Winner: James Glimm

James GlimmProfessor

James Glimm of Port Jefferson recently led a team of researchers that won a 2012 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) Award from the U.S. Department of Energy and was awarded 35 million hours of supercomputing time on the IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Glimm is a distinguished professor of mathematics and statistics at Stony Brook University and is past president of the American Mathematical Society. At Argonne, his team will run calculations exploring the turbulence of fluids and stochastic convergence for turbulent combustion.