Funding
Our laboratory was founded in 2002 by Martin Z. Bazant with funding from several sources. We are very grateful for the generous and essential support of our sponsors below.
- U.S. Department of Energy. Our primary source of funding for graduate students has been an Early Career Principal Investigator grant (DE-FG02-02ER25530) awarded to Prof. Bazant from the DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research in the Office of Science and administered by Dr. Charles Romine and (currently) Dr. Walter Polansky.
- Norbert Weiner Research Fund. The funding for our computational laboratory, featuring a 32-processor Beowulf cluster, came from a privately endowed fund at MIT in honor of the late Prof. Norbert Weiner (MIT Mathematics), donated by Dr. William Poduska.
- NEC. The original funding to build our experimental laboratory came from the NEC Fund, administered by the Dean of Science at MIT.
- MIT Department of Mathematics. Laboratory space, clerical support, and some funding for our new facilities has been provided by our home department.
- Our work is also indirectly supported via our collaborators at Sandia National Laboratories of the DOE in the group of Dr. Gary S. Grest in Albuquerque, NM, and the Modular Pebble-Bed Reactor project in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at MIT.