National Security Education Center

Collaborations for education, strategic research, and student opportunities

Strategic centers, institutes, and education programs chartered to foster high quality, multi-program and multi-division research efforts, specialized recruiting, and strategy development.

Mission

Foster sustained excellence and enhanced external visibility to address national needs
Establish and coordinate a broad intellectual community in support of Laboratory missions
Develop and facilitate programs that provide staff revitalization, retraining, professional development, and critical skills development
Foster internal and external strategic partnerships and relationships with research universities, industry, and government agencies
Provide education and training opportunities to nurture a pipeline of future Laboratory employees

NSEC Centers

Center for Nonlinear Studies

Serving as an interface between mission critical research at LANL and the outside research community.

Center for Space and Earth Science

The Center for Space and Earth Science (CSES) focuses on scientific understanding of fundamental physical processes that are critical to maintenance of habitat earth homeostasis.

Engineering Institute

Multidisciplinary engineering research that integrates advanced modeling and simulations, novel sensing systems and new developments in information technology.

Institute for Materials Science

High quality, cutting-edge science in the areas of materials science

Information Science and Technology Institute

ISTI is chartered to foster high-quality research efforts, specialized recruiting, and strategy development that will enable LANL’s Information Science & Technology (IS&T) Pillar and advance new IS&T ideas

Seaborg Institute

The Los Alamos Seaborg Institute integrates research programs on the chemical, physical, nuclear, and metallurgical properties of the lighter actinide elements, with a special emphasis on plutonium.