NSF/KDI Award

Under the KDI/NCC program, the National Science Foundation has awarded Duke a $2.3 million grant to fund an inter-disciplinary research project entitled

The project involves investigators from Mathematics, Civil Engineering and Duke Statistics at Duke, and collaborators at the University of Texas and Texas A&M. John Trangenstein, Professor of Mathematics, is the project PI. Duke Statistics Investigators are David Higdon, Peter Mueller, and Mike West, and Duke Statistics will attach a postdoctoral researcher and several PhD students to statistical modelling and computational research as part of the project. Other Duke investigators include mathematician William Allard, civil engineer Zbigniew Kabala, and computer scientists Jeffrey Chase and Alvin Lebeck.

Further details of the project, and Duke's new Center for Multi-Scale Modeling and Distributed Computing that houses the project, are coming on line.

Duke Statistics has postdoctoral and graduate student employment and study opportunities related to this project.

In the meantime, a brief article on the project was reported in the Dialogue on September 18th.