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  • Making computation come alive

    Making computation come alive

    MIT News features a new course, co-taught by ERL Director Laurent Demanet and Research Scientist Youssef Marzzouk, that teaches students how to use computational techniques to solve real-world problems, from landing a spacecraft to placing cell phone towers. Adam Zewe|MIT News Office January 6, 2022 As a Martian lander descends toward the Red Planet’s surface,…

  • Making computation come alive

    Making computation come alive

    MIT News features a new course, co-taught by ERL Director Prof. Laurent Demanet and Prof. Youssef Marzouk, that teaches students how to use computational techniques to solve real-world problems, from landing a spacecraft to placing cell phone towers. Adam Zewe|MIT News Office January 6, 2022 As a Martian lander descends toward the Red Planet’s surface,…

  • Nanograins make for a seismic shift

    Nanograins make for a seismic shift

    MIT News features work by ERL/EAPS Prof. Matêj Peč and student Hongyu Sun. Nanograins make for a seismic shift A new study finds curious properties of tiny crystals hold clues to earthquake formation. From MIT News, November 22, 2021 In Earth’s crust, tectonic blocks slide and grind past each other like enormous ships loosed from…

  • Dr. Niels Grobbe to Receive SEG Karcher Award

    Dr. Niels Grobbe to Receive SEG Karcher Award

    ERL is thrilled to share the news that a former member of our lab, Dr. Niels Grobbe, will receive this year’s prestigious Karcher award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Niels was a Postdoctoral Associate in ERL and the MIT Department of Mathematics from 2016-2017, before joining the faculty of the University of Hawai‘i at…