。城市大学多样性伙伴、研究生教育联盟、教授和路易斯·斯托克斯少数群体参与联盟的积极参与，以及关键的外部科学和教育外展合作，将加强该中心。拟建中心的科学重点将致力于几个截然不同但物理上相关的凝聚态物质和材料系统的中尺度物理化学建模、模拟和分析。CMMS的使命将是显著提高复杂介观凝聚态物质和材料系统的科学知识及其模拟能力，并增加与CMMS科学重点相关领域中代表性不足的群体进入研究生涯的人数。CMMS将把化学、物理工程和计算机科学系的研究人员聚集到五个高度跨学科的研究小组(IRGS)，每个IRG负责中心五个研究子项目/推力中的一个。所有五个IRGS都将专注于对没有晶格结构的复杂凝聚态物质进行中尺度建模和模拟。IRG I关注的是聚合物材料界面。IRG II将土壤作为一种松散的颗粒材料进行研究。IRG III涉及生物分子电子转移过程。IRG IV涉及膜中的大生物分子。IRG V研究的是超流体。所有IRG主题都具有多尺度现象、高度非线性行为、与环境的非平衡性和复杂性等统一和计算挑战的特点。CMMS面向研究生的教育活动将包括：介观建模专业课程、计算科学跨学科课程、研讨会、实习和贝奥武夫集群的管理培训，Beowulf集群将成为中心的主要学生培训机器。CMMS还将实施多方面的多样性招聘、保留和拓展计划。

The NSF CREST Center for Mesoscopic Modeling and Simulation"(CMMS) will be established at the City College of the City University of New York (CUNY), in partnership with Hunter College of CUNY. The center will be reinforced by the active participation of CUNY diversity partners, Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate and Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, and by key external scientific and educational outreach collaborations. The scientific focus of the proposed center will be devoted to physicochemical modeling, simulation and analysis at the mesoscale level of several distinct, but physically related, condensed matter and materials systems. The mission of CMMS will be to significantly advance scientific knowledge of complex mesoscopic condensed matter and materials systems and the capability for their simulation and to increase the numbers of persons from underrepresented groups entering research careers in areas related to CMMS's scientific focus.CMMS will bring together researchers from chemistry, physics engineering and computer science departments into five highly interdisciplinary research groups (IRGs), with each IRG responsible for one of the Center's five research subprojects/thrusts. All five IRGs will focus on mesoscale modeling and simulation of complex condensed matter without a crystal lattice structure. IRG I is concerned with polymeric materials interfaces. IRG II investigates soil as an unconsolidated granular material. IRG III concerns biomolecular electron transfer processes. IRG IV concerns large biomolecules in membranes. IRG V deals with superfluids. All of the IRG topics share the unifying and computationally challenging characteristics of multiscale phenomena, highly nonlinear behavior, nonequilibrium with the surroundings and complexity.The educational activities of CMMS for graduate students will include: specialized courses in mesoscopic modeling, interdisciplinary courses in computational science, seminars, internships and training in administration of the Beowulf cluster that will be the Center's primary student training machine.CMMS will also implement a multi-faceted diversity recruitment, retention and outreach plan.