The Computer Science Department is launching guest lectures for the Spring 2016 semester with an overview of modeling and simulation with Petascale computing by Jack Wells, director of science for the National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The ORNL houses the $60 million Titan supercomputer. For event details or for more information on the largest academic department at Rice University, visit the Computer Science Department web site: http://cs.rice.edu.