The basic mission of the MCS Division is increase scientific productivity in the 21st century by providing intellectual and technical leadership in the computing sciences -- computer science, applied computational mathematics, and computational science. Projects in the division range from algorithm development and software design in core areas such as optimization, to exploration of new technologies such as distributed (Grid) computing and bioinformatics, to numerical simulations in challenging areas such as climate modeling. http://www.mcs.anl.gov Argonne National Laboratory Four researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have received 2012 Early Career Research Program awards, granted to exceptional researchers beginning their careers. Among the researchers selected are Victor http://www.mcs.anl.gov/news/detail.php?id=748 The Illinois Technology Association (ITA) has named grid and cloud computing pioneer Ian Foster its CityLIGHTS Technologist of the Year for 2012. The ITA CityLIGHTS awards, given annually to key thought leaders and companies from the Illinois technol http://www.mcs.anl.gov/news/detail.php?id=750 According to the International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) researchers in Argonne’s Mathematics and Computer Science Division have co-authored 9 of the top 22 papers in the past 20 years of public http://www.mcs.anl.gov/news/detail.php?id=740 Sou-Cheng Choi, a computational mathematician, together with colleagues Christopher Paige and Michael Saunders, has won the 2012 SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra (SIAG/LA) Prize, for the paper “MINRES-QLP: A Krylov Subspace Method for Inde http://www.mcs.anl.gov/news/detail.php?id=736 Researchers at Argonne have received part of a planned $25 million grant from the DOE Office of Science to tackle the problem of extracting knowledge from massive data sets. The work is part of the DOE’s newly established Scalable Data Manageme http://www.mcs.anl.gov/news/detail.php?id=732 Barry Smith (MCS), senior computational mathematician, was recently named a 2012 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellow. He is recognized for "contributions in formulating a theoretical framework for domain decomposition, d http://www.mcs.anl.gov/news/detail.php?id=726 Rajeev Thakur, senior scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) Division at Argonne National Laboratory, will be technical program chair of the SC12 conference. SC is the premier international conference for high-performance computing, http://www.mcs.anl.gov/news/detail.php?id=724 Large-scale optimization problems arise in many applications, including nuclear reactor simulation, fluid dynamics, parameter estimation, and optimal control. Researchers seeking to solve such problems on high-performance architectures have faced num http://www.mcs.anl.gov/news/detail.php?id=722 Under the DOE-funded Universal Nuclear Energy Density Functional (UNEDF) SciDAC collaboration, researchers have been conducting a study of nuclear fission, based on nuclear density functional theory (DFT) and its extensions. The goal is to deliver fi http://www.mcs.anl.gov/news/detail.php?id=720 Temperature extrema in confined turbulent flows around wire-wrapped nuclear fuel pins—the heat exchanger, typical of many nuclear reactor designs—are not well understood. The main reason is that local extrema can be inves http://www.mcs.anl.gov/news/detail.php?id=694