COMPASS

By establishing a common intellectual space at the Flatiron Institute, the Collaboration On Molecular Physics and Sampling Strategies (COMPASS) actively fosters dialogue, exchange of ideas and methodological cross-pollination among researchers.

COMPASS includes researchers from the Center for Computational Biology, the Center for Computational Mathematics and the Initiative for Computational Catalysis and is organized around three interconnected focus areas:

• to establish robust software infrastructure to enable and accelerate methodological innovation
• to develop methods and approximations that reduce computational complexity while maintaining sufficient accuracy, including general problems like sampling and spatial and temporal coarse-graining
• to deploy computational tools to advance biophysical experiments and accomplish concrete, real-world scientific objectives.

By strengthening connections across domains that share deep similarities, COMPASS aims to accelerate methodological innovation, reduce duplication of effort, and catalyze new scientific directions that would be difficult to achieve within individual groups alone.