Rationale
The primary rationale behind establishing USACM Technical Thrust Areas or TTAs is to invigorate the USACM Executive Council's adopted thrust areas following a structured approach. The thrust areas should reflect current research trends and priorities in the national and international Computational Engineering and Sciences landscape.
TTA Charter
Each TTA will be charged with the following tasks:
- Organize tracks for mini-symposia in the technical thrust areas at every USNCCM;
- Coordinate USACM sponsored thematic conferences and workshops in the TTA;
- Be responsible for the organization of at least one thematic conference in a two-year cycle;
- Maintain a TTA website documenting all activities;
- Each TTA will be reviewed for renewal and continuation, in every two year cycle.
Process
- Each TTA will be run by a committee, consisting of a Chair, Vice-Chair and two committee members. All committee members should be established researchers in the subject area.
- Each TTA will be mentored by three members of the USACM EC, who have some understanding of the field. The primary role of the mentors is to identify and invite members of the TTA committee and provide general operational advice.
- Each TTA committee should include at least one junior member of the research community (Assisant Professor, Post-Doctoral Fellow at a national laboratory, etc.). Diversity (gender and race-based minorities) in the TTA committees should be encouraged.
- In the start-up period, USACM EC members who have been identified as mentors of each TTA will work with the broad Computational Engineering and Sciences community to identify members of the TTA committees.
- Each TTA will maintain a website with its activities which will be hosted by USACM.
Mentors and Technical Thrust Areas (2015-2017)
| TTA | Mentors | Committee |
|---|---|---|
|
Novel Methods in Computational Engineering and Sciences |
J. Dolbow, N. Sukumar, J.S. Chen |
Chair: C. Armando Duarte, University of Illinois Vice-Chair: W.K. Liu, Northwestern University Members: John Foster, University of Texas-Austin Deborah Sulsky, University of New Mexico |
| Isogeometric Analysis | Y. Bazilevs, T.J.R.Hughes, D. Benson |
Chair: Jessica Zhang, Carnegie Melon University Vice-Chair: Michael Scott, Brigham Young University Members: Michael Borden, North Carolina State University John Evans, University of Colorado-Boulder |
| Multi-Scale, Multi-functional Materials and Structures | S. Ghosh, T. Zohdi, A. Masud |
Chair: N. Aluru, University of Illinois Vice-Chair: Christian Linder, Stanford Members: M. Koslowski, Purdue University J. El-Awady, Johns Hopkins University |
| Uncertainty Quantification and Probabilstic Modeling | R. Ghanem, J.T. Oden J.S. Chen |
Chair: Jim Stewart, Sandia National Laboratories Vice-Chair: Robert Moser, ICES, University of Texas at Austin Members: Serge Prudhomme, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal/ICESUniversity of Texas at Austin Abani Patra, University of Buffalo |
|
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Fluid-Structure Interaction |
A. Masud, Y. Bazilevs, T.J.R. Hughes |
Chair: Tayfun Tezduyar, Rice University Vice-Chair: Ming-Chen Hsu, Iowa State University Members: John Evans, University of Colorado-Boulder Yue Yu, Lehigh University |
| Nanotechnology and Lower Scale Phenomena | H. Park, N. Sukumar, S. Ghosh |
Chair: Vikram Gavini, University of Michigan Vice-Chair: Dennis Kochmann, California Institute of Technology Members: Jonathan Zimmerman, Sandia National Laboratories Gregory Wagner, Northwestern University
|
| Biological Systems | K. Garikipati, R. Ghanem, H. Park |
Chair: E. Kuhl, Stanford Univesrity Vice-Chair: E. Budyn, U.Illinois-Chicago Members: Vacant P. Krsyl, University of California-San Diego
|
| Manufacturing and Materials Processing | D. Benson, T. Zohdi, J.N. Reddy |
Chair: Adrian Lew, Stanford University Vice-Chair: Caglar Okay, Vanderbilt University Members: Haim Waisman, Columbia University Wei Cai, Stanford University |
|
Mathematical Methods in Computational Engineering & Sciences |
L. Demkowicz, J.T. Oden, K. Garikipati |
Chair: Jay Gopalakrishnan, Portland State University Vice-Chair: Wilkins Aquino, Duke University Members: Ellen Kuhl, Stanford University Guglielmo Scovazzi, Duke University |
| Large Scale Structural Systems and Optimal Design | J.N. Reddy, J. Dolbow, L. Demkowicz |
Chair: Glaucio Paulino, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Vice-Chair: Ilinca Stanciulescu, Rice University Members: Pablo Seleson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |