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Join a free lecture at Longmont Museum, “Keeping an eye on the sun’s magnetism”

March 12, 2025

On Thursday, March 27, from 6:00 to 7:30 pm MT, join the hybrid lecture, “Keeping an Eye on the Sun’s Magnetism,” with scientist Rebecca Centeno Elliott. While the Sun appears still to the human eye, its atmosphere is actually alive and riddled with activity known as Space Weather. This activity puts our increasingly vulnerable technological society at risk. Thanks to the magnifying power of ...

Join a free hybrid lecture on aircraft de-icing and winter flight safety

March 12, 2025

On Wednesday, March 26, from 4:30 to 6:00 pm MT, join the lecture, “There’s something on the wing … something green,” with scientist Scott Landolt. While it may sound straight out of an episode of The Twilight Zone, spraying a green- or orange-colored fluid onto the wings and other parts of an aircraft is an ordinary occurrence during winter weather conditions to de-ice aircraft before takeof...

ISS 2025: Program and registration are available now

March 12, 2025

The online program is now available for the 2025 Improving Scientific Software Conference. Our 4-day program includes a number of talks and two tutorials, along with two keynote presentations (details to be announced soon). We would like to thank all who submitted an abstract to this year's event! Remember that registration is open now for the conference, which will take place April 7-10, 2025...

Deadline extended! Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC)

March 7, 2025

The deadline to apply for this program has been extended to Sunday, March 16, 11:59PM AOE or Anywhere on Earth time (which translates to 4:59 AM on Monday, March 17, in Mountain Time). Doctoral students, postdocs, and early career scientists interested in conducting computational science and engineering research on large-scale computers are invited to apply for the 13th annual ATPESC program. ...

NWSC Facility Maintenance and Extended HPC System Downtime - June 2-6 2025

March 6, 2025

As previously announced, CISL staff will be performing necessary facility maintenance at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) in early June to replace components within the power and cooling systems that have reached the end of serviceable life after more than a decade in operation. This critical but infrequent maintenance requires a favorable weather window as much of the work must be...

Celebrate 20 years of super-droplets: Hybrid seminar and refreshments

March 5, 2025

On Thursday, March 20, 2025, at 2:00 PM MT, join NSF NCAR’s Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) department for a special seminar marking the twentieth anniversary of the revolutionary Super-Droplet Method (SDM). Dr. Shin-ichiro Shima of the University of Hyogo will present "Recent Advances and Applications of Lagrangian Particle-Based Cloud Models," reflecting on the SDM's journey from...