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Tabor Communications CEO Tom Tabor presented the National Nuclear Security Administration Tri-Lab and Cerebras Systems team with HPCwire’s Editor’s Choice Award for Best Use of HPC in the Physical Sciences at SC24.
// Recognition

Two LLNL-led teams win the Editor’s Awards from HPCwire, a leading high-performance computing industry publication, at the 2024 Supercomputing Conference (SC24) in Atlanta. 

2024 Director's Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award logo.
// Director's Awards
Twenty-three LLNL researchers have been named Distinguished Members of Technical Staff (DMTS) for their extraordinary scientific and technical contributions, as acknowledged by their professional peers and the broader scientific community.
image of S&T awards coin
// Director's Awards
Five teams were awarded the 2024 Director's Science and Technology Award for significant advancements towards the Laboratory's mission.
Director's Early and Mid-Career Recognition Coin
// Director's Awards
Twelve LLNL scientists and engineers have been chosen for the 2024 Director's Early and Mid-Career Recognition Program. Awardees will receive a cash award and institutional funding to pursue research activities in their area of interest.
2024 Director's Science and Technology Service to the Enterprise Award Coin
// Director's Awards
Three individuals received the 2024 Director's Science and Technology Service to the Enterprise Award for their scientific and technical achievements and contributions to the broad mission of the global scientific enterprise.
2024 Director’s S&T Excellence in Publication Award Coin
// Director's Awards
Seventeen papers received the 2024 Director’s S&T Excellence in Publication Awards. This award rewards outstanding scientific and technical publications.
Fast Cure silicone in direct-ink-write additive manufacturing can produce previously unattainable structures, such as tall, overhanging, or thin-walled structures. Such structures, featured on the October journal cover of Advanced Materials Technologies, are obtained thanks to the quick gelling process.
// S&T Highlights

LLNL researchers have developed a new method to 3D print sturdy silicone structures that are bigger, taller, thinner and more porous than ever before. 

Artist rendition of Planet X (or Planet 9).
// A Look Back
In the early 1970s, mathematicians in the Computation Division of LLNL posited the existence of a massive planet far beyond the orbit of Pluto.
LLNL staff scientist Gauthier Deblonde has been selected as a “Rising Star” by the American Chemical Society.
// Recognition

LLNL staff scientist Gauthier Deblonde has been named a 2024 “Rising Star“ by the American Chemical Society for his work in environmental science.

Researchers used previously obtained x-ray diffraction data to determine the in-situ ablation depth of an aluminum sample.
// S&T Highlights

LLNL researchers an collaborators conduct a study that represents the first example of using X-ray diffraction to make direct time-resolved measurements of an aluminum sample’s ablation depth.