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April Novak, a doctoral candidate in UC Berkeley’s Department of Nuclear Engineering, works with Asst. Professor Rachel Slaybaugh to develop modeling software that helps validate the safety and feasibility of advanced pebble-bed reactor (PBR) designs, and supports the licensing process for PBRs.

The annual Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference was originally designed for High Performance Computing managers and users but has since expanded to provide a forum for discussing challenges, opportunities, and solutions among many types of research facilitators, including librarians.

To invent the first commercially viable electric light bulb, Thomas Edison and his assistants tested thousands of materials to use for the filament until they found one that lasted long enough. This traditional “Edisonian” trial-and-error process of materials discovery is still fundamentally how we design materials almost 150 years later.