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Improving the Success of Underrepresented Populations in Computer and Computational Science Research with the CRA–WP Grad Cohort Workshops

The CRA–WP Grad Cohort Workshops are focused at the graduate level to maximize the likelihood participants will successfully complete their graduate degrees. Factors such as role models, skills, competence, confidence, mentoring, social support, and development of identity as a researcher help students to persist in graduate school, while factors such as sexism, racism, and dissatisfaction with their graduate program may cause them to leave. We, therefore, help first, second, and third year students build their skills, research strategies, and confidence; meet potential mentors from outside their institutions; develop connections with each other and with their research communities; and inform them about strategies for successful publishing, speaking, and advisor management strategies. By targeting early graduate students, we seek to help them stay in graduate school and in research.

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Artificial intelligence in computational materials science

In this themed collection we aim to broadly review some of the critical, recent progress in the application of AI/ML to various aspects of computational materials science and materials science more broadly. In this collection spread across two issues, we have assembled a collection of articles from leaders in the broad domain of applying AI/ML, which we collectively refer to as ML, in computational materials science. Together these articles curate the critical, recent progress in the application of ML to various aspects of materials science. Furthermore, these include ML approaches for understanding and driving electron microscopy, designing energy materials and the discovery of principles and materials relevant to the design of materials for the future, studying crystal nucleation and growth, the use of ML to describe force fields governing material and molecular behavior, and other topics.

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2025 Workshop on Envisioning Frontiers in AI and Computing for Biological Research: Position Papers

This workshop aims to identify key research directions for transforming biology using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and computational methods to facilitate the discovery of new behaviors, mechanisms, and designs of biological processes relevant to DOE missions, underpinning a broader U.S. bioeconomy. By developing novel AI/ML technologies to analyze and interpret complex biological data, researchers can organize and simulate biological processes at various scales as well as advance predictive understanding and manipulation of biological systems. This integration of computation, experimentation, and next-generation experimental technologies can lead to discoveries in new biological behaviors and mechanisms relevant to DOE missions. The focus is on how advanced computational and mathematical methods can impact this mission by exploring digital twins, foundation models, automated laboratory experiments, modeling of complex living systems, and data-driven approaches for the biodesign of plants and microbial systems. While data management is important, it is not the primary focus of this workshop, which will assess the current state, trends, and AI/ML challenges at the interface between biology and computational science to identify opportunities for high-impact research at their intersection. The goal is to define research needs and opportunities that align with biological sciences, computational sciences, and applied mathematics research.

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Position Papers for the ASCR Workshop on the Science of Scientific-Software Development and Use

Software is an increasingly important component in the pursuit of scientific discovery. Both its development and use are essential activities for many scientific teams. At the same time, very little scientific study has been conducted to understand, characterize, and improve the development and use of software for science. Computational science teams have diversified over time to include contributions from domain scientists who provide expertise in scientific and engineering disciplines, applied mathematicians and computer scientists who provide optimal algorithms and data structures, and software and data engineers who provide methodologies and tools adapted and adopted from other software domains. These diverse contributions have enabled tremendous advances in the pursuit of scientific discovery, even as models, computer architectures, and software environments have become more complicated. With this increasing diversity, we believe the next opportunity for qualitative improvement comes from applying the scientific method to understanding, characterizing, and improving how scientific software is developed and used. We believe that this pursuit requires expertise from computational scientists themselves, and from the cognitive and social sciences as well as the software engineering research community. As we look to increase the productivity and sustainability of the scientific-software-development-and-use cycle, a more systematic application of the scientific method to understand processes for software development and use will be a valuable tool to guide future work and result in more usable and sustainable software. This workshop will bring together computer scientists, software engineering researchers, computational scientists, applied mathematicians, social scientists, cognitive scientists, and others, to explore how we can conduct such systematic investigations, what can be learned, and how doing so will benefit the scientific enterprise. The workshop will be structured around a set of breakout sessions, with every attendee expected to participate actively in the discussions. Afterward, workshop attendees — from DOE, industry, and academia — will produce a report for ASCR that summarizes the findings of the workshop.

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Position Papers for the 2024 ASCR Workshop on Analog Computing for Science

Analog computing capabilities have existed since the dawn of science, but modern techniques potentially allow for the construction, verification, and characterization of complicated analog computing systems in a wide variety of contexts, from high-performance computational accelerators to nanorobotics and synthetic biology. In short, advances in analog computing can enable the creation of physical systems with complex behaviors that meet sophisticated requirements. Meeting our nation's needs, from needs in computing and modeling, to needs for advanced materials and energy technologies, continues to motivate pursuing novel kinds of complex systems, and thus analog computing techniques, in all of these spaces.

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Brochure on the 2024 ASCR Workshop on Analog Computing for Science

Analog computing fundamentally differs from digital by representing data with fully continuous physical quantities, such as voltages, probabilities, chemical concentrations, or light intensities, rather than encoding values in discrete binary states. While digital computing has historically excelled in precision, scalability, and noise resistance, newer analog approaches are gaining interest for their potential to dramatically improve energy efficiency and processing speed. Analog systems can inherently solve mathematical problems through their physical behavior and offer distinct advantages in scenarios where continuous operations are more effective than Boolean logic.

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