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.
Technical Thrust Areas
| TTA | Committee |
|---|---|
|
Novel Methods in Computational Engineering and Sciences |
2019-2023 Chair: C. T. Wu, Livermore Software Technology Corporation Vice-Chair: John Foster, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences |
| Isogeometric Analysis |
2019-2021 Chair: Michael Scott, Brigham Young University Vice-Chair: Hector Gomez, Purdue University Members: 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: Shawn Chester, New Jersey Institute of Technology Steve WaiChing Sun, Columbia University |
| Uncertainty Quantification and Probabilistic Modeling |
2018-2020 Chair: James Stewart, Sandia National Laboratories Vice-Chair: Robert Moser, University of Texas at Austin Members: Serge Prudhomme, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal/ICESUniversity of Texas at Austin Abani Patra, Tufts 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: Yue Yu, Lehigh University Jinhui Yan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Nanotechnology and Lower Scale Phenomena |
2020-2022 Chair: Anter El-Azab, Purdue University Vice-Chair: Jaroslaw Knap, U.S. Army Research Laboratory Members: Celia Reina, University of Pennsylvania Amartya Banerjee, University of California Los Angeles |
| Biological Systems |
2017-2019 Chair: E. Kuhl, Stanford University Vice-Chair: K. Garikipati, University of Michigan Members: Adrian Buganza Tepole, Purdue University David Nordsletten, University of Michigan |
| Manufacturing and Materials Processing |
2017-2019 Chair: Adrian Lew, Stanford University Vice-Chair: Caglar Oskay, Vanderbilt University Members: Haim Waisman, Columbia University Wei Cai, Stanford University |
|
Mathematical Methods in Computational Engineering & Sciences |
2019-2021 Chair: Guglielmo Scovazzi, Duke University Vice-Chair: Members: 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: Walter Gerstle, University of New Mexico George Gazonas, CCDC Army Research Laboratory |