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Supercomputer benchmark gains adherents
December 21, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A software program that ranks supercomputers on their ability to solve complex problems rather than on raw speed alone continues to gain traction in the high-performance computing community. More than 60 supercomputers were ranked by the emerging tool, termed the High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) benchmark, in...
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Michael Heroux

Government relations manager at Sandia Labs honored by American Physical Society
November 24, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Benn Tannenbaum, manager of Sandia National Laboratories’ Washington, D.C., office, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society. He was nominated by its Forum on Physics and Society. Tannenbaum was honored “for outstanding contributions to international peace and security by addressing nuclear arms control, nonproliferation...
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Sandia National Laboratories government relations manager Benn Tannenbaum elected American Physical Society fellow.

Sandia researcher elected physics fellow after ‘remarkable impact’ in pulsed power
November 18, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Daniel Sinars has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) through its Division of Plasma Physics. The distinction is awarded to no more than one half of one percent of the society’s membership. Sinars’ citation reads, “For scientific contributions and...
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Daniel Sinars

Managing the data deluge for national security analysts
November 17, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — After a disaster or national tragedy, bits of information often are found afterward among vast amounts of available data that might have mitigated or even prevented what happened, had they been recognized ahead of time. In this information age, national security analysts often find themselves searching for...
Categories: Computing, Homeland security, Military / Defense
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Kristina Czuchlewski

Computer researcher at Sandia wins IEEE early career award
November 10, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Kurt Ferreira has been selected for the 2015 IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers. The award recognizes up to three individuals who have made influential and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing within...
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Researchers offer consulting to companies that license Sandia inventions
November 5, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a boost to technology transfer, Sandia National Laboratories has launched a program that lets researchers consult for companies that license their Sandia work. “There is a need for this. We hear often in the business community that it would help a lot if our people could...
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DOE aims to boost economy through national lab tech transfer
October 29, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is intensifying efforts to move technology developed at the national laboratories into the private sector to boost the economy and create jobs, says the acting director of the department’s new Office of Technology Transitions. “Tech transfer is a mission of the...
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An ‘apatite’ for radionuclides
October 20, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories geochemist Mark Rigali and his colleagues are developing and deploying apatite-based technologies to protect groundwater at sites contaminated by radionuclides and heavy metals. Apatite is currently being used at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State and the Fukushima Dai-ichi...
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Chemical engineer named University of New Mexico distinguished alumna
October 14, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The director of Sandia National Laboratories’ Energy Technologies and System Solutions Center has received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of New Mexico (UNM) School of Engineering. Carol Adkins was honored as one of seven distinguished alumni recognized this year for her significant impact on UNM’s...
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Carol Adkins

Way cheaper catalyst may lower fuel costs for hydrogen-powered cars
October 7, 2015 • ‘ ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —Sandia National Laboratories researchers seeking to make hydrogen a less expensive fuel for cars have upgraded a catalyst nearly as cheap as dirt — molybdenum disulfide, “molly” for short — to stand in for platinum, a rare element with the moonlike price of about $900 an ounce....
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Sandia researchers win ‘best paper’ award from AIAA
October 1, 2015 • Paper focuses on scramjet engines used for supersonic flightLIVERMORE, Calif. — The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has recognized Sandia National Laboratories researchers Joe Oefelein and Guilhem Lacaze with a best paper award for their work on s…
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AIAA Best Paper

New Mexico small businesses prosper with technical help
September 29, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Ski bums need fuel to schuss down mountains day in and day out. Their go-to snack is an energy bar, a backpack staple. “We need something that is quick, healthy, sustaining and cheap,” said Kyle Hawari of Taos, New Mexico. But taste matters too. “We humans crave...
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Techniques could create better material, design in high-consequence uses
September 23, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Imagine a table with sinuous legs resembling the twisting shape of an inverted swamp cypress trunk. Those flowing legs might make the table stronger, better able to handle whatever someone piles on it.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Topol…
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Sandia Labs HENAAC honorees find common threads in diversity
September 21, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Thousands of miles separate the hometowns of Patrick Sena and Abraham Ellis. Sena grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Ellis in Chitre, Panama, but they shared upbringings centered on family, community and culture. “What does it mean to be Hispanic?” said Ellis, manager of Photovoltaic...
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Workhorse gamma ray generator HERMES III fires its 10,000th shot at Sandia Labs
September 9, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The High-Energy Radiation Megavolt Electron Source, better known as HERMES III, has fired its 10,000th shot at Sandia National Laboratories. HERMES III, the world’s most powerful gamma ray generator, produces a highly energetic beam that tests how well electronics can survive a burst of radiation that approximates...
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New vice president to oversee energy, security, nonproliferation research at Sandia
September 8, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has appointed James M. Chavez vice president of its Energy, Nonproliferation and High Consequence Security Division and its International, Homeland and Nuclear Security Program Management Unit effective Sept. 11. He replaces Jill Hruby, who became Sandia president and labs director in July. Most recently,...
Categories: Homeland security, HR / Personnel, Nonproliferation
James Chavez

Sandia physicist accepts first joint faculty appointment with Washington State University
September 3, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories physicist Marcus Knudson is the first joint faculty appointee to serve both Sandia and Washington State University (WSU). In the position, Knudson will enhance fundamental research into the compression of materials under extreme conditions, using Sandia’s unique Z machine. “The science of dynamic material...
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Marcus Knudson

‘Laboratory Biorisk Management’ details safety, security methods for biosciences sites
August 25, 2015 • Sandia, international experts publish first biorisk management how-to book ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Recent mishaps at laboratories that mishandled potentially dangerous biological substances and the transmission of the Ebola virus in a U.S. hospital are symptoms at bioscience facilities that two Sandia National Laboratories researchers think could be prevented by implementing...
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Biological tools create nerve-like polymer network
August 24, 2015 • Crowdsurfing motor proteins create possible prosthetic interface ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Using a succession of biological mechanisms, Sandia National Laboratories researchers have created linkages of polymer nanotubes that resemble the structure of a nerve, with many out-thrust filaments poised to gather or send electrical impulses. “This is the first demonstration of...
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New arena of power generation set in motion with MOU
August 20, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories and eight other companies and research organizations will collaborate to advance a distributed power system that can produce cleaner, more efficient electricity. The memorandum of understanding focuses on the development of a fossil-fueled energy system based on supercritical carbon dioxide (S-CO2) Brayton cycle technology....
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Sandia Labs takes home regional tech transfer awards
August 17, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has won four regional awards from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) for its work to develop and commercialize innovative technologies. One award honored business development specialist Bianca Thayer as Technology Transfer Professional of the Year. Sandia technologies recognized by the FLC’s Far West/Mid-Continent regions...
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