A pair of neutron stars merge. Credit: David Radice, Penn State University
Enabling Nuclear Astrophysics Computational Transformation with AI
Explosive events throughout the universe (the cosmos) are the result of the physics of the smallest subatomic particles (quarks).
ENACT-AI (Enabling Nuclear Astrophysics Computational Transformation with AI), a project led by North Carolina State University, seeks to make the connection between these disparate scales by including state-of-the-art nuclear physics in state-of-the-art simulations of supernovae and colliding neutron stars. ENACT-AI will build the groundwork for a future, versatile AI foundation model by preparing AI-ready data to build a fast prototype model of these explosive events. The team will also build AI directly into simulations to enable the use of physics that are presently too expensive, even on exascale computers.
