Issues
Letters
The APS Council and the DEW Study
Planetary Ring: Another Theory
Search and Discovery
Articles
Grappling with Complexity
Special Issue: Computational Physics
A Numerical Laboratory
One can simulate and visualize the complex evolution of fluid flow by doing ‘computer experiments,’ which have emerged as a third method for investigating nature, complementing traditional experimental and theoretical work.
Exploiting Highly Concurrent Computers for Physics
Architectures as varied as rigid arrays of many simple processors and reconfigurable networks of transputers are being used to solve problems as diverse as lattice gauge theories and neural networks.
Computer Modeling in Physical Oceanography from the Global Circulation to Turbulence
Only with the recent generation of powerful supercomputers can more realistic ocean models be constructed to show oceanic circulation over many scales of motion—such as global, basin and mesoscale.
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Proteins
Computer simulations are giving new insights into the nature of the structural fluctuations in proteins and the relation of these fluctuations to protein function.
Washington Reports
Meetings
Physics Community
Student Pugwash Awarded Major Grants
New Products
Books
Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing
By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age
Superstrings: The First 15 Years of Superstring Theory, Volumes 1 and 2
The Making of American Industrial Research: Science and Business at GE and Bell, 1876–1926
We Hear That
Obituaries
