Research Highlights
MSU researchers from diverse disciplines take advantage of iCER’s services to accomplish amazing things. iCER’s mission is to assist computational research by providing easy-to-use high performance computing platforms, we allow faculty and students to better focus on their research. Our systems enable larger, broader and more complex computation than ever before– work that could have taken months or years now can be done in hours or days.
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Identifying small molecule drugs to modulate the biological...
Dr. Bin Chen works in the Departments of Pediatrics & Human Development and Pharmacology & Toxicology at Michigan State University.
Modeling and Simulating Plasma
Dr. Andrew Christlieb’s research focuses on modeling and simulating materials in extreme states. The large range of temporal and spatial scales that need to be resolved in order to accurately...
Combining the Best of Blockchain and Cloud Computing
If you ask Nick Ivanov about his research, he might tell you that he is creating an anti-corruption machine in response to the inequity and unfairness he has seen in the world around him. Ivanov,...
Identifying Bacteria in Biological Samples by their Genomes
For more than a year and a half, Dr. Matthew Scholz was a Research Specialist with Michigan State University’s BiCEP team.
Combining the Best of Blockchain and Cloud Computing
If you ask Nick Ivanov about his research, he might tell you that he is creating an anti-corruption machine in response to the inequity and unfairness he has seen in the world around him. Ivanov,...
Nuclear Pasta Reveals the Mystery Inside Neutron Stars
Researcher Bastian Schütrumpf recently worked with Michigan State University’s Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research (iCER) to simulate nuclear pasta, a unique phase of nuclear matter formed inside...
Putting Together the Puzzle of Topological Data Analysis
As a high school student, Dr. Liz Munch decided she did not want to be a math nerd and opted to pursue a music degree instead.
Studying the Evolution of Higher Intelligence on MSU’s...
Dr. Chris Adami is a Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University.
Faster than Atoms — Using Ultrafast Lasers to Catch Cancer
Dr. Marcos Dantus uses ultrafast lasers to study microscopic chemical and biological interactions that are impossible to observe with any other tool.
Designing drugs at the atomic scale with computer simulation
At the atomic level, the molecules in our bodies are in constant motion, and are undergoing constant change. The motions are incredibly rich; they range from the isomerization of side-chains, to...
Advancing the supernova mechanism study with computer...
We are star guts. The elements that we are made of were forged in massive stars billions of years ago, then spread throughout the young Milky Way galaxy by the explosive deaths of those same stars...
Enhancing motor learning through VR and robot technology
Although the terms motor skill and coordination bring to mind feats of elite athletes or musicians, there is a tremendous deal of skill and coordination required even to perform the most mundane...
Machine Learning Human Rights and Wrongs
TextLab uses digitally available, unstructured text along with computational tools to address core social science questions such as what countries are violating which human rights over time; on...