News from MESA.

Project milestones, and work by the MESA team.


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MESA kicks off with NSF IDSS, July 2026.

The project team convenes with the NSF Integrated Data Systems & Services program for the MESA kick-off meeting — the University of New Mexico, the University of Arizona, and UNC-CH/RENCI, setting the two-year prototype baseline in motion.

Creating new simulations of black holes, with OpenAI.

Co-investigator CK Chan, Ph.D. worked with OpenAI on creating new simulations of black holes — a look at agentic coding against Event Horizon Telescope science.

Reducing time to discovery.