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Location
MIT <a target="_new" href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?mapterms=54&mapsearch=go">54-915</a>
Speaker: Leo Kadanoff, University of Chicago [speaker's website]
Worthwhile computer simulations are done to explore uncharted territory, resolve a well-posed scientific or technical question, or to make a design choice. Some excellent work is reviewed Some less happy stories are recounted. I then concentrate my attention upon astrophysical simulations, showing how they can explore possible scenarios for stellar explosions.
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