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Materials science key for stockpile stewardship

Gray classified colloquium today

The importance of materials science to stockpile stewardship, and specifically how materials properties affect the performance of weapon secondaries, is the topic for the next Director's Classified Colloquium, scheduled for 1:10 this afternoon in the Administration Building Auditorium at Technical Area 3.

Laboratory Fellow George "Rusty" Gray of Structure and Property Relations (MST-8) will describe the technical challenges, direction and advances in the determination and modeling of the causes and impact of high explosive-induced case performance in his talk entitled "Case Dynamics."

All attendees must hold "Q" clearances and have sigmas 1-10 assigned by line management. To register for the colloquium and others in the classified colloquium series, write to the Security Help Desk at security@lanl.gov by electronic mail and include name, Z number, group, e-mail address and phone number. Gray's talk is limited to U.S. nationals.

The goal for the Director's Classified Colloquium series is to disseminate important and interesting information on classified scientific topics to Los Alamos technical staff. The talks are planned to help inform a wide audience of Los Alamos' major classified scientific research and to stimulate discussions within an appropriate, secure environment, ultimately leading to future ideas and initiatives that will advance classified programs.

For more information, see Monday's Daily Newsbulletin. More information about the Classified Colloquium series and upcoming colloquia is available at http://stbblue.lanl.gov/colloquium.html online.

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