To help researchers make the most of Summit from day one, the Center for Accelerated Application Readiness brings application developers together with experts from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and hardware makers IBM and NVIDIA. Their work will identify the best development strategies...

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Paul Langan is the associate laboratory director for neutron sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He came to ORNL in April 2011 as a senior scientist and director of the Center for Structural Molecular Biology. In October of that year he became founding director of the Neutron Sciences Directo...

Neutrons are a precious scientific resource—electrically neutral, strongly penetrating, and energetically well matched to elementary excitations in matter. They see atoms and ions and differences in isotopic composition. They follow motions. And they reveal magnetic and electronic properties that ar...

The United States is a major participant in the ITER fusion reactor, an experimental reactor intended to demonstrate that the process that powers stars can also produce clean energy on Earth. The U.S. contribution to this international collaboration is coordinated by DOE’s Office of Science and head...

Susan Solomon is the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the mid-1980s she led expeditions to Antarctica that confirmed a growing hole in the Earth’s ozone layer and laid the blame on the human use of chlorofl...

Ada Yonath serves as director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center in Rehovot, Israel. In 2009 she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her pioneering work in the structure and function of the ribosome.

Yonath delivered the Jan. 15 Eugene P. Wigner Distinguished Lecture on the topic “...