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 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.
Technical Thrust Areas
| TTA | Committee |
|---|---|
|
Novel Methods in Computational Engineering and Sciences |
2019-2023 Chair: C. T. Wu, Ansys Vice-Chair: John Foster, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences Members-at-Large: Steve WaiChing Sun, Columbia University Michael Hillman, Pennsylvania State University |
| Isogeometric Analysis |
2019-2021 Chair: Michael Scott, Brigham Young University Vice-Chair: Hector Gomez, Purdue University Members-at-Large: John Evans, University of Colorado-Boulder David Kamensky, University of California, San Diego |
| Multi-Scale, Multi-functional Materials and Structures |
2019-2021 Chair: Marisol Koslowski, Purdue University Vice-Chair: Jaafar El-Awady, Johns Hopkins University Members-at-Large: Shawn Chester, New Jersey Institute of Technology Steve WaiChing Sun, Columbia University |
| Uncertainty Quantification and Probabilistic Modeling |
2020-2022 Chair: Abani Patra, Tufts University Vice-Chair: Serge Prudhomme, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal / Oden Institute Members-at-Large: Johann Guilleminot, Duke University Jian-Xun Wang, Notre Dame University |
|
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Fluid-Structure Interaction |
2019-2023 Chair: Ming-Chen Hsu, Iowa State University Vice-Chair: John Evans, University of Colorado-Boulder Members-at-Large: Jinhui Yan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Artem Korobenko, University of Calgary |
| Nanotechnology and Lower Scale Phenomena |
2020-2022 Chair: Anter El-Azab, Purdue University Vice-Chair: Jaroslaw Knap, U.S. Army Research Laboratory Members-at-Large: Celia Reina, University of Pennsylvania Amartya Banerjee, University of California Los Angeles |
| Biological Systems |
2020-2022 Chair: Adrian Buganza Tepole, Purdue University Vice-Chair: David Nordsletten, University of Michigan Member-at-Large: Jessica Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Manufacturing and Materials Processing |
2017-2019 Chair: Wei Cai, Stanford University Vice-Chair: Members-at-Large: |
|
Mathematical Methods in Computational Engineering & Sciences |
2019-2021 Chair: Guglielmo Scovazzi, Duke University Vice-Chair: Jean-Luc Guermond, Texas A&M University Member-at-Large: Alireza Doostan, University of Colorado Boulder |
| Large Scale Structural Systems and Optimal Design |
2019-2021 Chair: Ilinca Stanciulescu, Rice University Vice-Chair: Pablo Seleson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Members-at-Large: Walter Gerstle, University of New Mexico George Gazonas, CCDC Army Research Laboratory |
|
Data-Driven Modeling |
2020-2022 Chair: Ellen Kuhl, Stanford University Vice-Chair: Assad Oberai, University of Southern California Members-at-Large: Alireza Doostan, University of Colorado Boulder Paris Perdikaris, University of Pennsylvania |
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2020-2022 Chair: Tarek Zohdi, University of California, Berkeley Vice-Chair: Ellen Kuhl, Stanford University Members-at-Large: Thomas Hughes, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences J. Tinsley Oden, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences |