Background

Bronson Messer is a Distinguished Scientist and Director of Science at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at ORNL. He is also a Joint Faculty Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Tennessee. His primary research interests are related to the explosion mechanisms and phenomenology of supernovae (both thermonuclear and core-collapse), especially neutrino transport and signatures, dense matter physics, and the details of turbulent nuclear combustion.

Dr. Messer is a member of the American Astronomical Society, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Publications

2020
A. Mezzacappa, P. Marronetti, R. E. Landfield, E. J. Lentz, K. N. Yakunin, S. W. Bruenn, W. R. Hix, O. E. B. Messer, E. Endeve, J. M. Blondin, and J. A. Harris. “Gravitational-wave signal of a core-collapse supernova explosion of a 15 solar-mass star.” Phys. Rev. D 102, 023027 (2020).
2018
E. O’Connor, R. Bollig, A. Burrows, S. Couch, T. Fischer, H.-T. Janka, K. Kotake, E. J. Lentz, M. Liebendoerfer, O. E. B. Messer, A. Mezzacappa, T. Takiwaki, and D. Vartanyan. “Global comparison of core-collapse supernova simulations in spherical symmetry.” Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 45, 104001 (2018).
2018
O. E. B. Messer and T. Papatheodore. “Exploiting Hierarchical Parallelism in an Astrophysical Equation of State Using OpenACC and OpenMP.” Advances in Parallel Computing 32, 517–526 (2018).
2018
O. E. B. Messer, E. D’Azevedo, J. Hill, W. Joubert, M. Berrill, and C. Zimmer. “MiniApps derived from production HPC applications using multiple programing models.” The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 32, 582–593 (2018).

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