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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Shares Expertise at SC07

From a 2006 Nobel laureate to five technical papers, from organizing workshops and sessions to speaking on timely topics in panel discussions, HPC experts from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will have a strong presence at the SC07 conference to be held Nov. 10-16 in Reno. Additionally, many of LBNL’s experts will be available for individual discussions at the Berkeley Lab booth in the SC07 exhibition. “The conference is a great venue to highlight the… Read More »

Prof. Kathy Yelick Named New Director for DOE’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

BERKELEY, Calif.—Kathy Yelick, a professor of computer science at the University of California at Berkeley and an internationally recognized expert in developing methods to advance the use of supercomputers, has been named director of the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). NERSC is DOE’s flagship computing center for unclassified research and is managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The center provides state-of-the-art… Read More »

Computational Cosmology Center (C3) Launched

Computational science and physics researchers gathered this month to celebrate the launch of the Computational Cosmology Center (C3), which further cements a decade-long collaboration between two Berkeley Lab divisions for studying dark energy and other mysteries of the universe. Read More »

Research Shows Human Impact on Global Warming

Supernova Researcher Rollin Thomas Named a Luis Alvarez Fellow

Moving into a new dig — a larger and airy space with a window — represents a fresh start for Rollin Thomas, a new CRD researcher who will spend the next several years analyzing the physics of exploding stars. Read More »

George Pau Joins CCSE as Alvarez Fellow

It was his love for math and engineering — and a determination to pursue a better education — that prompted George Pau to leave Malaysia four years ago for the United States. That same drive for promising opportunities brought him to Berkeley Lab in July 2007 as the new Luis W. Alvarez Fellow in Computational Science. Read More »

Scientists Compute Death Throes of White Dwarf Star in 3D

University of Chicago scientists demonstrated how to incinerate a white dwarf star in unprecedented detail at the “Paths to Exploding Stars” conference on March 22, 2007, in Santa Barbara, Calif. Read More »

Lab Team Helping Smooth Flow of Water Data

A collaboration among Microsoft, Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley is underway to make it easier for researchers to access and analyze collected data on water, with the goal of accelerating research in the increasingly important areas of water supply and climate change. Read More »