Climate represents the main driver controlling the growth and demise of Earth’s ice masses, which in turn play a major role in many physical and biological processes, including sea level, ocean currents, ecosystems, and climate itself, not to mention human activities. Thus, it is no surprise that shrinking and disappearing glaciers are often referred to as amongst the most dramatic evidence of...
Electricity is the foundation of modern society. New technologies such as electrified vehicles, AI, data centers, and cryptocurrency are driving electricity demand at a rate far exceeding the supply. A mix of energy sources is needed to meet this demand. While renewable energy sources like solar and wind are fast growing, nuclear energy offers unique features that make it a crucial part of the...
Low temperature plasmas (LTPs) are plasmas with relatively low plasma density and energy (typically <10 eV) have been playing critical roles in technology advancement in microfabrication, light sources, and other established industrial applications. With the versatility and relative low capital cost in the technology development, LTPs present a myriad of opportunities to technology innovation...
Particle Accelerators for Applications from Medicine to Sub-Critical Reactors
Nuclear power has the benefit of being a carbon-free energy source but generates long-lived radioactive waste and has the potential for impactful accidents. Particle accelerators were developed as scientific instruments but are also being used in industry and medicine. Hadron accelerators are increasingly being...
Organizations across the globe are facing growing pressure to address climate change, and companies providing at scale computing services are no exception. The existing cloud services combined with the more recent growth in machine intelligence are rapidly increasing the demand for compute resources and outpacing hardware efficiency improvements. This talk covers carbon emissions from a...
Continuous advances in electronics technology have finally brought us into the age of “Exascale” computing. One of the next big challenges is the management of the deluge of data that is now being generated in scientific research, observation and simulation. Whether it is the ever expanding study or our Earth’s rapidly changing climate and biology or probing the fundamental structure of...
