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Microelectronics transform computing

Developing next-generation nuclear reactors

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Gordon Peterson

The Maria Goeppert Mayer Fellow is searching for efficient, sustainable energy materials to help turn waste heat into an energy resource. 

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Kevin Brown

The Walter Massey Fellow studies the algorithms and architecture that best serve the huge computational problems supercomputers can handle.

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