Computational Physics Student Summer Workshop at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Announcing the 2014 Computational Physics Student Summer Workshop at Los Alamos National Laboratory

The workshop features:

(1) Generous fellowships for students,

(2) Opportunities for students to work on teams,

(3) Excellent mentoring by Los Alamos staff, and

(4) An integrated lecture series.

More about the Summer Workshop, including how to apply, can be found here:

CompPhysWorkshop.LANL.gov

This year's technical focus topics feature a significant mixture of physics, computational science, mathematics, and algorithmic challenges that we hope are attractive to students from a variety of backgrounds. The topics include:

(1) Reducing statistical noise in Monte-Carlo thermal radiation transport

(2) Computational study of warm dense matter

(3) Lagrangian hydro methods using tetrahedral cells

(4) Low-order models for investigating RANS closures

(5) Particle-based methods in Eulerian codes on future architectures including GPUs and MICs

(6) New methods for profiling shocks in multidimensional ALE calculations

(7) Verification test problems for hydro- and rad-hydro codes

(8) Simulation and visualization of particle transport in strongly coupled plasmas

(9) New strain-based ALE methods for plastic flow simulations

(10) Plasma transport in ICF and HEDP applications

(11) Algorithms for boundary coalescence during mesh generation for actual fabricated parts

If you have any questions about the Summer Workshop, please contact

Dr. Scott R. Runnels
Computational Physics Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mail Stop F644
Los Alamos, NM 87545
Office: 505-664-0990
Cell: 505-500-2842
FAX: 505-665-7345

Jeff Damasco attended this program last summer, so feel free to contact him also if you have questions.