In this video from PASC17, Nicola Marzari from EPFL presents: Computational Discovery in the 21st Century. “The last decades have seen the steady and exhilarating development of powerful quantum simulation tools to describe matter at the microscopic scale. Since these simulations are performed without any experimental input or parameters, they can accelerate or replace actual […]
In this video from PASC17, Maria Grazia Giuffreda (ETH Zurich / CSCS, Switzerland) moderates a Flash Poster Session. “The aim of this session is to allow poster presenters to introduce the topic of their poster and motivate the audience to visit them at the evening poster session. Authors will be strictly limited to 40 seconds […]
In this video from PASC17, Katrin Heitmann summarizes her talk on Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe with Supercomputers. “Cosmology is in a scientifically very exciting phase. Two decades of surveying the sky have culminated in the celebrated Cosmological Standard Model. Yet, two of its key pillars, dark matter and dark energy, remain mysterious. Deep […]
In this video from PASC17 conference, Katrin Heitmann from University of Chicago presents: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe with Supercomputers. “Cosmology is in a scientifically very exciting phase. Two decades of surveying the sky have culminated in the celebrated Cosmological Standard Model. Yet, two of its key pillars, dark matter and dark energy, remain […]
The fourth PASC Conference took place in Lugano from 26 to 28 June. It has grown yet again, with close to 400 participants this time around. A photograph of the physicist Erwin Schrödinger, sailing through the air on skis in the snow-covered landscape of Arosa against a clear blue sky: it is a picture that […]