IACS' own Prof. Heather Lynch was featured on CBS News, discussing her lab's exciting discovery of 1.5 mil Adélie penguins on the Danger Islands in Antarctica, which were previously unaccounted for. She credits the use of drones for the recent revelation and discusses how her team’s discovery may impact conservation in the Antarctic.

After noticing the telltale signs of guano streaks on satellite imagery, an international team of researchers set out to count the number of penguins on Antarctica’s aptly named Danger Islands. They found a previously undetected supercolony of over 1.5 million Adélie penguins—a surprising result, given how poorly these aquatic birds are doing just 100 miles away.

With the New Year comes new experiences and opportunities, and the IACS Student Association does not disappoint! Starting Spring 2018, the Student Association will be changing their Student Seminar Series to allow participants a chance to discuss and present their research in a much more relaxed environment in front of an audience with a wide variety of backgrounds. 

Funded by a five-year, $3 million National Science Foundation grant and implemented by the Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS), STRIDE prepares the next generation of scientists to translate complex data-enabled research into informed decisions and sound policies.

Middle and high school students and their parents from across Long Island gathered at IACS on Sunday, January 14 to practice for the upcoming NACLO contest.

Significant research in the area of computational power and large-scale application efficiency is being conducted by Professor Barbara Chapman, one of the latest computer science faculty members to receive an NSF funding award.  Chapman has won the NSF Scalable Parallelism in the Extreme, otherwise known as an SPX award, for her research entitled, Cross-layer Application-Aware Resilience at Extreme Scale (CAARES).

Dr. Javier Dominguez Gutierrez has just received word that he has been awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers, which he will undertake in Garching, Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.  He will be working on machine learning algorithms and applications in Plasma-Material Interactions (PMI) for fusion.

Stony Brook University assistant professor Jason Trelewicz brings his research to design and stabilize nanostructures in metals to Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials

IACS Deputy Director Alan Calder (Co-PI) and IACS Affiliate Faculty Michael Zingale (PI), both from the Physics and Astronomy Department, were awarded 40M processor hours through the INCITE Leadership Computing program sponsored by the US Department of Energy.

Although filled with tropical life today, the Caribbean islands have been a hotspot of mammal extinction since the end of the last glaciation, some 12,000 years ago. Since people also arrived after that time, it has been impossible to determine whether natural changes or human influence are most responsible for these extinctions.

Heather Lynch, an IACS faculty member, has developed a NASA-funded web tool, Mapping Application for Penguin Populations and Projected Dynamics (MAPPPD), to check on four species of Antartic penguins. 

An exceptional presentation was given by one of IACS’ distinguished physics graduate students, Donald Willcox, at the first annual Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Computational Physical Science (ITCPS) meeting hosted by the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The workshop took place in Japan from October 2-8, 2017.

The 11^th annual Northeast Computational Phonology (NECPhon) meeting took place at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS) at Stony Brook University this past weekend.