Our collaborative team (USF, LLNL, UoR, ASU, SU and KTH), led by Ivan Oleynik, has successfully completed the first shot at
National Ignition Facility (NIF)
of
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
This experiment was conducted as part of our NIF Discovery
Science (DS) project, which aims to synthesize the elusive high-pressure BC8 post-diamond phase of
carbon.
[February 28, 2023]
DOE’s Innovative and Novel
Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program
awarded 1.3 million node-hours on exascale Frontier supercomputer at
DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory " to a
collaborative team (USF, Sandia, KTH) led by Prof. Oleynik to perform machine-learning
molecular dynamics simulations of carbon at extreme conditions.
[November 12, 2022]
DOE’s
Fusion Energy Sciences/High-Energy Density Physics program awarded grant
to USF/Carnegie collaborative team led by Ivan Oleynik to study Inertial Fusion Energy
ablator materials.
[August 1, 2022]
Ivan Oleynik gave an invited talk “Exploring Metastability and Phase Transitions in
Dynamically-Compressed Amorphous Carbon” at
2022 LaserNetUS User’s Meeting (Fort Collins, CO)
[August 17, 2022]
Ivan Oleynik gave an invited talk “Phase transitions in SiC in the
interiors of carbon-rich planets” at
2022 Z Fundamental Science Workshop
(Albuquerque, NM)
[August 3, 2022]
DOE’s
National Nuclear Security Administration
Stewardship Science Academic Alliances
Program awarded grant to Carnegie/USF collaborative team to study iron carbides at
exoplanetary core conditions.
[August 1, 2022]
Kien Nguyen Cong gave an invited talk "Carbon at Extreme Conditions:
New Insights with Big Supercomputers and Machine Learning” at
2022 High
Pressure Gordon Research Conference
(Holderness, NH)
[July 20, 2022]
Kien Nguyen Cong gave an invited talk “Phase transitions of carbon at extreme
conditions” at
2022 American Physical Society Shock Shock Compression of Condensed Matter Conference
(Anaheim, CA).
[July 14, 2022]
Ivan Oleynik gave an invited talk “Quantum-accurate molecular dynamics shock
simulations at experimental time and length scales” at
2022 American Physical Society Shock Shock Compression of Condensed Matter Conference
(Anaheim, CA).
[July 14, 2022]
Ivan Oleynik gave a seminar “Carbon at Extreme Conditions: Discovery Science with
Machine-Learning and Big Computers” at
High Energy Density Science Center , Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory.
[June 9, 2022]
DOE’s
Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) program
awarded 150,00 node-hours on pre-exascale Polaris supercomputer to a collaborative team (USF, Sandia, NERSC)
led by Ivan Oleynik
to perform predictive simulations of inertial confinement fusion ablator materials.
[June 1, 2022]
Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and
National Science Foundation Leadership Resource Allocation
program awarded 3 million node-hours
on pre-exascale Frontera supercomputer at TACC to perform classical
simulations of planetary materials with quantum accuracy.
[March 31, 2022]
DOE’s DOE’s LaserNetUS program
awarded experimental time at Omega EP Laser Facility
to a collaborative team (USF, Carnegie, Arizona State University,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) led by Ivan Oleynik to study
high energy density physics of novel inertial fusion energy
ablator materials
[April 11, 2022]
Ivan Oleynik gave a seminar “Carbon at Extreme Conditions: Discovery Science
with Machine-Learning and Big Computers” at Theoretical Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
[March 31, 2022]
Ivan Oleynik gave an invited talk “Billion Atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations of
Carbon at Extreme Pressures”, at NVIDIA GTC
Developer and AI Conference
[March 23, 2022]
Ivan Oleynik gave a virtual Shock Compression Seminar
“Carbon at Extreme Conditions: Discovery Science with Big Computers and
Machine-Learning” for American Physical Society’s Topical Group on Shock
Compression of Condensed Matter (GSCCM)
[March 8, 2022]
Jonathan Willman received best poster award for his poster presentation
“Inelastic Shock Response of Diamond” at
2022 NIF and Jupiter Laser Facility User Group Meeting ,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
[February 7, 2022]
Ivan Oleynik gave an invited talk
“Defeating slow kinetics of diamond to bc8 post-diamond phase transition” at
2022 NIF and Jupiter Laser Facility User Group Meeting ,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
[February 7, 2022]
Jonathan Willman was highlighted in
2022 National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Academic Programs Annual report
[February 1, 2022]
Discovery Science (DS) program
awarded experimental time at National Ignition Facility of
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to a collaborative team
led by Ivan Oleynik
to synthesize elusive high-pressure post-diamond phase of carbon.
The DS team includes scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
University of Rochester, Arizona State University, the Royal Institute of Technology and
Swinburn University.
[December 2, 2021]
Collaborative team of scientists from the University of South Florida (USF),
The Royal Institute of Technology, DOE’s Sandia National Laboratories,
DOE’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), and the NVIDIA Corporation,
led by Ivan Oleynik, earned
Gordon Bell prize nomination for groundbreaking molecular dynamics
simulations of carbon under extreme pressures and temperatures on pre-exascale
Summit supercomputer
at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory ".
[November 18, 2021]
Z Fundamental Science (ZFS) program
awarded experimental time at Z pulsed power
facility of Sandia National Laboratories
to collaborative team led by Ivan Oleynik
to study kinetics of phase transitions in silicon carbide at exoplanetary conditions.
The ZFS team includes scientists from Sandia National Laboratory,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Arizona State University, and
the Royal Institute of Technology.
[December 15, 2020]
DOE’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on
Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program
awarded 300,000 node-hours on pre-exascale
Summit supercomputer
at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory " to a collaborative
team (USF, Sandia, KTH) led by Ivan Oleynik to perform predictive simulations of phase transitions in dynamically
compressed materials.
[November 16, 2020]
Ashley Williams received best poster award for her poster presentation
“Probing Metastability of Carbon at High Pressures by Predictive First-Principles Simulations”
at 2020 NNSA Stewardship Science Academic Programs (SSAP) Symposium.
[February 27, 2020]