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CNLS News
- CNLS Events:
- Featured Items:
- Misha Chertkov (T-13, CNLS Executive Committee) and Allon Percus (CCS-3) have been awarded an NSF grant "Harnessing Statistical Physics
for Computing and Communication", a 3-year collaborative project
involving the New Mexico Consortium, the Cornell University CS department (PI, Bart Selman) and the MIT EECS department (PI, Devavrat
Shah). CNLS has contributed significantly to building this research
capability through its focus on Statistical Physics of Networks,
Information and Complex Systems, and it will participate in the project by
hosting students and postdocs jointly with the collaborating institutions.
- On August 21, Science Express published a paper, Quantum Communication with Zero-Capacity Channels, by Graeme Smith
from the IBM Watson Research Center and Jon Yard, CNLS-CCS3
postdoc, which obtained the surprising quantum information result
that the combination of zero capacity quantum channels can yield
an information channel of finite capacity. (Press Release)
- Cory Hauck (CNLS, CCS-2) has been invited to serve as a Fellow at the Institute for Pure and Applied
Mathematics (IPAM) during its Spring 2009 Program on Quantum and Kinetic Transport: Analysis, Computations, and New Applications
(http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/kt2009/). Located on the UCLA campus, IPAM (http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/) is an NSF national research institute
whose principal objective is to encourage cross-fertilization between pure and applied mathematics and other scientific disciplines.
- CNLS summer student Jeff Haack (University of Wisconsin) won the best poster award in
mathematics at the 2008 Student Symposium. Jeff worked this summer with Cory Hauck
(CCS-2/T-CNLS), Ryan McClarren (CCS-2), and Robert Lowrie (CCS-2) on numerical
methods for multiscale problems in transport and gas dynamics.
- CNLS would like to congratulate Pinaki Sengupta (CNLS/T-11) for winning the 2008 Postdoc Distinguished
Performance Award for work with his
postdoc sponsor, Cristian Batista, as well as for winning 'Honorable Mention' in the Leon Heller Postdoctoral Publication Prize in Theoretical
Physics competition for the paper 'Field Induced Supersolid Phase in Spin One Heisenberg Models', Published in Physical Review Letters, June 2007.
- CNLS would like to congratulate Jasper Vrugt, CNLS/T-7 postdoc and recipient of the J.R. Oppenheimer
postdoctoral fellowship for receiving the following internationally recognized awards: the Early Career Award in Soil Physics, Soil Science
Society of America, 2007, and the Hydrology Prize 2004 - 2006 from the Dutch Hydrological Society (NHV), 2007.
- Various videos by CNLS Postdoc Mahesh Bandi:
- In the World News:
- The Los Alamos-IBM supercomputing project 'Roadrunner' recently broke the petaflop barrier in computing speed. This landmark feat, which was previously predicted to be impossible for current super computer architecture has been widely reported by news agencies such as the New York Times and CNN. This achievement
was hailed as a sign that the United States is regaining the lead in computer science. The code that was used to demonstrate the highest speed to date models the visual cortex and grew out of collaborations that were started at the CNLS conference Grand Challenges in Neural Computation.
- Alan Perelson, T-10 Senior Fellow and CNLS affiliate, is featured in the Santa Fe New Mexican. The article discusses recent research into the progression of the HIV virus. This news article follows publication of this research late last year in PNAS.
- Robert Kraichnan, a long-time resident of White Rock and Santa Fe and a LANL consultant and CNLS affiliate throughout the 80's and 90's, died February 26, 2008 after a long illness. Bob was a frequent collaborator at CNLS, was an invited speaker in numerous CNLS workshops and conferences, and wrote many important and influential papers on fluid turbulence with Shiyi Chen and Gary Doolen, both former CNLS Deputy Directors.
Since 2003, Bob was Homewood Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Johns-Hopkins University. A detailed record of his scientific accomplishments is available online. A notice of his death appeared recently in the New York Times. Bob's intellect and good cheer will be sorely missed by all who knew him.
- Archived News
- LANL News
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What is CNLS?
The Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS) is part of the Laboratory's Theoretical Division, and it organizes research related to
nonlinear and complex systems phenomena. CNLS was formed in October of 1980.
CNLS Mission Statement
- Identify and study complex nonlinear phenomena using a diverse set of research approaches and methodologies, particularly those of statistical physics, nonlinear science, applied mathematics and numerical simulation.
- Promote the use of scientific results in applied research.
- Stimulate the formation of interdisciplinary approaches to complex problems.
- Facilitate the interchange of scientific results and ideas between Laboratory scientists and external centers of excellence.
- Encourage the exploration of new scientific frontiers at the interface between conventional disciplines.
- Support a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary science that underpins the Laboratory’s mission in national security.
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