Dr. Tevfik Kosar                                        Dr. Gabrielle Allen

Congratulations to Dr. Tevfik Kosar  & Dr. Gabrielle Allen on this new award.

This is indeed an excellent news for our  department in terms of our leadership in collaborative work.

The details of the award are as follows...

Collaborative Research: Community Infrastructure for General Relativistic MHD (CIGR)
Funded by: PHY (Physics at the Information Frontier)
Dates: 10/01/2009 to
Amount: $400,000 (Lead site in a $1,000,000 collaborative award with Georgia
Tech and Rochester Institute for Technology)
LSU PIs: Gabrielle Allen (PI, CS/CCT), Tevfik Kosar (CCT/CS), Erik Schnetter
(CCT/Physics), Peter Diener (CCT/Physics), Christian Ott (CCT/Caltech)
Partners: RIT, Georgia Tech, AEI, ORNL

(This award will provide the community infrastructure base for large scale multi-physics simulation codes, there are around 15 different physics groups around the world that want to contribute to this)