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Berkeley Lab’s CAMERA Leads International Effort on Autonomous Scientific Discoveries
To make full use of modern instruments and facilities, researchers need new ways to decrease the amount of data required for scientific discovery and address data acquisition rates humans can no longer keep pace with. Read More »
Summer Students to Showcase Research in Poster Session
Support our Computing Sciences Summer Student Program by participating in a virtual poster session that starts on July 28 and culminates in live discussions on August 3, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. PDT. Read More »
NERSC Resources Power Advances in Solar Cell Efficiency
The steady improvement in silicon-based solar cells has made them cost competitive with fossil fuel sources, and additional advances in their efficiency will make them even more attractive. New materials such as hybrid perovskites are poised to give solar-cell efficiency a boost, and research being conducted at NERSC is helping to pick up the pace. Read More »
CRD’s Lin Lin Honored with Simons Foundation Award
Lin Lin, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Mathematics Group and a mathematician in CAMERA, has been selected to receive a Simons Investigator in Mathematics award. Read More »
Perlmutter Debuts in the Top 5 of the Top500
Just weeks after its official unveiling, the new Perlmutter supercomputer at NERSC has earned the number 5 position in the Top500 List with a performance benchmark of 64.6 Pflop/s. Read More »
Women of Quantum Computing Go Tiny in Big Ways
In Berkeley Lab's Computational Chemistry, Materials, and Climate Group, the future of quantum information science is being driven in part by a group of women scientists who see that future — and theirs along with it — as quite bright. Read More »
Project Jupyter: A Computer Code that Transformed Science
A computer code (Project Jupyter) co-developed by Berkeley Lab's Fernando Perez and embraced by the global science community over two decades has been hailed by Nature Magazine as one of “ten computer codes that transformed science.” Read More »
Berkeley Lab Amplifies Power and Usability of Quantum Computing
Strides in quantum computing software developed at Berkeley Lab are opening up new possibilities for scientific breakthroughs. Read More »
Study of Harvey Flooding Aids in Quantifying Climate Change
How much do the effects of climate change contribute to extreme weather events? A new study investigated the question for one particular element of one significant storm: Hurricane Harvey. Read More »
Two CRD Researchers Receive 2021 Early Career Awards
Robert Saye, a scientist in CRD’s Mathematics group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Ariful Azad, an affiliate scientist in CRD’s Performance and Algorithms Research group and assistant professor of intelligent systems engineering at Indiana University, have each received 2021 Early Career Research Program awards from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Read More »