NHERI SPARC Program

August 11-13, 2026

TACC, UT Austin

Overview

Agenda

Eligibility

Travel Award

Application

First Name

Last Name

Email

Institution

Position

If other, please specify.

Number of years at this level

Country of residence

DesignSafe/TACC User ID

Dietary Requirements

Accessibility or accommodation needs

I confirm I can attend all three days in person at TACC (Austin, TX), August 11-13, 2026

Yes

Eligibility: For Master's Degree Applicants

Do you have a confirmed Ph.D. offer for Fall 2026?

Yes

No

Institution of confirmed Ph.D. offer

Expected date of next degree or position milestone (month, year)

Computational Background

This section calibrates instruction. There are no wrong answers and this is not used to screen eligibility.

Programming languages used regularly

If other, please specify.

Scientific software used

Current computational resources

personal laptop

lab workstation

university cluster

DesignSafe / TACC (Stampede, Frontera, Lonestar6, Vista)

Other HPC

commercial cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP)

Self-rated comfort with command line

Self-rated comfort with Python and Jupyter

Self-rated comfort with Machine Learning

Research Context

In 200 words or fewer, describe the natural hazards research problem you are working on or about to start.

Rank the three SPARC days by how directly each applies to your current or planned research (rank 1 - 5, 1 not useful to 5 extremely useful)

Day 1: HPC scaling and uncertainty quantification (parallel OpenSees, quoFEM)

Day 2: AI workflows (surrogate models on OpenSees data, AI for post-disaster imagery)

Day 3: Regional-scale assessment (SimCenter R2D, GIS on DesignSafe)

Advisor Name

Advisor Email

Advisor’s Letter of Support

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