Bursting the bubbles: snapshots from a multiscale model of membrane rearrangement, drainage and rupture in a cluster of soap bubbles, shown using thin-film interference. (Courtesy: James Sethian and ...

His work has also had great impact on the fields of combustion, tomography, industrial foams, and medical image analysis. Sethian received his doctorate from Berkeley in 1982 under the direction of ...

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has partnered with a power company to apply its pulsed electron beam technology to reduce the nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide (NOx) emitted by coal power ...

James Sethian (seated) and Maciej Haranczyk, of the Mathematics Group in Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division, have developed a "molecular worm" algorithm that makes it easier and faster to ...