October 2, 2010
The Awesome Power of
Galaxy Cluster Mergers
July 15, 2009
University, Fermilab
scientists to receive
$216,000 in
collaborative seed
grants
December 18 2008
Supercomputer time
allocation to boost
simulations of
exploding stars
August 5, 2008
Computation Institute
to bulk up data
analysis capability
with $1.5 million
grant
May 1, 2008
Argonne supercomputer
to simulate extreme
physics of exploding
stars
March
22, 2007,
Scientists compute
death throes of a
white dwarf star in 3D March
22, 2007,
At last, virtual
stars go kaboom on cue January
8, 2007,
Flash Center to
perform grueling
supernova simulations
using millions of
hours of supercomputer
time
April 30, 2004
, Computer to
simulate exploding
star April
28, 2004
, Simulation may
reveal the detailed
mechanics of exploding
stars April
12, 2004
, Stars surrendering
secrets to
supercomputers February
19, 2004
, Simulation may
reveal the detailed
mechanics of exploding
stars
December 2002
, The Complexity
Complex November
21, 2002
, Flash Center
building simulation
computer code,
validating results January
4, 2001
, Flash Center team
receives top prize for
massive supercomputing
simulation, the
Gordon Bell prize
June 5, 2000
, press release on the
Helium Detonation
Simulations
October
1, 1998
, Secretary of
Energy praises
University, Argonne
partnership September
25, 1997
, article on Flash
Center grant
July
31, 1997
, Original Press Release
about the awarding of
this Center
April 20, 2020
Flash Center Director Petros Tzeferacos has been awarded
funding from the US
Department of Energy as a part of the Department's Advanced
Research Projects Agency-Energy's(AREPA-E) Breakthroughs
Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy(BETHE) program.
University
of Rochester Newscenter
July 12, 2019
The Flash Center team has been awarded the 2019 Dawson
Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research. Petros
Tzeferacos and Donald
Lamb share the prize with collaborators from the
University of Oxford and the University of Rochester.
American Physical Society News
October 29, 2018
The Flash Center turns 20 and welcomes new director,
Petros Tzeferacos
UChicago Division of the Physical Sciences Press Release
April 1, 2018
The Flash Center's research was featured in Physics
Today:
"Lab experiments mimic the origin and growth of astrophysical magnetic fields"
Physics Today - volume 71, no. 4, pg. 20 (2018)
February 12, 2018
‘Turbulent dynamo’ may clarify universe’s
magnetic mystery
Futurity Science & Technology
February 9, 2018
Astrophysicists settle century-old cosmic
debate on magnetism of planets and stars
UChicago News
January 4, 2018
Computational astrophysics team uncloaks
magnetic fields of cosmic events
UChicago News
December 12, 2014
Flash Center laser experiment heralded
by the UK Institute of Physics as one of
the top-ten physics breakthroughs of
2014...
Physics World article
June 2, 2014
Scientists create a 'SUPERNOVA' in the
lab...
Daily Mail.com article
June 2, 2014
International collaboration
replicates amplification of cosmic
magnetic fields
University of Chicago Press Release
February 17, 2014
Chicago Innovation Exchange
celebrates opening of Harper Court
space with Innovation Fund
recipients...
University of Chicago Press Release
November 19, 2012
Failed explosions explain most
peculiar supernovae
University of Chicago Press
Release
April 29, 2011
New software to support
interest in extreme science
University of Chicago Press
Release
Discovery News
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NewScientist.com
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Universe Today
The University of
Chicago video news
release
Argonne News
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Chicago Magazine
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