If you were to build a hospital or a fire station in a new city with complex terrain, where should it be located? The answer is the central point that people can reach the fastest from anywhere.

Mathematicians at the Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a mathematical algorithm to ...

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