For the study, the
research team used a parallel computing code for modeling star clusters developed through a CIERA -
supported interdisciplinary collaboration between Northwestern's physics and astronomy department and electrical engineering and computer science department.
Among Brielmaier's duties will be to collaborate with Berry and the Tang Museum
team on realizing critical aspects of the College's $ 1.2 - million Mellon Foundation initiative to strengthen the ways the Museum uses its collection to explore issues of identity and race, and to
support interdisciplinary research in this area.