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Four UC San Diego Faculty Members Awarded 2021 Sloan Research Fellowships

Four faculty members from UC San Diego have been awarded 2021 Sloan Research Fellowships, awards designed to support “extraordinary” early career researchers.

San Diego Supercomputer Center Helps Advance Computational Chemistry

Researchers from MIT have succeeded in developing an artificial intelligence (AI) approach to detect electron correlation – the interaction between a system’s electrons – which is vital but expensive to calculate in quantum chemistry.

Supercomputers Advance Longer-Lasting, Faster-Charging Batteries

Thanks to NSF-funded supercomputers including Comet at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, the research community has been making progress on developing more reliable and efficient batteries that may power tomorrow's electric vehicles and other products.

Copperizing the Complexity of Superconductivity

New study suggests that how electrons interact in solids may be key to understanding the emerging phases of quantum materials.

TRAPPIST-1 Family of Planets: Rocky Through and Through?

Based on the precise measurements reported in this study, researchers hypothesized what mixtures of bulk ingredients could give the TRAPPIST-1 planets their densities, offering the most precise picture of exoplanet composition achieved to date.

SDSC’s ‘Expanse’ Supercomputer Helps Researchers Better Understand the Sun’s Corona

As mandates prevented gatherings over the holiday season, crowds in Chile and Argentina donned masks and eye shields to view some a two-minute solar eclipse on December 14. A week before, researchers at PSI used SDSC's Expanse supercomputer to see how closely they could simulate the event.