Peter Nugent is an astrophysicist, division deputy for Scientific Engagement in Berkeley Lab’s Applied Math and Computational Research Division, and long-time NERSC user. - Credit: Margie Wylie, Berkeley Lab
Transient events in space – astronomical phenomena lasting anywhere from milliseconds to months or years – provide a window into the history and the present state of our universe, and for decades, systems at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have supported research on these events. To celebrate that long history of discovery, Berkeley Lab senior scientist Peter Nugent will give his talk “A Quarter Century of Transient Science and Its Impact on Cosmology at NERSC,” part of the NERSC@50 seminar series. Join via Zoom on August 26 at 1:30 p.m. PDT.
For 25 years, NERSC has played a pivotal role in the discovery of astrophysical transients as well as understanding the physics behind them, and it’s well-positioned to continue for many years to come. Nugent will highlight some key discoveries supported by NERSC, what researchers have learned about them, and how they have informed our current understanding of the cosmological parameters. He’ll also look to the future and discuss how the field is changing and the role NERSC will play moving forward.
Peter Nugent is a senior scientist at Berkeley Lab and is currently the division deputy for scientific engagement in Berkeley Lab’s Applied Math and Computational Research Division. His research focuses on the use of high performance computing to tackle problems spanning observational data analysis and theoretical simulation in cosmology and astrophysics and, more recently, in epidemiology.
About NERSC and Berkeley Lab
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is the mission computing facility for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, the nation’s single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences.
Located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), NERSC serves 11,000 scientists at national laboratories and universities researching a wide range of problems in climate, fusion energy, materials sciences, physics, chemistry, computational biology, and other disciplines. An average of 2,000 peer-reviewed science results a year rely on NERSC resources and expertise, which has also supported the work of six Nobel prize-winning individuals and teams.
NERSC is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility.