PPPL Physicist Wins Early Career Research Program Grant
Physicist Luis Delgado-Aparicio is the third PPPL scientist to win the prestigious Early Career Research Program grant.
SLAC Researcher Receives DOE 'Early Career' Grant to Support X-ray Optics and Imaging
Anne Sakdinawat, an associate staff scientist at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has been recognized with a prestigious DOE Early Career Research Program grant to advance her work in creating and using next-generation focusing and imaging devices for X-ray experiments at SLAC and other research sites.
Three PNNL Scientists Receive DOE Early Career Research Program Awards, Research Funding
Three scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been selected to receive Early Career Research Program research grants. The trio were among just 44 recipients nationwide to receive the annual research awards. Under the program, David Heldebrant, Dongsheng Li and Brent VanDevender will each receive five-year research grants that fund work designed to reduce carbon emissions, create new materials for energy storage and measure the mass of some of the smallest components of the universe.
Pacific Northwest National Lab, Oregon Health & Science U Team Up for Biomed Research
The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon, are joining forces to answer some of the world's most complex biomedical questions.
DOE's Office of Science Selects 44 Scientists to Receive Early Career Research Program Funding
Program provides support to exceptional researchers.
Special Science Call Projects Announced
EMSL's Special Science Call for Proposals ran from mid-April through September and generated 23 accepted studies. The call challenged prospective users to submit high-impact research projects that took advantage of EMSL's technical resources including RadEMSL, the Quiet Wing microscopy and NanoSIMS capabilities, and HRMAC. The research associated with the call is progressing, and the projects will soon start delivering important scientific findings.
NERSC, Cray Move Forward With Next-Generation Scientific Computing
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center and Cray Inc. announced today that they have finalized a new contract for a Cray XC40 supercomputer that will be the first NERSC system installed in the newly built Computational Research and Theory facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Argonne Earth Day Event
Argonne National Laboratory will play host to a myriad of Earth Day activities on Wednesday, April 22 from 11a-1p.
SLAC and Stanford's James D. Bjorken Receives 2015 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize
James D. Bjorken, a theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and at Stanford University, has been awarded the 2015 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society (EPS). Along with four other scientists, he was honored for theoretical work that revolutionized our understanding of the internal structure of the proton.
ORNL Researchers Contribute to Major UN Bioenergy and Sustainability Report
A major United Nations report on bioenergy and sustainability released Tuesday concludes the sustainable production of bioenergy can be an important tool for addressing climate change.
INCITE Seeking Proposals to Advance Science and Engineering at U.S. Leadership Computing Facilities
The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is now accepting proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns in a broad array of science, engineering and computer science domains.
OLCF Selects Application Readiness Projects to Prepare for Next-Generation Summit Supercomputer
Summit, a high-performance computing system set to be delivered to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2017 and available to researchers in 2018, will support DOE's Office of Science in its broad science and energy mission.
U.S. Department of Energy Awards $200 Million for Next-Generation Supercomputer at its Argonne National Laboratory
Under the joint Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne, and Lawrence Livermore (CORAL) initiative, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a $200 million investment to deliver a next-generation supercomputer, known as Aurora, to the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. When commissioned in 2018, this supercomputer will be open to all scientific users - drawing America's top researchers to Argonne.
OLCF User Earns NVIDIA Award for GPU-Accelerated Earthquake Simulations
A San Diego Supercomputer Center research team received NVIDIA's 2015 Global Impact Award for its work, conducted in part on the Titan supercomputer, developing a GPU-accelerated code that simulates high-frequency earthquakes.
ORNL Part of New Project to Study How Tropical Forests Worldwide Respond to Climate Change
Researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will play key roles in an expansive new project that aims to bring the future of tropical forests and the climate system into much clearer focus by coupling field research with the development of a new ecosystem model.
ORNL and Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics Cooperate on Development of Salt-Cooled Reactors
Representatives from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics are meeting at ORNL this week as part of an agreement between the two institutions to work together on the advancement of salt-cooled nuclear reactor technologies.
APLAIR Partners with ORNL to Commercialize Weld Inspection Technology
ORNL's infrared imaging system can help automakers quickly determine whether a weld is good or bad without damaging the part. The infrared check can be performed in a few seconds, offering industry a low-cost and non-destructive alternative to monitor welds in real time.
Bergan '15 Named Jefferson Prize Winner
Will Bergan '15 got hooked on physics in middle school. He's done research at two of the world's premier high-energy physics installations and is the recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Prize in Natural Philosophy, William & Mary's top honor for science and mathematics undergraduates.
Materials Science and Engineering's Zide Wins AVS Peter Mark Memorial Award
Joshua Zide, associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Delaware, has won the 2014 Peter Mark Memorial Award from American Vacuum Society, an interdisciplinary society for materials, interface and processing technology. The award recognizes an outstanding young researcher (35 or younger) who has contributed work to AVS publications.
SLAC's Peter Rowson Named American Physical Society Fellow
SLAC staff physicist Peter Rowson has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, the largest physics association in the world. APS confers this distinction on a small percentage of the society's membership; it is especially significant because it is a peer-nominated honor.
Fermilab Scientists Selected as 2014 APS Fellows
Last month, three Fermilab scientists were named fellows of the American Physical Society, a distinction awarded each year to no more than one-half of 1 percent of current APS members by their peers.
Albert Stebbins Receives 2014 Scientific Medal of the Institute of Astrophysics of Paris
Fermilab scientist Albert Stebbins was recently awarded the 2014 Scientific Medal of the Institute of Astrophysics of Paris.
PPPL's Popular Science Lecture Series Debuts Jan. 10 with New Name Honoring Long-Time Organizer
Announcement of start of 2015 Science on Saturday lecture series.
Manufacturing Serendipity
With $20 million in funding from UChicago's Innovation Fund, CIE draws together the research expertise of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, engaging the Chicago market for the first time through office spaces in the hub.
Oak Ridge to Acquire Next Generation Supercomputer
The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility has signed a contract with IBM to bring a next-generation supercomputer to Oak Ridge National Laboratory.