Mathematics and Computer Science

A leader in the computing sciences, the MCS Division provides the numerical tools and technology for solving some of our nation’s most critical scientific problems.

In addition to our world-class research, we develop the software for some of the fastest, most powerful computer systems in the world: systems that are enabling scientists to tackle problems previously considered infeasible.

Awards and Recognition

MACSER PI Stephen Wright Awarded Khachiyan Prize

Stephen Wright has been awarded the Khachiyan Prize by the INFORMS Optimization Society.

Khachiyan Prize, INFORMS Optimization Society

In the News

ASCR@40 Report Highlights Argonne Contributions to Scientific Computing

The Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee prepared a report describing how the vision and sustained investments of DOE’s Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) have produced extraordinary scientific and technological impacts.

Predicted KBDI index on September 4, 2011, when the Bastrop County Complex Fire started in Texas. It was the most destructive wildfire in Texas history. (Image by Emily K. Brown, Argonne National Laboratory. [She made it while she was here as a student. She is no longer at Argonne.])

Feature Story

Argonne develops unprecedented long-term wildfire prediction model

Wildfire indices and high-resolution climate models combine to produce a detailed historical analysis of wildfire events across the U.S. and suggest the potential for more severe and frequent fires in the latter half of the century.

Computational Environmental Science, Modeling and Simulation, Multiscale Modeling

Announcement

Iwasaki receives postdoctoral performance award

Shintaro Iwasaki, a postdoctoral appointee in the Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) Division, has received an Argonne 2020 Outstanding Postdoctoral Performance Award in the area of applied research.

Programming Models, Runtime Systems

Announcement

MACSER leader to deliver webinar on computing cascading failure probabilities

Mihai Anitescu, senior computational mathematician at Argonne National Laboratory and leader of the MACSER project, will present a webinar talk Oct. 7, 2020, on computing the probabilities of cascading power grid failures.

Argonne National Laboratory

MACSER PI Stephen Wright Awarded Khachiyan Prize

ASCR@40 Report Highlights Argonne Contributions to Scientific Computing

Argonne develops unprecedented long-term wildfire prediction model

Iwasaki receives postdoctoral performance award

MACSER leader to deliver webinar on computing cascading failure probabilities

Banishing blackouts

Virtual Argonne training program prepares researchers for extreme-scale computing

MCS researchers play major role in extreme-scale computing workshop

MCS Focus Areas

Advanced Architectures and Systems

Computational Engineering and Methods

Data Management and Storage Systems

Mathematical Modeling and Optimization

Foundations of ML, Data Analysis, and Statistics

Numerical Software and Mathematical Libraries

System Software and Performance Engineering

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Machine Learning

Exascale Computing in the MCS Division

MACSER: Multifaceted Mathematics for Rare, High-Impact Events in Complex Energy and Environment Systems

MPICH: A High-Performance, Portable Implementation of MPI

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