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| Seidel Joins NSF |
| Edward Seidel, renowned astrophysicist and computational scientist, is the new director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure for the National Science Foundation (NSF). "NSF's Office of Cyberinfrastructure is immensely important to all aspects of the science and engineering research the agency funds, and we're excited that a respected leader such as Dr. Seidel is able to join us," said NSF Director Arden L. Bement, Jr. in announcing Seidel's appointment. |
Seidel joined the NSF from Louisiana State University (LSU), where he retains his position as a professor in the Departments of Physics & Astronomy and Computer Science and was also the founding director of the LSU Center for Computation & Technology. He had previously worked for seven years as a professor at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam, Germany, where he founded and led numerical relativity and e-science groups. Seidel also led the team that developed Cactus, an application initially designed to numerically solve Einstein's equations for general relativity and thus model black holes, neutron stars, and boson stars.
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