On Tuesday, April 22nd, computational researchers from across Northwestern met for Computational Research Day: a series of talks, panel discussions, and a poster session, which all focused on the way that high-performance computing helps researchers on both the Evanston and downtown campuses. The event was hosted by Northwestern University’s IT group, and sponsored by the McCormick School of Engineering, the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, CIERA, Northwestern’s Library, and the Office for Research. CIERA supported and helped to organize the interdisciplinary poster session, which brought together 20 researchers from the Departments of Chemistry, Chemical & Biological Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Materials Science, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Neurology, Physics & Astronomy, as well as Northwestern’s Brain Tumor Institute, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, and the Research Center of the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. As part of the poster session, the posters were judged by seven volunteers, and five awards were given:
| Postdoctoral Research Poster Awards: | Graduate Student Poster Awards: | Undergraduate Student Poster Award: |
| First Prize: Diego Gomez-Gualdron (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering) |
First Prize: Niharika Sravan (Department of Physics and Astronomy) |
First Prize: Scott Coughlin (Department of Physics and Astronomy) |
| Second Prize (Tie): David Malaspina (Department of Biomedical Engineering) Joshua Jacobs (Northwestern’s Brain Tumor Institute) |
Second Prize: Alireza Bonakdar (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) |
Many thanks to our judges, for their work! Elizabeth Hicks, John Everett, Alex Hryn, Lindsey Madison, John Gibbs, Pavan Ramkumar, and Daniel Wood reviewed the posters and talked with the participants over the course of the main, one-hour poster session.