Alexander Szalay, Ph.D. and Janis Taube, M.D., M.Sc., receive Life Sciences 2021 award for AstroPath at Falling Walls Science Summit

Janis Taube and Alexander Szalay. Credit: Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center

Astropath

Alexander Szalay, Ph.D. and Janis Taube, M.D., M.Sc., receive Life Sciences 2021 award for AstroPath at Falling Walls Science Summit

“The Johns Hopkins submission titled “Breaking the Wall to Mapping Cancer Using Multispectral Microscopy” was selected from hundreds of entries for the AstroPath platform design. AstroPath is a new, comprehensive platform for imaging and mapping microscopic sections of tumors to identify and validate predictive biomarkers to guide precision immunotherapies for cancer.”

December 10, 2021

Next-generation Database will Democratize Access to Massive Amounts of Turbulence Data

The project will provide access to and the manageable download of more than 2.5 million gigabytes of data for modeling turbulent flows Written by Lisa Ercolano and Caroline Swartz Led

May 1, 2021

Astropath

The Economist Article Highlights Szalay’s Cancer Research Techniques using AstroPath

Mapping Cancer as if it were the Universe Techniques from astronomy are being applied to medicine Over the past two decades Alexander Szalay, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University in

April 22, 2021

IDIES Member

Model Inspired by Search for Extraterrestrial Life Calculates Risk of COVID-19 Transmission

IDIES Associate Director, Charles Meneveau and member, Rajat Mittal are co-authors of a study that seeks to make sense of the many variables, including environmental ones, that can affect transmissibility

October 28, 2020

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IDIES Faculty Member, Brice Ménard and team published “Sequencing Seismograms…” Report in the Science Journal

Scattering of seismic waves can reveal subsurface structures but usually in a piecemeal way focused on specific target areas. We used a manifold learning algorithm called “the Sequencer” to simultaneously

June 12, 2020

IDIES Staff

Charles Meneveau reports wind energy industry’s future requires an interdisciplinary approach

IDIES Associate Director, Charles Meneveau, was a member of an international 29-person team that recently published a paper in Science outlining three scientific “grand” challenges

November 26, 2019

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Rajat Mittal and Jung-Hee Seo Explain the Aerodynamics and Acoustics of the Mosquito Mating Ritual Through Computer Modeling

Using funding from his Human Frontier Science Program Research Grant, IDIES member Dr. Rajat Mittal, along with Dr. Jung-Hee Seo, have developed a computational model of the sound generated from

November 26, 2019

IDIES Member

Congratulations to Rajat Mittal on receiving a Human Frontier Science Program Research Grant!

IDIES member, Rajat Mittal received a Human Frontier Science Program Research Grant for his work studying the communicative properties of mosquito movements. Founded by a collective of scientists from around

July 23, 2019

IDIES Member

Congratulations to Brice Ménard on winning the Johns Hopkins University President’s Frontier Award

On February 13, IDIES member Brice Ménard was awarded the President’s Frontier Award in recognition of his exceptional ability to develop new and potentially far-reaching approaches in big data sets. Brice

February 14, 2019

IDIES Staff

Alex Szalay to build petabyte-scale geographically-distributed Open Storage Network

IDIES Director Alex Szalay will lead the two-year, $1.8 million dollar project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create what may become the world’s largest scientific data storage

June 7, 2018

History

SciServer Featured in NSF’s Discoveries

NSF Publishes SciServer: Big Data infrastructure for science SciServer, an IDIES project to build a Big Data infrastructure, creating data access and analysis tools useful to all areas of science,

December 4, 2014

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