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A Clash of Clusters Provides New Clue to Dark Matter
Ulrich Drepper: Multi-Core Programming
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Tom Abel: Cosmic Dawn - The First Star in the Universe
| What | SLAC Colloquium |
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29 April 08 from 07:30 pm to 08:30 pm |
| Where | SLAC's Panofsky Auditorium |
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Abstract:
What was the first thing in the Universe? A black hole or a star? How did it form? Even our biggest and best telescopes cannot tell us. Direct calculation with supercomputers, however, can. The first luminous objects in the Universe were very massive stars shining one million times as brightly as our sun. They died quickly and seeded the cosmos with the chemical elements necessary for life. One star at a time, galaxies started to assemble just one hundred million years after the Big Bang, and they are still growing now. Join Dr. Abel in a fascinating journey through the early universe, where he uses the latest computer animations of early star formation, supernovae explosions and the buildup of the first galaxies.
Stanford High Performance Computing Conference IV