# Presentation: 230511

## CRASH: Lab Interaction & Education ProgramsAn Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Predictive Science

**James Paul Holloway**
**UM CRASH Team**

## Interactions

**Research collaborations with NNSA scientists**
**Over 110 papers with NNSA lab coauthors in last 10 years**
**Place students at the labs**
**Pipeline of students to the labs**
**Over 25 to NNSA labs from CRASH investigators**
**Over 80 from UM Nuclear Engineering alone to NNSA labs**

## Education Program Overview

**Our design based on two successful existing programs at Michigan**
**Program includes a “2+3” funding model and a core curriculum**
**Program also includes a lab stay during the student’s PhD studies**
**Goal of 16 students in the program in the fifth year**
**Michigan has committed 160K/yr in cost-sharing to this degree program**
**Expectation of involvement of a broad base of students doing predictive science, not just those in radiative hydrodynamics**

## A Model Existing Program - Applied Physics

**Address quickening pace of development at the frontier between physics and engineering**
**Mechanism for interdisciplinary training and research not readily accommodated by traditional graduate programs**
**Solid base in fundamental physics, while exploring applications in various branches of engineering**
**Top-notch students recruited from undergraduate programs worldwide**
**Students awarded 2 years fellowship funding:**
**Coursework in core math and physics subjects**
**Advanced electives related to their area of specialization**
**Begin research **

## Another Model Existing Program - Scientific Computing

**Any doctoral student at Michigan can add “and Scientific Computing” to their degree name**
**Doctoral thesis and doctoral committee composition must reflect an emphasis on scientific computing**
**Coursework must include**
**At least three computer science courses**
**At least three numerical methods courses**
**More than 60 PhDs from 10 departments have completed the program**
**15 have received DoE computational science graduate fellowships**
**Many are working at government labs now**

## Scientific Computing (cont’d)

**Where some students went and what they did**
**LLNL/CASC, computational fluid & plasma (Hittinger)**
**LANL, radiation hydrodynamics (Lowrie)**
**NCAR, climate modeling (Jablonowski)**
**LLNL/CASC, computational wave propagation (Gunney)**
**Case Western, tissue engineering (Shea)**
**LANL, geophysical fluid dynamics (Wingate)**
**LANL, radiation transport (Urbatsch, Wareing)**
**SNL, high-energy-density physics (Hanshaw)**

## New Predictive Science and Engineering PhD

**Recruitment model of Applied Physics - recruit top students from undergraduate programs worldwide**
**Funding model of Applied Physics - two years internal funding while students get required background, after which students transition to a funded research group**
**Flexibility of Scientific Computing Program - students can receive their degree from any doctoral program at Michigan (their “home department”)**
**Lab stay requirement of Scientific Computing Program**

## New Predictive Science and Engineering PhD

**Strong core curriculum tailored to predictive science**
**Software engineering**
**Parallel computing**
**Numerical methods and analysis**
**Probability and statistics**
**Capstone course in predictive science**
**Implement as a thread within the Scientific Computing PhD program**

## Capstone – Predictive Science & Engineering

**Developed by CRASH investigators**
**Prerequisites: earlier core courses in software engineering, numerical analysis, probability and statistics**
**Course topics include**
**Code verification and validation**
**Uncertainty quantification in experiments and codes**
**Assessment of predictive capabilities of codes**
**Team project**
**Apply to student’s own research**

## Rollout of the Program

**Initial students in program would be those associated with the Center for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics**
**Initial home departments would include Aero, Space Sciences, Computer Science, Materials Science, and Nuclear Engineering**
**Substantial fraction of cost-sharing funds for the Center would be used to support the two-year fellowships**
**Ultimately expand the program to include other home departments and research groups**

## Milestones for the Program

**AY 2008 - Develop and distribute materials to publicize program**
**AY 2009 - Recruit first cohort of at least 4 students into program, develop capstone course**
**AY 2010 - Recruit second cohort of at least 4 students into program, establish first offering of capstone course**
**AY 2011 - Recruit third cohort of at least 4 students into program, transition first cohort to research grants**
**AY 2012 - Recruit fourth cohort of at least 4 students into program, transition second cohort to research grants **

## Students as of Summer 2008

**12 students, from four departments**
**Aerospace Engineering**
**Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences**
**Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences**
**Applied Physics**
**Range from first-year to fourth-year doctoral candidates**
**Bi-weekly meetings to get exposed to scope of Center research**
**Have begun short course on Bayesian methods for predictive science, videocast from Texas A&M**

## Thank You

## Applied Physics (cont’d)

**Core curriculum**
**E&M I&II**
**Quantum Mechanics I&II**
**Statistical Physics**
**Computational Math**
**Condensed Matter**
**Where some students went and what they did**
**Duke, nanomaterials (Stiff-Roberts)**
**NRL, semiconductors (Brown)**
**LBNL, radiation detection (Amman)**
**NIST, quantum physics (Cundiff)**
**Howard, lasers (Walton)**
**NASA Glenn, plasma science (Foster)**