A breakthrough astrophysics code, named Octo-Tiger, simulates the evolution of self-gravitating and rotating systems of arbitrary geometry using adaptive mesh refinement and a new method to ...

The 2011 program (then known as the International Summer Institute for Modeling in Astrophysics) was held in Beijing, China. Now the Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics, it will be held at UC Santa ...

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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense bursts of gamma radiation, typically generating more energy in a few seconds than the sun will produce over its ten-billion-year lifetime. These transient phenomena ...