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A research team in the Department of Scientific Computing has expanded a 1950s math game and turned it into a project that helps undergraduate students practice and grow their skills.
Bryan Quaife, associate professor in the Department of Scientific Computing and faculty associate of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute, based the work on Martin Gardner’s 1957 puzzle “Four Bugs on a Square.” In the original problem, one bug starts at each corner of an imaginary square and moves toward the one ahead of it at the same speed. Their paths form matching spirals that curve inward until they meet at a single point.
Anke Meyer-Baese, a professor in the Department of Scientific Computing in the College of Arts and Sciences, received the John von Neumann Distinguished Award in STEM, a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award, to conduct cutting-edge STEM research at the University of Szeged in Szeged, Hungary.
Meyer-Baese will spend the spring 2026 semester developing new research that combines artificial intelligence (AI) and modern control network theory to study the spread of neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s disease. In addition, she will be teaching a course on AI with the University’s Research Group on Artificial Intelligence (RGAI). The University of Szeged is a premier AI center in Europe, so being able to work at this location will deepen her understanding of theoretical foundations in AI.
We are proud to announce that our PhD student, Jorge Eduardo Velasco Zavala, has been accepted and awarded a travel grant to attend the HPC4Climate Summer School 2025. The event will be held from 28 July to 7 August 2025 at DJH Jugendherberge Lauenburg in Lauenburg, Germany.
Florida State University researchers will use new funding from the National Science Foundation to investigate mechanisms that drive wildfire spread.
Professor of meteorology Ming Cai; Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute (GFDI) director and professor of scientific computing Kevin Speer; associate professor of scientific computing Bryan Quaife; and Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science research faculty Jie Sun are part of a multi-institution team awarded a three-year, nearly $900,000 NSF grant to explore how atmospheric factors influence wildfires and to improve emergency responses by developing computer models and simulations of wildfires.
Florida State University will bring together experts on artificial intelligence and machine learning this month to discuss ways these cutting-edge technologies can be used in the classroom and how to ensure their ethical use in educational settings.
The 2025 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Expo, AIMLX25, is set for 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday, Feb. 28 at the Challenger Learning Center in Tallahassee and is presented by the FSU Interdisciplinary Data Science Master’s Degree Program.
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