Science Highlights Presentations
NERSC collects highlights of recent scientific work carried out by its users each quarter. If you are a user and have work that you would like us to highlight please send e-mail to consult@nersc.gov.
September-October 2012
Presentation [PDF 5 MB] Presentation [PPT 5 MB]
Using Computation to Improve Water Desalination (Grossman) Read More...
Dramatically Increasing Weather Forecasting Skill (Hamill/Bates)
"Windows of Opportunity" for Efficient Gas Separation Using Carbon Nanotubes (Jiang)
Modeling Feat Sheds Light on Protein Channel's Function (Miller) Read More...
Simulations Reveal Universal Viscosity Behavior of Polymer Nanocomposites (Grest)
Implications of the Higgs Boson Discovery (Nath)
A Climate Extension to the Weather Research and Forecasting Model, CWRF (Liang)
Modeling Reveals How Oceans Plunged the Planet into a Catastrophic Big Freeze (Condron)
Efficient Discovery of Porous Materials for Gas Separation and Storage (Smit) Read More...
Simulations Reveal Key Fuel Cell Membrane Characteristics (Devanathan) Read More...
Calculations Suggest Promise for Graphene-Nanotube Transistors (Varga / Cook)
Computer as Laboratory: Test-Tube Simulations of Protein Unfolding (Daggett)
June 2012
Presentation [PDF 6 MB] Presentation [PPT 11 MB]
Promise for Onion-Like Carbons as Supercapacitors (Jiang/Cummings) Read More...
Learning from Photosynthesis (Cheung) Read More...
Science at Scale: Parallel I/O Supports Analysis of Trillion-Particle Simulation (Byna/Karimabadi) Read More...
Unlocking the Mysteries of the Neutrino (Gratta/Marino) Read More...
Tuning Nanoporous Graphene for Gas Separation (Schrier) Read More...
Science Through Volume:NDCX-II Simulations Help Clear the Path to Heavy Ion Fusion (Friedman) Read More...
Science and Energy Insight from NERSC + ALS (Saykally/Prendergast)
Computations Reveal the Mechanism of Catalytic Reduction of Ntirogen Dioxide (Broadbelt/Snurr)
March 2012
Presentation [PDF 6 MB] Presentation [PPT 11 MB]
Science at Scale: Simulations Aid in Understanding Climate Impacts (Collins)
A New Kind of Neutrino Transformation (DayaBay) Read More...
Powered by NERSC, JGI Database Now Contains 3 Billion Genes (Markowitz) Read More...
Deep Oceans Can Mask Global Warming for Decade-Long Periods (Washington) Read More...
Designer Piezoelectricity (Chu) Read More...
Important New Method For Studying Solar Materials (Kioupakis)
December 2011
Newsletter [PDF 4 MB] Presentation [PDF 3 MB] Presentation [PPT 7 MB]
Breakthroughs in Battery Technologies (Wang, Mei) Read More...
JCAP Simulations for Artificial Photosynthesis (Wang, Lewis)
Materials Genome Simulations Speed Materials Discovery (Persson) Read More...
Clearest Pictures Yet of Dark Matter and the Universe (Nugent, White) Read More...
Turning Grass Into Gas For Less (Chu) Read More...
A Better Way to ID Extreme Weather Events in Climate Models (Wehner, Prabhat) Read More...
Origin of Diverse Melting Behavior in Nanoclusters (S. Wei)
Quantitative Assessment of a Coal Gasification Model (P. Smith)
September 2011
Newsletter [PDF 2 MB] Presentation [PDF 3 MB] Presentation [PPT 3MB]
Astrophysics: NERSC Played Key Role in Nobel Prize-Winning Discovery (Perlmutter) Read More...
Astrophysics: Earliest Ever Supernova Detection (Nugent) Read More...
Nuclear Physics: Geoneutrinos and Earth's Heat Source (KamLAND) Read More...
Climate: Small Particles, Big Impact (Gustafson) Read More...
Materials Science: True Rational Materials Design (Aspuru-Guzik)
Chemistry: Improved Carbon Nanotube Production (Striolo)
June 2011
Presentation [PDF 8MB] Presentation [PPT 13MB]
LED Lighting Breakthrough (Kioupakis, Van de Walle)
Solar System Bubbles (Drake)
LQCD Evidence for Dibaryon (Savage)
Speeding Materials Evaluation for Carbon Capture (Haranczyk, Sethian)
Improving Insulin via Molecular Dynamics (Mikre, Masunov)
Heaviest Antimatter Nucleus Detected (STARcollaboration)
Nanoscale Modeling for Carbon Capture (Bourg, Sposito)
Speculative 14F Nucleus (Maris, Shirokov, Vary)
Thermoelectric Materials to Recycle Energy (Kent)
March 2011
Presentation [PDF 9MB] Presentation [PPT 8MB]
Dark Galaxy Detected (Chakrabarti, Blitz)
Rechargeable Heat Batteries (Grossman)
Runaway Electrons Affect ITER (Izzo)
20th Century Reanalysis (Compo)
Faster Computational Docking (Collignon, Schulz, Smith, Baudry)
Recyling Carbon Dioxide (Ping Liu)
Computational Chemistry for Better Batteries
Nanofluids Change Phase (Cummings)
December 2010
Presentation [PDF 14MB] Presentation [PPTX 14MB]
Simulation Helps Validate Key New Experimental Technique (Pantalides, Pennycock)
Quantum Dynamics Revealed (H. Guo)
Nanocatalysis: Small *is* Different (Landman, Barnett)
Ultra Low-Power Computing? (Yoon, Salahuddin)
Designing Fuel Cell Membranes (Davanathan, Dupuis)
Magnetic Reconnection and Anomalous Cosmic Rays (Drake)
September 2010
Newsletter [PDF] Presentation [PDF] Presentation [PPT]
New Method Sheds Light on Protein-Salt Interactions (Prendergast, Saykally)
ALICE + NERSC + ESnet = Results (Jacobs)
"Sweaty" Flowers Cool the World (Lee, Boyce)
What's Pliocene Got to Do With it?* (Federov, Brierly)
You Need 3D to Watch Stars Explode (Burrows, Nordhaus, Bell, Almgren)
Simulation of Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Production by a Bio-inspired Catalyst* (Car, Selloni)
* In presentation only; not in Newsletter
June 2010
Newsletter [PDF] Presentation [PDF] Presentation [PPTX]
Silicon Uncommon in Deep Earth (Wilkins, Driver)
First-Ever Antimatter Hypernucleus (N. Xu)
Why Neon is Missing from Jupiter's Atmosphere (Wilson, Militzer)
Massive, Young, Star-Forming Galaxies (Ceverino, Klypin)
First-Principles Modeling of Distant Metal-Water Bonds* (Bogatko, Bylaska,Weare)
Thermophillic Protein Stability* (Daggett)
FLASH Modeling Laser-Created Dense Plasmas* (Plewa, Drake)
Accelerator Simulations Reframed* (Mori)
MADmap CMB (Cantaloupo, Borrill, Jaffe, Kisner, Stompor)
Radiation Damage in Ceramics* (Devanathan)
Transparent Conducting Oxides* (Medvedeva)
Connecting the Molecular Scale to the Continuum Scale* (Bourg, Sposito)
* In presentation only; not in Newsletter
March 2010
Newsletter [PDF] Presentation [PDF] Presentation [PPT]
Mismatched Alloy Thermoelectrics (Wu, Lee, Grossman)
Nanoelectronic Switches (Neaton, Quek)
Cultural Analytics (Manovich)
Early Hopper Science
Sudbury Neutrino Data (Poon, Martin)
Proteins and Water* (Head-Gordon, Johnson, Malardier-Jugroot)
New Plasma Instability* (Sugiyama)
Combustion Simulation* (Bell, Day, Gao)
Graphene Sheets are Pliable* (Kral)
Halocarbon Greenhouse Gases* (Wuebbles)
Magma Dynamics* (Spera, Nevins)
* In presentation only; not in Newsletter
December 2009
Presentation [PDF]
Mitigating Global Climate Change (Washington)
EMGeo hydrocarbon reservoir mapping software (Newman, Commer)
AMR for CO2 Sequestration Studies (Bell, Pau, Pruess, Almgren, Lijewski, Zhag)
Graphene Membrane for Gas Separation (Jiang, Cooper, Dai)
First of Its Kind Supernova (Aldering, Nugent, Thomas)
New 3-D Radiation Transfer Capability (Baron)
Restructuring Catalyst Surfaces (L-W Wang)
August 2009
Presentation [PDF]
Material Science: Optical Data Storage (G. Zhang)
Chemistry: Nanoparticle Catalysis (P. Liu)
Nuclear Physics: Lattice QCD (Savage, Detmold)
Materials Science: NanoPropellers and Other Structures (Kral)
Mechanism of Alzheimer's Disease (Head-Gordon)
Laboratory Scale Turbulent Lean Hydrogen (Bell)
Astrophysics: Low Mach Number Flows(Woosley, Bell)
Supernova Core-Collapse (Woosley, Burrows)
Novel Material Simulations (Ching)
Improving Catalysis (Balbuena)
Molecular Geochemistry (Bylaska, Felmy)
Cloud-Resolving Climate Model (Randall)
Palomar Transient Factory (Nugent)
Deep Sky Science Gateway (Aragon)
Visualization Technology (Bethel)
Catalysis for Higher Fuel Cell Efficiency (Mavrikakis)
Accelerator Modeling (Qiang)
Gyrokinetic Modeling (Z. Lin)
Quantum Monte Carlo Electronic Structure (Lester)
Role of Eddies inOcean Circulation (Cessi, Wolfe)
Laser Wakefield Acceleration (Geddes)
Adaptive Mesh Refinement (Bell)
Subsurface Biogeochemistry (Scheibe)
DOE-NOAA/GFDL Collaboration on Climate Modeling (Balaji)
Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Jet Flames (J. Chen)
DNA Packaging in Viruses (Andricioaei)
