Rachelle Jeppson has been selected as the chief financial officer (CFO) for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Director Kimberly Budil announced today. Her appointment will be effective June 27.
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have collaborated with Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) to design a novel X-ray crystal spectrometer to provide high-resolution measurements of a challenging feature of high energy density (HED) matter produced by National…
Articular cartilage is a connective tissue lining the surfaces of joints. When the cartilage severely wears down, it leads to osteoarthritis (OA), a debilitating disease that affects millions of people globally.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) engineers have designed a new kind of laser-driven semiconductor switch that can theoretically achieve higher speeds at higher voltages than existing photoconductive devices. The development of such a device could enable next-generation satellite…
Thousands of images of Earth and space have been taken by a compact space imaging payload developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers and its collaborator Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems.
The properties of materials under extreme conditions are of key interest to a number of fields, including planetary geophysics, materials science and inertial confinement fusion (ICF). In geophysics, the equation of state of planetary materials such as hydrogen and iron under ultrahigh press…
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) joins in the celebration of the U.S. Army birthday on June 14. Created in 1775, the army originally consisted of volunteer soldiers with roots to the Continental Army — and was formed to fight the Revolutionary War. Today, as the largest branch o…
High performance computing plays a key role in just about all research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). While our world class supercomputers garner a lot of attention (we have more computers on the top 500 list as of June 2021 than any other institution!), our use of these a…
A long-held goal by chemists across many industries, including energy, pharmaceuticals, energetics, food additives and organic semiconductors, is to imagine the chemical structure of a new molecule and be able to predict how it will function for a desired application. In practice, this visio…
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Sandia National Laboratories continue to collaborate on diagnostic advancements on the nation’s premier high-energy density (HED) facilities.
A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) team has taken a closer look at how nuclear weapon blasts close to the Earth’s surface create complications in their effects and apparent yields. Attempts to correlate data from events with low heights of burst revealed a need to improve the th…
Two scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are recipients of the 2021 Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science Early Career Research Program award.
To test the Standard Model of particle physics, scientists often collide particles using gigantic underground rings. In a similar fashion, high-pressure physicists compress materials to ever greater pressures to further test the quantum theory of condensed matter and challenge predictions ma…
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have determined that heating N95 respirators up to 75 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes deactivates a surrogate coronavirus without compromising the device’s fit and its ability to filter airborne particles.
Slow and fast light, or large changes in the group velocity of light, have been observed in a range of optical media, but the fine control over the refractive index necessary to induce an observable effect has not been achieved in a plasma.
To address inefficiencies in transmitting electricity over smart grids, engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and their collaborators have developed a light-activated switch that, if fully deployed, could reduce carbon emissions by more than 10 percent.
Scientists have examined the performance of pure boron, boron carbide, high-density carbon and boron nitride ablators — the material that surrounds a fusion fuel and couples with the laser or hohlraum radiation in an experiment — in the polar direct drive exploding pusher (PDXP) platform, wh…
Today’s researchers require more computing applications than ever before in their scientific workflows. A single job may need to run multiple simulation applications at different scales along with in situ visualization, data analysis, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. These need…
Nearly 40 years ago, scientists first predicted the existence of helium rain inside planets composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, such as Jupiter and Saturn. However, achieving the experimental conditions necessary to validate this hypothesis hasn’t been possible — until now.
For more than 40 years, the National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center (NARAC) has been the premiere resource for near-real-time computer predictions of the spread of hazardous airborne materials. Decision-makers and emergency managers around the globe use this predictive capability to pro…
Known as one of the top machinist apprenticeship programs in the state, Engineering’s Apprentice program teaches entry-level machinists the technical skills and provides the safety training they need to be certified machinists at LLNL and in the State of California.
Lasers have dramatically impacted our lives and yet they have only been around since the 1960s. Join us in an exploration of the laser’s history and how LLNL researchers use them to push the boundaries of science and technology.
Members of the American Indian Activity Group (AIAG) share the mission and history of the organization.
Director of the Center for Global Security Research Brad Roberts speaks with Anna Péczeli and Bruce Goodwin, co-authors of Technical Issues in the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) Ratification Debate: A 20 Year Retrospective, an Occasional Paper published by CGSR in September 2020.
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Chris Clouse, acting director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Weapon Simulation and Computing program, talks about how exascale computing will enable LLNL ensure the safety, security and reliability of the nation’s nuclear deterrent and better position the nation to respond to ev…
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Deputy Associate Director for Computing Jim Brase discusses how exascale’s simulation capabilities, combined with artificial intelligence and machine learning, will help researchers design new medicines to treat cancer and infectious diseases.
Terri Quinn, associate program director for Livermore Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, explains the performance boost expected from exascale computing and the advantages it will bring to modeling and simulation work performed at LLNL, both in support of its core missions …
Our manufacturing capabilities support DOE and NNSA national security and stockpile stewardship missions. To meet these needs, we depend on a highly technical workforce and groundbreaking technologies.
Richard Lum is an academically trained futurist and chief executive of Vision Foresight Strategy LLC (VFS), a foresight and strategic analysis firm based in Honolulu. He has conducted foresight and strategy work on projects for organizations such as U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, U.S. Special Op…
Since 1985, the Amigos Unidos employee resource group has been driven by a mission to share their cultural heritage, support outreach, build community and give back through scholarship fundraising.
LLNL scientists have paired 3D-printed, living human brain vasculature with advanced computational flow simulations to better understand tumor cell attachment to blood vessels, the first step in secondary tumor formation during cancer metastasis. The unique approach, developed with outside c…
Livermore scientists and university collaborators have just demonstrated a nature-mimicking artificial membrane that could improve everything from medical implantable devices to lithium-based batteries. Watch to find out how.
LLNL’s Data Science Institute (DSI) was established in 2018 to enable excellence in data science research and applications across the Lab’s core missions. This video provides an overview of projects in which data scientists work with domain scientists to address major challenges in healthcar…
CGSR Author Series | Reducing Global Nuclear Risk: Strategy for Cooperative Engagement by Lewis Dunn
Center for Global Security Researchers Director Brad Roberts interviews Lewis Dunn, a featured author in the CGSR publication "Major Power Rivalry and Nuclear Risk Reduction: Perspectives from Russia, China, and the United States."
John and Franz report on the findings of the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee (TRAC) task force established by DoD to assess the continuing viability of both the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).
For the inaugural Meet the Authors talk, CGSR Director Brad Roberts speaks with Ben Bahney about Space Strategy at a Crossroads: Opportunities and Challenges for 21st Century Competition. Bahney, a senior fellow at CGSR, edited the volume comprised of seven papers that explore the contempora…
"Meet the Authors" is a new video series featuring interviews with the researchers and scholars who have written and edited CGSR publications. Through this series, viewers can gain greater insight into the development, thinking, and events that have shaped these pieces.
Meet the Authors is a new video series featuring interviews with the researchers and scholars who have written and edited CGSR publications. Through this series, viewers can gain greater insight into the development, thinking, and events that have shaped these pieces.
Researchers at LLNL, Penn State University and Idaho National Lab have developed a process that could help us sustainably recycle rare earth elements...which are ESSENTIAL for our everyday lives.
The Livermore Tomography Tools (LTT) software package offers a collection of algorithms for the processing of x-ray and neutron Computed Tomography data including standard Filtered Backprojection (FBP) reconstruction algorithms and state-of-the-art and novel iterative reconstruction, beam ha…
The Livermore Tomography Tools (LTT) software package offers a collection of algorithms for the processing of x-ray and neutron Computed Tomography data including standard Filtered Backprojection (FBP) reconstruction algorithms and state-of-the-art and novel iterative reconstruction, beam ha…
The Livermore Tomography Tools (LTT) software package offers a collection of algorithms for the processing of x-ray and neutron Computed Tomography data including standard Filtered Backprojection (FBP) reconstruction algorithms and state-of-the-art and novel iterative reconstruction, beam ha…
The Livermore Tomography Tools (LTT) software package offers a collection of algorithms for the processing of x-ray and neutron Computed Tomography data including standard Filtered Backprojection (FBP) reconstruction algorithms and state-of-the-art and novel iterative reconstruction, beam ha…
The Livermore Tomography Tools (LTT) software package offers a collection of algorithms for the processing of x-ray and neutron Computed Tomography data including standard Filtered Backprojection (FBP) reconstruction algorithms and state-of-the-art and novel iterative reconstruction, beam ha…
The Veterans in Energy Technology & Science (VETS) organization promotes the value of veterans within their communities through investment in education, career development and lifelong support.
The Lawrence Livermore Microbial Detection Array (LLMDA) is an exciting technology that has changed the way we look at a huge diversity of fields—from paleontology to military combat to space exploration. Watch this video to learn more about what it is, how it works and why it's a great tool…
From ventilators to facemasks, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is fully committed to helping protect the U.S. from COVID-19 and to speed the recovery of those affected.
MFEM (Modular Finite Element Methods) is an open-source software library that provides advanced mathematical algorithms for use by scientific applications. By relying on MFEM, application scientists can quickly develop highly accurate physics simulation codes on a variety of platforms—from l…
