Sentences with phrase «scientific grand challenge»

As the AX Division Leader, Verdon was responsible for the management of a scientific effort that is at the core of the Secondary Nuclear Design Program and the scientific grand challenge effort of achieving ignition at the National Ignition Facility.

The Smithsonian Institution fares well under President Barack Obama's proposed budget for 2012, but it won't be moving forward very fast on its scientific grand challenges, part of a new strategic plan put forth by Secretary Wayne Clough in 2009.

The Institute will spur significant advances in software infrastructure, education, standards, and best - practices that are needed to enable the molecular science community to open new windows on the next generation of scientific Grand Challenges, ranging from the simulation of intrinsically disordered proteins associated with a range of diseases to the design of new catalysts vital to the global chemical industry and climate change.

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Previous investors were led by Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, which provided $ 1 million through a Transition to Scale investment and helped catalyze matching investments from a wide range of sources including Maple Leaf Angels, MaRS Innovation, the University of Toronto's Connaught Seed Fund, the Government of Canada through the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC - IRAP) and the Scientific Research and Experimental Development Tax Incentive Program (SR&ED), and the Government of Ontario through investment by Ontario Centres of Excellence and support by MaRS Discovery District and ventureLAB / Genesis.

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Simulations were performed using a Computing Grand Challenge allocation on the Quartz supercomputer at LLNL and with an Exascale Computing Project allocation on Cori Phase - 2 at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at LBNL.

After conducting scientific investigations in four developing and developed countries, I consider sharing research resources, including funding, equipment, data, and talents, the grand challenge to global scientific collaboration.

Help solve the grand challenges facing society by pushing the boundaries of existing scientific disciplines and expertise.

These integrated, multi-investigator centers involve partnerships among universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and for - profit firms that conduct fundamental research focusing on one or more «grand challenges» and use - inspired «basic research needs» identified in major strategic planning efforts by the scientific community.

The C4 Rice Project is one of the scientific «Grand Challenges» of the 21st Century.

In line with the outcomes of 1999 World Conference on Science (WCS) and taking into account the 2011 Budapest Declaration on the New Era of Global Science and the 2013 Rio de Janeiro Declaration on «Science for Global Sustainable Development» we renew our commitment towards the responsible and ethical use of scientific knowledge in addressing the grand challenges of humankind.

Bjorn Stevens has a lot going on: scientific member of the Max Planck Society, director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, head of the department Atmosphere and the Earth System, professor at the University of Hamburg, lead author of an IPCC AR 5 Chapter 7, co-lead of a WCRP Grand Challenge on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity.

To meet this need, through addressing specific barriers in scientific progress, the WCRP Grand Challenge promotes research on weather and climate extremes that require international partnership and coordination, and that yield «actionable information» for decision makers.

ISB serves as the ultimate environment where scientific collaboration stretches across disciplines and across academic and industrial organizations, where our researchers have the intellectual freedom to challenge the status quo, and where grand visions for breakthroughs in human health inspire a collective drive to achieve the seemingly impossible.

In October 2015, we launched Grand Challenge, aiming of bringing together the world's greatest scientific minds to revolutionise the outlook for cancer.

On October 20, 2015, the White House announced a grand challenge to develop transformational computing capabilities by combining innovations in multiple scientific disciplines.

On the one hand, climate change is perhaps the single largest environmental of our time, and in fact of the grandest scientific challenges of the modern era.

The ensuing decades have seen an intense scientific focus on what is truly a grand scientific challenge.

CAS = Commission for Atmospheric Sciences CMDP = Climate Metrics and Diagnostic Panel CMIP = Coupled Model Intercomparison Project DAOS = Working Group on Data Assimilation and Observing Systems GASS = Global Atmospheric System Studies panel GEWEX = Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment GLASS = Global Land - Atmosphere System Studies panel GOV = Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) Ocean View JWGFVR = Joint Working Group on Forecast Verification Research MJO - TF = Madden - Julian Oscillation Task Force PDEF = Working Group on Predictability, Dynamics and Ensemble Forecasting PPP = Polar Prediction Project QPF = Quantitative precipitation forecast S2S = Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project SPARC = Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate TC = Tropical cyclone WCRP = World Climate Research Programme WCRP Grand Science Challenges • Climate Extremes • Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity • Melting Ice and Global Consequences • Regional Sea - Ice Change and Coastal Impacts • Water Availability WCRP JSC = Joint Scientific Committee WGCM = Working Group on Coupled Modelling WGSIP = Working Group on Subseasonal to Interdecadal Prediction WWRP = World Weather Research Programme YOPP = Year of Polar Prediction

CMIP6 is now underway with the WCRP Grand Science Challenges (WCRP, 2016) as its scientific backdrop.

I currently co-chair the CLIVAR working group on Decadal Climate Variability and Predictability and the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) scientific team responsible for the Grand Challenge on Near Term Climate Prediction.