Many strong proposals were submitted to the 2019-2020 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 Fellowshipsare 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 projectsare 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 25% 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.
Department Fellowships
Quantitative mesoscale modeling of high burn-up structure (HBS) formation and evolution in UO2
PI (the A&M System)
- Karim Ahmed
Collaborator (LANL)
Anders David Ragnar Andersson
STUDY OF DILUTE GAS BOSE_EINSTEIN CONDENSATES
PI (the A&M System)
- Carlos Bertulani
Collaborator (LANL)
Eddy Timmermans
Scalable Gaussian-process methods for the analysis of computer experiments
PI (the A&M System)
- Matthias Katzfuss
Collaborator (LANL)
Earl Lawrence
Correlating f-block Covalency with Magnetic Exchange in Actinide-Lanthanide Heterometallics: Towards Highly Anisotropic 5f-4f Spin Systems
PI (the A&M System)
- Michael Nippe
Collaborator (LANL)
Stosh Kozimor
Characterizing components from the directed energy deposition (DED) additive manufacturing process for new materials
PI (the A&M System)
- Sarah Wolff
Collaborator (LANL)
- Don Brown
- Samantha Lawrence
- Adam Wachtor
Characterizing, understanding, and predicting the deformation mechanisms of metallic systems
PI (the A&M System)
- Yu Xuan (Kelvin) Xie
Collaborator (LANL)
- Arul Kumar Mariyappan
Research Projects
Modeling and Discrete Optimization Algorithms for Robust Complex Networks
PI (the A&M System)
- Swaroop Darbha
PI (LANL)
- Harsha NagarajanHarsha Nagarajan
DESIGN OF NOVEL THERMO-MECHANICAL PROCESSING APPROACHES USING INVERSE OPTIMIZATION FOR LIGHT-WEIGHTING
PI (the A&M System)
- Ibrahim Karaman
- Amine Benzerga
- Alan Needleman
PI (LANL)
- Ricardo Lebensohn
Los Alamos A&M Dark-matter and Neutrino Alliance (LAAMDNA)
PI (the A&M System)
- Rupak Mahapatra
PI (LANL)
- Richard Van de Water
- Steven Elliott
- William Louis
- Rajan Gupta
Key-Value storage systems for HPC
PI (the A&M System)
- Narasimha Reddy
PI (LANL)
- Brad Settlemyer
- Gary Grider
Advanced Reactor Structural Materials under Extreme Radiation Conditions
PI (the A&M System)
- Lin Shao
- Frank Garner
PI (LANL)
- Stuart A. Maloy
Production of radioisotopes (At-211 + Tb-149) for cancer therapy
PI (the A&M System)
- Sherry Yennello
- Jonathan D. Burns
- Lauren (Heilborn) McIntosh
- Evgeny Tereshatov
PI (LANL)
- Eva Birnbaum
- Michael Fassbende
- Etienne Vermeulen
- Stosh Kozimor
The NLO looks forward to assisting all interested faculty with furthering their relationships and opportunities with LANL and other National Labs.