The University of California High-Performance AstroComputing Center (UC-HiPACC) based at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) is a consortium of nine University of California campuses and three Department of Energy laboratories (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory). The consortium's goal is to support and facilitate original research and education in computational astrophysics and to engage in public outreach and education.^[1]

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Joel R. Primack, distinguished Professor of Physics at UCSC, has directed the UC-HiPACC consortium since its inception.^[2] Peter Nugent from the Lawrence Berkley National Labarotory serves as the coordinator from northern California and Michael Norman from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) serves as the coordinator from southern California.^[3] The staff includes Senior Writer Trudy E. Bell, Administrator Sue Grasso, Scientific Visualization Coordinator Alex Bogert, and webmaster Steve Zaslaw.^[4] The consortium is organized at UCSC under the aegis of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP).^[5]

The UC-HiPACC consortium, which began operating^[6] in January 2010,^[7] supports activities that facilitate and encourage excellence, collaboration, and education in astronomy across the University of California system^[8] and affiliated DOE National Laboratories. It does not directly fund research or major hardware. Instead, UC-HiPACC sponsors working groups of UC scientists from multiple campuses and labs who pursue joint projects in computational astrophysics; workshops and conferences on topics in computational astrophysics; and an annual advanced summer school on a topic in computational astrophysics.^[9]

UC-HiPACC Meetings and Summer Schools 2010–2013

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Fourteen multi-day meetings and International Summer Schools on AstroComputing (ISSAC) were held from 2010 to 2013.^[10]

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Dates	Name of Meeting	Meeting Location/s	Participants	No. of Faculty	No. of Students
2010
June 28–30	Enzo User Workshop	UCSD/SDSC	45
July 26 – August 13	ISSAC 2010: Galaxy Simulations	UCSC		10	59
August 16–20	Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop	UCSC	120
December 16–17	The Future of AstroComputing	UCSD/SDSC	40
2011
July 18–29	ISSAC 2011: Explosive Astrophysics	UCB/LBNL		14	28
August 8–12	Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop	UCSC	86
2012
June 14–16	The Baryon Cycle	UCI	130
June 23–27	Computational Astronomy Journalism Boot Camp	UCSC/NASA/CAS	20	15
July 9–20	ISSAC 2012: AstroInformatics	UCSD/SDSC		11	34
August 13–17	Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop	UCSC	95
August 18–20	AGORA kickoff workshop	UCSC	52
2013
July 22 – August 9	ISSAC 2013: Star and Planet Formation	UCSC		16	48
August 12–16	Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop	UCSC	95
August 16–23	AGORA workshop	UCSC	37
2014 (planned)
February 12–14	Near-Field Deep-Field Connection Conference	UCI
March 21–22	Future of UC-HiPACC Workshop	UCB/LBL
July 21 – August 1	ISSAC 2014	UCSD/SDSC
August 11–15	Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop	UCSC
August 15–18	AGORA workshop	UCSC

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AGORA = Assembling Galaxies of Resolved Anatomy; CAS = California Academy of Sciences; CGE = Center for Galaxy Evolution; ISSAC = International Summer School on AstroComputing; LBNL = Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; NASA = NASA Ames Research Center; NSF = National Science Foundation; SDSC = San Diego Supercomputer Center; UCI = UC Irvine; UCSC = UC Santa Cruz. All participants in the journalism boot camp were professional science journalists.

Future of AstroComputing Workshop (2010)

In December 2010, UC-HiPACC organized a major conference on the Future of AstroComputing^[11] at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego (SDSC). UC-HiPACC provided partial support for the Enzo^[12] workshop^[13] at UCSD in spring 2010.

2012 Science Journalism Boot Camp in Computational Astronomy

It organized a journalism “boot camp” on computational astronomy,^[14] called “Computational Astronomy: From Planets to Cosmos”.^[15][16][17]

Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshops

Five-day workshops for galaxy researchers worldwide co-sponsored by UC-HiPACC were held at UCSC in August 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.^[18]