Grads@NERSC: What does it take to be a NERSC Early-Career Award Winner?

Panel Overview

On April 24, 2025, at 11 a.m. PDT, NERSC is honoring Graduate Students, and what better way to celebrate than by spotlighting some of the brightest rising stars in high performance computing.

Join us for a special virtual panel discussion featuring the NERSC Early Career Award recipients. We will highlight the groundbreaking research, innovative problem-solving, and personal journeys of early-career scientists shaping computational science’s future.

• Hear first-hand stories of how graduate students and postdocs navigated the path to high-impact research using NERSC systems.
• Learn what it really takes to move from curiosity to discovery in some of the most data-intensive, compute-heavy research domains.
• Discover tips and insights into proposal writing, debugging at scale, and balancing research goals with system limitations.
• Get inspired by peers making waves in climate modeling, materials science, quantum computing, AI, and more.

This is more than a panel—it’s a community conversation designed to uplift and empower the next generation of computational researchers. Whether you’re just starting or are midway through your graduate journey, you’ll leave with fresh perspectives and a deeper connection to the NERSC community.

Celebrate the incredible contributions of early-career scientists—and maybe even picture yourself on this panel in the future. 

We’ll also use the NERSC Users Slack #webinars channel for discussion before, during, and after the meeting.

 Add this meeting series to your Google calendar.

Recording and Presentation Materials

Coming soon.