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NCSA's Ceperley part of team that will build superconductivity simulator

Release date: 2009-09-23

Petascale Distributed Computing for Terascale Physics
When Illinois physics professor Mark Neubauer discusses his work in physics and his collaboration with NCSA, the recurring theme is big -- big questions about the universe, big instruments generating big data, and the need for big computing resources to make big discoveries.

Release date: 2009-07-10

Shining brightly
Researchers at the University of Illinois are developing panels of microcavity plasma lamps that may soon brighten people's lives.

Release date: 2007-10-30

Boson Mates
A team of physicists at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California at San Diego is on the hunt for the Higgs boson, the subatomic particle thought to be responsible for mass.

Release date: 2006-12-06

Users develop pfaffian approach to describing many-body quantum systems
North Carolina State University's Lubos Mitas and a team from NC State and Arizona State University proposed a new functional form for the efficient description of many-body quantum systems using QMC. This method was published in Physical Review Letters and developed on NCSA's Tungsten and Copper clusters.

Release date: 2006-09-11

Checking the Books
University of Illinois scientists, along with collaborators around the world, draw a bead on the subatomic muon, hoping to better understand the Standard Model of physics.

Release date: 2003-04-08

Fascinating Magic
Using the Alliance's Condor flock at the University of Wisconsin, researchers are simulating the physics that might take place inside tomorrow's most powerful particle colliders.

Release date: 2001-04-10

Quarks Come Un-Gluon-ed
Despite billions of years of history to choose from, Robert L. Sugar is interested in just a few fractions of a second -- the very first ones.

Release date: 1998-10-20