Welcome to the research part of Ben Wandelt's home page with resources for fellow cosmologists and those aspiring to join their ranks! If you are interested in the details of Ben's research in physical cosmology and his most recent results you are in the right place. You can access Ben's publications and research software and browse an extensive list of links Ben and his group find useful in their daily work.

Announcements

April 13, 2009
Cosmology@Home is now back up again after a protracted period of downtime, necessary for hardward maintenance.
Febuary 19, 2009
I just found out (by receiving a congratulation e-mail) that I will receive a Xerox Faculty Research Award!
Award announcement + Award description by the college of engineering - I will receive the senior version of the award.
January 14, 2009
We are hiring a systems administrator for my group and Cosmology@Home. Check out the links below for more details and for other opportunities to join the group.
Job posting (.pdf file) + Job posting (.doc file) + Cosmology@Home website + Opportunities to join the group
December 18, 2008
We just heard that our most recent request for supercomputing resources (more than 1.25 million SU on various Teragrid machines) was granted in full!
December 10, 2008
Cosmology at Home is back up and running and we are even back amongst the top 15 distributed computing projects. Our highest ranking so far was 7th if memory serves--that was earlier this year, before our server melted down... Track our status at the BOINCstats; see the link below.
BOINCstats gives a ranking of distributed computing projects

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