The Office of the Deputy Director for Science and Technology has announced the winners of the 2024 Director’s S&T Excellence in Publication Awards. This award rewards outstanding scientific and technical publications by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employees. Publications honored by this award are judged to have an especially significant impact on the external scientific and technical community or important Laboratory missions.
The winning 17 papers cover the spectrum of research at the Laboratory across its entire range of core competencies. Ten of the papers were authored by Laboratory researchers, four by postdoctoral scholars and three by students.* Please note that only Laboratory employees are officially recognized, except for select postdoc and student papers. Please see the publication for the full list of authors.
Authored by staff:
Compute-Efficient Deep Learning: Algorithmic Trends and Opportunities
Brian Bartoldson and Bhavya Kailkhura
Electrolyzer Energy Dominates Separation Costs in State-of-the-Art CO2 Electrolyzers: Implications for Single-Pass CO2 Utilization
Diego Oyarzun Dinamarca, Wenqin Li, Tiras Lin, Maxwell Goldman, Andrew Wong, Sarah Baker, Eric Duoss, Christopher Hahn
Enhanced Rare-Earth Separation with a Metal-Sensitive Lanmodulin Dimer
Ziye Dong, Christina Kang-Yun, Dan Park
Independent Age Estimates Resolve the Controversy of Ancient Human Footprints at White Sands
Susan Zimmerman
Leveraging Mixed Precision in Exponential Time Integration Methods
Cody Balos, Steven Roberts, David Gardner
Observing the Onset of Pressure-Driven K-Shell Delocalization
Tilo Doeppner, Benjamin Bachmann, Laurent Divol, Otto Landen, Michael MacDonald, Alison Saunders, Philip Sterne
Physics Principles of Inertial Confinement Fusion and U.S. Program Overview
Omar Hurricane
Scalable Tuning of (OpenMP) GPU Applications via Kernel Record and Replay
Konstantinos Parasyris, Giorgis Georgakoudis, Ignacio Laguna Peralta, Johannes Doerfert
TATB Thermal Decomposition: An Improved Kinetic Model for Explosive Safety Analysis
Jason Moore, Keith Morrison, Ana Racoveanu, John Reynolds, Batikan Koroglu, Keith Coffee
(U) Dual-Use Applicability of New Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools
Andrew Horning and Feliza Bourguet
Authored by postdocs:
A Spall and Diffraction Study of Nanosecond Pressure Release Across the Iron ε-α Phase Boundary
Gaia Righi
How Fluctuation Intensity Flux Drives SOL Expansion
Nami Li
Local Lagrangian Reduced-Order Modeling for the Rayleigh–Taylor Instability by Solution Manifold Decomposition
Siu Wun Cheung
One-Pot Ternary Sequential Reactions for Photopatterned Gradient Multimaterials
Sijia Huang
Authored by students:
Breakdown of the Nernst–Einstein Relation in Carbon Nanotube Porins
Zhongwu Li
Controlled In Situ Foaming for Mechanical Responsiveness of Architected Foams
Melody Golobic
Expression Isolation of Compiler-Induced Numerical Inconsistencies in Heterogeneous Code
Dolores Miao
*Only LLNL employees noted, except for select postdoc and student papers; please see publication for full list of authors.