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VBL++
Upgraded with the C++ programming language, VBL provides high-fidelity models and high-resolution calculations of laser performance predictions.
![Radiation-driven Kelvin–Helmholtz instability experiment](/sites/default/files/styles/front_page_card/public/2022-01/MAPP-project-card.png?itok=Ow3sPoKG)
MAPP
The MAPP incorporates multiple software packages into one integrated code so that multiphysics simulation codes can perform at scale on present and future supercomputers.
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Vidya
This project advances research in physics-informed ML, invests in validated and explainable ML, creates an advanced data environment, builds ML expertise across the complex, and more.
Video: Predicting climate change impacts on infrastructure
By taking weather variables such as wildfire, flooding, wind, and sunlight that directly impact the electrical grid into consideration, researchers can improve electrical grid model projections for a more stable future.
![The Milky Way and night sky above Rubin Observatory's Auxiliary Telescope. The auxiliary telescope is at the lower left, and the night sky is sprinkled with stars. The denser area of the Milky Way extends upward on the right, bulging wider toward the top. Dark tendrils of dust clouds weave through the bulge.](/sites/default/files/styles/front_page_card/public/2024-02/AuxTelNightSky_June2023_432x285.jpg?itok=Tg-dn-oP)
Machine learning tool fills in the blanks for satellite light curves
MuyGPs helps complete and forecast the brightness data of objects viewed by Earth-based telescopes.
![Thirteen visiting students from Colorado College pose outdoors.](/sites/default/files/styles/front_page_card/public/2024-01/74615_Colorado%20College%20course%20with%20Barry%20Rountree_121223_Capture_0011%20v482x285.jpg?itok=ShjoGatW)
Colorado College computer science students spend two immersive weeks at the Lab
Thirteen students traveled to Livermore in early December for a computer science course simulating pond ecology and evolution.