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	<title>Berkeley Lab News Center &#187; computing</title>
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		<title>Meeting the Computing Challenges of Next-Generation Climate Models</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/03/26/meeting-the-computing-challenges-of-next-generation-climate-models/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>juliechao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab recently hosted an international workshop that brought together top climatologists, computer scientists and engineers from Japan and the United States to exchange ideas for the next generation of climate models as well as the hyper-performance computing environments that will be needed to process the data from those models. It was the 15th in a series of such workshops that have been taking place around the world since 1999.]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Simulations Yield Clues to How Cells Interact With Surroundings</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/03/21/computer-sims-integrin/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2013/03/21/computer-sims-integrin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dankrotz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab scientists have developed a computer model of a protein that helps cells interact with their surroundings. Like its biological counterpart, the virtual integrin snippet is about twenty nanometers long. It also responds to changes in energy and other stimuli just as integrins do in real life. The result is a new way to explore how the protein connects a cell’s inner and outer environments.]]></description>
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		<title>ESnet’s New Map Gives Up-to-the-Minute Network Data</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/01/17/esnet%e2%80%99s-new-map/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonweiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new interactive map developed by the Department of Energy’s ESnet (Energy Sciences Network) provides a detailed, up-to-the-minute look at the level of traffic traversing the various sections of the network as it connects 40 research sites around the country.
ESnet is currently the world’s fastest coast-to-coast science network with a national backbone with 100 gigabit-per-second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Computers Push on the Molecules They Simulate</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/01/03/computers-push-molecules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computer simulations are essential to test theories and explore what’s inaccessible to direct experiment. Digital computers can’t use exact, continuous equations of motion and have to slice time into chunks, so persistent errors are introduced in the form of “shadow work” that distorts the result. Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley scientists have learned to separate the physically realistic aspects of the simulation from the artifacts of the computer method. ]]></description>
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		<title>Modeling the Breaking Points of Metallic Glasses</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2012/11/26/metallic-glasses/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2012/11/26/metallic-glasses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonweiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Metallic glass alloys (or liquid metals) are three times stronger than the best industrial steel, but can be molded into complex shapes with the same ease as plastic. These materials are highly resistant to scratching, denting, shattering and corrosion. Mathematical methods developed by Berkeley Lab researcher Christopher Rycroft of the Computational Research Division help explain why liquid metals have wildly different breaking points, depending on how they are made.
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		<title>Department of Energy’s ESnet Rolls Out World’s Fastest Science Network</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/11/13/department-of-energy%e2%80%99s-esnet-rolls-out-world%e2%80%99s-fastest-science-network/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonweiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) ESnet (Energy Sciences Network) is now operating the world’s fastest science network, serving the entire national laboratory system, its supercomputing centers, and its major scientific instruments at 100 gigabits per second – 10 times faster than its previous generation network.]]></description>
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		<title>Good Vibrations</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/08/15/good-vibrations/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/08/15/good-vibrations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using a unique optical trapping system that provides ensembles of ultracold atoms, Berkeley Lab scientists have recorded the first direct observations of distinctly quantum optical effects - amplification and squeezing - in an optomechanical system. Their findings point the way toward low-power quantum optical devices and enhanced detection of gravitational waves among other possibilities.]]></description>
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		<title>Ask a Scientist About Extreme Weather and Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2012/08/13/ask-a-scientist-about-extreme-weather-and-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2012/08/13/ask-a-scientist-about-extreme-weather-and-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 23:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dankrotz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have questions about droughts, heat waves, extreme weather, and climate change? Ask a scientist! Michael Wehner is a climate scientist in Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division. He uses high-performance computing to study extreme weather events in a changing climate, especially heat waves, floods, droughts and hurricanes.]]></description>
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		<title>New Phenomenon in Nanodisk Magnetic Vortices</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2012/08/07/new-phenomenon-in-nanodisk-magnetic-vortices/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2012/08/07/new-phenomenon-in-nanodisk-magnetic-vortices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 21:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New findings from a team of Berkeley Lab and Japanese scientists  suggest that the road to magnetic vortex RAM might be more difficult to navigate than previously supposed, but there might be unexpected rewards as well. A study at the Advanced Light Source revealed that contrary to suppositions, the formation of magnetic vortices in ferromagnetic nanodisks is an asymmetric phenomenon.]]></description>
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		<title>A Direct Look at Graphene</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2012/08/01/a-direct-look-at-graphene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers have recorded the first direct observations at microscopic lengths of how electrons and holes respond to a charged impurity in graphene. The results point to interactions between electrons as being critical to graphene’s extraordinary properties.
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		<title>Ferroelectricity on the Nanoscale</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2012/07/10/ferroelectricity-on-the-nanoscale/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2012/07/10/ferroelectricity-on-the-nanoscale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A research effort led by Berkeley Lab scientists has brought some clarity to the here-to-fore confusing physics of ferroelectric nanomaterials, pointing the way to multi-terabyte- per-square-inch of non-volatile computer memory chips.]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Lab Scientists Help Define the Healthy Human Microbiome</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/06/13/human-microbiome/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/06/13/human-microbiome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dankrotz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-organized consortium that includes Berkeley Lab scientists has for the first time mapped the normal microbial make-up of humans. Berkeley Lab’s role in mapping the human microbiome revolves around big data, both analyzing it and making it available for scientists to use worldwide. The research will help scientists understand how our microbiome keeps us healthy. It’ll also shed light on our microbiome’s role in many diseases. ]]></description>
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		<title>Four Berkeley Lab Researchers Named to National Academy of Sciences</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2012/05/01/researchers-named-to-nas/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2012/05/01/researchers-named-to-nas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 23:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonweiner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers were elected members or foreign associates to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), today. The four make up a class of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates this year. The election recognizes their distinguished careers and research achievements.
The NAS membership is one of the highest honors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Lab-led Institute to Help Solve Data-intensive Science Challenges</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/03/29/data-intensive-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dankrotz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced a $25 million five-year initiative to help scientists better extract insights from today’s increasingly massive research datasets, the Scalable Data Management, Analysis, and Visualization (SDAV) Institute. SDAV will be funded through DOE’s Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing program and led by Arie Shoshani of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Lab Mathematicians Win Cozzarelli Prize</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/02/21/berkeley-lab-mathematicians-win-cozzarelli-prize/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/02/21/berkeley-lab-mathematicians-win-cozzarelli-prize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab mathematicians James Sethian and Robert Saye have won the 2011 Cozzarelli Prize for the best scientific paper in the category of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Their winning paper was titled “The Voronoi Implicit Interface Method for computing multiphase physics.”

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		<title>Closest Type Ia Supernova in Decades Solves a Cosmic Mystery</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/12/14/sn-2011fe/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/12/14/sn-2011fe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even as the "supernova of a generation" came into view in backyards across the northern hemisphere last August, physicists and astronomers who had caught its earliest moments were developing a surprising and much clearer picture of what happens during a titanic Type Ia explosion. Now they have announced the closest, most detailed look ever at one of the universe’s brightest “standard candles,” the celestial mileposts that led to the discovery of dark energy.]]></description>
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		<title>A Better Way to ID Extreme Weather Events in Climate Models</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/12/06/id-extreme-weather/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/12/06/id-extreme-weather/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dankrotz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of researchers that includes Berkeley Lab scientists are using state-of-the-art methods in data mining and high-performance computing to quantify extreme weather phenomena in the very large datasets generated by today’s climate models. Their work will help scientists predict how climate change impact the frequency of extreme weather events. ]]></description>
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		<title>Today’s Severe Drought, Tomorrow’s Normal</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/12/05/severe-drought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dankrotz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the worst drought since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s grips Oklahoma and Texas, scientists are warning that what we consider severe drought conditions in North America today may be normal for the continent by the mid-21st century, due to a warming planet. A team of scientists from Berkeley Lab and elsewhere came to this conclusion after analyzing 19 different state-of-the-art climate models. ]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Scientists Discover an “Instant Cosmic Classic” Supernova</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/08/25/supernova/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/08/25/supernova/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dankrotz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A supernova discovered yesterday is closer to Earth — approximately 21 million light-years away — than any other of its kind in a generation. Astronomers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley who made the discovery predict that it will be a target for research for the next decade, making it one of the most-studied supernova in history.]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Lab Scientists Unveil an X-ray Technique Called HARPES</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/08/24/harpes/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/08/24/harpes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers led the development of a technique called HARPES, for Hard x-ray Angle-Resolved PhotoEmission Spectroscopy, that enables the study of electronic structures deep below material surfaces, including the buried layers and interfaces in nanoscale devices. This could pave the way for smaller logic elements in electronics, novel memory architectures in spintronics, and more efficient energy conversion in photovoltaic cells.]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Data at the Speed of Science: Berkeley Lab Lays Foundation for 100 Gbps Prototype Network</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/07/13/100-gbps-prototype-network/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/07/13/100-gbps-prototype-network/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dankrotz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab today announced a major step toward creating one of the world’s fastest scientific networks to accelerate research in fields ranging from advanced energy solutions to particle physics. Known as the Advanced Networking Initiative (ANI), the effort represents a $62 million multi-year investment by the DOE Office of Science in next-generation networking technology.]]></description>
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		<title>A Research Center for Kazakhstan</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/06/23/kazakhstan-research-center/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/06/23/kazakhstan-research-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kazakhstan is a nation rich in energy resources but plagued by a history of exploitation and a legacy of environmental disasters. With an eye to a diverse economy, sustainable growth, and responsible environmental stewardship, the newly opened Nazarbayev University is establishing a national Center for Energy Research, with guidance from a diverse team of Berkeley Lab scientists. ]]></description>
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		<title>When Matter Melts</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/06/23/when-matter-melts/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/06/23/when-matter-melts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the universe was only millionths of a second old, quarks moved freely in a hot, dense soup of quarks and gluons, but soon protons and neutrons and other forms of ordinary matter “froze out” of this quark-matter soup. Now scientists have compared quantum theory and data from the STAR experiment for the first time to map out the energies and temperatures where ordinary matter melts and the quark-gluon plasma freezes. ]]></description>
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		<title>Proton Dripping Tests a Fundamental Force in Nature</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/05/10/proton-dripping-tests-a-fundamental-force-in-nature/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/05/10/proton-dripping-tests-a-fundamental-force-in-nature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 19:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>juliechao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A team of researchers led by James Vary, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, first predicted the properties of fluorine-14 with the help of scientists in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Computational Research Division, as well as supercomputers at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. ]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley Lab Researchers Make First Perovskite-based Superlens for the Infrared</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/03/29/perovskite-based-superlens-for-the-infrared/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/03/29/perovskite-based-superlens-for-the-infrared/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers have fabricated superlenses from perovskite oxides that are ideal for capturing light in the mid-infrared range, opening the door to highly sensitive biomedical detection and imaging. It may also be possible to turn the superlensing effect on/off, opening the door to highly dense data writing and storage.]]></description>
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		<title>Invisible Milky Way Satellite Uncovered With Help from NERSC</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/03/23/invisible-milky-way-satellite-nersc/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2011/03/23/invisible-milky-way-satellite-nersc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dankrotz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Astronomers predict that large spiral galaxies like our Milky Way have hundreds of satellite galaxies orbiting around them. Using supercomputers at NERSC, scientists developed a mathematical method to uncover these "dark" galaxies. When she applied it to our own Milky Way, she discovered a faint satellite might be lurking on the opposite side of the galaxy from Earth.]]></description>
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		<title>Simulating Tomorrow’s Accelerators at Near the Speed of Light</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/03/17/simulating-at-lightspeed/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/03/17/simulating-at-lightspeed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Tabletop” laser-plasma accelerators like BELLA promise high energies in short spaces. It's a staggering challenge to model the acceleration of electrons by a laser beam moving through a plasma in 3-D, however, a challenge that until recently has been beyond practical solution by supercomputers. Borrowing a page from Albert Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity, Berkeley Lab researchers have perfected a way to accelerate calculations up to a million times faster.  ]]></description>
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		<title>GRIN Plasmonics: A Practical Path to Superfast Computing, Ultrapowerful Optical Microscopy and Invisibility Carpet-Cloaking Devices</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/01/24/grin-plasmonics/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/01/24/grin-plasmonics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers have carried out the first experimental demonstration of GRIN plasmonics, a hybrid technology that opens the door to a wide range of exotic optics, including superfast photonic computers, ultra-powerful optical microscopes, and “invisibility” carpet-cloaking devices.

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		<title>Berkeley Lab Scientists Receive Time on Nation’s Fastest Computer to Advance Research in Cleaner, Renewable Energy Technologies</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2010/11/30/incite/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2010/11/30/incite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dankrotz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab scientists have been awarded massive allocations on the nation’s most powerful supercomputer to advance innovative research in improving the combustion of hydrogen fuels and increasing the efficiency of nanoscale solar cells. The awards were announced today by Energy Secretary Steven Chu as part of DOE’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.]]></description>
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		<title>Two Berkeley Lab Mathematicians Awarded Prestigious Math Prizes</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2010/09/20/iciam-prizes/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2010/09/20/iciam-prizes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dankrotz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab's Alexandre Chorin (left) and James Sethian won prestigious prizes from the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) for groundbreaking work in applied math, with impacts ranging from fluid mechanics and aerodynamics to medical imaging and semiconductor manufacturing. Chorin won the Lagrange Prize and Sethian won the Pioneer Prize. The awards bring to Berkeley Lab two of the five math prizes the ICIAM awards every four years. ]]></description>
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		<title>Magical BEANs: New Nano-sized Particles Could Provide Mega-sized Data Storage</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2010/09/16/magical-beans/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2010/09/16/magical-beans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers have discovered an entire new class of phase-change materials that could be applied to PCM and optical data storage technologies. The new materials, alloys of a metal and semiconductor, are called “BEANs,” for binary eutectic-alloy nanostructures.]]></description>
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		<title>Computer scientist Horst Simon named Deputy Director for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2010/09/13/horst-simon-deputy-director/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2010/09/13/horst-simon-deputy-director/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Horst Simon, an internationally recognized expert in computer science and applied mathematics, has been named Deputy Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Simon has helped to establish the Lab as a world leader in providing supercomputing resources to support research in fields ranging from global climate modeling to astrophysics.

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		<title>Nano-sized light mill drives micro-sized disk</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2010/07/05/nano-sized-light-mill/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2010/07/05/nano-sized-light-mill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers have created a nano-sized light mill motor powerful enough to drive micro-sized disks. With rotational speed and direction controlled by the frequency of incident light waves, this new nanomotor should open the door to a broad range of applications in energy and biology as well as in nanoelectromechanical systems.]]></description>
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		<title>How a Summer Internship—or a Weekend Lecture—Can Change a Life</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2010/06/09/how-a-summer-internship-or-a-weekend-lecture-can-change-a-life/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2010/06/09/how-a-summer-internship-or-a-weekend-lecture-can-change-a-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>juliechao</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emily Chen still vividly remembers the lecture on gecko feet. She was an eighth grader attending Berkeley Lab’s Nano*High program to hear materials scientist Arun Majumdar explain how what he was learning about gecko feet might translate into a new adhesive product based on carbon nanotubes. Many students come away from a Berkeley Lab summer internship—or just a weekend lecture—infected by the scientists’ passion for their work and with a sharper focus on their own academic and career path.]]></description>
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		<title>Graphene Films Clear Major Fabrication Hurdle</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2010/04/08/graphene-films/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2010/04/08/graphene-films/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry have successfully used direct chemical vapor deposition to synthesize single-layer graphene films on dielectric substrates. This represents a major step towards future applications of graphene in both the electronics and the photonics industries, starting with superfast transistors and computer memory chips.]]></description>
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		<title>A Novel Route to Discovery, Part Two</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2010/03/01/ldrd-discovery-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2010/03/01/ldrd-discovery-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part Two of a five-part series outlining the proposals awarded "Discovery" Laboratory Research and Development funds for 2010. This part describes an advanced approach to modeling subsurface fluids.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Madly Mapping the Universe</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2010/02/03/madmap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It takes special software to map the universe from noisy data. A Berkeley Lab code called MADmap does just that for the cosmic microwave background and has now been adapted by scientists probing the sky with the PACS camera aboard the Herschel satellite to make spectacular images of the infrared universe. ]]></description>
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		<title>Mismatched alloys are a good match for thermoelectrics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using the supercomputers at NERSC, Berkeley Lab researchers demonstrated that the semiconductors known as highly mismatched alloys (HMAs) hold great promise for the future development of high performance thermoelectric devices. Thermoelectrics could play a key role in green energy production because of their ability to convert heat into electricity.

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		<title>Reaching for the Stars to Create Music of the Universe</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2010/01/25/music-of-the-universe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dankrotz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if the light waves emitted by exploding stars could be translated into sound? That’s the idea behind a musical project to “sonify” the universe by Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart that caught the attention of Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist George Smoot.
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		<title>Worm’s Eye View: Molecular worm algorithm navigates inside chemical labyrinth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a “molecular worm” algorithm that makes it easier and faster to simulate the passage of a molecule through the labyrinth of a chemical system, a progression that is critical to catalysis and other important chemical processes.]]></description>
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