Research proposals sought for collaborations with UC San Diego

Laboratory researchers working on sensors, information or simulation are invited to submit pre-proposals for collaborative research with scientists and engineers from the University of California, San Diego.

About six of the proposals will receive funding through the Laboratory-UCSD Cooperative Agreement on Research and Education program, or CARE. Two-page pre-proposals are due by 5 p.m. Friday, Jan.0 9, 2004. The joint UCSD-Laboratory steering committee then will invite the authors of the best pre-proposals to submit formal proposals.

Formal proposals may be for one or two years of work between July 1, 2004, and June 30, 2006. The steering committee expects a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow to be part of the proposed work.

The winning researchers will receive approximately $120,000 each for salaries, travel and some equipment. Because the funding is intramural, it is exempt from indirect costs.

Broad areas identified for this funding cycle include sensors and networks, information and data, and simulation of complex systems, along with related topics. Details about specific topics and the application process are available at the Science and Technology Base Programs Web site at http://stb.lanl.gov/uc/collaborations/ucsd online. The formal call for pre-proposals is available at http://stb.lanl.gov:8080/wosaserver/web?pg=/uc/collaborations/ucsd/call.xml online.

"We expect that these projects will produce high-quality, collaborative basic research on topics that are strategically important to the Laboratory and to UCSD and will lead to larger, federally funded collaborations," said STB Leader Allen Hartford. "An important objective of the CARE program is to advance the training of undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students by providing a dual-mentoring environment. Exposing students to the Laboratory and its research programs will help us develop a continuing pipeline of scientists and engineers to maintain our excellence in science and engineering."

Hartford encouraged principal investigators at the Laboratory or at UCSD to work closely with the joint steering committee in developing the pre-proposals. Los Alamos members are Jim Porter (STB-UC); Bill Priedhorsky of the Associate Directorate for Threat Reduction (ADTR); Chuck Farrar of Weapon Response (ESA-WR); Gary Geernaert, director of the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (EES-IGPP); and Pieter Swart of Mathematical Modeling and Analysis (T-7).

Further information is available from Debbie Wilke of STB-UC at dwilke@lanl.gov by electronic mail or 7-7824.

-- Jim Danneskiold

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