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Funding Opportunity Announcement: Michael R Anastasio LANL-UC Early Career Faculty Scholar program.

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Pre-Proposal Deadline: March 3, 2025

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the UC National Laboratories (UCNL) at the University of California (UC), Office of the President (UCOP) are jointly inviting applications for the Michael R Anastasio LANL-UC Early Career Faculty Scholar program. The winning proposal will fund one tenure-track faculty member in the UC system with up to $750k for a 3-year award cycle, planned to commence in October 2025. The technical topic for this call will be in a computational science subject area (details below) centering on overlapping interests between the UC faculty and the Laboratory’s national security programs and mission.
The initiative is intended to develop the next-generation UC academic leadership with strong and enduring Los Alamos National Laboratory connections. This 3-year award allows the recipient to develop their innovative ideas, advance their research, gain tenure, and become recognized for their professional leadership. The award fund is structured to allow faculty to build a research group including undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows. The award also provides Laboratory researchers opportunities to collaborate and be more connected to the UC community to enhance its workforce and research objectives. The required annual onsite visit to Los Alamos National Laboratory is intended to strengthen the technical and workforce pipeline connections between UC and the Lab.

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You’re invited to WiDS Livermore events on February 19 & March 12!

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Join us for LLNL’s annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) datathon and conference. Held three weeks apart, these events are hybrid, free, and open to everyone. Registration links and other details are posted at data-science.llnl.gov/wids.

LLNL Datathon on Wednesday, February 19

  • Register by February 12
  • Hosted at the University of California Livermore Collaboration Center (UCLCC) and virtually
  • Sponsored by the Data Science Institute; LLNL Computing; and the Office of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accountability
  • The worldwide WiDS conference hosts a competitive datathon in which participants can learn more about data science and hone their skills. This one-day event provides an opportunity to collaborate, innovate, and investigate a challenging data science problem. The datathon is designed for data science enthusiasts who are discovering or building their data skills (beginner and intermediate levels). An LLNL data scientist will guide participants through the dataset and notebook.

WiDS Livermore conference on Wednesday, March 12

  • Register by February 28
  • Hosted at the University of California Livermore Collaboration Center (UCLCC) and virtually
  • Sponsored by LLNL’s Data Science Institute; Computing Principal Directorate; and Office of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accountability
  • This regional conference will include a tie-in with the datathon as well as keynote speakers, technical talks, career-focused panel discussions, speed mentoring, and a poster session.

This is the eighth year for WiDS Livermore, which is independently organized by LLNL to be part of the mission to increase participation of women in data science and to feature outstanding women doing outstanding work. Contact WiDS-Committee@llnl.gov with any questions.

IFE-STAR Ecosystem Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunities

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Applications are now open for the 2025 IFE-STAR Summer Research Program, where students can work alongside our nation’s leading scientists and researchers.

Application deadline for summer 2025: February 15, 2025

The IFE-STAR Ecosystem coordinates a national IFE summer research program for undergraduate students enrolled in US universities and colleges. Students who are accepted into this program will have opportunities to do IFE summer research at partnering organizations and universities across the nation. Applications will be shared with the research institutions based on the student’s selected interest within the application. Each institution will independently reach out to selected applicants as they fill their summer research openings. Financial support is available through each institution.

AI Science at Scale: Funding Opportunity for UC and National Laboratory CollaboratorsOpportunity for University of California System Researchers and National Laboratory Collaborators to Advance Artificial Intelligence Science at ScaleAI Science at Scale: Funding Opportunity for UC and National Laboratory Collaborators

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The University of California (UC) System, in partnership with NNSA laboratories, is seeking proposals from UC researchers for collaborative projects that advance the frontiers of AI and Machine Learning science at scale.
Our central goal is to bring together the intellectual power of the UC system, including 10 leading public research universities and 3 national laboratories, and develop scientific AI projects that benefit from computational scale while also harnessing the power of interdisciplinary AI and science and engineering research and expertise. These efforts – scaled up by a focus on both large AI models and cross-cutting teams – should operate seamlessly across multiple campuses while deeply integrating with national laboratories. 

Research Grants Program Office – UC Research Initiatives

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UC systemwide workshops amplify UC and National Lab collaboration As part of our UC National Lab Fees Research Program, UCRI funds systemwide workshops on target issues strategic to UC-National Lab collaboration. These workshops are key opportunities to interconnect researchers across the UC system and to generate stakes for impactful UC and National Lab collaborations.
 
In October and November, workshops were held on Artificial Intelligence (at UC Riverside) and on Community-Engaged Research for Clean Energy Solutions (at UC Berkeley and UC Irvine), each of which showcased robust, interdisciplinary, and multi-perspective explorations of these critical research areas.
 
Our final workshop of 2024, the University of California Initiative for Fusion Energy, will take place on December 10-11 at UC San Diego. Workshop participants, including fusion energy experts from 3 National Labs and at least 5 UC campuses, will address important research questions and engineering and design challenges necessary for fusion energy to transition from the laboratory to a commercially viable power plant. To participate in this workshop, please register by 11/29.

LLNL QuDiT Workshop – Real World Quantum Computing @ LLNL

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This 2-day workshop is designed to orient physics and engineering students to the opportunities and challenges in quantum computing with superconducting hardware. The workshop is jointly hosted by San Jose State University and Lawrence Livermore National Lab, and will feature research talks and tutorials by staff scientists at LLNL as well as hands-on training in controlling real quantum hardware. Students participating in the workshop will have access to LLNL’s innovative QuDIT testbed. Previous quantum computing experience or coursework is not required. 

The workshop will be held at LLNL on May 23-24, 2024. All sessions will be conducted in person; there is no option for remote partcipation.