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Engineer Receives $1.2 Million Grant for Researching Models for Multi-Scale Processes, $1.1 Million for Prostate Cancer Treatment Evaluation
  Dr. J. Tinsley Oden

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J. Tinsley Oden, director of The University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES), is leading a team that has received a $1.2 million grant to improve scientists’ abilities to develop accurate computer simulations of processes that occur in multi-layered circumstances. He also is the lead on a $1.1 million collaboration of medical and engineering researchers at the university and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center to use computer modeling to control a laser treatment that kills cancer cells.

Dr. J. Tinsley Oden in the computer lab in ACES

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Dr. Oden stands in front of a computer nicknamed "Bevo," which is a 90-processor device. The computer is housed within ICES, in the Center for Subsurface Modeling run by Professor Mary Wheeler.