SCRI consists of researchers in fields spanning the physical sciences, engineering, mathematics and computer science doing work in applications areas which serve as nuclei or vital components of university-wide, national, or international collaborations.
All groups are strongly computationally oriented.
Computational methodology is the common ground for the Institute and its work. Scientists at SCRI form one of the largest and most productive groups in numerical simulations of quantum field theories such as QCD and the Standard Model. They, along with their collaborators around the world, are carrying out massive numerical investigations into the properties of the elementary particles and their interactions. They have also been in the forefront among developers of algorithms and related software for this purpose. The group of experimenters in high energy physics participate in experiments at CERN and at Fermilab, and are leaders in the fields of detector simulations and data acquisition, handling, and analysis.