Twenty-eight white papers will be presented for discussion at an Engineering Grand Challenge meeting today and Thursday at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center.
The town hall-style meeting is in the Louis Rosen Auditorium. Bob Kraus of the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program Office will give an overview at 8:15 this morning, followed by opening remarks from Duncan McBranch, deputy principal associate director of the Science, Technology, and Engineering Directorate and Bill Priedhorsky also of the LDRD Program Office.
Laboratory researchers then will give 15-minute presentations on their white papers. Topics range from "A New Architecture Revolution for Supercomputing," to "Harnessing Reliable Solar Energy," to "Engineering the First Wall of a Fusion Reactor."
Scheduled presentations on Thursday include among others "Cradle-to-Grave System State Awareness," "Materials Design for Next Generation Li-ion Batteries," "Stainless Plutonium," and "Energy Independence by 2025."
Grand Challenge projects provide ideas for future engineering research that will guide Laboratory Directed Research and Development investment as well as help to develop the Laboratory's strategic plan for an engineering research agenda.
More information on the Engineering Grand Challenge is here.
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