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
