CREST Center for Mesoscopic Modeling and Simulation

美国国家科学基金会CREST介观建模与仿真中心（CMMS）将与纽约市立大学亨特学院合作，在纽约市立大学市立学院建立。该中心将通过纽约市立大学多元化合作伙伴、研究生教育联盟、教授和路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族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，得到加强。拟议中心的科学重点将致力于几种不同但物理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的使命将是显著推进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，并增加未被充分代表的群体进入与CMMS科学重点相关领域的研究职业的人数。CMMS将把来自化学、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（IRG）中，每个IRG负责中心的五个研究子项目/重点之一。所有五个IRGs都将专注于没有晶格结构的复杂凝聚态物质的中尺度建模和模拟。irgi关注的是高分子材料的界面。IRG II将土壤作为未固结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涉及膜中的大分子生物。IRG V处理超流体。所有的IRG主题都具有多尺度现象、高度非线性行为、与周围环境的非平衡和复杂性的统一和计算挑战性特征。CMMS对研究生的教育活动将包括：介观建模的专业课程、计算科学的跨学科课程、研讨会、贝奥武夫集群管理的实习和培训，贝奥武夫集群将成为该中心主要的学生培训机器。CMMS还将实施多方面的多元化招聘、保留和推广计划。

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.