CAAM Research Groups
- CAAM Optimization Group:
- A main mission of the Optimization Group in the CAAM department is to promote and coordinate research and educational activities in the areas of optimization. Website
- Model Reduction of Dynamical Systems for Real-Time Control
- Model reduction and real-time control find applications in diverse areas. These include simulation and control of large-scale structures, weather prediction, air quality management, molecular dynamics simulations, simulation and control of chemical reactors (e.g. Chemical Vapor Deposition), and simulation and control of micro-electro-mechanical systems (e.g., micromirrors), to name but a few. Website
- TRIP: The Rice Inversion Project
- Studies mathematical and computational problems arising in reflection seismic data processing. Website
Interdisciplinary Research Centers
- CCG: Center for Computational Geophysics
- The Center for Computational Geophysics was established in 1998 to promote cross-disciplinary studies of the Earth requiring large computational resources. Comprised of 11 faculty members and research associates from the Earth Science, Computational & Applied Mathematics, and Electrical & Computer Engineering Departments, the Center has research areas in petroleum, environmental, and academic seismology, lithosphere and whole mantle geodynamics, and fault mechanics. Website
- Center for Excellence and Equity in Education
- The Center for Excellence and Equity in Education (CEEE) seeks to promote greater participation of underrepresented groups in the sciences, and to encourage academic excellence for all. Website
- CoFES: Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems
- The Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems is dedicated to the quantitative study of financial markets and their ultimate impact on society. By integrating the talents of economists, finance experts, computational scientists, engineers and other disciplines, CoFES will advance the boundaries of modeling and computational science in this important arena. Using a systems approach CoFES seeks to enhance academic disciplines, business operations and economic policy. Website
- EESI: Energy & Environmental Systems Institute
- The mission of the Energy & Environmental Systems Institute (EESI) is to advance understanding of energy and environmental issues, encourage development of related technologies, and inform policymaking in the public and private sectors. Website
- The Gulf Coast Consortia
- The Gulf Coast Consortia (GCC) brings together the strengths of its six member institutions to build interdisciplinary collaborative research teams and training programs in the biological sciences at their intersection with the computational, chemical, mathematical, and physical sciences. Comprised of six prominent and geographically proximate Gulf Coast institutions, Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, University of Houston, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, the GCC's goal is to provide a cutting edge collaborative training environment and research infrastructure, one beyond the capability of any single institution. The GCC's mission is to train the next generation of bioscientists and to enable scientists to ask and answer questions that cross scientific disciplines to address the challenging biological issues of our time and, ultimately, to apply the resulting expertise and knowledge to the treatment and prevention of disease. Website
- IBB: Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
- The mission of the Institute is to promote cross-disciplinary research and education encompassing the biological, chemical, and engineering disciplines. Website
- K2I: The Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology
- The Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology (K2I) is a research-centric institute dedicated to the advancement of applied interdisciplinary research in the areas of computation and information technology. K2I's heritage and primary strengths are in the areas of high-performance computing and computational science and engineering. K2I's goals are to support, foster, and develop a strong community of research and education across a wide area of computing technologies, computational engineering, and information processing. Website
- Rice Bioinformatics Group
- The Rice Bioinformatics Group, operating under the umbrella of both K2I and IBB, will be the Rice component of the Gulf-Coast Consortium for Bioinformatics, whose members, besides Rice, are Baylor College of Medicine, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas - Health Science Center, University of Texas - Medical Branch, and the University of Houston. Website
- The W. M. Keck Center for Computational Biology
- The Keck Center for Interdisciplinary Bioscience Training is the training arm of the Gulf Coast Consortia (GCC). The Keck Center brings together computational, physical, mathematical, engineering, and biological scientists in a stimulating and nurturing environment for the development and training of a new type of scientist - one who can incorporate theory, simulation, and experiment to expand our understanding of modern biological problems. Website
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