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AMCR’s Donatelli Receives 2024 Early Career Award

September 10, 2024

AMCR Staff Scientist Jeffrey Donatelli has been awarded a 2024 Department of Energy Early Career Research Program award. With this award, he will develop new computational methods for analyzing experimental data. Read More »

Meet Pinchen Xie, 2024 Alvarez Fellow

September 9, 2024

Meet Berkeley Lab’s Newest Alvarez Fellow, Pinchen Xie. Read More »

Tropical Cyclones Intensifying Due to Warming Atmosphere

August 26, 2024

Using computational resources at NERSC, researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Berkeley Lab, and partnering institutions have gained a better understanding of how tropical cyclones near coastal regions have intensified over time, the likely causes of the change, and what the future might hold according to climate models. Read More »

gpCAM Wins R&D100 Award

August 8, 2024

gpCAM, a software tool for autonomous labs of the future, has been honored with a 2024 R&D 100 Award. Read More »

Science Highlight: Specialized Hardware Helps Researchers Quickly Process Sparse Matrices

August 5, 2024

Lehigh University and Berkeley Lab researchers have developed an accelerating sparse accumulation (ASA) architecture, specialized hardware that enables faster computation on data sets with many zero values. Read More »

Gravitational Form Factors Illuminate Substructure of the Proton

July 15, 2024

Using simulations performed on NERSC’s Perlmutter system, a team of researchers used lattice quantum chromodynamics (lattice QCD) to understand for the first time certain aspects of how quarks and gluons form the structure of the proton. Read More »

Zaida McCunney Retires After 25 Years at Berkeley Lab

July 8, 2024

NERSC Administrative Supervisor Zaida McCunney retired at the end of June after a long career at Berkeley Lab. Read More »

Berkeley Lab Researchers Advance AI-Driven Plant Root Analysis

June 20, 2024

As part of an investigation to help boost agricultural yields and develop crops that are resilient to climate change, Berkeley Lab scientists developed RhizoNet, a computational tool that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to transform how we study plant roots and discover new insights into root behavior under various environmental conditions. Read More »

SciData Director Kupresanin Honored as ASA Fellow

June 14, 2024

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Director of the Scientific Data Division, Ana Kupresanin, was selected for the American Statistical Association’s (ASA’s) 2024 Fellow cohort. The ASA honored Kupresanin for her exceptional statistical leadership in addressing critical national security challenges, amplifying the influence of statistical methods within the National Lab system, and mentoring the next generation of statisticians. ASA Fellow nominees are evaluated and… Read More »

DIII-D National Fusion Facility, NERSC, AMCR, and ESnet Collaboration Speeds Nuclear Fusion Research

May 29, 2024

This "Superfacility" collaboration enables near-real-time analysis of massive quantities of important data during fusion experiments, allowing tailoring of the experimental process — and accelerating the pace of discovery. Read More »