Plotting plasmas

July 31, 2007

What University of California at Los Angeles mathematician Russel Caflisch does is like trying to grab a handful of fire. Caflisch… Read More

Star material

July 2, 2007

How, from the primordial Big Bang eons ago, were the building blocks of life created? Over the past several centuries… Read More

Ganging up

July 2, 2007

The day when setting up a supercomputer is as easy as programming a VCR may never arrive, but Clustermatic has… Read More

Testing tradition

June 18, 2007

A tooth left overnight in a glass of cola will dissolve. If you receive an e-mail with the subject “An Internet… Read More

Building tiny detectors

June 18, 2007

For Darryl Holm, it’s about the geometry. Holm, an applied mathematics professor at London’s Imperial College, studies how shape affects… Read More

Computing climate

June 18, 2007

It’s impossible, of course, to bring the outdoors into a laboratory for experiments. That’s why scientists rely on computer models… Read More

From deep freeze to furnace

June 4, 2007

Ravi Samtaney’s work is a study in extremes. His computer codes simulate what happens when pellets of hydrogen isotopes frozen… Read More

Food poisoning and computing

June 4, 2007

Just call him the “Glue Guy.” No, Chris Oehmen doesn’t have an Elmer’s fixation. He’s the glue that helps hold… Read More

Digging up FOSLS

June 4, 2007

If you’ve ever unknotted a gnarled garden hose to let water flow freely, you may have an elementary feeling for… Read More

Code collaboration

June 4, 2007

Ravi Samtaney knew computer resources beyond anything practically available would be required to run codes he designed to simulate a… Read More