2020-2021 LANL Collaborative Program Award Announcement
Many strong proposals were submitted to the 2020-2021 edition of The Texas A&M University System National Laboratories Office (NLO) Collaborative Research Program with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). This multi-element program is designed to increase the number and depth of research collaborations that benefit the A&M System, LANL, and the individuals involved. Today we are announcing the results of two elements of this program.
- Development Fellowships are designed for the A&M System researchers who have the skills, knowledge, and interest to develop long-term collaborative ties with LANL researchers and have already identified one or more LANL collaborators who are willing and able to engage in collaborative research.
- Research projects are designed for the A&M System researchers who have mature collaborative ties with LANL collaborator(s) and have identified research topics suitable for joint effort and joint funding from the NLO and LANL.
Approximately 40% of the proposals in each category (listed below) were selected for funding through a review process that involved numerous technical experts from the A&M System and LANL. The NLO and LANL are grateful to the many researchers who submitted proposals, and to the experts who provided the independent peer-review that is essential to achieving excellence in programs such as this.
Development Fellowships
| Project Title | PI (the A&M System) | Collaborator (LANL) |
| Towards First Evaluated Measurement of Pu Multiplicity Distribution | Shikha Prasad | Matthew Devlin; Andrea Favalli |
| Data-driven model-order reduction for radiative transfer applications in HEDP applications | Jean Ragusa | Andrew T. Till |
| Determining the nature of Dark Matter… | Louis Strigari | Andrea Albert; Patrick Harding |
| Morphodynamic Signatures of Arctic and Subarctic Meandering Rivers | Inci Guneralp | Joel Rowland, Anastasia Piliouras, Jon Schwenk |
| Discovering Signatures of Discontinuities, Interfaces, and the Resultant Fluid Flow in the Energy-Relevant Engineered Subsurface Systems | Siddharth Misra | Hari Viswanathan; James Carey; YouZuo Lin |
| 21st Century Feedbacks from Changing Land-Atmosphere Interactions in Permafrost Regions | Oliver Frauenfeld | Elchin Jafarov |
| Understanding the Thermomechanical Properties of Spatially Confined Semi-crystalline Polymers in Extreme Environments. | Pavan V. Kolluru | Cynthia F. Welch; Michael W. Blair;Robert D. Gilbertson |
| Integrating metamaterials with perovskites to create new optical functionalities | Zi Jing Wong | Wanyi Nie |
Research Projects
| Project Title | PI (the A&M System) | Collaborator (LANL) |
| Hydrogen retention in nanocomposites | Michael Demkowicz; Kelvin Xie | Yongqiang Wang |
| Dark Matter, Neutrino Interactions and Axion-Like Particles at Coherent Captain- Mills (LANL) |
Bhaskar Dutta | Richard Van De Water |
| An Integrated Approach for Managing Microgrids with Uncertain Renewable Sources, Demand Response and Energy Markets |
Natarajan Gautam | Harsha Nagarajan |
| Kinetic (non-ideal) effects on Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in ICF: High-fidelity simulations using Unified Gas Kinetics Scheme |
Sharath S. Girimaji | Daniel Livescu |
| Novel Manufacturing and Design of Nuclear-Grade Nanocrystalline Steels for Extreme Reactor Applications |
Dinakar Sagapuram | Osmal El-Atwani; Yongqiang Wang |
| Blow flies as environmental monitors for medical, biosecurity, and forensic purposes | Aaron Tarone; Jeffery Tomberlin | Jeanne Fair; Migun Shakya; Andrew Bartlow |
The NLO looks forward to assisting all interested faculty with furthering their relationships and opportunities with LANL and other National Labs.