Peter Nugent

Staff Scientist

Scientific Computing Group
High Performance Computing Research Department
Computational Research Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Research Interests

• The discovery and observation of supernovae of all types with the goal of understanding the physics of their explosions, their progenitor systems and nucleosynthesis products.

• Spectrum Synthesis of supernovae

  • 1-dimensional, non-LTE spectrum synthesis of supernovae using PHOENIX
  • 3-dimensional, LTE spectrum synthesis of supernovae using SEDONA developed by my former graduate student Dan Kasen.

• Cosmology, specifically anything involving supernovae (Ia's, IIP's, etc.) to measure the cosmological parameters.

• Computational Astrophysics - I'm always looking for better and faster ways to solve an interesting problem.

I am a member of the SciDAC Computational Astrophysics Consortium, the SN Factory, the SNAP Collaboration and the GOSH Collaboration. I am a former member of the Supernova Cosmology Project who still has quite a few things to finish up with them...

Publications

Links to, and for the more recent/interesting ones, text of scientific publications including my thesis.

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Contacting Peter Nugent

US. Post address:

Peter Nugent
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
MS 50F-1650
1 Cyclotron Road
Berkeley, CA, 94720-8139

Phone: (510) 486-6942

Fax: (510) 486-5812

E-mail: lastname (at) lbl (dot) gov