Project to Focus on “Next Generation of Threats”

A new center at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, focused on developing new ways to protect buildings and infrastructure as well as the human body from extreme events such as blasts from terrorist attacks or high-impact collisions, is joining forces with the university’s SDSC, to provide data-intensive supercomputer simulations. Called the Center for Extreme Events Research (CEER), the center brings together a unique combination of experts in experimental and computational research to solve these challenges. As a result, UC San Diego faculty will have the resources to develop sophisticated simulation tools and validate them experimentally.