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Centers focus on basic research to transform the energy efficiency of microelectronics and create microelectronics for extreme environments Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $179 million in funding for three Microelectronics Science Research Centers (MSRCs). These three MSRCs will perform basic research in microelectronics materials, device and system design, and manufacturing… Read more: Department of Energy Announces $179 Million for Microelectronics Science Research Centers

The Consortium for High Energy Density Science (CfHEDS) had much to celebrate at its annual meeting this summer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). “It was exciting to connect with our academic partners and their students,” said Federica Coppari, the LLNL liaison to CfHEDS. “The best part is hearing from the students… Read more: Consortium with Minority Serving Institutions Delivers Opportunities for Students

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced that Daniel Oropeza, assistant professor in the materials department at University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the LLNL Early Career UC Faculty Initiative. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the Department of Energy (DOE) continues to accelerate a clean-energy future that includes fusion technology, a total of $49 million in funding for 19 projects was announced today in the Foundational Fusion Materials, Nuclear Science, and Technology programs. The purpose of the funding is to reorient the… Read more: Department of Energy Announces $49 Million for Research on Foundational Laboratory Fusion

The CfHEDS team gathered for three days of presentations and discussions on our collaborations in research, education, and training, Aug 13-15, 2024, at the University of California Livermore Collaboration Center next to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. There were also tours of the National Ignition Facility and the Jupiter Laser Facility.

Increasing national security requirements and a significant change in the workforce demanded that Lawrence Livermore and Sandia national laboratories shift the way they do business after more than 50 years. Both labs traditionally had recruited from top universities’ graduate programs and once people joined, they spent their career on the… Read more: Livermore Valley Open Campus Hits Collaborative Stride

Nearly 150 members of the signal and image science community recently came together to discuss the latest advances in the field and connect with colleagues, friends and potential collaborators at the 28th annual Center for Advanced Image and Signal Science (CASIS) workshop. Held at the University of California Livermore Collaboration… Read more: Signal And Image Science Community Comes Together for Annual Workshop

Representatives from the Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, academia and industry convened recently at the University of California Livermore Collaboration Center (UCLCC) for a workshop aimed at aligning strategies for ensuring safe artificial intelligence (AI)…

Held for the 7th year on March 13 in a hybrid format, Women in Data Science (WiDS) Livermore provides a space for women to share their career paths and experiences, hear advice on navigating a male-dominated field, learn keys to achieving work-life balance, discuss the importance of mentorship and demonstrate… Read more: WiDS Livermore

The newest addition to UCOP is the University of California Livermore Collaboration Center (UCLCC) — a three-building complex on the east side of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), which was the result of an extensive renovation that took place from September 2021 through May 2022. The UCLCC serves as a hub to… Read more: The New UC Livermore Collaboration Center Is Built for Innovation

On November 9, 2023, we hosted the On the Road program in Livermore at the UC Livermore Collaboration Center (UCLCC). Speakers were:  Kamyar Aram (Regional needs assessment for winegrape production), Megan Bartlett (Irrigation Management for Late-Season Dehydration), David Block (Understanding and controlling extraction in red wine fermentations), Akif Eskalen (How… Read more: Winter 2024 Extension Summary – UCANR

On The Road programs are educational seminars that help us to communicate with the California grape and wine industries by bringing faculty to different regions of California. We present relevant topics or current research and, at the same time, listen to the issues that are important to grape growing and… Read more: On the Road in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties

The CfHEDS team gathered for two days of presentations and discussions on our collaborations in research, education, and training, Sept 28-29 2023, at the newly opened University of California Livermore Collaboration Center.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced that Grace Gu, a faculty member in mechanical engineering at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the LLNL Early Career UC Faculty Initiative. The initiative is a joint endeavor between LLNL’s Strategic Deterrence Principal Directorate and UC national laboratories at the University… Read more: LLNL, University of California Partner for AI-driven Additive Manufacturing Research

The High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation program will be hosting a special in-person workshop to discuss further deployment of high performance computing (HPC) to advance manufacturing on Oct. 18-19 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) University of California Livermore Collaboration Center (UCLCC) The workshop will explore future developments in the HPC4EI program…

About 20 UC Merced students spent the past two weeks working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to see if they can solve a problem that could have a significant impact on cardiology. The annual Data Science Challenge (DSC), a two-week, full-time internship at LLNL, this year teamed students from… Read more: Data Science Challenge offers Students Learning and Growth Opportunities

An international collaboration of researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and other scientific institutions is ramping up its studies into “sterile neutrinos” to discover and better understand dark matter.

Data science—a field combining technical disciplines such as computer science, statistics, mathematics, software development, domain science, and more—has become a crucial part of how LLNL carries out its mission. Since the DSI’s founding in 2018, the Lab has seen tremendous growth in its data science community and has invested heavily in… Read more: Celebrating the DSI’s first five years

Monday was a day to celebrate for Director Kim Budil and her “partner in crime” June Yu an eight-year journey to bring a stronger academic linkage to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.Starting in 2014, the duo spearheaded the effort to rebuild the connection between the three national labs affiliated with the… Read more: Collaboration Center Opens to Foster New Partnerships for Lab and University

In September 2022, LLF moved into a new office at the recently renovated University of California Livermore Collaboration Center (formerly Hertz Hall Complex), at the north end of the Livermore Valley Open Campus. The revitalized space aims to strengthen collaborations between UC campuses and national laboratories, and LLF is thrilled… Read more: LLF’s New Office at UC Livermore Collaboration Center

LLNL’s long history of collaboration with UC researchers and students has benefitted both the Lab’s missions and the data science community. With so many connection points, this relationship will always remain a priority. —Brian Giera, DSI director

To recruit prospective employees for more than 150 open positions, LLNL is hosting a summer on-site career fair to share firsthand what the Laboratory has to offer.

Since it first opened its doors, the University of California Livermore Collaboration Center (UCLCC) has helped strengthen collaborations to address some of the UC system’s — and the nation’s — most pressing problems.

The three-building Hertz Hall complex on the east side of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has a new look and a new name. Following an extensive nine-month renovation, the buildings now form the University of California Livermore Collaboration Center (UCLCC) and will serve as a University of California (UC) multi-campus hub to expand… Read more: New University of California Livermore Collaboration Center to expand collaborations and partnerships

DIALOG design practice revamps an underutilized three-building complex into the University of California Livermore Collaboration Center (UCLCC). The project involves modernizing the original structure with the primary focus on preserving the pitched roof and the central courtyard built in the 1950s to house a university-level educational facility at the Livermore National Lab site. The Lawrence Livermore… Read more: Designboom: University Research Facility Expands Under Floating Asymmetrical Pitched Roof in California

The project involves modernizing an aged, underutilized three-building complex with the primary focus on the pitched roof building and central courtyard that was built in the 1950s.