Bill Cannon

Pore samples

Using tailor-made software running on top-tier supercomputers, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory team is creating microscopic pore-scale simulations that complement… Read More

September 25, 2014

Cool to the core

There are many superlatives Sudip Dosanjh could use to talk about the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center’s next-generation… Read More

September 10, 2014

Leaping to exascale

Big data, big analytic problems, and big computers and their components create gigantic tests for tomorrow’s computer science research. To… Read More

August 6, 2014

Mathematical match

Mathematicians Miranda Holmes-Cerfon and Antoine Cerfon first forged a bond as undergraduates studying abroad in Singapore. Their common love of… Read More

June 18, 2014

Dimensions on a diet

As a young musician, Paul Constantine enjoyed exploring variations on Caribbean drum rhythms and new arrangements of jazz chord progressions.… Read More

June 4, 2014

Fusion heats up

For more than half a century, scientists and engineers have pursued the promise of nuclear fusion power with a plan that… Read More

December 31, 2013

Primping polymers

Chemists have been looking at polymers and gels for decades to see how these large chains of molecules respond to… Read More

November 20, 2013

Supernova revelations

Supernovae used to be simple. Just ask Stan Woosley. Almost 50 years ago, when the renowned astrophysicist began contemplating the… Read More

October 31, 2013

Sifting genomes

Energy scientists hope new plant varieties will yield large amounts of biomaterial, which new types of microbes will quickly and… Read More

September 4, 2013

Working through error

Like professional athletes, supercomputers must play smarter just to stay in the game. Once athletes reach their personal limits for… Read More

July 24, 2013