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Four Sandia researchers named American Physical Society fellows

December 7, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Four Sandia National Laboratories researchers have been named fellows of the American Physical Society (APS) for outstanding contributions to physics. The awardees are: François Léonard: for fundamental studies of the physics of nanoscale electronic…

Categories: Awards, Physics

Topics: American Physical Society, metamaterials, nanoelectronic, nanophotonic, physics of nanoscale, quantum search algorithms

Sandia Labs, Singapore join forces to develop energy storage

December 6, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the government of Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA) that will tap into the labs’ expertise in energy storage. EMA is the statutory body in Singapore responsible for ensuring a reliable and secure energy supply,...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, CRADA, economic impact, energy storage, national labs, partnerships, tech transfer

Dan Borneo, center in blue shirt, and other researchers from Sandia National Laboratories met with government representatives in the Southeast Asian island city-state of Singapore. Sandia will help Singapore’s Energy Market Authority set up the country’s first grid energy storage test-bed through a Comprehensive Research and Development Agreement. (Photo courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Sandia Science & Technology Park gives local economy a major boost

December 2, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —The Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) has generated $2.6 billion worth of economic activity and produced more than $103 million in tax revenue for the state of New Mexico and $15.2 million for the City of Albuquerque since it was established in 1998. That’s the conclusion of...

Categories: Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, economic impact, partnerships, tech park, tech transfer

Katie Wieck is a student at the Technology Leadership High School, one of the 40-plus businesses and organizations in the Sandia Science & Technology Park. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

From Albuquerque to Afghanistan and back again

November 30, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Located between vastly dry desert terrain to one side and beautifully lush terrain — known as the “Green Zone” — to the other, a 20-year-old U.S. Marine found himself in the town of Sangin, one of the deadliest places in Afghanistan. Sangin was unlike any other region in...

Categories: Military / Defense

Topics: disabled veterans, explosives, marine corps, veteran

Aircraft inspectors have new Sandia course to help detect composite material damage

November 28, 2016, Media Advisory • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As manufacturers build more wings, fuselages and other major commercial aircraft parts out of solid-laminate composite materials, Sandia National Laboratories has shown that aircraft inspectors need training to better detect damage in these structures. So the Airworthiness Assurance Center — operated by Sandia for the Federal Aviation...

Categories: Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation

Composite Nondestructive Inspection Techniques course

Former Sandia Labs executive named to National Science Board

November 16, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — President Barack Obama appointed former Sandia National Laboratories acting Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Julia Phillips to a seat on the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation. The president said Phillips and other recent appointees and to national boards are “fine public servants who...

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: education, Julia Phillips, national labs, National Science Board, National Science Foundation, women in STEM

Julia Phillips, whose career at Sandia National Laboratories spanned 14 years and a variety of management positions, said she will work to keep the U.S. at the forefront of science and engineering as a member of the National Science Board. (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Sandia emeritus director Bill Camp wins Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award

November 15, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When Bill Camp learned by phone that he had won the IEEE’s top-of-the-line Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, the Sandia National Laboratories emeritus director said that compared with the giants who had won the award in previous years, he felt “like the kid who had snuck into...

Categories: Awards, Computing

Radiation security team from Sandia works behind the scenes at events to protect public

November 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Richard Stump has been to five Super Bowls and hasn't seen a single pass, run or touchdown.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories Radiological Assistance Program senior scientist Richard Stump monitors a football fie…

Categories: Homeland security

Topics: Department of Energy, first responders, NNSA, preventative detection, radiation detection, radiation protection, radiological assistance program, RAP, training

Nanotechnology manager elected president of Materials Research Society

November 11, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Senior manager Sean Hearne, who leads the Center of Integrated Nanotechnology (CINT) group for Sandia National Laboratories, has been elected president of the Materials Research Society. MRS is an international organization that promotes interdisciplinary materials research with 15,000 members from academia, industry and national labs. Hearne will...

Categories: Awards, Nanotechnology

Topics: Arizona State University, Center for Integrated Nanotechnology, CINT, Materials Research Society, materials science, nanotechnology, president

American Indian engineers present inaugural award to Sandia diversity specialist

November 10, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Introducing the first recipient of the Blazing Flame Award from the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) requires a customary introduction. Translated from Navajo: “They call me Marie Capitan. I am Navajo and Alaskan. I am born to t…

Categories: Awards, Community / Education

Topics: AISES, American Indian, diversity, human resources, inclusion, Native American, outreach, STEM

Tritium introduced in fusion experiments at Sandia

November 9, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories Z Machine have opened a new chapter in their 20-year journey toward higher fusion outputs by introducing tritium, the most neutron-laden isotope of hydrogen, to their targets’ fuel. When Z fires, its huge electromagnetic field crushes pre-warmed fuel, forcing it to fuse....

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: electromagnetics, neutrons, pulsed power, tritium, Z, z machine

Sandia to evaluate if computational neuroscientists are on track

November 2, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Advanced computers may have beaten experts in chess and Go, but humans still excel at “one of these things is not like the others.” Even toddlers excel at generalization, extrapolation and pattern recognition. But a computer algorithm trained only on pictures of red apples can’t recognize that...

Categories: Biology, Computing

Topics: artificial intelligence, IARPA, image processing, machine learning, neural computing, neuroscience, pattern recognition

Sandia's MICrONS team examines a sample test object for IARPA's Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks (MICrONS) project

Lockheed Martin Mars Experience Bus stops in Albuquerque with virtual tour of red planet

October 24, 2016, Media Advisory • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] The Generation Beyond: Mars Experience Bus will stop in Albuquerque the week of Oct. 24, giving students a unique opportunity to visit the surface of Mars. (Photo courtesy of Lockheed Martin Corp.) Click on the thumbnail for a h…

Categories: Community / Education, Media advisories

Topics: Albuquerque Public Schools, APS, community, education, Lockheed Martin, STEM

The Generation Beyond: Mars Experience Bus will stop in Albuquerque the week of Oct. 24, giving students a unique opportunity to visit the surface of Mars. (Photos courtesy of Lockheed Martin Corp.)

Diamonds Aren’t Forever: Sandia, Harvard team create first quantum computer bridge

October 14, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — By forcefully embedding two silicon atoms in a diamond matrix, Sandia researchers have demonstrated for the first time on a single chip all the components needed to create a quantum bridge to link quantum computers together. “People have already built small quantum computers,” says Sandia researcher Ryan...

Categories: Computing, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: CINT, entanglement, implantation, photon, quantum, silicon

This stylized illustration of a quantum bridge shows an array of holes etched in diamond with two silicon atoms placed between the holes. (Illustration courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution image.

Fragment tracking: insights into what happens in explosions

October 11, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A bang and a swirl of dust from detonating 9 pounds of plastic explosive in the desert signaled the beginning of tests that — thanks to advances in high-speed cameras, imaging techniques and computer modeling — will help Sandia National Laboratories…

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: diagnostics, explosives, fragment tracking

Sandia National Laboratories researchers are doing a series of tests that are studying fragmenting explosives in ways that haven’t been possible in the past. The project observes explosively driven fragments with flash X-ray and high-speed cameras. (Photo courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories)

Sled track simulates high-speed accident in B61-12 test

October 5, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has sent a mock B61-12 nuclear weapon speeding down the labs’ 10,000-foot rocket sled track to slam nose-first into a steel and concrete wall in a spectacular test that mimicked a high-speed accident. It allowed engineers …

Categories: Nuclear Weapons

Topics: B61-12, forward ballistics test, large-scale testing, Life Extension Program, sled track

A B61-12 test unit slams into a target at the end of Sandia National Laboratories’ 10,000-foot rocket sled track in a complex forward ballistics test. The test, which mimicked a high-speed accident, allowed engineers to examine safety features inside the weapon.

Turning to the brain to reboot computing

October 3, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Computation is stuck in a rut. The integrated circuits that powered the past 50 years of technological revolution are reaching their physical limits. This predicament has computer scientists scrambling for new ideas: new devices built using novel physics, new ways of organizing units within computers and even...

Categories: Computing, Conferences / Symposia

Topics: dynamical systems, game theory, ieee, learning, neural computing, rebooting computing, spiking neural networks

Sandia National Laboratories researchers are drawing inspiration from neurons in the brain, such as these green fluorescent protein-labeled neurons in a mouse neocortex, with the aim of developing neuro-inspired computing systems to reboot computing

Nanophotonics researcher at Sandia named IEEE Outstanding Young Professional

September 22, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researcher Salvatore Campione has been awarded the 2016 Outstanding Young Professional Award by IEEE honor society Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN). A researcher of nanophotonics and metamaterials, with special expertise in periodic structures, leaky-wave antennas and electromagnetic theory, Campione was recognized by the society “for...

Categories: Awards, Nanotechnology

Topics: HKN honor society, ieee, leaky wave antennas, nanophotonics, outstanding young professional, periodic structures

Materials society names Sandia metallurgist as fellow

September 21, 2016 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories researcher Don Susan was named a 2016 fellow of ASM International in recognition of distinguished contributions to materials science and engineering. (Photo courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories) …

Categories: Materials Science

Topics: ASM International, materials science, metallurgy

Sandia National Laboratories researcher Don Susan was named a 2016 fellow of ASM International in recognition of distinguished contributions to materials science and engineering.

Cleaning concrete contaminated with chemicals

September 19, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – In March 1995, members of a Japanese cult released the deadly nerve agent sarin into the Tokyo subway system, killing a dozen people and injuring a thousand more. This leads to the question: What if a U.S. transportation hub was contaminated with a chemical agent? The hub...

Categories: Chemistry, Homeland security

Topics: basic research, chemical agents, chemistry, computational chemistry, concrete, decontamination, Homeland security

Chemical engineer Craig Tenney analyzes modeling results at the John B. Robert Dam

Supercomputers receive funding to help predict, modify new materials

September 16, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy (DOE) will invest $16 million over the next four years in supercomputer technology that will accelerate the design of new materials by combining theoretical and experimental efforts to create new validated codes. Sandia National Laboratories researcher Luke Shulenburger will head a team working...

Categories: Computing, Materials Science

Topics: DOE, exascale, materials, supercomputing

Turning ubiquitous lignin into high-value chemicals

September 16, 2016 • [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Sandia National Laboratories researchers Arul Varman, left, and Seema Singh, who is the principal investigator, are part of a team that mapped the metabolic pathway of a bacteria that lives solely off lignin. The breakthrough, p…

Categories: Biology, Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy

Topics: biofuel production, lignin, metabolic flux analysis, metabolic pathway, metabolizing lignin, Sandia National Laboratories, Sphingobium

Health Physics Society names Sandia Labs radiation expert a fellow

September 15, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An internationally recognized expert on the measurement and impact assessment of radiation doses to humans has been named a fellow of the Health Physics Society. Charles Potter of Sandia National Laboratories, a certified health physicist since 1997, was honored recently at the 61st Annual Meeting of the...

Categories: Awards

Topics: health physics, Health Physics Society, IAEA, radiation, radiation protection, radiological terrorism

Water-energy dependence around Pacific Rim mapped in new Sandia study

September 15, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A wide-ranging analysis of water vulnerability across the Pacific — including the U.S., China, Russia and Japan — has identified hundreds of locations where energy production depends upon scarce water supplies. The Sandia National Laboratories study, “Mapping Water Consumption for Energy Production Around the Pacific Rim,” was...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water

Topics: apec, asia, asia pacific, map, water, water energy nexus, water risk, watershed

When hurricanes take aim officials can get Sandia’s guidance

September 13, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. – When a hurricane approaches landfall, local, state and tribal governments must work together to decide whether and how they should evacuate large populations to save lives. Emergency managers must make quick decisions, often with outdated information an…

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Homeland security

Topics: DHS, FEMA, Homeland security, hurricane, National Hurricane Program

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