School of Natural Sciences

These talks were given at the workshop on "Saturation and Transport
Properties of MRI-driven Turbulence" that took place at the School of
Natural Sciences from June 16 to June 18, 2008.

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is currently...

John Norris Bahcall, Richard Black Professor of Astrophysics in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, recipient of the National Medal of Science, president of the American Astronomical Society, President-Elect of the...

James Gunn, Richard Black, Peter Goddard, Neta Bahcall and Family

James Wolfensohn, Peter Goddard, Martin Rees, Boris Kayser, Edward Witten, Freeman Dyson, Vera Rubin, Frank Shu, Norman Lebowitz and Robert O'Dell

Eli Waxman, Buell Jannuzi, Scott Tremaine, Andy Gould and Peter Goldreich

Nathan Seiberg, Art McDonald, Wick Haxton and Carlos Pena-Garay

Graphics processing units (GPUs) are rapidly emerging as a powerful and cost-effective platform for high-performance parallel computing. The current generation of GPUs sports capabilities in TFLOP range, already an order of magnitude greater than...