Science Highlights 2014
Science Highlights feature awards and noteworthy scientific achievements at Los Alamos National Laboratory
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January 8
- Conradson and Henson named AAAS Fellows
- Crooker honored as Optical Society of America Fellow
- Chadwick, Kuske, Pabian, and Reeves selected as Laboratory Fellows
- Researchers explore alternative portal monitor technology for fissile material
- Understanding precursors to earthquakes
- Improved understanding of a semiconductor used in infrared detectors
- Database for students, libraries features Los Alamos metamaterials research
- LANL hosts High Performance Research Reactor Working Group meeting
- LANL diagnostic images neutrons from implosion experiment at National Ignition Facility
- Modeling the origin of superbursts in neutron stars
January 22
- Gordon Bell Prize finalists at Supercomputing 2013
- Hsin-Chih Yeh honored with Postdoctoral Publication Prize
- Gabriel Montaño elected president of SACNAS
- James Boncella chairs Gordon Conference
- Mechanism of drug transport across the cytoplasmic membrane
- Design and deployment of the new Powerwall Theater
- Lujan Center featured in book on techniques to probe the structure of materials
- Reverse engineering nuclear waste design
- First measurements will advance turbulence models
- Using waste heat to drive a spin diode and transistor
February 5
- Escobedo-Diaz, Fensin, Gibbs, Li, and Morrow receive Young Leaders Awards
- Joe D. Thompson wins Frank H. Spedding Award
- Biophysical Society profiles Sandrasegaram Gnanakaran
- Understanding the virulence mechanisms of human pathogens
- Improving plutonium-238 analytical chemistry operations
- Increased energy efficiency for computer data centers
- New instrument aids fission-fragment yield measurements
- Making decisions about contaminated groundwater
- Coherent diffractive imaging featured in JOM and in symposium
- Proton radiography probes metal solidification
- Ultracold atom SQUIDs mimic superconductors
February 19
- Michael Fitzsimmons elected Neutron Scattering Society of America Fellow
- Quanxi Jia selected as a new Materials Research Society Fellow
- Former Rosen Scholar Markus Roth made an American Physical Society Fellow
- Gary Grider named one of HPCwire’s people to watch for 2014
- Gemini Team wins Secretary of Energy Honor Award Citation
- DoD acquisition chief praises team for TATB production achievement
- Analyzing the human microbiome through metagenomics sequencing
- Atomic Physics Project delivers iron opacity table
- Nuclear Forensics Undergraduate Summer School to be held in June/July
- Mars Curiosity rover examines past habitability
- A new class of hierarchically porous metal materials
- Researchers publish first reference book on MRI at extremely low magnetic fields
March 5
- Aikin and Cerreta honored as ASM Fellows
- Improved plutonium assay
- Efficient multi-GPU computation
- High energy neutron computed tomography at LANSCE
- First successful shot of PHELIX at the Proton Radiography facility
- Silicone elastomers: from design to application
- Probing the engine of core collapse supernovae
- Understanding how trees die
- Interplay between frustration and spin-orbit coupling in vanadates
- First atomic-scale study of natural radioactivity in human DNA
March 19
- Kathy Prestridge chairs American Physical Society Committee
- David E. Chavez selected for Distinguished Alumni Award
- New Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellows selected
- STUD pulse development and initial laser plasma results
- Development of a prototype optically-pumped spin-exchange polarized electron source
- Nondestructive, three-dimensional imaging of isotopes in nuclear fuel pellets
- Tabletop X-ray radiography of explosives
- Random network topologies for high performance computing applications
- IBEX reveals cosmic roadmap to galactic magnetic field
- Pressure tuning: a new approach for making zero thermal expansion materials
- Bulk nanolayered composites demonstrate superior radiation damage tolerance
- Thermophysical properties of multiphase borosilicate glass-ceramic waste forms
April 1
- David Fry receives Charles W. Briggs Award
- Batista, Beyerlein, Kiplinger, Birnbaum and Nortier win Postdoc Mentor Awards
- Carolyn Connor named Speech Coach of the Year
- Single bacterial cells for whole-genome amplification.
- Improving mass spectrometry for plutonium in vitro bioassay
- Studying shock-driven interface sliding 50 ns at a time
- Observations and simulations improve space weather models
- Neutron scattering enables structural characterization of multifunctional materials
- General Electric markets Safire acoustic spectroscopy meter
- Advances in glass alloys point toward higher strength and ductility
- A topological twist on materials science
April 16
- John Sarrao honored with Ernest O. Lawrence Award
- Mikhail Shashkov named Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Michael Hamada wins first Gerald Hahn Quality and Productivity Achievement Award
- Postdoc Distinguished Performance Awards honor del Campo, Lanza, and Zheng
- Cory Lueninghoener named conference program chair
- Function of ruthenium catalysts in an important class of chemical reactions
- Field programmable gate array based system deployed to detect smugglers
- ATHENA surrogate organ system could reduce need for animal drug tests
- Measuring the neutron capture cross-section of plutonium-239
- Graphene oxide films developed for a range of technical applications
- Examining the mechanical response in cellular materials
- Proton radiography studies ejecta-sheet transport
