* Astronomy

Collaborative computing, pioneered at UWMadison, helped drive LHC analysis

When scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe announced the appearance of a new particle among the pieces of smashed protons, Miron Livny saw a huge scientific success.
But the University of Wisconsin-Madison computer scientist reveled in more than a fascinating research finding.
Collaboration has been guiding Livny's work for decades, and it is a large part of UW-Madison's contribution to the search for the Higgs boson.
Whenever a physicist in the United States wants to sift the avalanche of data collected at the LHC, they tap Open Science Grid, a network of computing resources for which Livny serves as principal investigator.
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