NEWSLINE 2015 YEAR IN REVIEW

LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY

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CONTENTS Top 10 science stories . . . . . 2 January ...... 6 TOP STORIES FROM 2015 February ...... 9 March ...... 11 April ...... 17 May ...... 22 June ...... 24 July ...... 26 August ...... 31 September ...... 34 HIGHLIGHTS October ...... 38 November ...... 40 December ...... 45 Recognition and Awards . . . 50

This issue of Newsline was produced by the Public n his recent address to employees, Livermore have found broader application in Affairs Office. It represents a sample of the science and technology, people and operations highlights of the year. Lawrence Livermore Director Bill addressing such challenges as nonproliferation, It is available on the LLNL website. Goldstein called 2015 an “exceptional cybersecurity, clean energy, climate change, year” for national security and scientific manufacturing and medicine. On the cover: Various highlights of the year I accomplishments. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is operated by Lawrence To end the year with a bang, the International Livermore National Security, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration under Contract DE-AC52- This is fitting for a year in which the National Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry credited 07NA27344 LLNL-WEB-458451 Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Laboratory researchers and collaborators with and its national labs celebrated the 20th the discovery of elements 115, 117 and 118. anniversary of the Stockpile Stewardship Program, the science-based effort to The list that follows is in no particular order, ensure the safety, security and viability and represents only a sampling of the Lab’s of the nation’s nuclear deterrent without accomplishments in calendar year 2015. More NOTE underground explosive testing. Nuclear highlights may be viewed throughout this look Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s testing and the development of new nuclear back at 2015. internal Web network only. Blue links are accessible on both the internal weapons systems ended in 1992. and external Lab Web network. The scientific research capabilities developed Page 2 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for stockpile stewardship at Lawrence NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015

HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2015

● The National Ignition Facility (NIF) Standoff (LRSO) cruise — Built by NNSA specifically for stockpile missile. In another stewardship experimentation, the world’s stockpile stewardship largest and most powerful laser (NIF) milestone, a team of LLNL provided a wealth of relevant data in and National Security 2015. Six weeks before its targeted Technologies researchers goal, NIF achieved its 300th shot, a completed a series of experiments to The preamplifiers of the National Ignition Facility substantial increase from the 191 shots measure the properties of plutonium are the first step in increasing the energy of conducted in fiscal year 14. These shots at high pressure and temperature to laser beams as they make their way toward the yielded important data on equation of unprecedented accuracy using strong shock target chamber. NIF conducted a record number waves on the Joint Actinide Shock Physics of shots in FY15, at 356. state, weapons effects and the dynamics of materials — information critical to Experimental Research Facility, or JASPER. addressing long-standing stockpile stewardship challenges important to ● Iran negotiations — The Laboratory certification. FY15 also saw the successful played a critical role in the technical introduction of plutonium shots at NIF, analysis of data that led to the country’s each producing program-relevant data. NIF historic agreement with Iran. LLNL conducted a total of 356 shots for FY15 provided U.S. negotiators with information and has set a goal of 400 shots for FY16. on Iran’s nuclear weapon capabilities. In the future, the Lab will play a role in ● Stockpile Stewardship: plutonium inspections that will follow the agreement, shock experiments and the Life offering both technology and training. This Extension Program — The Nuclear type of support has been going on at LLNL Weapons Council authorized the W80-4 for 50 years. Life Extension Program to progress to a NOTE new phase, Feasibility Study and Design ● Community outreach — The Lab held the Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s Options. The W80-4, for which LLNL is Department of Energy’s first My Brother’s internal Web network only. Keeper (MBK) event, which brought to Blue links are accessible on both the internal the design laboratory, is the selected and external Lab Web network. warhead for the US Air Force’s Long Range the Lab more than 60 disadvantaged

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youth from Oakland, San Francisco and won the 2015 Gordon Tracy. This initiative seeks to address Bell Prize. Through the the opportunity gaps experienced by Collaboration of Argonne, disadvantaged youth and instill a passion Oak Ridge and Livermore for science, technology, engineering and national laboratories (CORAL), NNSA and mathematics (STEM). the DOE Office of Science are partnering on the next generation of supercomputers. ● Advanced/additive manufacturing of Working with IBM, LLNL will deploy Sierra, Lawrence Livermore engineers Eric Duoss (left) and materials — LLNL completed the first a 120-plus petaflops (quadrillion floating Tom Wilson use an additive manufacturing process additive manufacturing of 21-6-9 stainless point operations per second) advanced called direct ink writing to develop an engineered technology system, in the 2018 timeframe. “foam” cushion. steel and achieved two additional firsts: a fabricated demonstration object and the In FY15 LLNL led the tri-lab procurement “printing” of a new molecule; in February, of Commodity Technology Systems (CTS- General Electric signed a cooperative 1), which will bring petaflop computing research and development agreement to clusters to Livermore, Sandia and Los use the Lab’s ALE3D code to improve part Alamos national laboratories for stockpile quality and minimize defects in the additive stewardship work. manufacturing laser process. ● Neural technology — The Defense ● High performance computing — LLNL Advanced Research Projects Agency led the development of DOE’s High (DARPA) in February selected Lawrence Performance Computing for Manufacturing Livermore and its collaborators to build (HPC4Mfg) initiative. Under the program the world’s first neural system to enable DOE makes funds available to Oak Ridge, naturalistic feeling and movements Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore in prosthetic hands. Known as Hand national labs to work with qualified Proprioception and Touch Interfaces industry partners to develop clean energy (HAPTIX), the program seeks to provide wounded service members with dexterous NOTE manufacturing processes and technologies. LLNL’s Sequoia supercomputer and control over advanced prosthetic devices Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s internal Web network only. technical assistance was used by a that substitute for amputated hands. LLNL’s Blue links are accessible on both the internal University of Texas-led team to complete and external Lab Web network. an Earth mantle convection simulation that

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Neural Tech Group and its collaborators a young star system, (Case Western Reserve University and providing new clues the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans to understanding how Administration Medical Center) are planets formed around working to develop neural interface our own sun. This discovery continues systems that measure and decode motor the Lab’s history of seminal contributions signals recorded in peripheral nerves to space science, from the first computer and muscles in the forearm by using tiny simulations of supernova hydrodynamics electrodes. to the discovery of galactic dark matter. The observation was made with the Gemini Gemini Planet Imager’s first light image of the light scattered by a disk of dust orbiting the young ● Nuclear detection — An LLNL team Planet Imager, a Livermore designed star HR4796A. This narrow ring is thought to be played a leading role in fielding the recent and built instrument that uses advanced dust from asteroids or comets left behind by planet Source Physics Experiment (SPE-4 Prime) adaptive optics to directly image extrasolar formation; some scientists have theorized that detonated at the Nevada National Security the sharp edge of the ring is defined by an unseen planets. In other space science research, planet. The left image shows normal light, including Site (NNSS). The SPE tests consisted LLNL scientists found that Mercury’s surface both the dust ring and the residual light from the of a series of seven underground, high- darkening could be caused by carbon central star scattered by turbulence in the Earth’s explosive field tests in hard rock that delivered by comets and comet dust. atmosphere. The right image shows only polarized are designed to improve the United light. Leftover starlight is unpolarized and hence removed from this image. The light from the back States’ ability to detect and identify low- ● Tracing contaminated food to its source — edge of the disk is strongly polarized as it scatters yield nuclear explosions amid the clutter LLNL researchers, in collaboration with the towards us. of conventional explosions and small startup DNATrek, have developed a cost- earthquakes. The SPE tests represent effective and highly efficient method to a U.S.-interagency-wide endeavor, accurately trace contaminated food back to with NNSA’s NNSS, LANL, LLNL, Sandia its source. Lawrence Livermore originally national laboratories and the Department designed the technology, known as of Defense’s Defense Threat Reduction DNATrax, to safely track indoor and outdoor Agency serving as partners. airflow patterns. NOTE

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A month-by-month recap The 2015 events at Lawrence Livermore Quotables

Lawrence Livermore’s Newsline month-by- month highlights from 2015 are listed on “The fact that these volcanic the following pages. Listings are in four signatures are apparent in categories: multiple independently measured • Science and technology climate variables really supports • People

This image was taken during the August 2014 • Operations the idea that they are influencing eruption of Tavurvur in Papua New Guinea. • Recognition and Awards climate in spite of their moderate Lawrence Livermore researchers identified the climatic signals of some of the larger early size. If we wish to accurately 21st-century eruptions (such as the October This 2015 Year-in-Review appears only 2006 eruption of Tavurvur). electronically; there is no print edition. The simulate recent climate change Web-based format offers the advantage of providing links to the referenced Newsline in models, we cannot neglect the articles, press releases or the LLNL Report. ability of these smaller eruptions to reflect sunlight away from Earth.” January 2015 - Mark Zelinka, about small volcanoes accounting for a climate warming hiatus Science and Technology NOTE The “warming hiatus” that has occurred over the Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s internal Web network only. last 15 years is caused in part by small volcanic Blue links are accessible on both the internal eruptions, according to a team including Lawrence and external Lab Web network. Livermore researchers. Read more Page 6 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015 2015 Lawrence Livermore researchers, in collaboration with Quotables a local startup company, develop a cost-effective and highly efficient method to accurately trace contaminated food back to its source, in the form of a spray. “We all hear horror stories about Read more contaminated foods. We are not Laboratory researchers develop a new technology prepared to deal with an outbreak that provides realistic radiation detection training by directly injecting simulated radiation signals of pathogens such as E. coli into the analog amplifier of the real detectors used and salmonella in tainted foods. LLNL physical chemist George Farquar, who led a by first responders and inspectors. Lab team that invented DNATrax, demonstrates Read more However, DNATrax is a quick and how the product can be applied to food to identify it down the food chain. If the food turns out to be efficient way to stop these foods tainted, DNATrax can trace it back to the source. European colonization and agriculture use in North America in the late 1800s and early 1900s caused from sickening more people and as much erosion of the landscape over just a costing producers more money few decades’ time as would naturally have taken thousands of years, according to Lab researchers. due to massive recalls triggered Read more by poor traceability.”

- DNATrek CEO Anthony Zografos, who licensed the Lawrence Livermore researchers report for the first technology from Lawrence Livermore time the observance of well-developed, oriented magnetic filaments generated by the Weibel properties that determined planet formation and mechanism in counter-streaming, collision-less evolution processes. flows generated by high-power lasers. Read more Read more Scientists report they’ve reconstructed the past NOTE Lab researchers report that laser-driven climate for the region around Cantona, a large compression experiments reproduce the conditions Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s fortified city in highland Mexico, and found the internal Web network only. deep inside exotic super-Earths and giant planet population drastically declined in the past, at least Blue links are accessible on both the internal cores, and the conditions during the violent birth in part because of climate change. and external Lab Web network. of Earth-like planets, documenting the material Read more

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People 2015 Quotables Lawrence Livermore participates as a partner in a Cybersecurity Workforce Pipeline Consortium to help solve pressing and challenging cybersecurity “Demand for experiments at NIF problems, to meet mission needs, anticipate future challenges and assist in developing talent for the has always exceeded capacity. growing cyber workforce. The impressive work by the team Read more at NIF to produce additional Betsy Cantwell of the economic development office shots has provided important announces she is leaving the Laboratory to accept The Lab earned excellent ratings in its annual new opportunities for NIF users assessment because of its ability to perform a position at Arizona State University as deputy critical science and technology, such as the vice president in the Office of Knowledge Enterprise and increased this unique scientific advancements made at NIF. Development and professor in the School for platform’s contributions to national Engineering of Matter, Transport & Energy. Read more security. I congratulate the NIF team and its many partners for not only Researchers and budding entrepreneurs from Livermore’s two national laboratories get a look meeting, but exceeding the goal.”

at life as an entrepreneur at the kickoff for the - Brig. Gen Stephen Davis, USAF, Department of Energy’s Lab-Corps pilot program. acting deputy administrator for Defense Programs, Read more about NIF surpassing its shot goal

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The Laboratory receives two ratings of “excellent” The DOe/NNSA finalizes a license agreement with and three ratings of “very good” in an assessment Whitethorn Solar, a wholly owned subsidiary of released by the Livermore Field Office. NOTE Juwi Solar Inc., for a solar electrical generation Read more Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s system to be built on-site at the Laboratory. internal Web network only. Read more Blue links are accessible on both the internal A yearlong series of informational articles is and external Lab Web network. rolled out detailing process improvements to the institutional Work Planning and Control Program. Page 8 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Read more NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015

Weapons and Complex Integration (WCI) 2015 announces the reorganization of its program Quotables and line structure, as well as changes to key management personnel in an effort to better align with near- and long-term program “The HAPTIX project intends directions and deliverables. Read more to achieve a phenomenal breakthrough in prosthetics never

February 2015 thought possible. Its neural system intends to re-create a range of Science and Technology functions, including a real feeling Using the same baking soda found in grocery of touch when holding another stores, Lawrence Livermore scientists, along with colleagues from Harvard University and person’s hand.” the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, - LLNL’s HAPTIX project leader Sat Pannu develop a new type of carbon capture media composed of core-shell microcapsules, which Lawrence Livermore Engineer Sat Pannu and his Neural Tech Group research team are developing consist of a highly permeable polymer shell and a wireless electronic packages for HAPTIX. These fluid (made up of sodium carbonate solution) that out of it. The discovery allows astronomers to packages would contain electronics that record reacts with and absorbs carbon dioxide. measure, for the first time, the strength of ultra- and stimulate the peripheral nervous system to Read more control movement and sensation in a prosthetic fast black hole winds and show that they are hand. mighty enough to affect the fate of their host The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency galaxies. selects LLNL to join a collaborative research Read more team that intends to build the world’s first neural system to enable naturalistic feeling and People movements in prosthetic hands. NOTE Read more Colleagues, friends and family gather at the Robert Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s Livermore Community Center in a celebration of internal Web network only. Blue links are accessible on both the internal Using the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, life honoring the Lab’s former acting director Bret and external Lab Web network. Lab researchers use the X-ray spectra of an Knapp. Knapp, 56, a dedicated family man with extremely luminous black hole to detect a nearly Page 9 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory spherical stream of highly ionized gas streaming NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015

a dry wit and wry welcoming smile, died Nov. 18, 2015 2015 after a valiant battle with cancer. Quotables Read more

STRATCOM Commander Adm. Cecil Haney visits “(Troops to Technology) is the Laboratory for briefings and discussions with an exciting program that senior managers. Read more helps America’s heroes find meaningful careers that build For the first time since the 2013 reduction in force, the Security Organization’s academy graduates off the technical training they 14 security police officers and two security police received in the military, and it sergeants. Read more fills a shortage of high-skilled Steven Leahy, a Marine Corps corporal who served workers for an industry that’s in Iraq, spent a summer doing computer modeling Roger Aines, a geochemist who runs the Carbon at Lawrence Livermore’s National Security Fuel Cycle Program at Lawrence Livermore, critical for California and the Engineering Division’s Pulsed Power Lab. He is answers questions from the public about capturing adjusting a component on the capacitor bank that nation’s economy. Veterans are supplies the initial “seed current” for magnetic greenhouse gases by using things found in a flux compression generator experiments. kitchen cabinet, on the popular social media site highly motivated and disciplined Reddit. individuals who bring tremendous Read more value to many employers.”

Member of the Little Rock Nine and journalist - Beth McCormick, LLNL Engineering’s Melba Patillo Beals visits the Laboratory and gives a Recruiting and Diversity manager compelling talk in celebration of Black History Month. Read more Development Initiative, to help service members and veterans develop highly specialized skills Operations NOTE and eventually land high-paying advanced

Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley manufacturing positions. internal Web network only. Read more Blue links are accessible on both the internal national laboratories, NASA Ames Research and external Lab Web network. Center and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory launch the Troops to Technology Workforce

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Sensitive Country Foreign Nationals (SCFN) are 2015 allowed remote access to LLNL network resources, Quotables including Web-based library journals, through the VPN-B (Blue) network. “There are manyx. surprises to Read more be found in nature under the – x The Laboratory hosts more than 60 information extreme conditions that we technology experts from the Department of Energy to address implementing the public key call the high energy density infrastructure providing encryption and signature Lawrence Livermore research has opened a new regime, and exploring material credentials for an enterprise-wide, two-factor window to more efficient electrochemical energy storage systems. authentication. properties under these conditions Read more has been challenging.” March 2015 - Hye-Sook Park, on determining structural evolution under pressure Science and technology A systematic study of the effects on National Violent collisions between the growing Earth and Ignition Facility implosions of the ultra-thin other objects in the solar system generate significant mounting membranes that support target amounts of iron vapor, according to a new study by capsules inside NIF hohlraums is reported by LLNL LLNL scientist Richard Kraus and colleagues. researchers. Read more Read more

The National Ignition Facility plays a growing A team of LLNL scientists reports a key finding role in LLNL’s nuclear forensics work by providing that can be used to determine the evolution of radioactive samples from nuclear fusion structures under high pressure and strain rates. experiments for analysis. Read more Read more NOTE A key component of the High-Repetition-Rate Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s Lawrence Livermore researchers identify electrical internal Web network only. Advanced Petawatt Laser System is installed and Blue links are accessible on both the internal charge-induced changes in the structure and commissioned at LLNL. and external Lab Web network. bonding of graphitic carbon electrodes that may Read more one day affect the way energy is stored.

Page 11 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Read more NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015 2015 The Laboratory installs and commissions the Quotables highest peak-power laser diode arrays in the world, representing total peak power of 3.2 megawatts. “We want to spin out our Read more discoveries and innovations to General Electric and Lawrence Livermore receive industry so that they will have $540,000 to develop open-source algorithms that will improve additive manufacturing of an impact on the well-being of metal parts. the United States.” Read more - LLNL Director Bill Goldstein To drive diode arrays, LLNL needed to A Lawrence Livermore engineering team and develop a completely new type of pulsed- power system, which supplies the arrays Southern California-based Masten Space Systems with electrical power by drawing energy from — one of three companies leading teams working the grid and converting it to extremely high- on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Lawrence Livermore scientists and collaborators current, precisely shaped electrical pulses. Agency Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program, find that soil organic matter may be much more garner two contracts for rocket development. vulnerable to climate change than previously Read more thought. Read more Megan Bruck Syal, a postdoctoral researcher at LLNL, is the lead author of a study that answers People a long-standing mystery about why Mercury’s surface is darker than the moon’s surface, by Patricia Falcone is selected as deputy director for implicating carbon as a “stealth” darkening agent. Science and Technology. Read more Read more

A group of researchers, including scientists David Jefferson, a computer scientist in the NOTE from Lawrence Livermore, use the Linac Lawrence Livermore’s Center for Applied Scientific Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s Coherent Light Source to document the quick Computing, discusses the fundamental security internal Web network only. Blue links are accessible on both the internal transformation of shock-compressed aluminum and external Lab Web network. into warm dense matter. Read more

Page 12 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015 2015 risks and privacy problems of Internet voting in a Computation Seminar Series presentation, entitled Quotables “Intractable Security Risks of Internet Voting.” Read more “When my dad first told me about Hans Mark, a renowned expert in aerospace design, national defense technology and national it, I was like ‘engineering? Really?’ security policies, who once served as Physics But now I actually enjoy math. I division leader at LLNL, delivers a Director’s Distinguished Lecture Series presentation. want to know everything Read more there is to know.”

- Iraq veteran Frankie Stoneham, Operations about the Las Positas Engineering Technology Program

Students get an up-close look at science at the Four Laboratory employees pass their Ham Club Expanding Your Horizons conference. licensing technician’s exam and receive their first Conference on the Las Positas College campus. FCC ham radio licenses. Read more Read more

The Laboratory partners with The State Theatre in The Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Women’s Modesto to bring a three-week series of “Science Association, together with the Bible Study Groups, on Screen” to the theater on Saturdays in March. hosts a special presentation in honor of Women’s Read more History Month, “A Historical Perspective of Women

in the Bible.” The Department of Energy creates the Office Read more of Technology Transitions to provide energy stakeholders with money from a nearly $20 million Lawrence Livermore scientist Arthur Rodgers and fund to transition research to the marketplace, Los Gatos High School teacher Dan Burns present providing opportunities for the Laboratory to apply “Computer Simulations of Earthquakes in the San NOTE for funding to boost the commercial readiness Francisco Bay Area,” the final lecture in the 2015 Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s levels of energy technologies. Science on Saturday series for students. internal Web network only. Read more Blue links are accessible on both the internal Read more and external Lab Web network. More than 400 girls in grades 6 to 9 attend the

Page 13 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LLNL sponsored Tri-Valley Expanding Your Horizons NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015 2015 Veterans interning at LLNL field questions on Quotables the popular social media website Reddit about their career-technical education and training in support of national security research. Read more “It was great fun. I thought it The 2015 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Signal and Image Sciences was wonderful. The students Workshop is held at the Livermore Valley were all bright, able and Open Campus’ High Performance Computing Innovation Center. enthusiastic. They were Read more Lab researcher Abdul Awwal (left) and Dublin High interested in all kinds of School student Kaushik Kasi discuss a project at the 2014 Signal and Image Sciences Workshop. Registration opens for the 2015 Teacher topics. They found out I’d Research Academy, a professional been a football player and that development curriculum during the summer immediately gave me an months for middle and high school science teachers and community college faculty, at in with them.” the Laboratory’s Edward Teller Education - Lab material scientist Troy Barbee, Center. who has worked for years Read more with Stanford students

The Laboratory’s Science Education Program hosts approximately 40 high school girls through the GetSet program (Girls Exploring Technology, Science and Engineering Together). Read more The Laboratory is featured in an entire category of NOTE The Laboratory blocks OS 10.7 and below on clues, called the “Science of Security,” on the TV

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The LLNL Benefits Office hosts a series of 2015 workshops to provide information intended to Quotables increase awareness of programs available to enhance future financial security. Read more “I grew up in a culture that unapologetically and The Department of Energy establishes programs for employees (including federal, contractor unabashedly considered women and subcontractor employees) to raise various of less importance and ability. I technical and/or safety concerns so that they are assessed and appropriate actions are taken. was fortunate to have mentors Read more and role models to point out to

Members of Stanislaus County’s Alliance WorkNet, me that that just wasn’t true, a private-public organization that blends economic which has made all the development activities and workforce development The Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Women’s assistance for existing and prospective companies difference in my life.” Association (LLLWA) presented a panel in Stanislaus County, visit the Laboratory. - Monica Moya, a native of the Los Angeles area, discussion in honor of Women’s History Month, Read more who was the first in her family whose academic pursuits highlighting five women employees who have extended beyond high school been employed at the Lab for 33 years or more. The Lab unveils a new website geared to employees looking to engage in a mentorship The Laboratory hosts a special St. Patrick’s Day arrangement. Fun With Science presentation. Read more Read more

The Lab rolls out a new Safeweb, re-engineered by The Laboratory hosts a meeting with United Livermore Information Technology staff. Kingdom leadership from the Ministry of Defence, Read more the Royal Navy and the Atomic Weapons Establishment and their U.S. counterparts from NOTE The Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Women’s the Departments of Defense and Energy. Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s Association presents a panel discussion in honor of internal Web network only. Read more Blue links are accessible on both the internal Women’s History Month, highlighting five women and external Lab Web network. employees who have been at the Lab for 33 years or more. Page 15 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Read more NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015 2015 The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Quotables Science Education Program hosts more than 40 high school girls from Stagg High School in Stockton. “We have world-class talent Read more at LLNL and we want to teach Deputy Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, who is responsible for our scientists and engineers management of the department and execution entrepreneurial skills that will of the administration’s highest priority energy help them in the innovation initiatives, praises the role Lawrence Livermore plays in science, energy and national security process, whether they’re working during an all-hands presentation at the with industry or government Laboratory. In the Engineering Prototyping Challenge’s “Egg Read more sponsors, or, if they choose, Drop” competition, the winning team of “Three Balloons and Tape” was selected because it becoming part of a startup based came in under budget, and had a unique LLNL rolls out a new “Yellow” wireless network landing system. for Laboratory-owned devices providing access to on Lab technology.” all internal, unclassified network resources. Read more –Industrial Partnerships Office Director Rich Rankin

More than 100 employees attend a special presentation by New York Times bestselling author, Steven Johnson, during which he discusses the history of ideas and innovations encourages teams to collaborate in the design of that made the modern world, sharing lessons an innovative and creative product. from history’s unsung innovators. Read more Read more NOTE Director Bill Goldstein summarizes the Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s More than 45 engineers from the Engineering Laboratory’s improved budget picture and internal Web network only. Blue links are accessible on both the internal Directorate participate in the second in a and external Lab Web network. series of Engineering Prototyping Challenges called “The Egg Drop,” a design exercise that

Page 16 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015 2015 prospects for future growth, especially in LLNL’s Quotables core weapons programs, during a Director’s Update. Read more “We have no way in general of

The Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Women’s protecting systems from server Association holds its annual scholarship awards attacks. It’s a bad situation. Not ceremony and presents six employees with only can cyber criminals attack awards totaling $8,600. Read more vendor networks and servers, they

Director Bill Goldstein announces he will can attack voter clients’ distribute the Strategic Performance Bonus in systems as well.” recognition of the Lab’s excellent performance in Participants in one of the biggest Computation fiscal year 2014. - David Jefferson, hackathons yet. Read more on internet voting

The Laboratory enacts a new social media policy to provide employees and contractors clear rules April 2015 for safe, secure use of social media. Read more Science and technology

The annual Good Friday protest draws nearly NASA releases a video honoring the fifth year in 100 people to the West Gate entrance of the space for NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Laboratory. (SDO). Lawrence Livermore played a large role in Read more the development of the imaging optics aboard. The SDO provides detailed images of the whole sun 24 Computation has a big turnout for its spring hours a day. NOTE hackathon, a 24-hour event encouraging Lab Read more Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s computer scientists to engage in collaborative internal Web network only. programming and creative problem solving. The Gamma-Ray Spectrometer developed by Blue links are accessible on both the internal and external Lab Web network. Read more Laboratory scientists onboard NASA’s Mercury

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MESSENGER causes researchers to rethink their 2015 theories on the planet Mercury’s formation. Quotables Read more

Lawrence Livermore researchers make graphene “The LLNL environment is aerogel microlattices with an engineered architecture via a 3D printing technique known particularly conducive to teamwork, as direct ink writing, making for better energy and my growth as a scientist is storage, sensors, nanoelectronics, catalysis and separations. due to the constantly evolving Read more opportunities to work alongside Pictured from left: Peter Thelin, optician; Stephen Payne, Global Security N Program leader for radiation A paper is published in Physical Review Letters chemists, physicists, materials detection materials; Nerine Cherepy, Institute of that details the work of researchers at the Lab’s Electrical and Electronics Engineers senior member; scientists, nuclear, electrical and Zachary Seeley, ceramicist, holding an 11.5-inch- National Ignition Facility, testing target capsules to diameter transparent ceramic scintillator fabricated determine if thinner capsules can produce higher- and mechanical engineers to for the Weapons and Complex Integration Enhanced velocity implosions with better symmetry than Surveillance Campaign. solve problems that always seem capsules used in previous experiments. Read more to require a combination of exploratory basic science and An international team of astronomers, including Will Dawson of LLNL, discovers that comatose pragmatic engineering.” galaxies, which contain many “red and dead” members that stopped forming stars in the distant – LLNL researcher Nerine Cherepy past, can sometimes come back to life. Read more People A team of researchers at the National Ignition NOTE Facility conduct the first experiment in a new Livermore scientist Nerine Cherepy is selected as Discovery Science campaign aimed at finding a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s internal Web network only. clues to the mystery of how stars are born in Electronics Engineers. Blue links are accessible on both the internal spectacular cosmic formations, such as those Read more and external Lab Web network. images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, “The Pillars of Creation” in the Eagle Nebula. Page 18 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Read more NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015 2015 Patrice Turchi, group leader of the LLNL Material Science Division’s Advanced Quotables Metallurgical Science and Engineering group, is installed as the 2015 president of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. “We will do our Read more level best to support Martin Casado, former computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory every entrepreneur.” turned Bay Area tech executive at a – Christine Hartmann, multinational software giant, is featured in a of the Lab’s Institutional Proposal Development Office series about LLNL entrepreneurs. Read more Operations Beth McCormick, recruiting and diversity Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., addresses the crowd at a LabCorps event, which was hosted manager at LLNL, attends the Joining Forces Energy projects from Lawrence Livermore and by Livermore’s i-GATE Innovation Hub. Energy Initiative anniversary event with Michelle Sandia national laboratories are selected to projects from Lawrence Livermore and Sandia Obama and other leaders from across the participate in a pilot Energy Department program national laboratories were selected to participate in the pilot DOE program to facilitate the country, announcing new commitments to to facilitate the commercialization of technologies commercialization of technologies with the ensure that every veteran and military family with the potential to rapidly benefit society. potential to rapidly benefit society. has an opportunity to achieve their career Read more aspirations. Read more Several dozen Georgetown University graduate students, participating in a one-year master’s Livermore scientist Dick Post is fondly program in emergency and disaster management, remembered for his legacy of contributions spend a week at Lawrence Livermore to gain spanning a 63-year career at LLNL after he insight to the Lab’s programs and technologies. passes way. Read more NOTE Read more

Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s The Lab celebrates the 30th anniversary of the internal Web network only. Nearly 50 LLNL employees witness a special X-ray laser. Blue links are accessible on both the internal ceremony promoting Army Maj. Kenneth and external Lab Web network. Read more Spicer, who has been on assignment to the Laboratory, to lieutenant colonel. Page 19 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Read more NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015

LLNL kicks off the 10th annual Get Active fitness 2015 campaign, competing for the title “Fittest Lab in Quotables the Nation” with 10 national labs. Read more

More than 80 men and women from early career “The new armory to senior management attend the “Meeting of the Minds” networking event, sponsored by the is an essential and required Laboratory Women’s Association’s Women in capability for us.” Science & Engineering group, designed to help – Lab Director Bill Goldstein Lab personnel connect, engage and learn while having fun. Read more

Director Bill Goldstein signs a memorandum LLNL welcomes more than 70 cadets and of understanding with UC Davis Chancellor More than 70 cadets and midshipmen midshipmen from the Air Force, Army, Marines from the Air Force, Army, Marines Linda Katehi that is directed toward increasing and Navy visit the Laboratory for the and Navy for the annual Reserve Officers’ Training collaborations between the campus and the annual Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Corps (ROTC) Day. Laboratory. (ROTC) Day. Read more Read more Physics Nobel Prize winner Robert Laughlin speaks California Highway Patrol Capt. Linda Franklin, about “Critical Waves and the Length Problem of recently appointed to head the Dublin office of Biology” as part of the Deputy Director for Science the CHP, visits the Lab for tours and discussions and Technology office and the Physical and Life on a range of topics of mutual interest to both Sciences Directorate-sponsored colloquium. organizations. Read more Read more LLESA rolls out its third annual Fitness Bingo to A groundbreaking ceremony is held on a project to promote its programs and encourage employees to NOTE build a new armory for the Lab’s Protective Force be more active. Division. Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s Read more internal Web network only. Read more Blue links are accessible on both the internal and external Lab Web network.

Page 20 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015 2015 The Laboratory hosts the annual workshop of the Department of Energy Security Awareness Special Quotables Interest Group, a peer-to-peer network of federal and contractor representatives responsible for “Dante is one of the workhorse safeguards and security at DOE facilities. Read more diagnostics of NIF — it participates in almost every The Laboratory welcomes approximately 300 children on-site for “Take Our Daughters and shot. Even when a hohlraum Sons to Work Day,” to provide a window into is not used, it is one of the few the workplace and to promote an enriching educational experience by giving children of LLNL absolutely calibrated soft X-ray employees the opportunity to job shadow their diagnostics that can provide “Fun With Science” experiments are part of Take parents, see what they do and participate in a absolute measurements of the Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day. variety of activities. Read more conversion efficiency of laser

Eligible employees receive a strategic performance light into X- rays.” bonus (1 percent of their annualized base rate) as - Alastair Moore, the scientist responsible for Dante part of the Lab’s Variable Compensation Plan. Read more

Microsoft Lync is replaced by Cisco Jabber as Livermore Information Technology (LivIT) LLNL’s standard instant messaging software consolidates its customer service teams (Cellular as part of the LivConnected initiative, led by Services, 4Help Service Desk, Laptops on Foreign Livermore Information Technology. Travel and the Site License Office) to a single Read more location, forming a new LivIT Customer Service Center located in Trailer 4725. Members of the DOE Office of Economic Impact Read more NOTE and Diversity visit the Lab for presentations and Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s tours. Construction work to install a second kiosk at the internal Web network only. Read more Blue links are accessible on both the internal entrance of Greenville Road and Eastgate Drive and external Lab Web network. begins. Read more Page 21 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015 2015 May 2015 Quotables Science and Technology

A team of researchers from Lawrence Livermore and UC Davis find that covering an implantable “The performance improvement neural electrode with nanoporous gold could we’ve seen in the electrodes eliminate the risk of scar tissue forming over the electrode’s surface. is a breakthrough that has real Read more world applications.”

A study by LLNL and Kansas State University - Postdoc Jianchao Ye, Lab researcher Jianchao Ye shows off an about an improved lithium ion battery scientists find that the Lawrence Livermore improved lithium ion battery. Microbial Detection Array could help identify diseases in the commercial swine industry. Read more Lawrence Livermore researchers determine that a tunnel bomb explosion by Syrian rebels was less Due to challenges for achieving ignition, other than 60 tons, as claimed by sources. hohlraum platforms are sought to achieve a balance Read more of efficient and symmetric hohlraum drive. One of the candidates is a rugby football-like hohlraum Using ever more energetic lasers, Lawrence shape, which resembles a cylinder with the corners Livermore researchers produce a record high of the can rounded off to minimize surface area. number of electron-positron pairs, opening Read more opportunities to study extreme astrophysical processes, such as black holes and gamma-ray New results from the NASA NuSTAR telescope bursts. show that a supernova close to our galaxy Read more experienced a single-sided explosion. Read more NOTE Researchers from LLNL and three other institutions assist a Bay Area biomedical company in Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s American energy use continues to grow slowly in advancing its Ebola virus detection test. internal Web network only. 2014, fueled by increases in the use of natural Blue links are accessible on both the internal Read more and external Lab Web network. gas, wind and solar, according to energy flow charts released by LLNL.

Page 22 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Read more NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015 2015 Located one-and-a-half floors underground in LLNL’s Bldg. 151, the Nuclear Counting Facility Quotables (NCF) leverages its well-shielded, low-background environment to accurately measure nuclear materials for the National Ignition Facility and a “Art is anything you put variety of other Laboratory programs. your mind to.” Read more - Peter Thelin, People who has been perfecting his hand-polishing skills for more than 30 years

Peter Thelin (left) and Eric Strang work side-by- As one of the few remaining practitioners of hand- side in LLNL’s Optics Shop. polished optics, Peter Thelin is passing his artistry along to the next generation of optics specialists. Twenty high school students from Galt High Read more School’s Biomedical, Engineering, Science and Technology Academy visit the Laboratory. LLNL’s Office of the Chief Information Officer Read more and Livermore Information Technology host 60 students and teachers for the third annual Operations Information Technology Job Shadow Day. Read more The Asian Pacific American Council presents its annual scholarships to four high school seniors in Lara Leininger is selected to lead LLNL’s Energetic one of the events highlighted during Asian Pacific Materials Center. Heritage Month. Read more Read more

Congressman Eric Swalwell visits the Laboratory The Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority, to witness an experiment at the National operator of the Wheels bus system, hosts the Ignition Facility. dedication of its new Art Shelter Mural Project Read more NOTE located just outside the West Gate of the Laboratory. Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s The Laboratory hosts 14 students, ranging in internal Web network only. Read more Blue links are accessible on both the internal age from middle school to college, from Green and external Lab Web network. Technical Education and Employment for a full day of presentations and tours.

Page 23 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Read more NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015 2015 LLNL breaks ground on a modular and sustainable supercomputing facility that will provide a Quotables flexible infrastructure able to accommodate the Laboratory’s growing demand for high “By partnering with IBM and performance computing. Read more NVIDIA, the Centers of Excellence

June bring together the people who know the science, the people who Science and Technology know the code and the people who A new study led by Megan Bruck Syal of LLNL know the machines — ensuring we examines how cometary impacts may transform the surface of the moon in ways distinct from are innovating across the board asteroidal impacts, producing unique signatures so that Sierra and Summit will be that are consistent with observations of mysterious, ghost-like features called “lunar primed to achieve their missions swirls.” for national security and Read more Lawrence Livermore broke ground for a modular scientific advancement as soon and sustainable supercomputing facility that will provide a flexible infrastructure to accommodate With funding from the DOE, Lawrence Livermore as they’re delivered.” the Laboratory’s growing demand for high and the University of Washington partner to performance computing. From left: Weapons and - Michel McCoy, advance the sheared-flow stabilized Z-pinch Complex Integration Principal Associate Director program director for Weapon Simulation and Computing Charles Verdon, Livermore Mayor John Marchand concept and assess its potential for scaling to and Director Bill Goldstein. fusion conditions. The team is awarded $5.28 million from ARPA-E’s Accelerating Low-cost Plasma Heating and Assembly Program. Journal of Applied Physics. The work is part of a Read more broader research project to better understand the safety and performance of high explosives, such NOTE Computer simulations exploring the effects of as HMX, which are used in the nuclear stockpile Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s shock waves on crystalline HMX, performed by and by the Department of Defense. internal Web network only. Blue links are accessible on both the internal Ryan Austin, a staff scientist in Engineering’s Read more and external Lab Web network. Computational Engineering Division, and a team of LLNL researchers, is featured on the cover of the

Page 24 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015 2015 LLNL plays a leading role in fielding the Quotables recent Source Physics Experiment (SPE-4 Prime) detonated at the Nevada National Security Site. Read more “I want to be a mechanical

An international team led by Brian Bucher engineer. I enjoyed Fun With of LLNL makes an important contribution to Science, seeing electricity being the ability to predict the unique chemical signature left by early stars with the first conducted and what it can be direct measurement under stellar conditions conducted to and seeing what of an important nuclear reaction. Read more happens in air pressure in certain situations. People - Tre Germany, Target area operator Sky Marshall installs new a seventh grade student apertures in the Dante 2 X-ray diodes. More than 60 disadvantaged youth from at Claremont Middle School in Oakland, Oakland, San Francisco and Tracy visit the who came dressed in a three-piece suit and was passing out business cards Laboratory for a special “Day at the Lab” during the “My Brother’s Keeper” event as part of the White House initiative, “My Brother’s Keeper.” Read more

Operations series of articles highlighting the diverse group of 2015 summer students at LLNL. The Laboratory welcomes more than 600 Read more students from universities nationwide and around the world to engage in work-study CalCharge welcomes LLNL as its newest partner NOTE employment opportunities in relevant science, member, joining Lawrence Berkeley National

Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s technology, engineering and mathematics internal Web network only. (STEM) fields during the summer academic Blue links are accessible on both the internal and external Lab Web network. break. Fourteen students are featured in a

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Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC “It’s really gratifying. accepts applications for its annual Community I’ve been able to utilize Gift Program for 2015. Read more some of the basic skills and knowledge of processes I use Roger Aines (right), a geochemist who runs the Nearly 50 researchers from LLNL and Sandia Lab’s Carbon Fuel Cycle Program, discusses a National Laboratories/California get down to in my work at the Lab as a carbon capture technique using microcapsules business for three days, learning about life as during a panel discussion at Lawrence Livermore. an entrepreneur. volunteer for a really great Read more cause. It feels like an extension

In a continuing partnership with Orion of what we do here at the Lab Academy, the LLNL Engineering Directorate for the good of society. hosts Marissa Hall, a senior from Orion, as this year’s science, technology, engineering and It was a great honor to mathematics intern. receive the award.” Read more - Doug Modlin about volunteering for Cystic Fibrosis Research Inc. The third annual Livermorium Day celebration is held at Livermorium Plaza. The day recognizes the creation of Livermorium, chemical element 116, which was named in honor of the city and researchers from LLNL, research, exploring whether life on Earth really who helped discover it. Read more did come from out of this world — on comets that NOTE contained complex prebiotic materials, such as July amino acids and peptides (chains of amino acids), Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s internal Web network only. which are some of the most basic building blocks Science and Technology Blue links are accessible on both the internal of life on Earth. and external Lab Web network. Read more LLNL’s Nir Goldman receives a $500,000

Page 26 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NASA grant to continue his astrobiology NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015 2015 IBM, along with NVIDIA and two DOE Quotables national laboratories, announces a pair of Centers of Excellence for supercomputing — one at LLNL and the other at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. “The timing of Earth’s Read more core formation can only be A Lawrence Livermore team receives determined via chemical an additional $1 million to protect algal crops by developing “probiotic” bacteria signatures in Earth’s mantle, to combat pond infestation and increase a technique that requires ecosystem function and resilience. Read more assumptions about how well This simulation depicts a comet hitting the young Earth, generating the amino acids necessary for life. the iron is mixed. By tightly integrating experimental and theoretical techniques, an LLNL team This new information actually provides fundamentally new insights changes our estimates into the specific factors that determine the absorption characteristics of copper for the timing of when Earth’s complexes. core was formed.” Read more - LLNL scientist Richard Kraus

Physics of Plasmas releases its list of the most-cited papers for January-June 2015. Out of the 30 most-cited papers on the People list, the top five contain lead authors from Lawrence Livermore. No. 8, 9 and 17 on Dan Burns, a science teacher at Los Gatos the list also are led by LLNL, for a total of High School and instructor in LLNL’s summer NOTE eight — more than any other institution on Fusion and Astrophysics Research Academy, is Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s the list. one teacher who takes experiential learning to internal Web network only. Blue links are accessible on both the internal Read more a whole new level. While most teachers spend and external Lab Web network.

Page 27 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015 2015 their summer taking a break or going on vacation, Burns starts his off with the SOFIA Quotables Airborne Astronomy Ambassador program aboard a Boeing 747 jumbo jet with NASA’s SOFIA (stratospheric observatory for infrared “It was a great opportunity astronomy) infrared observatory. to be exposed to the cutting- Read more edge technology and research After a lifelong interest in WWI, Lab chemist being conducted not far from Clark Souers publishes his project, “Chaos and Identity: From World War I to Today.” where I live. Ultimately, the Read more trip motivated me to continue on with my engineering degree Kim Budil, vice president for the Office of the National Laboratories at the University of with the mindset of creating LLNL chemist Clark Souers has collected stamps California Office of the President and Executive his whole life. In his youth, he came across stamps technologies that benefit the from so-called dead countries, which ignited a Committee governor on the LLNS Board of lifelong interest in the story of what happened Governors, leads an open discussion with LLNL’s world and those in it.” to the world after World War I. This facination Women in Science and Engineering group. resulted in his published book, “Chaos and Identity: From World War I to Today.” Read more - Didier “DJ” Mponte, an electrical engineering student at Sacramento State University During a visit to LLNL, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller thanks Laboratory employees for their contributions to national security. National Nuclear Security Administration Deputy Read more Associate Administrator of Infrastructure Ken

Sheely visits the Laboratory for tours and briefings Linton Brooks, former head of the National on facilities. NOTE Nuclear Security Administration, speaks to Lab Read more Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s employees about U.S.-Russia relations and arms internal Web network only. Blue links are accessible on both the internal control. and external Lab Web network. Read more

Page 28 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015 2015 Patricia Falcone, the new deputy director Quotables for Science and Technology, leads a candid discussion at the Laboratory Women’s Association’s Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) meeting. “The Stockpile Stewardship Read more Program helps ensure that until the

Industrial Partnerships Office Director Rich day of [global nuclear weapon] Rankin joins area business leaders for a panel elimination comes, we can be discussion on the “State of the Tri-Valley.” Read more confident that our stockpile will be safe and effective and reliable, and In a Director’s Distinguished Lecturer Series presentation entitled “Making Life: The Art & that’s what’s critical to deterrence. Science of Robots,” Genevieve Bell discusses Because we no longer have to her work for Intel to better understand how people interact with technology and humans’ conduct the [nuclear] explosive Linton Brooks, who was NNSA’s administrator long-standing fascination with “bringing objects from May 2003 to January 2007, speaks to Lab tests, we’re able to build an even to life.” employees about U.S.-Russia relations and arms control. Read more more compelling set of arguments on behalf of U.S. approval of the Operations Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.” LLNL, in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley - John Kerry, U.S. secretary of State, National Laboratory and Sandia National at 20th anniversary event for SSP Laboratories/California, is awarded $4.15 million by the Department of Energy to jointly launch a new small business voucher pilot. Science and Technology 2015 Conference held in NOTE Read more Vienna, Austria. Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s Read more internal Web network only. Nine LLNL scientists participate in the Blue links are accessible on both the internal and external Lab Web network. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

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2015 Five local high school seniors from Livermore Quotables and Tracy are awarded Lawrence Livermore’s prestigious Edward Teller Science Scholarship. Read more “As an organization that is

Government agencies, along with state and pushing the limits on generative local governments, could receive a helping design and high-performance hand from a computer network security tool developed by LLNL computer scientists and computing, Autodesk is an ideal engineers. The software-based technology, collaborator as we investigate The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory- known as the Network Mapping System, is designed Network Mapping System collects data licensed to Cambridge Global Advisors, a next-generation manufacturing. by watching and probing a network. It runs Washington, D.C.-area strategic advisory firm. on dedicated computer hardware to maintain With its extensive cross-industry Read more performance on the network being scanned and to customer base, Autodesk can help provide a platform for follow-on analysis. The Lab’s Teacher Research Academy 2015 us examine how our foundational summer series kicks off with more than 50 science teachers committing their summer research in architected materials breaks to professional development and and new additive manufacturing networking with other like-minded faculty. Read more technology might transfer into a

The Defense Science Study Group — a two-year variety of domains.” program of education and study that introduces - Engineering Associate Director Anantha Krishnan, outstanding science and engineering professors about the Lab agreement with Autodesk to the United States’ security challenges and encourages them to apply their talents to these edge science the directorate does to support issues — visits the Lab. national security. Read more NOTE Read more Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s Global Security takes its scientists, technology internal Web network only. The Laboratory announces the referral bonus Blue links are accessible on both the internal and equipment to the Central Cafe to show and external Lab Web network. program for certain positions. students and postdocs the kinds of cutting- Read more

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In a successful example of international research “By allowing the methodology collaboration, a team of scientists from LLNL and to consider shallow, uncontained the Russian Federal Nuclear Center-All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics expose events just below, at, or even above the strength of beryllium at extreme conditions. the Earth’s surface, we make the Read more A conception of the Jupiter-like exoplanet, 51 Eri method relevant to new classes of b, seen in the near-infrared light that shows the In recent experiments, a team of scientists from hot layers glowing through clouds. Because of events including mining events, its young age, this young cousin of Jupiter is still LLNL and the University of California, Los Angeles hot and carries information on the way it was reveal never-before-seen electron ring formations in military explosions, industrial formed 20 million years ago. addition to typically observed beams. accidents, plane crashes or Read more potential terrorist attacks. A yield For the first time, Lawrence Livermore scientists, estimate is often very important to as part of an international team, discover the most Jupiter-like planet ever seen in a young star investigators and governmental system, providing clues to understanding how agencies seeking to understand the planets formed around the sun. Read more precise cause of an explosion.” - Lab researcher Michael Pasyanos Researchers from Lawrence Livermore and Autodesk join forces to explore how design software can accelerate innovation for three- dimensional printing of advanced materials. NOTE Read more Livermore researchers find that nanocrystalline materials do not necessarily resist radiation effects Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s internal Web network only. The National Ignition Facility fires its 300th laser in nuclear reactors better than currently used Blue links are accessible on both the internal target shot in fiscal year 2015, meeting the year’s materials. and external Lab Web network. goal more than six weeks early. In comparison, the Read more facility completed 191 target shots in FY14. Page 31 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Read more NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015

2015 Astronomers find evidence for a faded electron cloud “coming back to life,” much like the mythical Quotables phoenix, after two galaxy clusters collided. Read more

People “My predecessors mainly focused

Father of molecular dynamics, Berni Alder, on environmental projects, celebrates his 90th birthday and 60th anniversary but I would like to learn working at the Laboratory. Read more more about business processes. At the Lab, I can take advantage Robert Work, deputy secretary of Defense, and Frank Kendall, undersecretary of Defense of the institution’s pairing Lawrence Livermore scientist Berni Alder for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, visit celebrates his 90th birthday and his 60th of science and business, Lawrence Livermore to learn more about the Lab’s anniversary at the Laboratory. He still comes and in turn, contribute to the Lab’s into the Laboratory twice a week. programs in areas of critical importance to the Department of Defense. needs to help further its mission.” Read more - Capt. Lauren Hamlin, about participating in the Army Fellows Program Brad Roberts joins LLNL to take the helm of the Center for Global Security Research. Read more

State Sen. Steve Glazer and members of his capitol and district office staffs visit the Laboratory Anne Harrington, deputy administrator for Defense for briefings and tours. Nuclear Nonproliferation for the National Nuclear Read more Security Administration, visits the Laboratory for a series of briefings and tours. NOTE Capt. Lauren Hamlin, a Sacramento native who Read more Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s traveled around the world as she rose through internal Web network only. Blue links are accessible on both the internal the ranks of the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps, and external Lab Web network. finds herself back at Lawrence Livermore in the Army Fellows Program.

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Operations 2015 Quotables Lawrence Livermore experts discuss the rise of computing during the 7th Annual Innovation Forum. Read more “Our goal is to accelerate innovation, reduce the time More than 250 students and faculty participate in the 2015 Student Poster Symposium, making to bring clean energy it the largest to date. technologies to market and Read more introduce efficiencies to energy LLNL and Sandia host this year’s California manufacturing processes.” Council on Science & Technology Policy Fellows From left: Students Danielle Butts, Jasmine for a day of briefings and tours. Bowers and Elijah Williams participate in the - Peg Folta, Read more Cyber Defenders summer internship program at LLNL director for HPC4Mfg Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Now in its sixth year, Cyber Defenders “boot camp” prepares students for mission-critical roles in the wake of the OPM breach. Computation’s Institute for Scientific Computing Read more Research welcomes 165 summer scholars from 97 Lawrence Livermore officials meet with energy universities in nine countries — the largest group yet. industry representatives to discuss ways in Read more which the two entities can work more closely. Summer students attend a panel discussion with Read more eight women representing varying educational levels With access to the Computation Directorate’s and career stages, sponsored by the Laboratory faster-than-a-speeding-bullet, more-powerful- Women’s Association’s Women in Science and NOTE than-a-locomotive high-performance computing Engineering group. Read more Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s systems, 20 interns come to Livermore to internal Web network only. learn about and work on significant data science Blue links are accessible on both the internal and external Lab Web network. problems. Read more

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Some 200 protesters hold a rally at the Quotables corner of Vasco and Patterson Pass roads to mark the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima Day. Read more “Livermore exists to solve

LLNL celebrates the 50th anniversary of complex problems and to deliver the Intelligence Programs with a panel solutions for national security, a discussion of distinguished national This computer simulation of aerodynamic drag intelligence community members, a look at great many of which involve high on a tractor trailer was conducted as part of the intelligence program by Lab speakers, a a DOE study to reduce the fuel consumption performance computing.” poster session and reception. of trucks. A new initiative will allow industry - Fred Streitz, to leverage the high performance computing Read more director of LLNL’s High Performance Computing capabilities of the national labs to advance Innovation Center (HPCIC) clean energy manufacturing technologies. LLNL’s Engineering Directorate and the . Industrial Partnerships Office host a workshop by Singularity University, which brings together large organizations, emerging start- ups and entrepreneurs to take on some of September humanity’s grand challenges. Science and technology Read more

Departments of Defense and Energy and Lawrence Livermore geologist Rick Ryerson and NNSA labs celebrate the 30th anniversary of international colleagues publish new findings the Joint Munitions Program. about Earth’s core and mantle by considering their Read more geophysical and geochemical signatures together. Read more Responsibility for the Laboratory’s Information and Communication Services transitions Lawrence Livermore and RPI announce that they NOTE from the Operations and Business Principal will combine decades of expertise to help American Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s Directorate to the Computation Directorate. internal Web network only. industry and businesses expand use of high Blue links are accessible on both the internal Read more and external Lab Web network.

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performance computing under a memorandum of 2015 understanding. Quotables Read more

The Department of Energy announces a new “American manufacturers have initiative that allows industry to leverage the high gained confidence that natural performance computing capabilities of Lawrence Livermore, Oak Ridge and Lawrence Berkeley gas prices will stay low for the national laboratories to advance clean energy long term, and have invested in manufacturing technologies. Read more equipment to switch from oil to natural gas feedstocks and fuels.” Researchers from five laboratories, including LLNL, and a private company spend two days - A.J. Simon, in blistering 100 degree heat testing radiation LLNL’s energy group leader detection technologies amidst cargo containers. Read more

A rigger scales the Laboratory’s cargo container stack testbed as part of a radiation detector exercise that A multi-institutional team of scientists fires the Livermore engineer Mihail Bora receives $570,000 involved five laboratories and one private company. 26th and final shot of the Pleiades experimental through the Department of Energy SunShot campaign at the National Ignition Facility. The Initiative to explore spectroscopic technology as campaign creates a new scientific foundation a means of detecting moisture buildup in solar for the study of supersonic radiation flow photovoltaic cells. in astrophysical phenomena and in inertial Read more confinement fusion physics. Read more Research showing how carbon might boost nanoelectronics is published in the Journal of The Department of Energy approves the start of Physical Chemistry. NOTE construction for a 3.2-gigapixel digital camera Read more Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s — the world’s largest — for the Large Synoptic internal Web network only. Survey Telescope. The Lab plays a key role in the Blue links are accessible on both the internal and external Lab Web network. LSST project. Read more

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LLNL researchers announce that a National 2015 Ignition Facility experimental campaign may Quotables have unlocked the scientific secrets behind how hydrogen becomes metallic at high pressure. Read more “It’s sort of a carbon credit

Livermore scientists report that they have come up because the phytoplankton with a theory that may explain why dark matter has are making their own evaded direct detection in Earth-based experiments. Read more nitrogen-based fertilizer out of dissolved nitrogen.” Livermore Graduate Scholar Marco Keiluweit - LLNL geochemist Tom Guilderson, and LLNL scientist Jennifer Pett-Ridge show that referring to research about climate the long-term litter decomposition rate in forest change affecting plankton ecosystems is tightly coupled to manganese redox cycling. A carbyne strand forms in laser-melted graphite. Carbyne is found in astrophysical bodies and Read more has the potential to be used in nanoelectronic Philip Calbos, principal assistant deputy devices and superhard materials. People administrator for Defense Programs for the National Nuclear Security Administration, visits the Lab. The odds aren’t astronomical; in fact, they’re Read more almost a certainty, according to NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan, who gave a Director’s Longtime Laboratory astrophysicist Claire Max Distinguished Lecturer Series talk at the Lab about shifts her focus to a new frontier when she is the ongoing search for extraterrestrial life. appointed director of the University of Read more California Observatories. Read more Kathy Baker, the Laboratory’s chief financial officer, NOTE dies following injuries sustained in an accident. Native American students visit the Lab as part of Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s Read more an inter-tribal energy and tech tour. internal Web network only. Blue links are accessible on both the internal Read more and external Lab Web network. Gen. Paul Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visits the Laboratory for tours and discussions. Page 36 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Read more NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015 2015 San Joaquin County Supervisor Bob Elliott visits the Lab. Quotables Read more

More than 160 women and men gather at “It’s like some kind of cosmic Concannon vineyards for the Laboratory Women’s circle. Now I get to be escorted by Association’s 44th annual membership and scholarship fundraising luncheon to hear keynote my son and introduced as speaker, Pat Falcone, Lab deputy director for Andy Weir’s dad.” Science and Technology. - Former Lab employee and author Andy Weir’s father, Read more John Weir, on attending his son’s LLNL presentation

Andy Weir, author of “The Martian,” talks at the Lab about his book and the movie. Read more Employees now enjoy the benefit of continuous Internet access throughout their entire work day. Livermore Information Technology extends the Operations log-in period for Internet access from six to 12 Pat Falcone, Lab deputy director for Science and hours, with a hard reset occurring at 7 p.m. daily. Technology, speaks at the Laboratory Women’s The directors of DOE national labs convene a Association’s 44th annual membership and Read more workshop in Livermore to share ideas, insights and scholarship fundraising luncheon. best practices aimed at enhancing diversity and The Livermore Laboratory Employee Association’s inclusion at their institutions. Microcentury Toastmasters networking group Read more celebrates its 50th anniversary. Read more The Lawrence Livermore Postdoc Association

council meets with Pat Falcone, deputy director SHRM, LLESA and the Lawrence Livermore Postdoc for Science and Technology, to address general Association co-host “The PHD Movie 2: Still in NOTE postdoc concerns. Grad School,” a sequel to the independently Read more Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s produced movie based on PHD Comics, about life internal Web network only. (or the lack thereof) in academia. Blue links are accessible on both the internal LLNL’s Site 300 experimental test site celebrates and external Lab Web network. Read more its 60th anniversary. Read more Page 37 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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As approved by the Institutional Operations 2015 Review Board, Project Management, Engineering, Quotables & Construction (PMEC) begins certifying non- PMEC (satellite) construction managers and project managers to the PMEC standards and “In nuclear forensics, we want expectations. Read more to know first, is someone able to put together the parts to make a Lab employees attend the Cybersecurity Program’s annual National Cybersecurity nuclear weapon and set it off? Awareness Month Cybersecurity Fest at the And second, if one is set off, can Livermore Valley Open Campus. we find out who did it, how they Read more

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists did it and are they going were part of an international team that discovered October five new nuclei: U 218, Np 219, Bk 233, Am 223 to do it again?” and Am 229. Science and technology - LLNL nuclear chemist Dawn Shaughnessy, who leads the experimental and nuclear radiochemistry Lawrence Livermore scientists, in conjunction with group in the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate international researchers, announce the discovery of five new atomic nuclei to be added to the chart the Laboratory to discuss new manufacturing of nuclides. technologies at the California Network for Read more Manufacturing Innovation’s 3rd Annual Smart Manufacturing conference. The Laboratory announces the awarding of a Read more subcontract to Penguin Computing — a leading developer of high-performance Linux cluster General Electric, Lawrence Livermore and Oak computing systems — to bolster computing Ridge National Laboratory announce that they for stockpile stewardship at the three national NOTE have created new kinds of fluorescent lighting security laboratories. phosphors that use far less rare-earth elements Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s Read more internal Web network only. than current technology. Blue links are accessible on both the internal Read more and external Lab Web network. More than 60 representatives from the national labs, private industry, local counties

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As part of a tri-lab consortium, Laboratory 2015 researchers agree to develop tools and Quotables understanding necessary for designing new solid- state materials for storing hydrogen gas. Read more “The type of work we engaged LLNL scientist Michael Hohensee and colleagues publish findings showing that the properties that in and the education we make rare-earth elements so useful also make them received was very helpful.” great probes of physics beyond the Standard Model. Read more - Andy John, a situational awareness unit leader In a series of papers, Laboratory scientists for the Federal Emergency Management Agency National Incident Management Dorothy Rothrock, president of the California examine the role of ablation-front instability and Assistance Team West Manufacturers & Technology Association, was the capsule convergence ratio in ignition science keynote speaker at the Laboratory’s California experiments at the National Ignition Facility. Network for Manufacturing Innovation’s 3rd Annual Smart Manufacturing conference. Read more A team of LLNL scientists, for the first time, presents a parameter-free first-principles model New research by Lawrence Livermore, UC for the lattice vibrations in the delta-phase of Berkeley, the University of Oklahoma, Lawrence plutonium. Berkeley National Laboratory and the Samuel Read more Roberts Noble Foundation looks into whether switchgrass cultivation could result in an People enhancement of key ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, soil fertility and biodiversity. Teresa Nightengale is appointed acting chief Read more financial officer. Read more About 100 scientists, engineers, computer NOTE scientists and physicians participate in a two- John Cabeca, director of the soon-to-open Silicon Valley U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s day meeting in Monterey to explore how high internal Web network only. performance computing can provide important pays a short visit to the Laboratory. Blue links are accessible on both the internal benefits for medicine. LLNL researchers are among Read more and external Lab Web network. the participants. Read more Page 39 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015

LLNL’s Seth Bromberger is one of the speakers 2015 at a two-day conference, the California Cyber Quotables Security Symposium 2015, held at the Sacramento Convention Center. Read more “I enjoy the collaborative environment. It allows us as Joanna Albala, manager of the Laboratory’s Science Education Program and Erin McKay, a interns to have the opportunity to biology and biotechnology teacher at Tracy High brainstorm amongst ourselves and School, who also teaches in the summer Teacher Research Academies at the Lab, represent the develop ideas and strategies to Laboratory at the California Science Teachers solve real-world problems.” Association Conference in downtown Sacramento. Read more - Jasmine Bowers, computer science intern and doctoral student from the University of Florida NOVEMBER 2015 Anna Maria Bailey, LLNL high performance computing facility manager, with the Cab supercomputer that will be retrofitted with liquid Science and Technology The DOE/NNSA and its three national labs reach cooling in January. Two LLNL scientists are part of a scientific team an agreement with NVIDIA’s PGI® software to that is chosen as one of five finalists for a possible create an open-source Fortran compiler designed NASA Discovery Program mission for a proposal to for integration with the widely used LLVM compiler explore a metallic asteroid. infrastructure. Read more Read more

Lawrence Livermore scientists find that lithium Scientists from Lawrence Livermore, in ion batteries operate longer and faster when their collaboration with researchers from University of electrodes are treated with hydrogen. California campuses at Merced and Davis, find that Read more a specific secreted protein inhibits prostate cancer NOTE metastasis to bone. Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s Supercomputers at Lawrence Livermore will be Read more internal Web network only. Blue links are accessible on both the internal retrofitted with liquid cooling systems under a and external Lab Web network. California Energy Commission grant to assess potential energy savings.

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Using a tabletop-sized ion-trap apparatus, 2015 Lawrence Livermore scientists make the first Quotables improvement in more than 50 years on a type of particle interaction involving neutrinos emitted in radioactive decays. “It’s not about me, it’s Read more about them.”

People - Mark Perjanik, who volunteers for the Patriot Guard Riders Lassina Zerbo, the executive secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, visits the Laboratory Stanford University span six decades, is one for briefings and tours. He discusses the work of four Stanford graduates inducted into the LLNL does in support of the organization. university’s Multicultural Alumni Hall of Fame. Read more Read more Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory partners with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to focus on Veteran interns get a taste of “dream” jobs at Kenneth Turteltaub is named a fellow of the scientific and engineering software applications LLNL in a two-year program with Las Positas that capable of running on HPC platforms. American Association for the Advancement of provides veterans with the opportunity to earn a Science. summer internship at the Lab and perhaps, a foot Read more in the door to an engineering career. Read more Dan Knight, deputy associate director for Engineering Operations, devotes his time and Mark Perjanik, a longtime Laboratory employee resources to Shepherd’s Gate, a nonprofit working as a coordinator for the Weapons and organization providing a vital safety net for the Tri- Complex Integration Principal Directorate, Valley’s homeless population. volunteers as a Patriot Guard Rider, a nationwide Read more nonprofit organization whose primary goal is to Livermore City Manager Marc Roberts meets with ensure dignity and respect at memorial services NOTE employees to discuss the city’s effort to bring honoring fallen military heroes, first responders BART to Livermore as well as connect BART to the Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s and honorably discharged veterans. internal Web network only. ACE train. Roberts positions Livermore, along with Blue links are accessible on both the internal Read more and external Lab Web network. LLNL materials scientist Troy Barbee Jr., whose ties as a student, researcher and alumnus with Page 41 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015

the Tri-Valley, as a growing “economic engine” for 2015 the Bay Area as well as a feeder into key Bay Area Quotables destinations. Read more

Lawrence Livermore employee Alex Bodan “I thought about what they are volunteers for the Missing Man Ministry, a group doing and I felt it was something in that provides assistance to widows and orphans. Read more which I wanted to become involved.” John MacWilliams, associate deputy secretary -Lab employee Alex Bodan, of the Department of Energy, visits Lawrence who volunteers for the Missing Man Ministry, Livermore for tours and discussions. a group that provides assistance to widows and orphans

UC President Janet Napolitano and Sandia National Read more Laboratories Director Jill Hruby participate in a “fireside chat” during a leadership summit. Laboratory scientists and engineers from Global Security’s Energy Program and the Physical and Will Durst, political satirist and an award-winning, Life Sciences’ Atmospheric, Earth and Energy nationally acclaimed columnist and well-known Division present their work on energy, climate and comedian, returns to the Laboratory with an enter- geosciences to their peers in a poster showcase at taining stand-up comedy routine. the Central Cafe. Read more Read more Operations University of California President Janet Napolitano visits the Lab for a “fireside chat,” The Lab participates in the San Francisco Bay Area hosted by Lab Director Bill Goldstein and Science Festival’s Discovery Day at AT&T Park for a facilitated by Sandia National Laboratories day of hands-on experiments, exhibits, games and Director Jill Hruby, as part of a daylong shows. leadership team meeting of the two labs. Read more NOTE Read more Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s LLNL’s success in moving technology to the internal Web network only. Six Lab employees receive new or upgraded FCC Blue links are accessible on both the internal marketplace takes center stage at the Eisenhower and external Lab Web network. ham radio licenses. Read more

Page 42 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015 2015 Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C. as senior Lab officials join other national laboratories, Quotables White House officials and universities for the Forum on Connecting Regional Innovation Ecosystems to Federal and National Labs. “It was amazing. Read more Biosecurity is not a large field

Employees come out in droves to enjoy the sunny and the program featured a real weather, decked out in creative costumes, ready to ‘who’s who’ of the people “Run for HOME,” at the celebratory kickoff to the 2015 HOME Campaign. who work in it.” Read more - Jeff Drocco, upon being named a biosecurity fellow The Health Services Department holds its “Fall Into Health” wellness drop-in clinic at the Central Cafe. Employees get free flu shots and fingerstick assessments. join in the procession, from LLNL to Site 300, to Read more benefit local charities. The 12th annual Veterans Day Lab Ride brought Read more more than 70 motorcycles and 90 people out for For this year’s annual chemical inventory, the trip from LLNL to Site 300 to benefit local ChemTrack turns to Radio-Frequency Identification The 2015 Helping Others More Effectively (HOME) charities. Technology for tracking hazardous chemicals. Campaign surpasses the $1 million mark. Read more Read more A new version of Cheetah, a thermochemical code developed at Lawrence Livermore’s The Internal Revenue Service recently announces Energetic Materials Center that aims to provide the maximum contribution limits to the 401(k) accurate performance results for existing, newly plan will not be changed for 2016. NOTE synthesized/developed and even hypothetical Read more compounds and explosive, is released. Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s internal Web network only. Read more Blue links are accessible on both the internal and external Lab Web network. The 12th annual Veterans Day Lab Ride brings more than 70 motorcycles and 90 people out to Page 43 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015 2015 Construction of a solar electric generation system on the Lab’s northwest buffer zone begins in mid- Quotables November. Read more “This event honors a triumph of As a mark of respect for the victims of the acts of innovation and invention. It also violence on Nov. 13 in Paris, France, the U.S. flag at LLNL is flown at half-staff until sunset, Nov. 19. pays tribute to the remarkable Read more accomplishments of the

The new Cisco phone service converts employee literally thousands of scientists, phone line to Voice-over-IP technology, which technicians and engineers operates over the data network instead of working within the nuclear traditional phone lines. Deployment of this new service is the final phase of the LivConnected security enterprise who turned a initiative, managed by Livermore Information vision into a reality.” Kermit “Tim” Enander, left, and George Retelas Technology. answer questions from the audience after the Read more - Lt. Gen. Frank Klotz, screening of the WWII documentary “Eleven.” administrator of NNSA, at 20th anniversary event for SSP More than 100 employees attend the special Laboratory screening of the WWII documentary “Eleven” in honor of Veterans Day. “Eleven” is a film by George Retelas about 11 surviving together local investors, entrepreneurs and members of the USS Hornet’s Carrier Air Group 11 innovators under one roof to talk about advancing (also known as the “Sundowners”). technology in the Tri-Valley. Read more Read more

The Laboratory completes the 2014 Site Annual Nearly 50 employees attend the Lawrence NOTE Environmental Report for both the main site and Laboratory Women’s Association’s Women in Site 300. Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s internal Web network only. Read more Blue links are accessible on both the internal and external Lab Web network. The 2015 East Bay Innovation Forum is held at Bishop Ranch in San Ramon. The forum brings Page 44 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015

Science and Engineering group meeting with Lab 2015 Director Bill Goldstein. Quotables Read more

Laboratory employees begin to receive letters from “American manufacturers have the Office of Personnel Management informing them that they are potential victims of a massive gained confidence that natural security breach announced last summer in which gas prices will stay low for the as many as 25 million federal and contract employees were impacted. long term and have invested Read more in equipment to switch from

The Laboratory receives DOE approval for the oil to natural gas CY 2016 Compensation Increase Plan. Final feedstocks and fuels.” preparations are under way to commence the CY - A.J. Simon, 2016 Salary Review process. LLNL’s energy group leader Read more Lab Engineer Will Elmer, right, shows off a 3D printed diesel engine part and discusses Simrev, a supercomputer modeling software he developed at DECEMBER the Lab. Prize, announced at this year’s Supercomputing Science & Technology Conference (SC15). Read more New research by Lawrence Livermore National

Laboratory and colleagues at the University of Lawrence Livermore researchers and collaborators California, Santa Cruz, University of Colorado and find that most climate models overestimate the Universität zu Kiel in Germany, find that there are increase in global precipitation due to climate distinct differences in how plankton respond to change. climate over the last 1,000 years. Read more Read more NOTE Lab climate and computational scientists descend Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s The full power of Lawrence Livermore’s Sequoia in Monterey, California, to attend and participate internal Web network only. supercomputer plays a key role in the Earth Blue links are accessible on both the internal and external Lab Web network. mantle convection simulation by a University of Texas-led team that won the 2015 Gordon Bell

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in the fifth annual interagency face-to-face (F2F) 2015 Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) conference. Quotables Read more

Using a 3D printer and a “bio-ink” made of “It’s going to change the way we materials compatible with the human body, a do biology. This technology can Lawrence Livermore team successfully prints structures with living cells and biomaterials. The take biology from the traditional material and environment are engineered to petri dish to a 3D physiologically Researchers at Lawrence Livermore say the enable small blood vessels, human capillaries, to precision and 3D structures made possible develop on their own. relevant tissue patch with through bioprinting are enabling them to more effectively reproduce human physiology Read more functional vasculature.” outside of the body, which will lead to a better representation of each tissue system that Through 3D printing, a team of scientists and - Monica Moya, makes up the human body. on 3D printing for ‘living’ blood vessels engineers at Lawrence Livermore and Harvard University find that the architecture can play a strong role in exerting more control over the energy release rate of reactive composites. Read more Researchers from the Large Underground Xenon The International Union of Pure and Applied (LUX) dark matter experiment, which include Chemistry confirms that Lawrence Livermore several from Lawrence Livermore’s Rare Event National Laboratory scientists and international Detection Group, re-examine data collected collaborators have officially discovered elements during LUX’s first experimental run in 2013, and 115, 117 and 118. The announcement means help to rule out the possibility of dark matter those three elements are one step closer to being detections at low-mass ranges where other named. experiments had previously reported potential Read more detections. NOTE Read more

Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s Lawrence Livermore scientists create a new internal Web network only. method for detecting and analyzing fission chains Blue links are accessible on both the internal and external Lab Web network. to assess and evaluate nuclear material. Read more

Page 46 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory NEWSLINE: LOOKING BACK AT 2015 2015 People Quotables Darlene Yazzie, a facility coordinator in the Operations and Business Directorate’s Facility Management Division, focuses her attention “It’s been great. I think I’ll go on the Inspire Learning Institute, an outreach organization dedicated to providing science, for another 60.” technology, engineering and mathematics education to economically depressed communities – Dan Patterson, on his 60-year career at the Laboratory and underserved, underprivileged and at-risk youth in Contra Costa County. Read more Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory engineer Bryan Moran has created a printer that projects an image onto a Jennifer Gibson-Greenwood, a Lab employee who Nobel Prize winner and UC Santa Barbara liquid resin that hardens when hit by is a financial manager for the Global Security professor Shuji Nakamura discusses pioneering light in order to create 3D objects. Principal Directorate, serves on HOPE Ministries’ work in LEDs during a Director’s Distinguished nine-member board of directors. Lecturer Series talk. Read more Read more

Lawrence Livermore Lab engineer Bryan Moran Lt. Gen. Frank Klotz, the Department of Energy’s creates a new take on a process called projection under secretary for Nuclear Security and micro-stereolithography, which uses UV light to administrator for the National Nuclear Security create 3D objects. He wins a coveted R&D 100 Administration, visits the Laboratory for briefings award for his work. and tours. Read more Read more

Dan Patterson is one of the world’s foremost Former senior manager Cherry Murray is nuclear weapons designers during his 60 years of confirmed by the Senate as the director of the NOTE service. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s Read more Read more internal Web network only. Blue links are accessible on both the internal and external Lab Web network. Robbee Kosak, president of the Hertz Foundation, Representatives from state Senate offices and visits the Laboratory for meetings and tours.

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committees visit the Lab for tours and briefings. 2015 Read more Quotables

John Marchard, mayor of the City of Livermore, visits the High Explosives Applications Facility (HEAF) at the Laboratory at the invitation of “These are people who live Lara Leininger, director of the Lab’s Energetic Materials Center. in and serve my community. Read more . . and Livermore is a better

Operations place because of it. Having spent my career in the sciences, Employees gather at the West and Central NNSA Administrator Lt. Gen. Frank Klotz cafes for a holiday party hosted by Director Bill I recognize when others are answers questions during an all-hands talk held Goldstein. at the Laboratory. passionate about their work. The Read more people that I met are not only To help employees save money on commuting committed to the mission and costs, LLNS offers a pre-tax transportation benefit. With this benefit, all employees who to national security, but to their commute to work by public transit (bus, rail or community as well.” ferry) or vanpool can pay their fare with pre-tax – Mayor John Merchand, dollars. on his visit to the High Explosives Facility Read more

In early 2016, nearly all LLNL employees will receive at least one new IRS form as a result of Affordable Care Act provisions. but also contributes to workforce development Read more across the Laboratory. NOTE Read more

Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s The Environmental Restoration Department’s internal Web network only. Summer Student Program influences the Blue links are accessible on both the internal and external Lab Web network. professional trajectories of participating students,

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NNSA announces successful completion of the 2015 FY2015 Level 1 Milestone on pit reuse. Based Quotables on critical evaluation by an external review committee, NNSA personnel determine that both Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national “The thing about laboratories have satisfied all completion criteria Shepherd’s Gate is that it’s a for this milestone. Read more high-quality endeavor. You go on the grounds, you Laboratory employees, along with Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, raises see the facilities, you observe $3.2 million to give to charities within their the interactions and you can surrounding communities. llustration of element 117, which was officially added to the periodic table. Read more tell they strive to treat the women and children there The annual salary review process kicks off with the Manager’s Forum and is scheuled to continue with dignity. Many of the through January. women come from abusive Read more situations where they are Office of Personnel Management Chief of Staff continually told that they Kevin Knobloch sends a letter stating that most of the 25.7 million individuals whose information are worthless.” may have been compromised have been - Engineering Deputy Director Dan Knight, notified. who volunteers for Shepherd’s Gate, a nonprofit Read more organization that was on this year’s HOME list

LabList, a newly created website, is established Lab employees can receive their 2015 for W-2 NOTE to connect postdocs to staff scientists much like electronically. a Craiglist. Yellow links are accessible on the Lab’s Read more internal Web network only. Read more Blue links are accessible on both the internal and external Lab Web network.

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Claire Max, in front of the adaptive optics system at the Lick AWARDS Observatory, is a leader in making near-diffraction-limited imaging possible on large ground-based telescopes. Photo courtesy of Laurie Hatch.

Lawrence Livermore researchers are the recipients Ten Livermore scientists are selected as fellows of Claire Max, a longtime astrophysicist at LLNL of three awards among the top 100 industrial the American Physical Society, representing a wide and a faculty member at UC Santa Cruz, earns inventions worldwide for 2014. selection of physics expertise. the Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Read more Read more Instrumentation from the American Astronomical Society for her work in adaptive optics. The CORAL collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne Four former LLNL scientists and engineers are Read more and Lawrence Livermore that will bring the Sierra inducted into the Laboratory’s Entrepreneurs’ Hall supercomputer to the Lab in 2018 is recognized of Fame. A novel system developed by Lawrence Livermore by HPCWire with an Editor’s Choice Award for Read more and nine partners that enables climate researchers Best HPC Collaboration between Government and to solve their most complex data analysis and Industry. A Laboratory effort to conserve energy and reduce visualization challenges nets the team a Federal Read more costs by consolidating data centers receives a Laboratory Consortium award. Sustainability Award from the U.S. Department of Read more Palo Alto-based Cystic Fibrosis Research Inc. Energy. awards the 2015 Dave Stuckert Memorial Award to Read more Edgar Leon, a computer scientist in the Livermore Lab Chief Electronics Engineer Doug Modlin for his Computing Division, is elevated to the grade of Matthew Levy, Lawrence Scholar in the Physics more than 30 years of volunteering as a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Division at Lawrence Livermore, is awarded the the CFRI Research Advisory Committee, including senior member. NOTE prestigious Newton International Fellowship by the 10 years as chairperson, in addition to his past two Read more years on the board of directors. Royal Society of the United Kingdom. Read more Read more

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Jeff Drocco is named a biosecurity fellow and participates in the AWARDS Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative program.

Ken Sperber, a climate scientist at Lawrence volunteer workforce that’s committed to large-scale demands of normal job performance. Livermore, is awarded the 2014 Editor’s Citation for trail maintenance and construction projects, habitat Read more Refereeing for the Journal of Geophysical Research restoration and related land stewardship activities on Atmospheres. public lands in partnership with public agencies and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz awards LLNL climate Read more other nonprofit organizations. scientist David Bader a DOE Secretarial Honor Read more Award for his leadership of the Accelerated Climate Félicie Albert, an experimental physicist at Modeling for Energy project. Lawrence Livermore, is selected by the American Representatives from the executive offices of Akima Read more Physical Society as an outstanding referee for Infrastructure Services, which provides the majority 2015. Outstanding referees are honored for their of the supplemental labor for the Laboratory, Monica Moya, an early career biomedical engineer exceptional helpfulness in assessing manuscripts presents a special award to the Lab in gratitude for researcher in the Materials Engineering Division, is for publication in the Physical Review journals. education outreach to remote areas of Alaska. recognized with a Millennial Leader Award at the Read more Read more EmpowHer Institute’s Rising Stars Awards event. Read more Jeff Drocco, a scientist and analyst with the Lawrence Livermore receives an award from the Biodefense Knowledge Center at Lawrence American Red Cross for consistently ranking as the As the recipient of the Department of Energy Early Livermore, is named a biosecurity fellow and top blood donor west of the Mississippi River. Career Research Program (ECRP) award, Lawrence participates in the Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Read more Livermore’s Yunyan Zhang, a climate scientist Initiative program. in the cloud process group, receives $2.5 million Read more The Global Security Principal Directorate holds for research to improve the understanding of how its twice-yearly Gold Awards ceremony to soil moisture and surface diversity affect cloud Laboratory employees Craig Fish and Patrick recognize outstanding contributions and onetime formation and precipitation. Beck are recognized for their service as members of achievements that are above and beyond the Read more Volunteers for Outdoor California V-O-Cal, a nonprofit

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x Ian Hutcheon examines recognition and a piece of the meteorite Allende, which contains some of the oldest objects in the solar system. A new AWARDS fellowship award has been established in honor of the late Hutcheon, who significantly advanced America’s nuclear forensics capability.

Eleven LLNL researchers are named Distinguished Miguel Morales is awarded the Museum of Science nuclear forensics as part of the Department of Members of Technical Staff for their extraordinary and Industry’s National Early Career Hispanic Homeland Security Domestic Nuclear Detection scientific and technical contributions to the Scientist of the Year for 2015. Office’s National Nuclear Forensics Expertise Laboratory and its missions. Read more Development Program, is established. The Read more fellowship honors the late Hutcheon, who Under a revamped awards process, all six of LLNL’s significantly advanced America’s nuclear Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz awards five LLNL entrants for this year’s R&D 100 competition are forensics capability during his 22-year tenure. scientists the DOE Secretarial Honor Award for chosen as finalists. Read more their participation in the Office of Intelligence and Read more Counterintelligence Analytic Team. Director Bill Goldstein presents 13 teams (166 Read more LLNL’s Annamarie Meike is honored by Intellectual employees) with 2015 Director’s Institutional Management Asset, a London-based international Operational Excellence Awards. Renee Breyer, deputy associate director for journal, as one of the top 300 intellectual property Read more the Strategic Human Resources Management strategists in the world. Directorate at LLNL, is named an HR Rising Star Read more We Be Dragon, the Livermore Laboratory for 2015 by Human Resources Executive Magazine. Employee Services Association-sponsored Read more Leon Berzins receives the NNSA Excellence Medal dragon boat team, takes first place in their for the successful Source Physics Experiment 4 Prime division at the 20th Annual Kaiser Permanente Pierre Michel, a physicistNOTE at LLNL, is awarded campaign at the Nevada National Security Site. San Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival the 2015 Edouard Fabre Prize for his pioneering Read more at Treasure Island. research into energy transfer between crossing Read more laser beams in National Ignition Facility hohlraums. The first Dr. Ian Hutcheon Post-Doctoral Read more Fellowship award, to support research in

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Annie Kersting is selected to receive

AWARDS the 2016 American Chemical Society’s Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal for distinguished service to chemistry.

The Center for International and Strategic Studies The Fusion Power Associates Board of Directors Seven LLNL scientists are selected as 2015 fellows and the national security community come together selects Laboratory nuclear engineer Susana Reyes of the American Physical Society. to honor former LLNL Director John Foster as as the recipient of its 2015 Excellence in Read more he became the first recipient of the John S. Foster Fusion Engineering Award and fusion scientist Jr. Medal. Wayne Meier for a special award. The Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Read more Read more establishes a fellowship in honor of the late Ian Hutcheon, a longtime Lab employee. Citing “huge successes” at the Lab in the past year, LLNL researchers Nerine Cherepy and Michael Read more Director Bill Goldstein honors a team of more than Pivovaroff are among the 171 new senior 100 National Ignition Facility and Weapons and members of SPIE, the international society for Climate scientist David Bader is elected a fellow of Complex Integration scientists and researchers, optics and photonics. the American Meteorological Society. along with three other Lab employees, for their Read more Read more exceptional accomplishments in science and technology at the 2015 Director’s S&T Awards. A 3D printing device developed by a Lawrence Three Laboratory researchers are part of a team Read more Livermore optical engineer garners a 2015 Federal recognized with the 2015 Alan Berman Publication Laboratory Consortium Far West Region Award for Award for its paper reporting on shock-wave Laboratory geochemist Annie Kersting, who outstanding technology development. experiments. serves as the director of the Lab’s Glenn T. Seaborg Read more Read more Institute, is selected to receive the 2016 American Chemical Society’s Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Fifteen Lab scientists and engineers early in their Medal for distinguished service to chemistry. careers are named to LLNL’s first annual Early and Read more Mid-Career Recognition Program. Read more

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AWARDS

Fifteen Lab scientists and engineers early in their careers are named to LLNL’s first annual Early and Mid-Career Recognition Program.

The team responsible for executing the Observations The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array Optical Society, an international society for optics for Model Intercomparison Project (obs4MIPs), a (NuSTAR) is a NASA satellite that has the first and photonics scientists, engineers, educators and joint NASA and DOE project to make NASA and orbiting telescopes capable of focusing light in the business leaders. other satellite data sets more accessible for global high-energy X-ray region of the electromagnetic Read more climate model evaluation, is awarded a NASA Group spectrum. LLNL provided key contributions to the Achievement Award for “.... innovative leadership design, fabrication and calibration of the NuSTAR’s LLNL engineers Tom Edmunds and Pedro and implementation of the NASA Observations for X-ray telescopes, as well as science data analysis. Sotorrio are honored by the Geothermal Energy Model Intercomparison Project and its contribution NASA recognizes LLNL’s contribution to the NuSTAR Association for their significant contributions to the international climate research community.” mission for three consecutive years. during the past year to advancing technology, Read more Read more spurring economic development and protecting the environment. Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), Three Laboratory researchers are part of a team Read more an office of the Department of Defense, recognizes recognized with the 2015 Alan Berman Publication Lawrence Livermore’s Roger Rocha and Mark Award for its paper reporting on shock-wave Zagar with Patriot Awards. The ESGR Patriot Award experiments. recognizes supervisors for contributing to national Read more READ MORE ABOUT security and protectingNOTE liberty and freedom by LAWRENCE LIVERMORE supporting employees participating in America’s LLNL researchers Tiziana Bond and Jean Michel National Guard and Reserve force. Di Nicola are named senior members of the NATIONAL LABORATORY Read more ON THE WEB.

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