Over the past six months, I've been working with people at NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) and Thomas Lucas Productions to produce a 2-minute segment for their upcoming planetarium show, Solar Superstorms.  They visualized one of my simulations of the first galaxies and another of a supernova from a first star with yt. … Continue Reading ››

Earlier this year, I was privileged enough to be chosen to give a TEDx talk at Douglasville, just to the west of Atlanta. There I spoke about how we and others model galaxies on supercomputers, understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies that we observe with some of the best telescopes on Earth and in … Continue Reading ››