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  • Institute Director
    Dan Thoma
    (505) 663-5627
  • Institute Deputy Director
    Bob Field
    (505) 663-5807
  • Institute Office Manager
    Lynn Chavez
    (505) 663-5233
2012 Posters
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2011 Posters
2011 Presentations
2010 Posters
2010 Presentations
2010 Lectures
2009 Posters
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2009 Presentations
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2008 Presentations
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    2012 Posters

  • Lightweight Materials for Energy Applications
    Robert Field, Dan Thoma

    LA-UR 12-00389

    Collaboration of 17 laboratories.

  • 2012 Presentations

  • Nucleation and Early Growth of Mechanical Deformation Twins in Hexagonal Close-Packed Metals Deformed at Extreme Conditions
    George Kaschner
  • Quantifying strengthening mechanisms in cryomilled Al Alloys and their composites
    Troy Topping, Enrique Lavernia
  • Reinforcement Phase Size Effects on a Cryomilled Al-B4C Nanocomposite
    Troy Topping, Hanry Yang, Zhihui Zhang, Enrique Lavernia, Julie Schoenung

    2011 Posters

  • Critical Simulation Temperature for Grain Boundary Unpinning and Subsequent Grain Growth
    Phi Thanh, Corentin Guebels, J.P. Delplanque, Joanna Groza, E. Holm
  • Critical Temperature for Grain Boundary Unpinning and Subsequent Grain Growth
    Phi Thanh, Corentin Guebels, J.P. Delplanque, Joanna Groza

    Additional author:  Elizabeth Holm, Sandia 

  • Mechanical Behavior of Cryomilled Al-B4C Ultrafine-Grained Metal Matrix Composite Extrusions Attributed to Stress Assisted Grain Growth and Particulate Reinforcement
    Troy Topping, Enrique Lavernia

    Also:  Cory Smith, Ying Li, Zhihui Zhang, Bhaskar Majumdar, Kyu Cho,. Mark van den Bergh, Julie Schoenung

  • MEMS-Enhanced Magnetoresistive Sensors
    David Horsely

    Also Andre Guedes, and Gerardo Jaramillo

  • Microstructure and Mechanical Behavior of Wet-Processed Cu-Zr Based BMG composites
    Jonathan Nguyen, Troy Topping, S. H. Lee, Enrique Lavernia, Yizhang Zhou

    Also Akihisa Inoue

  • 2011 Presentations

  • A Comparison between Creep in Molybdenum and Iron toward Understanding Dynamic Abnormal Grain Growth
    Phi Thanh, J.P. Delplanque, Joanna Groza
  • A Comparison between Creep in Molybdenum and Iron toward Understanding Dynamic Abnormal Grain Growth
    Phi Thanh, Corentin Guebels, J.P. Delplanque, Joanna Groza
  • A Comparison between Creep in Molybdenum and Iron toward understanding Dynamic Abnormal Grain Growth
    Phi Thanh, Daniel Worthington, Corentin Guebels, J.P. Delplanque, Joanna Groza
  • Adaptive extraction and quantification of geophysical vortices
    James Ahrens, Mario Hlawitschka, Bernd Hamann
  • Boron Carbide Reinforced Ultrafine-Grained Aluminum Composites
    Troy Topping, Enrique Lavernia
  • Energetics of Nanoceramics
    Ricardo Castro

    Assistant Professor at UC Davis, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department

  • Equal Channel Angular Extrusion of CLIDCPO and Coin Silver for use in High-Field Pulsed Magnet Applications
    Ryan Need
  • Microstructure and Behavior of MgCuGd Metallic Glass Fabricated via High Pressure TGorsion (HPT)
    Braile Lawrence, Yizhang Zhou

    Also Baolong Zheng, Chi Y. A. Tsao, Ruslan Z. Valiev

  • Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Fluorite-Structured CeO2 Grain Boundries
    Nigel Browning

    Also H. Yang, J. A. Aguiar, M.C. Sarahan

  • Progress Made by the Bio-security Center and MDI Collaboration
  • Resolving Atomic Scale Interfacial Chemical Changes in ODS Ferritic Alloys
    Nigel Browning

    J. Aguiar, L. Hsiung, P. Hosemann, M. Fluss

  • The Influence of Processing on Microstrucutural Development, Tensile Response, and Fracture Behavior of Aluminum Alloy 5083
    Troy Topping, Enrique Lavernia
  • The Structure of He-Irradiated Gold Twist Boundry
    Nigel Browning

    Also S. Dey

  • Visualization and analysis of eddies in a global ocean simultion
    James Ahrens, Sean Williams, Mario Hlawitschka, Bernd Hamann

    2010 Lectures

  • Dislocation Analysis
    Robert Field

    Organized by Kurt Sickafus for LANL employees

  • Quantitative TEM Precipitate Analysis
    Robert Field

    Organized by Kurt Sickafus for LANL employees

  • 2010 Posters

  • Strain Hardening Behavior of Ultra-Fine Granined 5083 Aluminum Alloy
    Troy Topping

    for Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

  • 2010 Presentations

  • A Monte Carlo Potts Investigation of Deformation-Induced Substructure Formation
    Corentin Guebels
  • Critical velocities for deflagration and detonation triggered by voics in two- and three- dimensional REBO high explosives
    Timothy Germann, Davis Herring

    UC Davis Author:  Niels Gronbech-Jensen.

    No proceedings.

  • Data Processing Techniques for Aberration-Corrected STEM

    UC Davis Authors:  Q.M. Ramasse and N.D. Browning

  • DOE/NNSA Perspective SBD: GEN III/III+ Light Water Reactors and Beyond
    Brian Boyer, Paul Pan, Carolyn Scherer

    LA-UR  10-08220

  • Dynamic Abnormal Grain Growth in Alpha Iron
    George Kaschner, Phi Thanh, J.P. Delplanque, Joanna Groza
  • Feature Extraction and Visualization for Ocean Simulation
    Sean Williams
  • Frontiers in Nuclear Detection Workshop Workshop Overview and Outputs
    Paul Pan, Dan Thoma

    LA:UR  10-06154

  • Frontiers in Nuclear Detection Workshop, Workshop Overview and Outputs
    Paul Pan, Dan Thoma
  • Identification of Host Markers for Early Stages of Human Influenza A infection
    Goutam Gupta
  • Iso-geometric finite element analysis based on Catmull-Clark subdivision solids

    Burkhart, D., Hamann, B., and Umlauf, G. (2010)

    in Sorkine, O. and Levy, B., eds.,

  • Molecular-scale investigations of the mechanisms of cellulase hydrolysis of cellulose
    Tina Jeoh

    Presentation given at the Deconstructing the Cell Wall Structure session, Division of Cellulose and Renewable Materials at the 2010 Spring ACS National Meeting

  • Monte Carlo Potts Simulation of Strain Induced Sub-Grain Structure Formation
    Phi Thanh, Corentin Guebels, J.P. Delplanque, Joanna Groza, Tien Tran
  • Multiregion Delaunay Complex Segmentation
    Dan Thoma, Sean Williams, Mario Hlawitschka, Bernd Hamann

    Addition author: Scott Dillard, PNL

     

    "Foundations of Topological Analysis Workshop"

  • Protection against infectious diseases by boosting host innate immune defense
    Goutam Gupta
  • Protection Against Pathogen Infection by Boosting Host Innate Immunity
    Goutam Gupta

    Worked with Sandra Uratsu, Hossein Gouran, Karen McDonald, George Bruening, Abhaya Dandekar, UC Davis.

  • Radiation Effects in Nuclear Fuel
    Frank Brown

    Invited seminar

  • Radiation range and damage assessment in UO2 nuclear fuels using classical moledular dynamics
    Mark Asta, Niels Gronbech Jensen
  • Sensitivity effects of void density and arrangement in a REBO high explosive
    Timothy Germann, Davis Herring

    UC Davis Author:  Niels Gronbech-Jensen

    Proceedings have not been published yet, in the works.

  • Studying Materials for Applications in Next Generation Reactor Environments
    Ben Hanken, Jeffrey Aguiar

    UC Davis Authors:  M. Asta, M. Fluss, L. Hsiung, and N. D. Browning

  • The Structure of Strontium Titanate Bi-crystal Grain Boundries
    Sanchita Dey

    UC Davis Authors:  Nigel Browning and J. P. Buban

  • Towards Dynamic Abnormal Grain Growth: A Monte Carlo Potts Investigation
    Phi Thanh, Corentin Guebels, J.P. Delplanque, Joanna Groza, Tien Tran

    2009 Lectures

  • Relative Stability of Boron Hydrogen Clusters
    Robert Field, Dan Thoma, Phillip Chiu
  • 2009 Panels


  • Dan Thoma

    American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Founder Society President Executive Director's Workshop

  • 2009 Posters

  • DNA Sequencing of Plants and Microbes from the Optimization of Biofuel Production
    Robert Field, Dan Thoma, Krysta Biniek
  • Dynamic Ductility of Zirconium
    Robert Field, Dan Thoma, Victoria Webster
  • Energy Issue at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Feasible Solutions
    Robert Field, Dan Thoma, Peter Bolton
  • Energy Security at LANL
    Paul Pan
  • From Glucose to Fuel: Converting Biomass into an Energy Sources
    Robert Field, Dan Thoma, Joanna Thielen
  • Fundamentals of Uranium Physical Metallurgy
    Dan Thoma
  • High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Imaging
    Nigel Browning
  • Line Profile Analysis of Deformed and Annealed Beryllium
    Diana Donati

    5th International MECA SENS Conference, Mito, Japan

  • Line Profile Analysis of Deformed and Annealed Beryllium
    Robert Field, Dan Thoma, Diana Donati
  • LINE PROFILE ANALYSIS OF DEFORMED AND ANNEALED BERYLLIUM
    Diana Donati

    Won the Silver Award = Second Place

  • Martensite Transformation and Shape-Memory Effects in U-Nb Alloys
    Robert Field
  • Mg Dopant Sources for InGan based Photovoltaiuc Devices
    Robert Field, Dan Thoma, Ashishkumar Patel
  • Microstructural Characterization of Mg0-pyrochlore Composites of Variable Composition
    Robert Field, Dan Thoma, Cameron Tracy
  • Parametric Reconstruction of Dark Energy
    Robert Field, Dan Thoma, Alexander Pan
  • Shape Memory Transformation and Shock Dynamic Behavior of U-6Nb
    Dan Thoma
  • 2009 Presentations

  • Abnormal Grain Growth of Alpha-Iron via Strain Gradient
    Kevin Uy
  • Differential mass spectroscopic platform for the detection of metabolites during infection
    Weixiang Zhao
  • Digital Representations of Micrstructures
    Stephen Sintay

    Steve taught a short course for USNCCM

  • Dip-Stick Platform for the Detection of Animal Viruses
    Goutam Gupta
  • Discriminating Theoretical Models of Dark Energy
    Ujjaini Alam, Alexander Pan
  • DNA Sequencing of Plants and Microbes for the Optimization of Biofuel Production
    Lance Green, Krysta Biniek
  • Dynamic Abnormal Grain Growth of Alpha Iron
    Phi Thanh
  • Dynamic Ductility of Zirconium
    Ellen Cerreta, Rusty Gray III, Daniel Martinez, Carl Trujillo, Victoria Webster
  • Methods for the Preparation of Single Crystals by Dynamic Abnormal Grain Growth in a x-Fe
    Cameron Tracy
  • Microstructure Modeling Using Dual Grid Center of Mass ISo-contouring
    Stephen Sintay

    Conference:  US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM)

  • Mixing Energetics and Charge Transfer Reactions in the (U, Ce)O2 System
    Mark Asta
  • Scaling Issues in the Monte Carlos Potts Simulation of Abnormal Grain Growth in Iron
    Corentin Guebels
  • Scaling Issues in the Monte Carlos Potts Simulation of Abnormal Grain Growth in Iron
    Corentin Guebels
  • Shape-Memory and Post-Shape-Memory Deformation in U-14at%Nb
    Robert Field
  • Shape-Memory Deformation in Polycrystalline U-14at.%Nb
    Donald Brown, Carl Cady, Robert Field, Rodney McCabe, Dan Thoma, Catherine Tupper, Amy Clarke
  • Statistically Representative Digital Microstructures for Modeling Microscale Fatigue Crack Growth and Coalescence in AA7075
    Stephen Sintay

    Conference:  Aeromat 2009

  • Strain Rate Dependent Mechanical Properties of Textured Beryllium
    Diana Donati

    1st place in the Materials Science and Engineering Division for SERCh.

  • Strain-Assisted Abnormal Grain Growth in Alpha Iron
    Phi Thanh

    2008 Presentations

  • Extraction of Features from High-Resolution LiDaR Point Cloud Data
    Bernd Hamann

    0 Presentations

  • Dynamic Abnormal Grain Growth in Alpha Iron
    George Kaschner, Phi Thanh, J.P. Delplanque, Joanna Groza
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