Welcome to the explore part of Ben Wandelt's home page for cosmology enthusiasts and non-technical members of the public who are curious about Ben's work. He and his group are studying a wide range of research topics, from the early universe to the emergence of structure in the Universe capable of supporting intelligent civilizations. You can meet him and his group, explore non-technical articles, introductions to his work and a look behind the scenes in cosmic background, send in your questions in an FAQ and browse links to other sites that feature cosmology.

Announcements

May 6, 2008
My student Chad Fendt just received word that he won a second fellowship year from the program in computational science and engineering!
The home page of the CSE program.
February 7, 2008
Rishi and I released our work on Cosmic (Super-)Strings on the arxiv last week and it's creating quite a stir in the media and in several blogs. Check out the links below. There's a rumor that Science will run a news brief on our paper in the upcoming issue.
The preprint that's causing all this excitement! + UIUC news release
December 25, 2007
A lovely present from the Chicago Tribune: they ran a very nice article on disctributed computing featuring Cosmology@Home on Christmas day!
Direct link to article
December 22, 2007
ScienceNOW is running a news story about our recent evidence for primordial non-Gaussianity in the WMAP 3-year data (see link below). The article describes the buzz around our paper at a conference in Cambridge (England) that I just got back from. The conference was called "The Very Early Universe 25 years on." The "25 years on" part of the title refers to the 25 year anniversary of a conference on the very early Universe also held in Cambridge, where the (then) new theory of inflation was discussed.
Link to article on ScienceNOW, the online news site of Science magazine + Link to our manuscript on the arXiv: arXiv:0712.1148.
December 3, 2007
Check out the new Pico web page! Pico is "speed in a bottle" a way to use massively parallel precomputation to speed up slow and sequential calculations. We used Cosmology@Home to run the training sets.
The new Pico home page + A brief overview of Pico + A sneak preview of the new Pico paper

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