Theoretical Division Portfolio and Strategic Plan

Table of Contents

**1.0 Executive Summary 1**

> 1.1 Vision 1

# 1.2 Mission 1

# 1.3 Core Competencies, Business, and Future Directions 1

**2.0 Technical Program Portfolio 2**

> 2.1 Goals, Strategies, and Objectives 2
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> 2.1.1 Melding Theory, Modeling, and Simulation with Experiment 2

2.1.2 Modeling Complex Systems via Computational Science 3

> 2.2 Programs and Initiatives 3
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> 2.2.1 National Security 4
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> 2.2.1(i) Nuclear Weapons 4
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> 2.2.1(ii) Threat Reduction and Homeland Security 5

# 2.2.1(iii) Emergent National Security Programs: Energy Security 6

> 2.2.2 Frontier Science 6
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> 2.2.3 Strategic Thrusts 7
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> 2.3 Innovation and Partnering 8
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> 2.3.1 Innovation: Individual Initiatives---The Entrepreneurial Spirit
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# 2.3.2 Partnering for Success 8

> 2.4 Alignment with Institutional Technical Goals 9
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> 2.5 Key Deliverables 10
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> 2.5.1 Weapons Program 10
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> 2.5.2 Laboratory Directed Research and Development 11
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> 2.5.3 Office of Science 11
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> 2.5.4 Other DOE 12
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> 2.5.5 Reimbursables/Work for Others 13
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> 2.6 Honors, Awards, and International Recognition 14

**3.0 Organization, Workforce, and Operations 16**

> 3.1 Organizational Structure 16
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> 3.2 People and Capabilities 17

# 3.3 Culture 19

# 3.4 Facilities and Business Systems Infrastructure 20

> 3.5 Security, Environment, Safety, and Health 21

**4.0 Customer and Sponsor, Funding, and Collaborations Profiles 22**

> 4.1 Customers and Sponsors 22
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> 4.2 Funding Portfolio 22
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> 4.3 Collaborations 23

**5.0 Transition Issues 26**

Appendices

A. Scientific Thrust Descriptions A1

> 1\. Science-Based Prediction for Complex Systems A2
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> a\. Innovative Science in Support of Stockpile Stewardship A4
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> b\. Predictive Science and Technology for Threat Reduction and
> Homeland Security A8
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> c\. Innovative Science and Technology for Energy Security A11
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> 2\. Hard, Soft, and Biological Matter A13
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> a\. Understanding and Design of Complex Materials A13
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> b\. Modeling Biological Processes A16
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> 3\. Fundamental Processes A19
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> a\. Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics and Cosmology A21
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> b\. T Division Support of the LANL Quantum Institute A23
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> 4\. High-End Computing Research A26

B. List of Laboratory Strategic Goals B1

C. T Division FY06 Laboratory Directed Research and Development
Portfolio C1

D. Technical Descriptions of Groups D1

E. Management Position Descriptions E1

F.  Quick Reference Guide of T Division Capabilities F1

G.  List of Referenced Documents G1

H.  Acronym List H1

**1.0 Executive Summary**

1.1 Vision for T Division

***Frontier Science for Laboratory Missions***: The Theoretical (T)
Division is a major intellectual resource to the Laboratory and the
nation, providing creative scientific and technological solutions to
challenges in national security and other problems of national and
global importance. The Division pursues a robust portfolio of
fundamental research at the frontiers of science, fostering a
stimulating environment that attracts exceptional scientists and creates
new skills and programs to benefit Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
missions.

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# 1.2 Mission

Foremost is LANL's national security mission, which inherently has a
need for science and technology beyond today's frontiers. T Division has
a mission to respond to this need in a multifaceted way. We recruit the
best scientific minds and capabilities to further our scientific
understanding of the physical world and to establish a technical
foundation for both current and future national defense and industrial
and civilian needs. This foundation likewise fosters the exploration of
interdisciplinary frontiers of scientific endeavor. In brief, T
Division's three central mission elements are to:

1.  provide the best science and scientists to LANL national security
    missions,

2.  pursue frontier science to ensure excellence in science capabilities
    for LANL and the nation, and

3.  create new scientific directions and attract scientific leaders to
    LANL.

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# 1.3 Core Competencies, 

# Business, and Future Directions

To accomplish its national security mission, LANL has assembled a core
expertise in the *integration of theory, modeling, simulation, and
visualization*. This is a bold strategy to provide new cutting-edge
tools to interpret and guide experiments and to further our fundamental
understanding of and predictive capabilities for complex phenomena. The
Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship Program, the centerpiece of the DOE
Weapons Complex, depends critically on the viability of this approach,
**T Division plays a major role in this program.**

However, the applicability of this strategy extends well beyond the
stewardship program. In fact, virtually every national security and
scientific initiative at LANL relies heavily, if not critically, on this
integrated capability. This reliance does, however, engender its own
challenges. The coupling of computational simulations and experiments as
a **cornerstone of technical programs in weapons, threat reduction,
homeland security, energy security, biology, nanomaterials,
infrastructure, and frontier science** requires a new generation of
ideas and concepts to greatly improve the **fidelity, reliability,
certainty, and usability of** **these tools.**

**2.0 Technical Program Portfolio**

**2.1 Goals, Strategies, and Objectives**

T Division's distinctive and enduring success derives from two central
characteristics: the co-location of theory, modeling, and simulation
excellence from a wide spectrum of disciplines and responsibilities,
facilitating optimum excellence, relevance, and knowledge flow from and
to partnering divisions and programs. Thus, the Division is notable for
its very high rate of publications, honors, awards, and recognition in
the worldwide science community.

Simultaneously, it has direct program delivery responsibilities in core
LANL national security missions and has been responsible for incubating
many new LANL programs. Of great importance is the multidisciplinary
teaming within the Division and in partnership with other divisions.
Exciting current teaming is in areas such as quantitative tools for
complex networks, multiscale modeling methodologies, data science,
biological physics, interfaces of particle-nuclear-astro physics and
cosmology, techniques to address complexity in hard, soft, and
biological matter, quantum information science, and so forth. T Division
was the incubation home of the Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS),
which continues to play a key Laboratory-wide role of nurturing
interactions in new topics between divisions and acting as a vehicle for
external collaborations with other major institutions *(see also
Appendix G, Referenced Documents.)*

As the original division comprising the Laboratory at its 1943 founding
(see *Theory in Action, Highlights in the Theoretical Division at Los
Alamos 1943--2003*,

LA-14000-H), T Division has long had a seminal role in the formulation
and development of LANL's core integrated capabilities. Drawing from
that rich history of service, the Division's current core strengths and
directions emphasize the following areas.

**2.1.1 Melding theory, modeling and simulation with experiment** **to
provide new conceptual frameworks and predictive tools for systems whose
complexity exceeds existing analytical capabilities**. This framework is
central to the Laboratory Goal of Science-Based Prediction and
Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) for Complex Systems. (The present
weapons UQ methodology at LANL originated with T Division staff.)
Typically, the scientific method demands a careful balance of small- and
large-scale experiments with theory, modeling, and simulation in
deliberate, closed, iterative loops. Additionally, in the realm of
complex systems, this intensive research process frequently involves
applying techniques from one discipline to needs in another to create
entirely new capabilities. The many examples where T Division has
applied this approach include the following.

-   Formulating models to describe matter under extreme conditions,
    devising numerical algorithms for hydrodynamic flow, and
    understanding exotic states of complex electronic materials. In all
    cases, successful conceptualization was followed by practical
    applications.

-   Collecting the world\'s HIV sequence data into an annotated database
    and the development of a model to describe the evolution of the AIDS
    virus --- one that could determine when it first appeared in humans.
    This is likely to be a critical issue in predicting the virus's
    future evolution, a model that could well spawn a therapeutic
    regimen that could save lives. These competencies now underpin our
    opportunities to support Homeland Security biothreat initiatives,
    such as the President\'s National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza.

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    height="3.314583333333333in"}Surmounting uncharacterized obstacles
    at new science frontiers, such as the sciences of complex materials
    and systems biology. In a period of remarkable advances in
    experimental techniques available to probe complex matter on many
    scales, and with comparable advances in high-performance computing,
    a system approach is a compelling scientific frontier of this
    century.

The emerging strategic importance of our multiphysics, multidisciplinary
approach, and the extreme demands that are placed on it to underpin our
national security and other critical elements of the national
enterprise, requires that its scientific and technical bases be
continually reviewed and strengthened.\
T Division's response to this need is a set of new thrusts in innovative
approaches to weapons science, threat reduction science, complex
materials, quantum computing, biological systems, and fundamental
processes *(see also Appendix A, Thrust Descriptions).*

**2.1.2 Modeling complex systems via computational science.** T Division
is preeminent in formulating concepts and models for complex systems,
translating them to optimized computational schemes, and carrying these
through to robust and validated codes and computer platforms (clusters
and mainframes). Just a few among many examples of this computational
modeling capability include:

-   the revolutionary use of Quantum Molecular Dynamics (QMD) to
    simulate shocked hydrocarbons for the nuclear weapons (NW) program,

-   development of preconditioners for solvers in the new Advanced
    Simulation and Computing (ASC) codes,

-   development of a disease-transmission methodology for use in
    epidemiological modeling of manmade and natural pathogen
    transmission, and

-   development of physics models and algorithms for the national global
    climate modeling initiative.

The foundational nature of computational science in all facets of the
Laboratory's national security, national infrastructure, and frontier
science missions requires a vigorous and continual infusion of new
talent, ideas, and tools. Irrespective of their disciplinary diversity,
the commonality characterizing\
T Division's suite of thrusts is that they all contain at their core a
robust effort to infuse new numerical methods, software design,
algorithms, modeling techniques, and uncertainty quantification tools
into the scientific problem under investigation.

**2.2 Programs and Initiatives**

As the largest multidisciplinary theory and modeling center in the
world, T Division is uniquely equipped to provide novel approaches to
large and complex national challenges. T Division's value to the
Laboratory derives both from the potent collaborative capabilities of
its internal network of key scientists and from their professional
interactions with the larger scientific community. These associations
facilitate solutions to complex problems and provide portals for the
infusion of scientific advances and new scientific leadership from
relevant fields of science. This outreach both inspires new approaches
and provides a critical test of LANL's scientific viability in broad and
highly competitive venues.\
T Division is *consistently* responsible for\
25--30% of all external peer-reviewed publications from LANL, attesting
to its role as a focus for scientific excellence and leadership. *(See
Appendix G, Referenced Documents).*

2.2.1 National Security

**2.2.1(i) Nuclear Weapons.** T Division currently ensures that the best
science is available to the Stockpile Stewardship Certification Program
predominantly, but not solely, through its contributions to the ASC
program. In turn, success for ASC demands that one includes the best
possible science into the best new codes in a timely and evolutionary
manner. For example, among the principal issues vigorously pursued by T
Division is predictability and uncertainty quantification. This requires
new mathematical and simulation strategies, as well as an extensive,
deep knowledge of equations of state, material strength, nuclear cross
sections, opacities, energetic materials, turbulence, and the chemistry
and material properties of aging. T Division is a resource for the
theoretical foundations and the modeling of these properties.

T Division has had lead management roles for the ASC Materials and
Physics Program and remains its single largest contributor. This program
element has responsibility for developing enhanced and validated physics
modules and implementing them into simulation codes used for weapons
assessment and certification. T Division has also managed the University
Alliances program that provides links between the Laboratory and the
nation\'s leading computer science and materials studies universities. T
Division is increasingly partnering with NMT and ESA divisions to
enhance the manufacturing science base at LANL.

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### **Nuclear Weapons Programs Plan** 

### ***(See also Appendix A)***

-   T Division has major responsibilities for integrating and applying
    to certification the Materials and Physics modules for the ASC
    program.

-   T Division has major responsibilities in the University Alliances
    program.

-   T Division works closely with other divisions in support of the
    Laboratory's NW goals, delivering program commitments on budget and
    schedule.

T Division will achieve its goals in the NW program by proactively
participating in program management and execution and software quality
management.

-   T Division manages several projects within the ASC Materials and
    Physics program element.

-   T Division staff provide the majority of the technical capability
    for the Materials and Physics program element.

-   Staff provides leadership for new initiatives such as Uncertainty
    Quantification (UQ).

-   T Division management and staff participate extensively in the
    planning of workshops and interactions with the CEA/DAM in basic
    research for the NW program and serve as points of contact (POC) for
    these interactions.

**2.2.1(ii) Threat Reduction and Homeland Security.** In support of the
Laboratory\'s mission in Threat Reduction (TR) and Homeland Security
(HS), there are several major projects underway, which, in order to
address specific programmatic goals, draw upon the expertise of T
Division in theory, modeling, and simulation. This expertise ranges from
T Division\'s longstanding proficiency in nuclear nonproliferation to
its more recent inroads into complex networks and data physics
(extracting information from large data sets), biological systems
(epidemiology, immunology, sensors), chemical systems (sensors, plume
reactants), and infrastructure/social/economic systems modeling and
simulation.

Nuclear nonproliferation capabilities include analysis of the nuclear
fuel cycle, enrichment technologies, development of novel
reactor-monitoring techniques, and novel materials for sensors. In data
physics, research focuses on image segmentation, pattern recognition,
data compression, and hyperspectral analysis, using established
expertise in multiscale modeling, statistical physics, fast numerical
algorithms, hierarchical decomposition of data, and nonlinear dynamical
systems. These techniques are being expanded to address TR applications
involving intelligence analysis, target camouflaging and recognition,
early missile launch, and surveillance. The common thread among these
activities is to provide the ability to systematically reduce massive
input data sets to minimal, specific information data sets for decision
making.

Research efforts in developing biological and chemical sensors for
identifying specific pathological and toxic agents---with collaborations
in the TR Directorate---are underway, and capabilities for chemical
identification of plume reactants in early launch missile detection, as
well as analysis and prediction of countermeasures for chemical toxins,
are being investigated.

T Division staff provide key scientific underpinnings for several other
nascent and ongoing programs in the TR program. Examples in which staff
members have lead roles are quantum computing \[advanced research and
development activity/National Security Agency (ARDA/NSA)\], computer
vision and image recognition (DOE/NN-20), critical infrastructure
modeling, biothreat reduction, and epidemiology \[DOE/NN-20 and Defense
Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)\], military space \[Department of Defense
(DoD)\], and the joint DOE/DoD Munitions Technology Development Program.

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## **Threat Reduction Plan**

## ***(See also Appendix A)***

We will achieve our goals by serving on relevant boards and teams and by
aggressively responding to new opportunities within the Laboratory and
the nation, including those emerging with the creation of the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

-   T Division management serve on boards of directors for DoD/Defense
    Transformation/Intel, and partner with TR divisions on strategic
    Laboratory goals.

-   T Division management serves on the LANL Center for Homeland
    Security Board of Directors.

-   T Division staff and management participate in ongoing planning and
    serve on relevant thrust teams that plan and coordinate the
    Laboratory response to the bio-threat.

-   T Division collaborates with Sandia National Laboratories (SNL),
    University of New Mexico (UNM), Santa Fe Institute (SFI), Monterey
    Institute, and others, in fostering new research and hosting high
    impact workshops and symposia.

**2.2.1(iii) Emergent National Security Programs: Energy Security**. T
Division staff members have been strongly engaged in the framing of new
Laboratory thrusts in Energy Security. Theory, modeling, and simulation
capabilities are being applied to diverse areas in energy supply, energy
transmission, and environmental impacts.

The Division leads a strong program in climate modeling (as a critical
element of the national program) and the simulation of impacts of energy
use. Infrastructure modeling is being applied to energy transmission
networks, and advances in superconductivity may lead to more efficient
electrical transmission and storage.

An increased focus on nuclear energy will require Division expertise in
reactor safety and design, as well as actinide and accelerator research
for an advanced nuclear fuel cycle and long-term waste issues. Fuel cell
research will advance a new hydrogen economy.

Modeling and simulation of combustion engines and gas turbines will be
important for more efficient fossil fuel use and to minimize emissions.
Carbon management and water security need additional simulation
capabilities and materials research.

Theoretical understanding of Tokomaks, through simulation and modeling
of plasmas under extreme conditions, is essential to realizing the
potential of fusion as an energy source.

Such diverse energy security issues require the broad theory, modeling,
and simulation capabilities of T Division in effective partnerships with
other divisions and laboratories.

######## Energy Security Plan 

######## *(See also Appendix A)*

> We will achieve our aims in the energy and environmental field by
> participating in the planning of future programs and by developing the
> necessary scientific underpinnings.

-   T Division management serves on the Energy and Environmental
    Steering Council in LANL's Strategic Research (SR) Directorate.

-   Staff serve on LANL's Science Advisory Board to provide subject area
    expertise.

-   Staff serve as advisors to external bodies and build partnerships
    with other divisions and institutions.

2.2.2 Frontier Science

It is essential for the Division and the Laboratory that we strive to
maintain distinction and world-class standards in all our science. The
Division pursues its goals by establishing and maintaining a scientific
environment that promotes creativity, innovation, and excellence. It
undertakes research at the forefront of theoretical sciences, with
emphasis on long-term goals, high risks, and multidisciplinary
approaches, fostering communication---both within the Division and
external communities---to fully realize the implications and benefits of
our research. These values underlie our vitality, creativity, and
recruitment on behalf of the Laboratory. T Division is prominent in the
international scientific arena, providing a highly visible face of the
Laboratory that the scientific community outside LANL acknowledges and
respects. The Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS) provides a unique
additional mechanism for sustaining the Division culture.

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#### Frontier Science Plan 

#### *(See also Appendix A)*

> In addition to high quality, fundamental research, T Division staff
> will provide leadership by serving as Laboratory program managers in
> relevant areas. They will also:

-   Provide an administrative base for the CNLS.

-   Compete for external science funding \[DOE Office of Science
    (DOE/SC)\], National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science
    Foundation (NSF), etc.\] directly or in partnerships with academia.

-   Serve on DOE/SC panels, NIH study groups, NSF review panels,
    national and international topical groups, and scientific advisory
    groups of other agencies.

-   Serve on Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) review
    teams.

-   Maintain high visibility by service on journal editorial boards and
    as editors to international scientific journals.

-   Organize outreach educational programs for undergraduate and
    graduate students.

-   Vigorously recruit the best and brightest postdoctoral fellows and
    early career/strategic hires.

-   Be active at frontiers of science as part of the international
    infrastructure, including collaborating with academia and industry.

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# 2.2.3 Strategic Thrusts. (See Appendix A for detailed thrust descriptions and associated business plans.) The Division identifies and evolves strategic thrusts with

# the aim of either a) building on existing strong foundations with qualitatively new approaches, or b) enabling new capabilities. The thrusts are chosen on the basis of scientific excitement, Laboratory goals and national needs, and growth and market potential. The aim of these thrusts is to build compelling core competencies that will provide attractive careers for present and future staff, as well as support critical Laboratory mission needs. The thrusts are reviewed periodically and progress is monitored regularly. 

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# The current Division strategic thrusts are:

-   Science-Based Prediction for Complex Systems

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-   Innovative Science in Support of Stockpile Stewardship

-   Predictive Science and Technology for Threat Reduction and Homeland
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-   Innovative Science and Technology for Energy Security

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-   Hard, Soft, and Biological Matter

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-   Understanding and Design of Complex, Functional Materials

-   Modeling Biological Processes

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-   Fundamental Processes

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-   Particle-Nuclear-Astro-Cosmology

-   Quantum Information

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-   High-End Computing Research

**2.3 Innovation and Partnering**

2.3.1 Individual Initiatives---The Entrepreneurial Spirit

Historically, there has been a strong tradition in T Division of placing
a high value on individual entrepreneurship as a means of incubating new
directions and programs and of developing the skills and realizing the
potential of people. Thus, the Division nurtures smaller projects for
their intrinsic scientific and technical interest to the Laboratory.
Frequently, these smaller projects reach a level of development that
attracts significant program funding and this process has led to the
establishment of new groups and divisions, providing a flexibility that
allows the Laboratory to more readily pursue new ideas.

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# 2.3.2 Partnering for Success

# Intergroup projects are uniquely positioned to respond to interdisciplinary opportunities and program needs. As such, these projects are actively supported by all Division management and promoted from the Division Office through the following.

-   Formation of teams that transcend traditional disciplinary
    boundaries---including teams in nuclear weapons science, materials
    science, energy security, and complex systems.

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-   Utilization of program coordinators for the Division relevant to NW
    and TR programs and other program development.

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-   Investment in exploratory interdisciplinary fields---such as complex
    matter, quantum science and technology, and knowledge derivation
    from large data sets.

-   Investment in numerous workshops and conferences, both internal and
    external.

Strategic partnerships *(see also Section 4.3, Collaborations, page 23)*
between T and other divisions are essential to the LANL strengths of
integrating science, programs, and performance. The Division not only
shares responsibility for and supports the goals of the NW, TR, and SR
directorates, but also promotes collaborative partnerships between these
directorates.

T Division supports the Stockpile Certification objective through
strengthening the quality and integration of research in support of the
ASC program, development of new techniques such as uncertainty
quantification for use in certification, and support of Laboratory
experimental programs within the framework of science-based prediction.
The Division supports Laboratory Goals *(see also Section 2.4, page 9,
and Appendix B, Laboratory Goals)* by providing scientific leadership
and helping the Laboratory to nucleate new programs in energy and
environment, critical infrastructure assurance, materials science
(including nanoscience and technology), biological sciences allied with
physical sciences, and by fostering and championing excellence in basic
research.

Partnerships with the external scientific community are equally
fundamental to T Division's vitality and mission. Our staff members are
at the forefront of many frontier science areas and play central roles
in national and international science and technology communities. These
roles include serving on national committees, councils and boards; joint
appointments and programs with academia; partnerships with major
industrial sectors; organizing and lecturing at international
conferences; publishing extensively in leading scientific journals; and
serving on numerous editorial boards. Industrial partners have included
Proctor and Gamble, British Petroleum, Motorola, Caterpillar, Kraft
Foods, and Dow Chemical.

**2.4 Alignment with Institutional Technical Goals**

The core programs of the Division are derived from our primary sponsors
and support the Laboratory strategic objectives. T Division's
strategies, goals, and thrusts strongly engage and support all the
current Laboratory Goals *(see also Appendix B, Laboratory Goals).*
Approximately 35% of our business is from core NW funding, and elements
of the Materials and Physics ASC program are managed by T Division
project leaders for the Laboratory. This is reflected directly in our
division thrusts *Science-Based Prediction for Complex Systems* and
*Innovative Science in Support of Stockpile Stewardship* and are closely
aligned with Lab Goals A and B. The Division also reports on its
contributions to NW in our annual publication, *Nuclear Weapons Program
Highlights* *(see Appendix G, Referenced Documents.)*

T Division staff have a long-standing role in nonproliferation
activities in TR. In the last few years, these have deliberately been
expanded into initiatives to provide underpinning science for the
widening intelligence and HS portfolios at the Laboratory. T Division
thrusts *Science-Based Prediction for Complex Systems*, *Predictive
Science and Technology for Threat Reduction and Homeland Security*, and
*Modeling Biological Processes* all closely align with Lab Goals C and
D.

Materials science in its many manifestations represents the work of some
40% of\
T Division personnel. The Division embodies arguably the largest
concentration of materials science theory, modeling, and simulation
expertise in the world. This multidisciplinary capability, coordinated
with the distinctive breadth of characteriza­tion and synthesis
capabilities at LANL, provides the opportunity for Los Alamos to lead
frontiers of materials science, such as complexity in hard, soft, and
biological matter and increasingly predictive understanding of the
"systems" aspects of modern organic and inorganic materials, composites,
biological processes and biologically-inspired materials. Division
expertise, goals and thrusts in *Science-Based Prediction for Complex
Systems*, and *Hard, Soft, and Biological Matter* are central to
Laboratory Goal E, as well as providing essential capabilities for Goals
A, B, C, D.

The strategic partnership of T Division with the DOE/SC has been key to
our success in theoretical research to further our scientific
understanding of the physical world; in establishing the technical
foundation for current and future defense, industrial, and civilian
needs; and in exploring, jointly with international academic and
scientific centers of excellence, new interdisciplinary areas of
scientific endeavor. This partnership has led to the development of
groundbreaking new approaches to discover, develop, and deploy the
computational tools that enable scientific researchers to analyze,
model, simulate, and predict complex physical, chemical, and biological
phenomena important to the DOE. These tools are being applied to some of
the most challenging problems in materials sciences, chemistry, plasma
physics, applied mathematical sciences, global climate change, and
bioscience that underpin the DOE missions in energy, environment, and
national security. The Division shares and supports the DOE/SC Goal G,
which continues to have far-reaching synergistic impacts in the NW, TR,
and SR directorates of the Laboratory.

T Division is a major recruitment pipeline through its investment in
summer programs and workshops for undergraduate and graduate students,
the postdoctoral program (typically 70--80 in residence), and
educational outreach, including many enduring partnerships,
collaborations, and adjunct faculty appointments with many academic
institutions, as well as extensive domestic and worldwide
collaborations, thereby serving as a key resource for Lab Goals H and O.

**2.5 Key Deliverables**

**2.5.1 Weapons Programs**

T Division plays a central role in the NW program. T Division has
significant involvement in approximately 16 Level 1 or 2 FY06 NW
milestones. These key deliverables are reported on a quarterly basis
through the NW Program Office. T Division plays a dominant role in a
Level 1 milestone in FY06 for an updated pit lifetime estimate for
predominant pit types. Drawing from the equation of state expertise,
researchers are teaming with experimental colleagues throughout the
Laboratory, and the design community, to revise the assessments of the
useful lifetimes of weapons pits. In addition, the annual assessments of
the weapons systems (also Level 1 milestones) now routinely use physics
model improvements that T Division has developed and helped implement as
prior year milestones. The following table shows the 16 Level 2
milestones for FY06 with very significant contributions from T Division
staff. These milestones represent further improvements in the predictive
capabilities of the simulation tools that form the backbone

of our stockpile assessment, arguably the primary current responsibility
of the Laboratory.

**2.5.2 Laboratory Directed Research and Development**

T Division staff are currently Principal Investigator (PI) or involved
in 81 active LDRD projects---35 Directed Research (DR) and 46
Exploratory Research (ER) projects. *Appendix C*, T Division FY06
Laboratory Directed Research and Development Portfolio, contains more
detailed information on these projects, each with specific deliverables,
which are monitored and coordinated by the Laboratory's Science and
Technology Base (STB) Programs/LDRD Office. Program expenditures are
reported to the DOE Albuquerque Operations Office quarterly by project.
An annual progress report is required on each project and these are
assembled into an LDRD annual report. This includes a technical and
financial overview of the program and a list of publications emerging
from the program. An individual final report is required for each
completed project and these are submitted to the Office of Scientific
and Technical Information of DOE during the fiscal year after the
project ended. The LDRD Office also monitors operating and capital
expenditures by each project.

2.5.3 Office of Science

The Division has a significant and diverse portfolio of projects
supported by the DOE Office of Science (DOE/SC), amounting to
approximately 12% of the Division's budget.

***Office of Science --- Materials Sciences***

-   *Predictive capabilities for strongly correlated electronic
    systems*. The metal-insulator transition in MnO has been studied
    using different many-body approaches. Our approach in T-12 (hybrid
    density functional theory) provides results in excellent agreement
    with experimental measurements. Collaborators at University of
    California (UC) Davis, UC Santa Barbara, LANL, and Oak Ridge
    National Laboratory (ORNL) are comparing various many-body
    approaches to unravel the details of the metal-insulator transition
    in MnO. The calculations will be com­pleted in FY06 and the
    comparison published.

-   *Novel Materials Theory Effort.* This project in T-11 studies the
    local electronic properties of strongly correlated materials and
    artificially created nanostructures, such as quantum dots, metal
    nanoparticles on DNA, impurity and vibronic states, Inelastic
    Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy (IETS), fast optical response of
    these materials, and electron-phonon coupled systems such as
    colossal magnetoresis­tance (CMR) manganites. We will further develop
    basic theoretical methods that will make possible detailed analysis
    and predictions about specific experimental properties.

-   *Electronic Processes in Solid State Organic Electronic Materials
    (PI:\
    D. Smith, T-11).* Organic electronic materials are of great
    intrinsic scientific interest and technological importance because
    there is strong coupling of electron charge, spin, and lattice
    degrees of freedom and a rich spectrum of tunable ground states and
    excited states. We will attempt to determine which features of the
    electronic structure of the isolated molecules are maintained and
    which are modified in the condensed phase and use this to describe
    the behavior of the condensed phases, which have important
    intermolecular interactions. The goal is to understand the
    fundamental physical processes that are important in determining the
    properties of organic electronic materials.

-   *Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Methods (PI: A. Voter, T-12).* We
    are developing accelerated molecular dynamics methods for reaching
    longer time scales for simulations relevant to chemistry, physics,
    materials science, and biochemistry. Deliverables for FY06: 1)
    extend parallel-replica dynamics to biological systems, and 2)
    develop method and code for spatially parallelized temperature
    accelerated dynamics.

***Office of Science --- Nuclear Physics***

The nuclear physics group, T-16, covers a wide range of nuclear theory
relevant to LANL and national needs. Deliverables include studies of
few- and many-body nuclear physics, dense matter in nuclear
astrophysics, neutrino physics and properties of high energy-density
quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The DOE/SC also funds work in nuclear
data, including cross sections for astrophysics and energy research.

***Office of Science --- High Energy Physics***

*Cosmology, elementary particles and astrophysics using field
theoretical and computational methods*. T-8 staff aim to elucidate the
mechanism for supersymmetry breaking, origin of masses of quarks and
neutrinos, lattice QCD, precision tests of the standard model, neutrino
interactions, large-scale structure of the universe and its evolution,
gravity, alternatives to black holes, nonequilibrium field theory,
phylo-gentics applied to HIV and Hepatitis C virus (HCV), statistical
analysis of large data sets and automated image analysis.

***Office of Science --- Biological and Environmental Research***

*Metabolomic functional bacterial genome (PIs: B. Bruno and A. Perelson,
T-10)*. FY06 deliverables: analysis of genome sequences.

***Office of Science --- Chemical Sciences** Heavy Element Chemistry
Program (POC: R. Martin, T-12).* T-12 supports experi­mental efforts in C
and NMT divisions. FY06 deliverables: address the mechanism of C-H bond
activation in organoactinide complexes and determine the properties of
quasi-1D chains of actinide oxides using hybrid density functional
theory.

***Office of Science --- Advanced Scientific Computing Research
(ASCR)***

*ASCR Applied Mathematical Research Program (POC: M. Hyman, T-7).* ASCR
supports basic research in applied mathe­matics and computational
techniques for problems critical to current Laboratory missions. The
program serves as a bridge among university, industry, and Los Alamos
researchers and encourages transfers to and from the Laboratory of
state-of-the-art mathematical theory and advanced computa­tional
techniques.

2.5.4 Other DOE

-   *Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative (POC:*\
    *J. Wills, T-1)*. We provide first-principles calculations in
    support of modeling new types of nuclear fuels. In FY06, we will
    provide 1) direct first-principles calcula­tions of thermodynamic
    properties of actinide nitrides and actinide oxides, and 2)
    calculated material data in these materials for use in fitting
    modified embedded atomic method (MEAM) potentials for classical
    molecular dynamics (MD).

-   The nuclear physics group (T-16) is also funded through the
    *Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative* to produce cross sections and
    uncertainties for advanced fission reactor concepts.

-   *Hydrogen research R&D (POC:\
    N. Henson, T-12)*. In support of experi­mental research in C
    Division, we are simulating the structure and properties of novel
    materials with hydrogen storage capabilities as part of the DOE-EERE
    Center for Chemical Hydrogen Storage. We are currently investigating
    non-boron, main group element-based materials using first principles
    quantum chemical methods to calculate their catalytic activity.

-   *Cationic Polyelectrolyte Membranes for Alkaline Fuel Cells (PI: B.
    Pivovar, MST-11).* Alkaline fuel cells should permit replacement of
    the precious catalyst metal Pt with the nonprecious metal Ni. But
    new cationic polyelectrolyte membranes will have to be designed,
    synthesized, and characterized. An FY06 deliverable is to perform
    molecular modeling to address chemical stability and transport
    mechanisms for hydroxide conductivity of cationic polyelectrolyte
    membranes and modeling of carbonate formation in these membranes.

-   *Material and Device Designs for Practical Organic Lighting (PI:\
    D. Smith, T-11).* The objective is to establish high efficiency,
    low-voltage, stable materials for organic light emitting diode
    (OLED)-based general illumination. We have developed an extensive
    understanding of OLED device physics that has been incorporated into
    a predictive device model. We are using a tightly knit
    theory/fabrication/measurement approach to provide a detailed
    understanding of charge injection, transport and carrier
    recombination in OLEDs that is needed to guide new materials
    synthesis and device designs for these solid-state lighting
    applications.

-   *Vehicle Technologies (PI: D. Torres,\
    T-3). KIVA-4* is a computer code designed to simulate internal
    combustion engine performance with unstructured mesh capabilities.
    The goal is to improve KIVA-4 so that it can be used to improve
    engine efficiency and reduce vehicle emissions. FY06 deliverables
    include complementing the code with grid-generation capabilities,
    parallelizing the code so that it can run on multiple processors,
    and testing new turbulence models.

*• Threat Reduction* projects in the nuclear physics group (T-16)
develop nuclear data for attribution applications.

2.5.5 Reimbursables/Work for Others

The Division's budget from reimbursables, which includes Work for Others
for agencies such as the NIH, NSA, Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),
and others, is approximately 20%. This portfolio includes many smaller
projects with specific deliverables. The Division's NIH portfolio is
significant, approximately 8% of the FY05 budget in T Division.

***Reimbursables --- Department of Health & Human Services:***

-   *HIV Database and Analysis (PIs: B. Korber and T. Leitner, T-10)*.
    FY06 deliverables: HIV Database and software tools.

-   *Modeling Viral and T Lymphocyte Dynamics (PI: A. Perelson, T-10)*.
    FY06 deliverables: theoretical immunological models.

-   *Multiscale Observation Molding of Ca Channels (PI: J. Pearson,
    T-10)*. FY06 deliverables: theoretical models of ion transport.

-   *HIV-1 Diversity Optimized Vaccine (PIs: K. Yusim and B. Korber,
    T-10)*. FY06 deliverables: HIV vaccine design principles.

-   *Large-Scale Simulations of Ribosome (PIs: K. Sanbonmatsu and C.-T.
    Tung, T-10)*. FY06 deliverables: molecular dynamics simulations of
    the ribosome.

-   *Receptor Aggregation and Its Effects* *(PI: B. Goldstein, T-10)*.
    FY06 deliverables: theoretical models of cell signaling.

-   *Immune System Modeling/HIV (PI: A. Perelson, T-10)*. FY06
    deliverables: theoretical immunological models.

-   *Hepatitis C Database (PI: C. Kuiken,\
    T-10).* FY06 deliverables: HCV database and software tools.

-   *EPICAST: Epidemiological Forecast (PI: C.* *Macken, T-10)*. FY06
    deliverables: agent-based models and software for epidemiology.

-   *Influenza Viral Sequence (PI: C. Macken, T-10)*. FY06 deliverables:
    influenza virus database and software tools.

-   *Analysis of HIV Drug Resistance Mutation (PI: B. Foley, T-10).*
    FY06 deliverables: models of mutation in HIV.

-   *A Rational Vaccine Design* *(PI:\
    A. Lapedes, T-13).* A new approach was developed based on mapping
    the antigenic and genetic evolution of influenza virus. This
    research was done in the frames of the World Health Organization
    programs in using new algorithms to choose the best annual influenza
    vaccine on a continuing basis. FY06 deliverables: develop the
    algorithm to analyze evolution of influenza.

***Reimbursables --- Other Federal Agencies---Defense-related
activities:***

-   *Self-assembled quantum computation using electron spins in radicals
    as quantum bits of information (PI: G. Berman, T-13, for the NSA).*
    Calculated the region of parameters for performing quantum logic
    operations for concrete spin radicals with two quantum bits. FY06
    deliverables: calculation of the dependence of g-factor for spin
    radicals on the electric field.

-   *Design of a quantum microscope based on a single-spin resolution
    (PI: G. Berman, T-13, for DARPA).* Calculated the details on the
    frequency shift which is measured in experiments on spin resolution.
    This microscope, when in operation, will allow analysis of detailed
    structures in nanosystems and bio-molecules. FY06 deliverables:
    calculation of the cantilever frequency shift due to interaction
    with a single spin in high magnetic field gradient.

***Reimbursables --- Threat reduction and intelligence-related
activities:***

-   *Classified research in support of the U.S. intelligence community
    (POC: R. Walker, T-12).* Projects utilize the Division\'s expertise
    in materials, chemistry, high-performance computing, and complex
    systems and are supported by several of the agencies of the U.S.
    government.

-   *Distributed sensor networks (PI: D. Torney, T-10)*. This project
    benefits the nation's threat reduction efforts. FY06 deliverables:
    mathematical modeling of biosensor networks.

**2.6 Honors, Awards, and International Participation**

T Division is widely recognized throughout the international science
community for its high rate of publications, honors, fellowships, and
awards. Over the Division's more than 60-year history, its members have
collected an impressive portfolio of international awards and honors,
elections to international societies, and many internationally
recognized fellowships.

The Division *Annual Self-Assessment* document contains the statistics
of Division publications (both open literature and classified), invited
presentations, awards, honors, memberships on editorial boards, staff
serving as journal referees, and memberships of professional
organizations, including election to the rank of Fellow within these
organizations, for the preceding year *(see Appendix G, Referenced
Documents.)*

Each year, the Division is responsible for approximately 25--30% of the
Laboratory's annual total of peer-reviewed publications. Many of the
Division's staff members also hold adjunct professorships with academic
institutions, which relationships not only foster scientific exchanges
and collaborations, but also serve as effective recruiting mechanisms.

T Division staff have received approximately 5 Ernest Orlando Lawrence
Awards, 10 Humboldt Fellowships, 8 R&D 100 Awards, and currently 28 are
APS Fellows, 3 are Fellows of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS), and 2 are members of the National Academy
of Sciences. The quality of the senior Division staff is also reflected
in the fact that a much larger fraction, relative to the number in other
divisions, of T Division staff hold the rank of Laboratory Fellow and
Senior Laboratory Fellow. As of 2005,\
T Division has 5 Senior Fellows and 31 Fellows (including retirees) on
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**3.0 Organization,**

**Workforce, and Operations**

**3.1 Organizational Structure**

T Division is principally organized into discipline-based groups with a
deliberate emphasis on intergroup collaborations and teaming with
experimental partners (internal, external, and with members of our
extensive visitor program). More detailed group descriptions can be
found in *Appendix D, Group Technical Descriptions*, and detailed group
profiles and business plans are available on request. The Center for
Nonlinear Studies has a Laboratory-wide mandate, as described earlier
*(see also Appendix G, Referenced Documents.)* This organizational
structure has, as demon­strated over many decades, enabled leadership in
interdisciplinary science based

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on discipline rigor and renewal, combined with maximum opportunities for
dynamic teaming. Group structure and alignments were extensively
reviewed during 2000--2002 by teams addressing crosswalks between
disciplines and programs and intergroup alignments. The rotation of
group leaders and succession planning is healthy, as documented in past
Laboratory workforce reviews. *Group and division leader position
descriptions are provided in Appendix E*.

The Division has capability in depth (approximately 400 staff,
postdoctoral fellows, and students, and a robust visitor program of over
100 visiting research­ers/collaborators per year) in core theoretical
disciplines *(see also Section 2.0 page 2)*: fluid dynamics, materials
chemistry and physics, atomic physics, nuclear physics, elementary
particles and field theory,

![](media/image1.wmf)astrophysics, biophysics, condensed matter,
statistical physics, plasma physics, and mathematical modeling and
analysis. As noted, these disciplines are organized into groups (shown
in organizational chart) for technical viability, but collaboration
between groups is strongly encouraged, supported, and rewarded. This
intergroup, multidisciplinary entrepreneur­ship is managed by a) program
development points-of-contact in the Division Office for Laboratory and
external customers, and b) through teams with representation from all
relevant groups for key business areas.

**3.2 People and Capabilities**

**T Division's main asset is its workforce.** To accomplish its
objectives and the Laboratory\'s expectations, T Division requires
excellent scientific staff working with the most advanced hardware and
software and interacting with colleagues in both theory and experiment.
In pursuit of this objective, the Division supports extensive graduate
student and postdoctoral training programs as a central component of its
recruitment strategy. Recruiting the best and brightest also implies a
robust foreign national population working on problems of national
importance but with deliberate processes for protecting national
security. In addition, the technical staff engage many colleagues from
academia and other national

and international scientific organizations to collaborate on a wide
variety of programs and problems. This cross-fertilization of the
Division's technical expertise provides numerous opportunities for
solving important problems and is also an effective recruiting tool.

Pursuing frontier science is central to\
T Division's value to the Laboratory, because it poses complex,
challenging problems that attract exceptional scientists. Each of these
scientists brings with him/her a comprehensive tool kit of expertise,
ranging from pure mathematics to numerical analysis to aggressive
exploitation and development of state-of-the-art high-performance
computers, to physics, chemistry, and biology.

Individuals are valued for their ability to think broadly and
strategically about difficult problems. This diverse, sophisticated, and
future-oriented capability, immersed in the multidiscipli­nary-mission
environment of LANL, has stimulated these scientists to create new
programs directly relevant to the core national security mission of the
Laboratory (nuclear weapons and emerging threats), to undertake
pioneering science, and provide leadership to multidisciplinary teams.

A full *capabilities list for T Division can be found in Appendix F*.
The current technical workforce can be broadly categorized in the
following subset of major capabilities.

![](media/image1.wmf)Every six months, the Division assesses the breadth
and depth of the current staff and compares it against emerging areas of
need and makes recruiting and development projections necessary to
assure the continued vitality and orderly succession of our workforce
(technical, management, and support tracks). With this information, the
Division develops and implements a systematic approach for staff
additions and workforce management. We examine those factors that lead
to successful recruitment and retention of staff and develop a program
that ensures hiring, retention, and professional development of
high-quality individuals. We match results of this staff analysis with
the programmatic requirements of T Division and the Weapons Physics
(WP), SR, and TR directorates to identify areas in which the Division
does not have sufficient capability and those where capability exceeds
requirements.

We thereby develop and implement 1) recruitment strategies with emphasis
on addressing diversity issues and attracting the highest quality
scientists available, including foreign nationals, and 2) division-level
plans for employee development, succession planning, and training
opportunities. The Division uses a mature **recruiting pipeline** that
includes extensive utilization of summer schools, student and postdoc
programs (including distinguished postdoctoral appointments),
limited-term staff members, and senior or retired staff members as
mentors and for knowledge transfer. Approximately 65% of our recruitment
is accomplished via this highly effective, strategic pipeline.

The latest workforce review (Summer 2005) revealed a healthy demographic
trend from the last five years of investing in a) early career
recruiting, and b) systematic knowledge transfer and mentoring by senior
staff. This demographic situation is illustrated here.

This healthy demographic situation has been challenged in 2005 by a
significant number of retirements and some loss of mid-career talent,
primarily driven by contract and benefits uncertainties. We are
attempting to address this situation by a) careful recruitment to
maintain the highly talented\
T Division capability base, b) engagement of retirees, as appropriate,
for mentoring and specific skills, and c) continued emphasis on all
stages of our well-established recruiting pipeline.

**3.3 Culture**

There are several cultural characteristics that the Division considers
are integral to its success. The relationships between these important
characteristics and the resulting benefits are described and
demonstrated throughout the discussion of T Division's broad technical
portfolio, innovations, and partnerships (see Section 2.0).

1.  Technical excellence: maintaining the best science and providing it
    to fulfill the Laboratory mission.

2.  Discipline-based excellence: integration of theory, modeling, and
    simulation, with a high degree of adaptability to respond rapidly to
    emerging challenges.

3.  Intellectual diversity: the opportunity for interdisciplinary
    research and scientists that creates a creative environment for
    interactions.

4.  Co-location and other minimal barriers to interdisciplinary teaming:
    provides for a high degree of internal collaboration and positively
    affects our ability to partner in order to deliver on major national
    security programs.

5.  ![](media/image2.wmf)Extensive external collaborations and
    partnerships: a conduit to new ideas and a major recruiting pipeline
    for the Division and the Laboratory.

6.  Recruiting and engaging the very best available talent: including a
    strong community of, and active engagement with, foreign national
    researchers.

7.  Hiring pipeline: extensive utilization of the summer educational
    programs, student recruitment programs, postdoc program, and limited
    term appointments to hire the best and brightest and provide career
    development opportunities; as well as effectively utilizing senior
    staff (Fellows and retirees) as mentors for the next generation of
    scientists and leaders.

8.  External peer review: both being exposed to and contributing to the
    international science community through conference/workshop\
    sponsorship/organization, robust publication and invited
    presentation records, participation in review boards/journals, and
    other international scientific organizations.

9.  Equality of opportunity: a nonhierarchical TSM pool where each
    person has the opportunity to compete for funding and technical or
    programmatic impact and to establish his/her own place in the
    Laboratory.

10. A strong business model and opportunities for entrepreneurial
    program development.

11. Intellectual integrity and academic freedom (the managed freedom and
    flexibility for individuals to find their place with respect to
    individuality/teaming, basic/applied, etc.)

# 3.4 Facilities and Business Systems Infrastructure

Since reliable facilities and a modern infrastructure are prerequisites
for world-class science, we work through the responsible Laboratory
organizations to try to bring T Division's aging infrastructure up to
current standards and requirements. Specific current goals in this area
include working with the SR Directorate to develop plans for a modern
Science Complex, maintaining and providing adequate electrical and
cooling systems, developing and implementing a funding strategy to
refurbish facilities, and effectively managing indirect resources to
provide ergonomically correct furniture and equipment. The current
facilities allow the Division to remain fairly co-located and in the
TA-3 area, which is important to fostering collaborations with other
technical Divisions *(see also Section 4.3, Collaborations, page 23)*.
However, the current space is not adequate to meet the Division's large
fluctuations in population, which occur because of our substantial
student and visitor programs. During peak periods, staff must share
space with students and visitors, students and visitors share small
spaces, and not all groups can remain co-located. Safety considerations
remain a high priority. More adequate space with flexibility for peak
periods and a modernized communications and computer room (HVAC)
infrastructure is important to sustain the high-profile research
conducted in the Division.

T Division supports the Laboratory Strategic Plan objectives of best
business practices, customer satisfaction, and stewardship of resources
leading to cost-effective project delivery. We manage resources so as to
ensure their effective use in a fashion that meets the needs of
customers. We continue to examine the Division\'s business practices and
promote continuous improvement and adoption of "best practice" systems
throughout the Division. We work to identify new funding sources and
facilitate the funding process. We also encourage and facilitate the
patenting and licensing of Laboratory-generated intellectual property.

Current goals include:

-   utilizing and providing continuous process improvement feedback on
    new Laboratory-wide business systems to facilitate the development
    of truly effective systems for
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-   developing internal business processes and systems that are not
    redundant, are integrated with Laboratory systems, and that provide
    easier access to accurate data to identify trends and issues in a
    wide variety of business areas important to the Division; and

-   identifying new funding sources and actively engaging in program
    development.

**3.5 Security, Environment, Safety, and Health**

Our highest priorities are the health and safety of our workers and the
public and Laboratory and national security. The Division employs the
Laboratory's nested safety and security process and actively
participates in the Management Walkaround and Environment Management
systems. Our aims are to maintain a safe, secure, and well-trained
workforce, to protect the environment, and manage our resources
effectively. We work towards continually achieving measurable
improvements in safety and ergonomics throughout the Division, and
manage trends in security incidents and DRC/DART rates appropriately.

**4.0 Customer and Sponsor, Funding, and Collaborations Profiles**

**4.1 Customers and Sponsors**

T Division's customers align naturally with its funding profile--NW,
LDRD, and non-NNSA. The Division manages relationships appropriate to
each of these customers. For principal customers, points-of-contact
operate from the Division Office, working closely with principal
investigators and other appropriate Laboratory points-of-contact and
program managers. NW Programs are reviewed through quarterly LANL and
formal NNSA reviews.\
T Division participates in many of the program components and has
oversight responsibility for elements of the Materials and Physics
component of ASC. The LDRD program is very competitive and is reviewed
on a regular schedule internally and by the NNSA. DOE/SC, NIH, NASA, NSA
and other Work for Others customers make awards on a rigorous,
competitive basis and review our programs regularly using national
review teams.

Another major customer for T Division is the international scientific
community where peer review is the arbiter of success. Every year T
Division staff publish approximately 650--700 peer-reviewed publications
and over 20 classified publications, organize approximately 50
conferences and workshops, and organize and sponsor at least 4 summer
programs for students. Our staff are also heavily involved in invited
presentations at conferences and universities and serve on numerous
international review and advisory committees. Detailed statistics are
compiled annually and presented in the Division Self-assessment
documents *(see Appendix G, Referenced Documents).*

The Theoretical Division Review Committee (TDRC) reviews the balance and
productivity of the Division annually. This input is an important peer
review metric, and the TDRC's detailed reports are used in Division
strategic planning. Copies of TDRC reports can be requested from the\
T Division Office.

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**4.2 Funding Portfolio**

T Division pursues a balanced research portfolio that includes the NW,
LDRD, TR programs, and other sponsors and agencies in the DOE, NIH, NSA,
NASA, and industry, among others. This portfolio has allowed the
Division to interact strongly with the academic community in areas of

![](media/image2.wmf)basic research, with designers in the weapons
programs, and with customers in threat reduction and homeland security.
This broad spectrum of research has provided a conduit that has
facilitated transfer of new ideas and techniques from basic research
into the applied programs throughout the Laboratory.

Researchers in T Division have successfully competed for the
Laboratory's LDRD funding, which has allowed the Division to

![](media/image4.wmf)support and nurture a large number of innovative
research directions. Many of these initiatives have expanded the
capability for current programmatic efforts. These LDRD projects have
also led to numerous publications *(see Appendix C, LDRD Portfolio)* and
have been crucial in attracting and maintaining gifted and highly
motivated researchers within the Division.

The Division's funding portfolio demonstrates successful diversification
of its base, including pursuit of non-NNSA-sponsored research and
development synergistic with current Laboratory

missions. Staff have successfully pursued opportunities to work with
industry or other

agencies. New opportunities in HS and TR have also been vigorously
pursued in addition to our continuously strong Work for
Others/Reimbursable (DOE, NIH, NSA, NASA, etc.) portfolio.

**4.3 Collaborations**

All technical staff members in the Division are involved in
collaborations with the scientific community (universities, industry,

and other national laboratories) throughout the world (*see Appendix G,
List of Referenced Documents, Self-assessment documents for detailed
statistics*). In addition, several members of the Division serve as
officers in the societies of which they are members. Division staff
engage in personnel exchanges with industry and other federal
laboratories and agencies as temporary staff on "Change of Station"
assignments as program managers at NSF, NNSA, and Office of Science and
Technology Policy (OSTP).

T Division staff are involved in a great number of external
interdisciplinary programs, for example, the UC **Cooperative Agreement
on Research and Education (CARE)** program, designed to identify and
fund opportunities for promising students and faculty to participate in
new and innovative research, enhance collaborations with universities in
areas of strategic importance, and provide a research environment to
encourage students to pursue technical careers. Division staff are
closely involved in the **Santa Fe Institute's (SFI)** multidisciplinary
programs and have played a seminal role in the Institute\'s foundation,
along with continuing activity through collaborations and organization
and participation in conferences. The newly founded NSF Center at the
**UNM** for the **Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary
Research** was the result of a strong partnership between UNM and Los
Alamos where T Division played the major role. Division staff serve on
the **Governance Board** of the new **UC/LANL Memoranda of
Understanding** with UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis, UC Santa
Cruz, and UC Riverside campuses.

T Division is a partner in the **NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Center** for Directed Assembly of Nanostructures at **Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute** and the **University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign**, founded in September 2001. The mission of the center
is to integrate research, education, and technology dissemination, and
serve as a national resource for fundamental knowledge and applications
in the directed assembly of nanostructures. The center research involves
two major areas of emphasis: nanoparticle gels and polymer
nanocomposites and nanostructured biomolecule composite architectures.

The Division hosts half of the members of the LANL **Climate, Ocean and
Sea Ice Modeling (COSIM) project**. Ocean and sea ice models developed
by COSIM are used in several of the world\'s leading global climate
models. Predictions from these models are contributing to the Fourth
Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the
most important confluence of international climate modeling expertise.

Important new projects started in T Division by the DOE/SC in FY05
include: 1) a theory, modeling, simulation element of Center for
Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) (with **SNL**); 2) organic electronic
materials; and 3) solid-state lighting (with SNL). New projects funded
by NIH include world-leading all-atom simulations of biological
machinery, and a joint project with the Harvard Medical School on
transcription in DNA.

Despite the decline of CRADA initiatives nationally, staff throughout
the Division remain actively engaged in responding to **collaborative
opportunities with industry**. Division staff have made scientific
contributions to U.S. industry, including partnering with Proctor &
Gamble, petrochemical firms such as Exxon-Mobil and Dow Chemical, and
automobile manufacturing giants such as Ford and Daimler-Chrysler on
computer simulation of manufacturing processes and product performance.
The Division current holds 13 active Non-Federal Work for Others
Agreements, 2 active Nondisclosure Agreements, and 2 continuing CRADAs.

Several of the Division\'s projects involve the **design of software
packages or computer algorithms**; some are packaged and made available
for the general research commu­nity. Many of T Division's products are
used in institutions around the world and are the benchmarks against
which other codes or methods are compared. Some examples are:

-   CAVEAT, a 3-D hydro program used in many applications;

-   NJOY, a data-processing package for nuclear reaction data;

-   OpenSesame, a suite of equation-of-state tools and the accompanying
    Sesame Library---a compendium of equation-of-state tables used by
    government, academic, and industrial institutions; and

-   LAGriT (Los Alamos Grid Toolbox), a set of tools used by many
    academic institutions for creating and tracking unstructured grids
    in multimaterial applications.

In collaboration with the Physics Division,\
T Division hosts the **P/T Colloquium** series, which has been ongoing
for over 10 years and has brought a wide variety of distinguished
speakers to Los Alamos. In 2004, T Division hosted about half the
speakers out of the total 33 talks given during the year. Another
regular series hosted and organized by the Division is the **Quantum
Lunch**, which features speakers from different organizations and
academia with an interest in fostering continued collaborations and
research and develop­ment in the quantum information science and
technology field. These informal presentations and interactions occur
approximately three times per month. In 2004, 32 talks were hosted.

Examples abound of the more **informal involvements** in
interdisciplinary programs, including: 1) sponsorship of conferences and
workshops (approximately 20 per year) to bring together experts from
several disciplines around the world; 2) sponsor­ing/organizing
approximately five educational programs per year for students in
mathematics, physics, and biology, 3) fostering new collaborations in
materials science involving materials modeling with accurate chemistry
now deployed in the ASC and other programs; and 4) frequent interchange
of information and ideas between Division staff and the rest of the
Laboratory (including internal sabbaticals with X Division and several
joint appointments).

Strategic **partnerships between T and other Laboratory divisions** are
essential to the LANL strengths of integrating science, programs, and
performance. T Division works closely to support Laboratory Goals *(see
Appendix B, Laboratory Goals)* with other divisions for NW, TR, and the
diverse energy security issues requiring the broad theory, modeling, and
simulation capabilities of T Division. These close partnerships between
T and other technical divisions include: B, C, CCS, D, DX, ESA, LANSCE,
MST, NMT, P, and X divisions.

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**5.0 Transition Issues**

T Division views the future as history to be made with as much rich
accomplishment on behalf of the nation as in its distinguished past.
Immediate transitional issues to secure this future include the
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-   Maintaining strengths of T Division culture, see Section 3.3, page
    19.

-   Attracting and maintaining strongest possible technical workforce
    (necessarily including a significant foreign national program and
    postdoctoral and student populations).

-   Modernizing infrastructure for scientific productivity (flexible,
    modern computing, and access to large-scale machines; modern
    space/buildings; time-efficient administrative tools/ processes,
    etc.).

-   Maintaining balance of capability development and program delivery.\
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-   Minimizing barriers for interdivision-al/directorate collaborations
    to maxi­mize programmatic excellence and responsiveness to emerging
    national security missions.

-   Maintaining strong collaborations with academia and external
    consortia (including industry); business case for entrepreneurial
    S&T; user facilities; non-NNSA programs.

-   Maintaining the health of the Center for Nonlinear Studies

Appendix A -- Science Thrusts for a Renewed Foundation

**1. Science-Based Prediction for Complex Systems A2**

a\. Innovative Science in Support of Stockpile Stewardship A4

b\. Predictive Science and Technology for Threat Reduction and Homeland
Security A8

c\. Innovative Science and Technology for Energy Security A11

####### 2. Hard, Soft, and Biological Matter A13

> a\. Understanding and Design of Complex Materials A13
>
> b\. Modeling Biological Processes A16

####### 3. Fundamental Processes A19

> a\. Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics and Cosmology A21
>
> b\. T Division Support of the LANL Quantum Institute A23

####### 4. High-End Computing Research A26 

**1.** **Science-Based Prediction for Complex Systems**

**Purpose**: To coordinate and support T Division\'s response to
Laboratory Strategic Goal A, Science-Based Prediction for Complex
Systems (SBP/CS).

**Rationale and Description**: To accomplish its national security
missions, LANL has assembled its core expertise in the *integration of
experiment, theory, and computation* in a bold strategy to advance our
scientific understanding of and predictive capabilities for complex
phenomena. This strategy has been articulated in the Laboratory
Strategic Goal SBP/CS. The Stockpile Stewardship Program depends
critically on the viability of this approach. However, the need for
SBP/CS extends well beyond the nuclear weapons program. Indeed,
virtually every major initiative at LANL relies heavily on SBP/CS. This
reliance does, of course, present a challenge and accomplishing the
SBP/CS goals will require a new generation of major ideas and concepts
to improve the fidelity, reliability, and usability of the tools for
predictive science that are envisaged. Addressing this challenge frames
the strategic direction for T Division, which can be summarized in a
single phrase: ***Frontier Science for Laboratory Missions***. The
examples listed below illustrate a few of the areas where we are taking
steps to implement this basic objective in support of SBP/CS.

-   **Nuclear Weapons ---** T Division undertakes research in nuclear
    and atomic physics, materials science, hydrodynamics, and
    uncertainty quantification --- all capabilities that are used in X
    Division design and certification activities. SBP/CS involves
    integrating theory advances, is motivated and validated by
    experiments, with measured data from all relevant experiments,
    including those undertaken at the NNSA\'s unique facilities. T
    Division co-led one of the five Goal A Pilot Projects (Detonation
    Science) and participated in another (Materials Science) during
    FY05. These contributed to the evolving implementation of SBP/CS
    within the weapons program.

-   **Homeland Security --** Enhanced predictive capabilities will play
    a central role in meeting scientific challenges posed by TR and HS
    missions, and tie the SBP/CS and HS goals together. Established
    expertise in T Division in several disciplines and methodologies
    (nuclear physics, theoretical chemistry, biology, complex systems,
    data analysis, numerical algorithms) is being vigorously adapted and
    applied to HS problems.

-   **Biology --** Following the heroic era of gene-sequencing, biology
    is beginning to enter the phase of quantitative predictive science.
    T Division is applying its expertise in theoretical biology and
    scientific computation to address national needs in health and
    security as part of its response to the SBP/CS goal. One focus of
    effort concerns the computation of protein structure and binding.
    This will support more rapid and efficient searches for new drugs. A
    second topic concerns development of vaccines against rapidly
    evolving viruses, like influenza, avian flu, and HIV.

-   **Energy & Environment --** Predictive science is required to assess
    the cost and efficacy of strategies for energy production and
    environmental remediation. In supporting the SBP/CS goal, T Division
    will develop and apply predictive methods for multiscale modeling to
    selected problems for which experimental and observational data at
    many length scales are available, affording the opportunity to
    validate predictive scaling techniques.

-   **Enabling Scientific Tools --** Progress on predictive science in
    the previously mentioned application areas will require vigorous
    development of supporting science in many areas, including: 1)
    uncertainty quantification for complex simulations; 2) advanced
    software design; 3) techniques for modeling multiscale and
    nonequilibrium processes; 4) effective methods for utilizing
    data; 5) new approaches for modeling complex stochastic processes;
    and 6) powerful methods for modeling complex networks, including
    agent-based models.

**Partners:** Scientific, organizational, and funding requirements for
successful accomplishment of this thrust necessitate partnering with
groups within and external to the Laboratory. Existing partnerships
already include those with X, DX, CCS, EES, ESA, MST, and D divisions,
as well as ones with DoD, NIH, numerous universities, and industrial
organizations. Current partnerships will be strengthened and new ones
established.

**Customers:** A new generation of predictive capabilities for complex
mission-related problems will be available to a customer base that
includes NNSA and other DOE programs, DoD, NIH, and private industry.

# Business Plan: Science-Based Prediction for Complex Systems

[Long-Term Goals]{.underline}: The overall goal of this thrust is to
identify and support vigorous and constructive measures to align T
Division with Laboratory Goal A. The goal encompasses strengthening our
role in the Stockpile Stewardship program, and significant new starts in
the TR area, including bio-chem threats and critical infrastructure
modeling. A further goal is to develop an understanding of the
functioning of complex organizations that could lead to more efficient
operation of technical programs.

[Program Measures]{.underline}: The number of new proposals that receive
funding will measure the success of the program. This will include
proposals in the NW area, as well as in biological and chemical threat
reduction, critical infrastructure, energy, health, and environment, and
organizational dynamics. Milestones for the application of SBP/CS and
QMU within the weapons program have been prescribed with T Division
involvement and will require support from the staff.

[Actions over the next year to achieve the goal]{.underline}:

-   Work to maintain a strong presence in Stockpile Stewardship by
    serving on boards that govern the planning process.

-   Continue the series of summer programs for students and visitors in
    epidemiology.

-   Support and ensure the success of SBP/CS and QMU milestones within
    the weapons program.

-   Coordinate with other T Division thrusts on materials, biological
    and threat reduction modeling.

-   Align LDRD-DR and pilot project proposals with Goal A and other
    Laboratory Goals.

-   Carry out currently funded proposal for *Systems Modeling at LANL*
    using agent-based modeling and other appropriate tools.

-   Play an active role on the Predictive Science Advisory Council.

-   Continue T Division assistance on the *LA Science* publication.

-   Plan joint LANL-SFI-EU workshop on science-based prediction.

[Funding Sources]{.underline}: LDRD, DARPA, National Infrastructure
Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC), DOE/NN, DTRA

**1a. Innovative Science in Support of Stockpile Stewardship**

**Purpose:** To create more accurate fundamental physics models and
data, *through integration of experiment, theory, and computation*, to
enhance the science of certification in partnership with the goals of
the NW directorates, and to exploit the large investment in basic
science in\
T Division, which has created numerous opportunities to bring innovative
ideas from many areas of science into weapons physics. This strategy has
been articulated in the Laboratory Strategic Goal on Science-Based
Prediction for Complex Systems and Nuclear Weapons.

**Rationale and Description:** A primary LANL mission is to certify the
stockpile in the absence of nuclear testing. T Division undertakes
research in nuclear and atomic physics, materials science, astrophysics,
hydrodynamics, plasma physics, and uncertainty
quantification---capabilities used in design codes. The thrust brings
together, and provides enhanced visibility for, numerous innovative
scientific concepts being pursued at LANL. The research will be
conducted via collaborative teams that bring T Division scientists into
workgroups with designers and code integrators in X and experimentalists
in P, C, LANSCE, MST, DX, and ESA divisions. This will ensure that
theoretical advances will be motivated and validated by experiments,
assessed in a design context in an integrated way, and ultimately used
in certification. The thrust will focus on:

1.  nuclear and atomic physics and interactions of matter with radiation
    (nuclei far from stability, QMD simulations of density effects,
    novel diagnostics for mix, nonequilibrium processes for boost,
    opacities);

2.  materials science (constitutive formulations developed from
    multiscale modeling for metals, high explosives, polymers, and other
    weapons materials; reaction laws; aging analysis and prediction;
    equations of state);

3.  astrophysics of stars, supernovae, and compact objects (e.g.,
    nucleosynthesis, high energy-density physics, and computing and
    computational science for multidimensional, time-dependent cosmic
    phenomena);

4.  numerical methods and software for hydrodynamics (e.g., advanced
    hydrodynamics and solver algorithms, interface treatments,
    constitutive laws for particular mesh resolutions);

5.  uncertainty quantification (metrics for stockpile certification and
    weapons physics in general, analysis of experimental data, both
    historical and modern);

6.  Directed Stockpile Work (DSW), pit surveillance, enhanced
    surveillance, and manufacturing; and

7.  strongly-coupled and/or high energy-density plasmas.

These efforts will be coordinated with one another and with parallel
basic research initiatives for non-weapons materials and issues. From
the weapons perspective, all possible sources of relevant data from
experimental programs \[e.g., enhanced surveillance, manufacturing,
baselining of nuclear test data, above ground experiments (AGEX),
Dual-axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test Facility (DARHT), Advanced Test
Line for Actinide Separations (ATLAS), and National Ignition Facility
(NIF)\], and astrophysics will be considered and strong interaction with
these programs encouraged. All of these issues are increasing in
significance because of subtle variations in manufacturing and aging
characteristics that need to be accounted for with enhanced fidelity in
the maintenance of the stockpile. The demonstration of applications to
problems outside the weapons arena will broaden the approach beyond
weapons materials and issues and leverage investments in those areas.

**Partners:** Close collaborations with X, CCS, P, C, LANSCE, MST, DX,
NMT, and ESA divisions, as well as with scientists from Livermore and
Sandia laboratories, the United Kingdom's Atomic Weapons Establishment
(AWE), and France's Comissariat á l'Énergie Atomique (CEA).

**Customers:** The primary customer, the nation's NW program, will be
able to use more accurate and advanced science to certify the
reliability and safety of the US stockpile. Many other customers
throughout DOE science and technology programs will benefit from a new
generation of simulation science, as well as TR, DHS, and DoD.

**Business Plan: Innovative Science in Support of Stockpile
Stewardship**

[Thrust Leaders]{.underline}: Edward Kober (T-14) and John Wills (T-1)

[Goals]{.underline}: To create more accurate fundamental physics and
materials models and data to enhance the science of certification, in
partnership with the goals of the NW directorates, and to exploit the
large investment in basic science in T Division, which has created
numerous opportunities to bring innovative ideas from seemingly
unrelated areas of science into weapons physics and materials
applications.

[Program Measures]{.underline}:

-   Formation of collaborative teams

-   Development of new physics modules for ASC codes

-   Use of modules in certification process

-   Successful execution of the ASC Materials and Physics Program
    element function

[Actions taken over FY05 to achieve the goal]{.underline}:

-   Ensured accomplishments were integrated as quickly as possible into
    weapons simulations, ASC milestone calculations, and certification
    baselines. Level 2 Milestones for implementation of a ductile
    failure model and an improved model for insensitive high explosives
    (HE) were accomplished.

-   Weapon Supporting Research (WSR) proposals were developed targeting
    long-term research plans for the weapons program. Eleven proposals
    with T Division staff as PIs were funded.

-   Provided X, MST, and NMT with science-based materials models and EOS
    to meet certification needs and to address aging issues.

-   Started implementing UQ methods into materials, opacities, and
    equation-of-state (EOS) modeling efforts. Demonstrated first
    iteration and developed Level 2 Milestone goal for UQ methods
    implementation.

-   Established collaborative teams involving researchers in X, CCS, P,
    C, LANSCE, MST, and DX divisions, as well as with Livermore and
    Sandia national laboratories, AWE, and CEA scientists.

-   Used integral data and collaborations with LANSCE and X to determine
    important actinide cross-sections.

-   Developed strong, collaborative LDRD-DR proposals supporting
    innovative science for Stockpile Stewardship.

-   Funding for two "Predictive Science for Complex Systems" projects
    was successfully used for incubated projects in detonation theory
    and EOS theory (both relevant for RRW).

[Actions planned over FY06 to achieve the goal]{.underline}:

-   Supply leadership and technical expertise in accomplishing two Level
    2 Milestones for ASC Materials & Physics program in QMU and Pu EOS.

-   Support the scientific development of the WSR projects funded for
    this year and use that basis to evolve similar innovative proposals
    to support long-term research.

-   Provide X, MST, and NMT with science-based materials models and EOS
    to meet certification needs, address aging issues, and to develop
    RRW concepts.

-   Utilize UQ research and practices to determine impact of
    uncertainties on physical data and models on weapons performance, to
    establish priorities for modeling efforts, and to ensure customers
    are aware of critical scientific issues.

-   Develop strong, collaborative LDRD-DR proposals supporting
    innovative science for Stockpile Stewardship.

-   Be fully engaged with the RRW development teams and rapidly address
    scientific and design issues as they arise.

[Funding Sources]{.underline}: DOE/DP, LDRD, DOE/SC

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**1b. Predictive Science and Technology for Threat Reduction and
Homeland Security**

One of the greatest consequences of the events surrounding 911 is a
collective understanding that the nation's vulnerabilities are closely
tied to the complexity of our infrastructure, health system, government,
economy and society, and that the lack of *understanding* of the
workings of our "system" reduces our ability to respond to national and
global needs. This thrust addresses the need to advance our knowledge on
how these complex technical/social/economic/natural systems work at a
fundamental level, particularly in response to our rapidly changing
global system.

**The strategic objectives are threefold:** 1) develop core technologies
that contribute across many application areas; 2) develop S&T projects
and programs that address the needs of TR, intelligence, and HS
programs; and 3) leverage the development of the technologies and
resources derived from traditional mission areas in predictive science,
built on the synergy of experiments, simulations and theory, to
application areas within threat reduction, intelligence, and homeland
security.

**The thrust includes the following scientific grand challenges:**

1.  The interdependence of various components of a complex system ---
    recognizing the essential parameters responsible for functionality
    and failure --- and how system structures create "gaps" or
    vulnerabilities.

2.  The role of extreme statistics (e.g., outliers, non-normal and
    long-tail probability distributions) on the robustness,
    sustainability, and intrinsic uncertainties of complex systems.

3.  A dynamical understanding of *adaptive* and *co-adaptive* systems.

4.  Quantified treatment of social and cognitive behavior to address
    complicated issues of individual behavior, societal influences, and
    response to threats.

These grand challenges apply to a wide variety of specific research
areas, such as the properties and dynamics of infrastructure networks,
agent-based modeling, information and knowledge technology,
epidemiology, sensor networks, quantum technologies, modeling of
nanodevices, etc.

The approach taken to develop the thrust is to create an integrated
approach to address threat identification, prevention, response, and
attribution-sharing resources; identify technological synergy across
chemical-biological, radiological-nuclear, and critical infrastructure
protection threats; reduce cost of threat protection by adding
protection/response to existing or planned functions (e.g., combine
detection and response to manmade biothreats to an improved day-to-day
public health system); coordinate with the Laboratory Strategic Plan,
other divisions, and outside resources to amplify T Division's unique
strengths and create integrated programs where the Division does not
contain essential resources (e.g., experimental facilities).

T Division has active programs that are beginning to develop core
technologies related to this thrust. For example, the traditional
expertise in fission cross-sections for the nuclear weapons programs has
been applied to nonproliferation issues for the characterization and
detection of special materials. T Division has taken the lead in the
nation with "threat anticipation" modeling the formation of terrorist
networks in the Middle East (Threat Anticipation Modeling Project). T
Division leads the nation in the modeling of epidemics resolved at a
national scale, for example, 280 million people (EpiCast Project). The
Division has also shown leadership in developing new program areas by
extending the Science-Based Prediction methodologies developed in the NW
programs to TR programs, by championing the need for an understanding of
social dynamics in many areas of national security, and by developing a
national response to the need for simulations in crisis response in
coordination with universities in the Norfolk-Hampton Roads region.

**Business Plan: Predictive Science and Technology for Threat Reduction
and Homeland Security**

[Thrust Leader]{.underline}: Gennady Berman (T-13)

[Implementation Plans]{.underline}: Develop systems and technologies to
identify across all threats.

-   Precursors in threat preparation (chemical precursors, intel
    signatures, or accumulation of resources).

-   Signatures of the threats (chemical activity, radioactivity, or
    changed cyber-information).

-   Components combined with threats (explosives, cyber trail, or
    terrorist access to facilities).

-   Attribution of threats after an event (epitopes or isotopes).

-   Apply existing technologies and resources derived from traditional
    mission areas (NWT).

-   Expand the predictive science methodology to address increased
    reliability and quantification.

-   Identify technological synergy across threats.

-   Reduce cost of threat protection by exploiting dual-use
    infrastructure.

-   Add protection/response to other existing or planned functions
    (combine an improved day-to-day public health system with detection
    and response to manmade biothreats).

-   Coordinate with Program Offices, other divisions, directorates, and
    outside resources.

-   Amplify T Division's unique strengths.

-   Create integrated programs where T Division does not have essential
    resources (experimental).

-   Exploit recent advances in quantified treatment of cognitive and
    social behavior.

[Program Measures]{.underline}: Number of successful/funded new
proposals, number of staff whose primary focus is in TR, number of
projects that include collaboration across the Laboratory and mission
areas, and the hours spent by staff contributing to Laboratory and
national TR planning.

[Actions over the next year to achieve the goal]{.underline}: NNSA
laboratories will play a key role in providing the S&T for the national
homeland security solutions. T Division's goal is to use its expertise
in a wide-range of technology foundations and its demonstrated academic
outreach to support the rapidly growing needs of the Laboratory's HS
programs, with the focal point being the Center for Homeland Security
(CHS). Actions over the next year will include the following.

1.  Actively engage in planning and program development activities
    within T Division, CHS, and national agencies to create the
    Laboratory-wide program.

2.  Identify and grow technical thrust areas in TR for T Division. In
    particular, build on its successful programs such as the Threat
    Anticipation Modeling Project, EpiCast, Center for Theoretical and
    Computational Pathomics, and work with the U.S. Army Medical
    Research Institute for Infectious Diseases to study emerging and
    engineered pathogenic agents, computational immune and system
    biology, particularly in new growth areas of water, plant, and
    animal vulnerabilities.

3.  Develop the scientific grand challenge of vulnerability, detection,
    mitigation, and control of infrastructure networks.

4.  Coordinate with SR and CHS to develop hiring and resource plans to
    address growing needs, activating CNLS resources for academic and
    industrial engagement.

5.  Algorithm development and models for passive remote sensors and
    hyperspectral imaging, signal recovery in chattered backgrounds,
    statistical detection and identification of anomalies, and large
    data set analysis.

6.  Develop mathematical modeling of quantum technologies and nanoscale
    electro-optical devices.

7.  Develop a new project for the Nuclear Emergency Search Team.

8.  Develop dataphysics/image analysis/feature extraction (in
    collaboration with ISR Division).

[Funding Sources]{.underline}: DHS, Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), and the intelligence community for chemical/biological
areas, and DHS and DOE for radiation/nuclear areas. Industry is expected
to play an increased role as technologies are deployed, particularly
those already serving homeland security needs and nontraditional
industries in homeland security. T Division has been an aggressive
champion for this thrust via briefings and proposals to potential
collaborators and sponsors: LDRD, DoD Defense Science Board, BioChem
2020, NIH RegionalCenters of Excellence for Homeland Security, CIA,
Defense Intelligence Agency, DTRA, NSA, and the UK Ministry of Defense.

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1c. Innovative Science and Technology for Energy Security

To meet energy needs, the U.S. relies increasingly on sources of energy
from unstable parts of the world and sources of energy with potential
large-scale environmental impacts. In addition, the U.S. struggles with
an aging infrastructure vulnerable to both natural disasters and human
threats. The goal of energy security is to achieve energy independence
with minimal environmental impact. Such a goal requires a broad research
agenda to find abundant and reliable new sources, distribute existing
resources more efficiently and securely, and reduce the environmental
impacts of all energy use.

T Division has strong capabilities in both theory and modeling that can
be applied to energy security research. In particular, the Division will
focus on: 1) modeling the impacts of energy use on climate, building on
existing climate modeling capabilities to address regional impacts, and
further examine ocean carbon sequestration and the role of ocean
ecosystems; 2) modeling of energy infrastructure to improve the
efficiency, security, and reliability of the nation's energy
infrastructure; 3) theory and modeling for new catalysts and mechanisms
for more efficient and economical fuel cells; 4) basic actinide and
accelerator research for advanced nuclear fuel cycle and other nuclear
waste issues; 5) advanced technologies for more efficient lighting and
photovoltaics; 6) modeling for reactor safety and reactor design for Gen
IV nuclear power reactors; 7) combustion modeling for more efficient
engines and turbines; 8) superconductor research for use in energy
transmission and storage; and 9) continued long-term research and
modeling for fusion energy.

Many areas of energy security are led by other divisions and federal
agencies and will require T Division to build and maintain partnerships
across the Laboratory and DOE complex. The Office of Energy and
Environment Initiatives under SR coordinates strategic planning for the
energy security goal at the Laboratory and sponsors the Energy and
Environment Council in which T Division participates. The Nuclear
Technology Office also plays an important role. Other Laboratory
partners include CCS, EES, D, C, and MST divisions. The primary
customers are the DOE Offices of: Science (SC), Fossil Energy (FE),
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Electricity Delivery and
Energy Reliability (EDER), and Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology.
In addition, other agencies like NSF and the Department of Commerce play
an important role. Working with other DOE and external agencies often
requires partnerships with related laboratories such as National
Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), National Energy Technology
Laboratory (NETL), National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

> **Business Plan: Innovative Science and Technology for Energy
> Security**
>
> [Thrust Leaders]{.underline}: Phil Jones (T-3) and Rajan Gupta (T-8)
>
> [Goals]{.underline}: 1) continue to build and expand existing programs
> and capabilities, like climate modeling, infrastructure modeling, fuel
> cell research and others; 2) revive nascent capabilities for energy
> security applications, e.g., reactor safety and combustion modeling;
> and 3) partner with other divisions and laboratories to apply T
> Division expertise toward new program areas in energy security.
>
> [Program Measures]{.underline}: Success in energy security will be
> measured in two ways. For existing strengths and programs, success
> will be measured by publications and involvement in national and
> international programs. In other areas, success will be measured by
> the number of new initiatives or programs.
>
> [Actions]{.underline}: 1) continue building on existing strengths; 2)
> participate in the energy security roadmap and strategic planning,
> looking for new partnerships and new applications for T Division
> expertise; and 3) revive and market existing dormant capabilities for
> use in new areas.
>
> [Funding sources]{.underline}: DOE Offices (SC, FE, EERE, EDER, NEST)
> and LDRD or Institutional Program Development (IPD) funds.

**Innovative Science and Technology for Energy Security**

**Thrust Leaders: Phil Jones (T-3) and Rajan Gupta (T-8)**

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**2.** **Hard, Soft, and Biological Matter**

**2a. Understanding and Design of Complex Materials: Bridging Multiple
Length         and Time Scales**

This thrust supports theory, modeling, and simulation in materials, an
internationally recognized LANL strength that is at the cutting edge of
current materials research. It involves new integrated multiscale
(length and time) theoretical techniques that are experimentally
validated wherever possible, but most importantly that can increasingly
predict materials properties in regimes inaccessible to experiment
(e.g., to accurately and reliably calculate the properties of matter
under extreme conditions for the weapons program). In industrial and
materials processing applications, the new advances will provide a way
to guide the design of materials where a purely empirical
trial-and-error approach is too costly or time consuming. In soft matter
(biomaterials, polymers, organics, hybrid materials, etc.) and other
complex materials (Pu, high explosives, foams, etc.), a theory,
modeling, and simulation effort that is closely coupled with specific,
well-designed experiments is essential to understand, design, and
predict materials structure-property relations. A well-designed plan to
capitalize on these strengths will help ensure that LANL is best
positioned to foster critical technology for all of the technical goals
(A--G) of the Laboratory and to become the premier materials science and
technology laboratory in the world.

This thrust depends on aggressively pursuing new research efforts for
the development of new mathematical, computational, physical models and
techniques that span length and time scales from atoms to engineering.
The range of techniques that must be integrated is thus quite large and
incorporates many disciplines. New statistical models must be developed
that capture the important scientific parameters and relevant variables
at functional intermediate length and time scales. The importance of the
breadth of T Division capabilities cannot be overstated -- the
development of new tools for modeling materials requires strongly
interdisciplinary research.

In addition, to reach its leadership potential in materials research,
LANL must optimize a program that integrates materials experiments with
its modeling and simulation capabilities, since experimental guidance
and validation of new theoretical and modeling techniques will be
critical. A major test of the new theories will be how well they are
able to guide the experimental program (e.g., suggesting new experiments
and providing interpretive bases for the data). Although experimental
and other collaborative ties are already strong with many joint programs
already in progress, T Division is ready and eager to engage in
constructive dialogue to even better integrate its capabilities with
those of other divisions, recognizing that a more disciplined, focused,
and planned approach will reap even greater benefits and drive the
exciting science that will energize and integrate materials, chemical,
and biological research at LANL for decades to come.

Important opportunities lie in our ability to take advantage of
important LANL facilities such as the CINT, the Los Alamos Neutron
Science Center (LANSCE), the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
(NHMFL), the DARHT facility, proton radiography, and, in particular,
large-scale computing. Indeed, a principal competitive advantage for Los
Alamos is our ability to apply high-end computer capabilities to
important problems.

Our numerous collaborators in academia, industry, and other national
laboratories are a significant resource. It will be important to
consolidate current, somewhat scattered efforts into a coherent program
with specific short- and long-term objectives and sustain the support of
upper management for resources to establish and maintain an
international reputation in this area. Integration of our efforts
through LANL's Materials, Science, and Engineering Council (MSEC) will
be critical.

**Business Plan: Understanding and Design of Complex Materials: Bridging
Multiple Length and Time Scales**

[Thrust Leaders]{.underline}: Robert Albers (T-11) and Joel Kress (T-12)

[Research Goals]{.underline}:

-   Provide an underpinning of theory, modeling, and simulation to guide
    the design and synthesis of new classes of complex materials and to
    help interpret and understand measurements at meso- and nanoscales
    and the physical processes controlling materials properties and
    device performance.

-   Develop new, integrated multiscale (length and time) theoretical
    techniques to energize materials research at LANL to keep it at the
    cutting edge of international science as well as to foster critical
    technology for Stockpile Stewardship, TR, and the DOE.

-   Push new frontiers such as the notion of *functional complexity*: a
    systems approach to emergent properties, and realizing/manipulating
    hard/multiferroic and soft/biological matter; and the role of
    interfaces in nanoscience (e.g., a broader understanding of active
    interfaces).

-   Enhance connection between computational materials science and
    engineering models and synergy with high-performance computing
    initiative.

[Management Goal]{.underline}: Consolidate current scattered efforts
into a coherent program with specific short-term (e.g., active
interfaces as a nanoscience frontier) and long-term objectives (e.g.,
enhanced predictive science) and generate the support of upper
management for funding and staff to establish and maintain an
international reputation in this area.

[Program Measures]{.underline}:

-   New, specific strategic thrust plans and proposals.

-   Establishment of long-term mechanisms for maintaining coordination
    of thrust.

-   Level of new funding and funding sources.

-   Scientific excellence and international presence.

-   Success of MSEC as a single voice for materials science at LANL.

[Actions over the next year to achieve goal]{.underline}:

-   Work with other divisions to push new materials initiatives and to
    take advantage of developing opportunities (e.g., CINT and
    nanotechnology and the Lighting Initiative) and integrate theory
    thrusts with corresponding experimental activity.

-   Coordinate this activity with other Laboratory strategic goals,
    especially predictive science (uncertainty quantification), nuclear
    weapons (actinide science), threat reduction (sensors, mini-devices,
    communications), DOE/SC facilities (LANSCE, NHMFL, CINT), and
    industrial collaboration with business goals. Coordinate
    Laboratory-wide activities through MSEC.

[Funding Sources]{.underline}: DOE/SC, DOE/DP, DoD, DARPA, and LDRD

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**2b. Modeling Biological Processes**

**Purpose:** To develop mathematical and computational models of
biological systems, bridging the multiple size and time scales relevant
to the description of biological processes. These models will have
applications in health, environment, and threat reduction problems and
should help us establish and maintain a strong international reputation
with applications in these areas. This thrust is aligned with Laboratory
goals in science-based prediction (Goal A), homeland defense (Goal C),
programs related to CINT and Genomes-to-Life (Goal G), and the
Laboratory-wide bioscience and biotechnology goals.

**Rationale and Description:** Biological processes involve multiple
size and time scales, from the molecular, to multicomponent molecular
machines, to cells, organisms and populations. Phenomena from different
scales are combined into the response of an organism interacting with
other organisms (i.e., host-pathogen interactions in infectious and
parasitic diseases). At the molecular level, proteins are the machines
that perform most of the biological functions. In the performance of
these functions, proteins interact with each other in a well-coordinated
fashion, where an initial event can trigger a cascade of events that
result in a large-scale response. The production and interaction of
those proteins, and their role in helping replicate genetic materials,
is often driven by interactions at the cell level, be it between
different types of cells in tissue or between cells and pathogens
(bacteria and viruses). The effects of these protein interactions are
then felt at the tissue, organ, organism, and population levels.
Consequently, the understanding of biological processes at various size
and time scales will provide essential knowledge to prevent, modify and
control biological processes, and will lead to the design of better
treatment for disease and the development of defense tools against
biological threats.

**Applications in health and homeland defense:** Integration of
mathematical modeling, the study of the evolution of viruses with new
informatics techniques, molecular modeling, and high-performance
computing has been beneficial in the research against viral diseases
like HIV, influenza, and Hepatitis C. Similar approaches are being used
for dealing with other diseases, such as bacterial infections, and for
forensics. Areas of development include the following.

-   New statistical methods for the reliable determination of
    evolutionary trees from sequence data. These trees can be used to
    trace the origin of modified pathogens.

-   The study of the cell-signaling pathways involved in immune response
    that can lead to the development of state-of-the-art sensors that
    mimic antigen recognition by the cell machinery.

-   Molecular studies of protein-protein interactions that can help
    develop small protein or nuclei acid molecules that selectively
    recognize the proteins from pathogens that constitute a biological
    threat.

-   The use of combinatorial chemistry to select biological molecules
    (peptides) with desired properties, and theoretical and
    computational models of protein-protein interactions that can
    establish the structural features that lead to specificity.

-   Theory, modeling, and simulation of the anatomical, physiological,
    and biochemical progression of infectious diseases and their
    epidemiology.

-   Mathematical and computational approaches leading neural information
    processing.

**Business Plan: Modeling Biological Processes**

[Thrust Leader]{.underline}: Antonio Redondo (T-10)

[Long-term Goals]{.underline}:

-   Developing our capabilities and understanding of host-pathogen
    interactions and immune, regulatory, and transcription control
    networks will benefit the Genomes-to-Life program and TR. Research
    on health-related models will also benefit programs in NIH, DHS,
    HHS, DoD, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This
    includes strong support of the Center for Theoretical and
    Computational Pathomics (CTCP).

-   Consolidate current scattered efforts into a coherent program with
    specific short- and long-term objectives and generate upper
    management support for resources to establish and maintain an
    international reputation in this area.

-   Develop partnerships with B, P, D, CCS, and ISR Divisions at LANL
    and with academia. Of great importance is coordinating the
    development of models with experimental efforts to validate these
    models. Use of high-performance computing in biological systems
    modeling may prove to be crucial for LANL competitiveness in a
    primarily academic research field.

-   Planning and writing proposals to create a Biological Modeling
    Center at Los Alamos. This center will combine our expertise in
    systems and disease modeling, cell signaling, molecular modeling,
    bioinformatics, and computation to create a program that provides
    theoretical and computational support to experimental efforts at
    LANL and elsewhere.

[Short-term Goals]{.underline}:

-   Support and work toward creating the CTCP with congressional
    funding. This will include the exploration of the role of
    theoretical and computational modeling in assisting LANL efforts in
    HS. At the early stages, emphasis will be on the development of a
    research plan and supporting proposals. Later, funding may be
    available to study avian influenza and other pathogens.

-   Planning and writing grant proposals in response to DOE's
    Genomes-to-Life program. At the early stages, major emphasis will be
    in the development of protein production facilities with T Division
    providing computational support for these facilities. At a later
    stage of development, funding may be available for the creation of
    advanced simulation facilities to model molecular machines.

-   Participate in the Laboratory-wide bioscience and biotechnology
    goals.

-   Participation in NIH Program grants for the development of novel
    biomimetic sensors.

[Recent Accomplishments]{.underline}:

-   Major participant in efforts to establish the CTCP at Los Alamos.

-   Major participant in Biothreat Risk Assessment program.

-   Accomplished first simulations of ribosome structure.

-   Participation in new international NIH program in vaccine
    development (CHAVI).

-   Continued development and maintenance of internationally known
    databases for HIV, HCV, and influenza.

-   Maintenance of a leading international reputation in immunology,
    vaccine development, and structural biology.

[Funding Sponsors]{.underline}: NIH, LDRD, CDC, DOE, DHS, and DoD.

+-----------------------------------+----------------------------------+
| **Modeling Biological Processes** |                                  |
|                                   |                                  |
| **SWOT Analysis**                 |                                  |
+-----------------------------------+----------------------------------+
| **Strengths**                     | ####### Weaknesses               |
|                                   |                                  |
| 1.  World-class scientific staff  | 1.  Lack of diversified funding  |
|     in the areas of immunology,   |     portfolio---currently 60% of |
|     viral diseases, networks,     |     funding is NIH.              |
|     complex systems modeling,     |                                  |
|     quantum chemistry, molecular  | 2.  Need to recruit new staff    |
|     modeling, and                 |     members to maintain group    |
|     high-performance computing.   |     strength over next decade.   |
|                                   |                                  |
| 2.  State-of-the-art              | 3.  High cost of operations when |
|     computational facilities at   |     compared to academia.        |
|     LANL and various groups in    |                                  |
|     the division.                 |                                  |
+-----------------------------------+----------------------------------+
| **Opportunities**                 | **Threats**                      |
|                                   |                                  |
| 1.  New funding in areas of       | 1.  Academic competition in      |
|     homeland defense and          |     single investigator projects |
|     pathomics.                    |     is not balanced (cost,       |
|                                   |     access to students, cost of  |
| 2.  Continuation of the           |     postdoctoral fellows.)       |
|     Genomes-to-Life project in    |                                  |
|     DOE---should prepare for      | 2.  Other national laboratories  |
|     strong competition in areas   |     are well prepared to compete |
|     of computational modeling and |     for Homeland Security and    |
|     molecular machines.           |     Genomes-to-Life projects.    |
|                                   |                                  |
| 3.  DoD call in biothreat         |                                  |
|     countermeasure development.   |                                  |
|                                   |                                  |
| 4.  NIH program calls in image    |                                  |
|     analysis.                     |                                  |
+-----------------------------------+----------------------------------+

**3. Fundamental Processes**

Experimental and observational advances over the last decade have led to
unprecedented progress in our knowledge and understanding of the
universe from the smallest to the largest scales. Many of the most
exciting science opportunities occur at the intersection of
astrophysics, atomic, nuclear, and particle physics. An intriguing
aspect of this enhanced understanding is the strong coupling between
information obtained on large and small scales. Present cosmological
observations (microwave background, large-scale structure) not only
provide solid evidence for a new form of "dark" matter but also strongly
constrain the relevant particle and nuclear physics (e.g., particle
masses). Exciting advances have been made in understanding new states of
matter in the laboratory and in astrophysical regimes. Novel states of
matter such as Bose-Einstein and fermion condensates can be studied in
the laboratory in cold atomic gases and their properties related to
those of QCD at high baryon density. These new states of matter have
recently been speculated to be near an absolute lower limit of
viscosity, and relations to the quark-gluon plasma of high-temperature
QCD are being explored.

There are many scientific tools and goals common to these exciting
scientific challenges. We refer to this cross-disciplinary field
encompassing key aspects of astrophysics, atomic physics, and nuclear
and particle physics as *fundamental processes*. Fundamental processes
include the basic building blocks of nature and their interactions.
These range from the evolution of the universe and the formation of
large-scale structure to the properties of atoms and nuclei and their
role in extreme astrophysical environments, including neutron stars and
supernovae; the properties and interactions of neutrinos with matter;
the formation of the first stars in the universe, supernovae, the
production of all the elements; and exotic new states of matter in
atomic, nuclear, and particle physics regimes. To exploit opportunities
arising from unique laboratory capabilities and strengths at the
intersection of these fields, we have developed an initiative called
PNAC, *Particle, Nuclear, Astrophysics and Cosmology*, to address the
grand challenge of understanding fundamental processes at all
scales---from quarks to the cosmos.

The strategic objectives are threefold:

1.  to develop core competencies in advanced mathematics and simulation
    that contribute across many application areas,

2.  to exploit recent empirical and conceptual progress in our
    understanding of fundamental processes to create a unified picture
    of processes applicable across scales from "quarks to the cosmos,"
    and

3.  to recruit and retain scientists of exceptional talent.

The thrust brings the uniquely powerful combined expertise of T Division
to bear on problems at the cutting edge of present-day research,
including the following:

-   Exploring the standard model of elementary particles and its
    extensions. (T-8, T-16)

-   Neutrino masses and mixing from terrestrial experiments and
    astrophysical observations.\
    (T-6, T-8, T-16)

-   Particle astrophysics and cosmology, focusing on the evolution of
    the universe, the origin and distribution of dark matter, and the
    generation of large-scale structures. (T-6, T-8, T-16)

-   Formation of first stars, nucleosynthesis, and supernovae. (T-6,
    T-8, T-16)

-   Nonequilibrium phenomena in nuclear (relativistic heavy ion
    collisions) and particle (baryogenesis) physics. (T-8, T-16)

-   Equation of state for dense plasmas and neutrino propagation. (T-6,
    T-8, T-16)

-   Exact calculations of nuclear bound states and reactions. (T-16)

-   Generation and dynamics of Bose-Einstein, fermion and molecular
    condensates. (T-4, T-16)

-   Super-short and super-intense pulse lasers. (T-4)

-   Quantum information and computing. (T-4, T-8, T-11, T-QC)

The solution of these difficult and complex problems will require active
collaboration of physicists possessing expertise in multiple areas of
research. The integrated effort will make LANL the preferred laboratory
for using high-performance computing and large data management for
investigating fundamental processes and the structure of matter, and
enhance science-based prediction by linking experiment, simulation, and
theory. The work is aligned with the core efforts of the DOE/SC in these
areas.

**Business Plan -- Fundamental Processes**

[Thrust Leaders]{.underline}: Rajan Gupta (T-8), Joseph Carlson (T-16),
James Cohen (T-4), and Michael Warren

(T-6)

[Implementation Plans]{.underline}:

-   Recruit and retain scientists of exceptional talent and capabilities
    in theory, simulation, and modeling.

-   Analyzing and mining large data sets to elucidate underlying
    principles and mechanisms.

-   Work with experimental colleagues, internal and external, to
    interpret data and guide future experiments.

-   Coordinate with program offices, other divisions, directorates, and
    outside resources to amplify T Division's unique strengths and to
    create integrated programs within T Division and develop external
    collaborations.

-   Exploit recent advances in theory, mathematics, and high-performance
    computing.

[Program Measures]{.underline}: Success of the program will be measured
by publications in refereed journals, invited conference talks and
seminars, participation in and organization of international conferences
and schools, peer-reviewed grants and funding, new programs and research
activities developed, and contributions to LANL programs, research, and
outreach activities.

[Actions over the next year to achieve the goal]{.underline}: Attract
the very best scientists to LANL as postdoctoral fellows and to hire
world-class scientists as staff members. Develop strong collaborations
with experimentalists, both at LANL and internationally. Conduct
outstanding research in the areas of:

1.  standard model of elementary particle interactions and physics
    beyond;

2.  neutrino masses, mixings, and interactions with matter;

3.  large-scale structure of the universe and cosmology;

4.  first stars, nucleosynthesis, and supernovae formation and
    evolution;

5.  Bose-Einstein, fermion and molecular condensates and their relations
    to dense QCD, and

6.  structure and reactions of nuclei relevant to fundamental symmetries
    and neutrino physics.

[Funding Sources]{.underline}: DOE/NHEP, DOE Scientific Discovery
through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program, LDRD

[Partners]{.underline}: The theoretical efforts in T Division partner
with the experimental efforts in P, C, CCS, MST, and LANSCE divisions.
These efforts provide valuable support to experimental programs at
national facilities run by the DOE and NSF (RHIC/BNL, FERMILAB, SLAC,
CESR, JLAB, LIGO, and international ground- and space-based astronomical
and astrophysical observatories).

**3a. Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics and Cosmology**

It is widely recognized that some of the most exciting physics
opportunities today lie at the intersection of nuclear, particle,
astrophysics, and cosmology (PNAC). Los Alamos and T Division have both
a rich tradition and a broad range of current exciting capabilities in
these areas, and we have developed a multidisciplinary thrust at the
intersection of these fields where LANL and the Division can play an
important role.

The Division's effort in PNAC science are strong and diverse and include
efforts in neutrinos and their interactions, dark energy and dark
matter, cosmology and large-scale structure formation in the universe,
supernovae, and the origin of the elements, the first stars in the
universe, s- and r-process nucleosynthesis, neutron stars, and the phase
diagram of QCD at high baryon densities. PNAC science is characterized
by the requirement to understand physics at very different length scales
in diverse astrophysical settings.

One intriguing example is the LANL investment in a project on the first
stars in the universe, which ties together large-scale structure
formation in the early universe with the evolution, collapse, and
explosion of the first stars and the subatomic processes tied directly
to present observations. Other important examples include cosmology and
its close ties to particle physics through studies of dark matter and
dark energy, and supernovae and the importance of neutrino physics in
their evolution and the formation of the elements in the universe.

PNAC science in T Division is also characterized by the large-scale
computations and data handling required at scales ranging from the
nuclear through the astrophysical and cosmological scales. Los Alamos is
unique in having important capabilities in all these regimes. The
science involved is also closely tied to many of the Laboratory's most
important missions, including computationally intensive
magnetohydrodynamics simulations, N-body codes with long-range forces,
and nuclear probes of physics in extreme environments. We also have
close ties with observational and experimental groups in the Laboratory
and beyond, including the neutrino physics experimental program in the
Physics Division, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II).

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We have worked to organize and form a coherent strategy for PNAC science
at LANL during the past year. These include ongoing workshops in
neutrino physics, supernovae and neutron stars, and cosmology. We also
held a one-day workshop with renowned external scientists Jim Truran
(University of Chicago), George Fuller (UCSD), and Josh Frieman
(Fermilab). They have written a one-page report on PNAC activities in
T-Division; highlights of their recommendations are shown to the right.

A white paper describing the PNAC efforts in T Division has also been
written to give a more complete picture of the scientific activities in
this area. We are presently pursuing plans to expand our initiative to
more fully include scientists throughout the Laboratory and beyond. The
collaboration of T-6, T-8, and T-16 with experimental, observational,
and computational expertise throughout the Laboratory is crucial to
moving this initiative forward.

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**3b.** **T Division Support of the LANL Quantum Institute**

**Purpose:** To expand our knowledge of quantum information processing
devices and to design quantum simulators to study physics of materials
as a milestone on the way to the quantum computer.

**Rationale and Description**: Several recent developments in quantum
information science have motivated LANL to form the Quantum Institute.
Reflecting LANL's acknowledged position as one of the world leaders in
experimental and theoretical efforts on quantum computation, ARDA is
currently funding five independent quantum computing research efforts at
LANL, and there are currently seven LDRD-funded quantum-computing
efforts in directed and exploratory research. Five groups in T Division
play a major role in this field and strongly interact within the Quantum
Institute and with four other divisions. Topics on which we are focusing
include quantum simulators that efficiently model quantum processes,
Bose Einstein condensate (BEC) physics, development of new
ultrasensitive detection methods based on the use of exotic quantum
states, and the self-assembly of large arrays of quantum bits.

The Quantum Institute has been established and is run by the Scientific
Steering Committee with divisional representation. It is generating
productive synergism that is benefiting many groups and sponsors. Staff
expertise and experimental capabilities at LANL, combined with recent
technical developments, are focusing on the following research topics.

-   Quantum simulators, decoherence, quantum computation. (T-DO)

-   Ultrasensitive quantum measurements. (T-4)

-   Design of large quantum computers, qubit measurements, and
    decoherence. (T-13)

-   Quantum cryptography and ion-trap quantum computation. (P-21, T-11,
    T-DO)

-   Quantum interferometry based on BECs. (T-DO, T-4, T-13, P-21, C-INC)

-   Solid-state quantum computation and spin measurements. (MST-8, T-13)

-   Quantum microscope with single-spin resolution. (T-11, T-13)

-   Quantum phase transitions, dynamics, and defect formation. (T-QC,
    T-11, T-4, T-16, P-21, C-INC)

Expected outcomes include operational quantum simulators and the
creation of many new applications for quantum measurement and quantum
control.

**Partners:** External collaborations exist with the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Dartmouth College,
Pennsylvania State University, Waterloo University, Rice University,
Cornell University, University of New South Wales, Motorola, the U.S.
Air Force, and IBM.

**Customers:** ARDA is continuing to coordinate the Inter-Agency Quantum
Computing Program, which continues to invest about \$100M/year in this
field. DARPA has set up its own Quantum Computing Program, which it
funds at about \$30M/year.

# Business Plan: T Division Support of the LANL Quantum Institute

[Thrust Leaders]{.underline}: Juan P. Paz (T-DO) and Eddy Timmermans
(T-4)

[Research goals]{.underline}**:**

*Short-term (major deliverables in the next 18 months):*

-   Demonstrate quantum simulators using cold atoms. (T- DO, T-4, T-11,
    P-21, C-INC)

-   Demonstrate ultrasensitive quantum measurement strategies. (T-4)

-   Optimize design of large quantum computers, qubit measurements, and
    decoherence. (T-13)

-   Quantum cryptography and ion-trap quantum computation. (P-21, T-4,
    T-DO)

## *Longer-term:*

-   Quantum interferometry based on BECs. (T-DO, T-4, T-13, P-21, C-INC)

-   Solid-state quantum computation and spin measurements. (MST-8, T-4,
    T-13)

-   Quantum microscope with single-spin resolution. (T-11, T-13)

-   Study dynamics and defect formation during quantum phase
    transitions. (T-DO, T-4, T-11, P-21,

C-INC)

[Management goals]{.underline}:

*Short-term:*

-   Achieve Center status for the Quantum Institute.

-   Recruit new staff working in frontier areas of quantum physics.

## *Longer-term:*

-   Develop support mechanisms in DOE, NSA, DARPA, and other agencies.

-   Develop a network of partners in multiple LDRD-NNSA projects within
    the Laboratory.

[Program Measures]{.underline}:

*Research measures:*

-   Perform ion-trap, solid-state, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and
    optical quantum operations and simulations.

-   Develop new ultrasensitive detection schemes using quantum
    technologies.

*Management measure:*

-   Continue development of the Quantum Institute.

[Actions over the next year to achieve the goals]{.underline}:

-   Coordinate LANL quantum groups to develop new proposals and actively
    participate in existing initiatives.

-   Extend the involvement of the Quantum Institute to represent all
    quantum computing research efforts at LANL.

[Funding Sources]{.underline}: ARDA, Army Resource Office (ARO), Air
Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), DARPA, DOE/DP, DOE/SC, NSA

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## **4. High-End Computing Research**

Today\'s scientific world is experiencing a paradigm shift where the
sophistication of mathematical models, the accuracy and efficiency of
numerical algorithms, the robustness of computer software, and the power
of computation have become so great that numerical simulations are now
considered a third pillar, along with theory and experiment, in the
triad of tools used for scientific discovery. The rate of advances in
these fields, and our ability to simulate complex physical systems, will
increasingly be the limiting factors in our ability to solve many of our
most pressing scientific challenges.

Scientific discovery in many areas requires computational models that
incorporate more complete and realistic descriptions of the phenomena
being modeled than are possible today. More efficient algorithms, more
accurate mathematical models, advanced software, and more powerful
computers are essential to fueling the pace of scientific discovery and
underpin the research and development that the Laboratory conducts to
meet its energy and national security missions in Science-based
Stockpile Stewardship, fusion science, biology, nanoscience, high energy
and nuclear physics, fluid dynamics, applied mathematics, chemistry,
climate, and related fields that provide high-fidelity descriptions of
the underlying science. Because our computational capability is also so
critical to scientific discovery in these core missions, T Division
brings a renewed focus to this challenge.

We will renew our support for collaborations between computational
scientists, application simulation developers, computer scientists, and
applied mathematicians to create the complete set of necessary and
sufficient advances in computer models, algorithms, software, and
advanced hardware to meet the next generation of major scientific
challenges facing the Laboratory. These challenges will be increasingly
complex, progressively more multidisciplinary, and span a much larger
range of spatial and temporal scales than in the past.

The thrust will increase our focus on creating the advanced scientific
computing infrastructure and foundational base for synergistic
multidisciplinary advances with the traditional theoretical and
experimental sciences that will maximize the value derived from the
Laboratory's facilities and research investments.

Work at the forefront of science can require the dedicated availability
of the most advanced supercomputers for extended periods of time. To
meet the need for effective computing, T Division will support the
evaluation, installation, and application of new, very high-end
computing architectures at the Laboratory. We will work with the
Laboratory Institutional Computing Resources initiative to provide
significant amounts of open computer resources to enable computations
that could not be carried out on high-end workstations and conventional
supercomputers.

**Business Plan: High-End Computing Research**

[Long Term Goals]{.underline}: The overall goal of this thrust is to
discover, develop, and deploy the computational tools that enable
researchers in the scientific disciplines to analyze, model, simulate,
and predict complex phenomena important to Laboratory missions. This is
being achieved by fostering and supporting fundamental research in
advanced scientific computing by developing fundamental mathematical
methods and advanced scientific computing approaches to model complex
physical systems on the highest performance computers available. The
long-term goal is to create a strong scientific foundation for
supporting high-performance computer simulations in support of the other
goals of the strategic plan.

[Program Measures]{.underline}: The high quality of the T Division
research in advanced scientific computing is continuously evaluated
through merit-based peer review, the impact on Laboratory programs, and
support generated to sustain the effort from competitive funding
agencies.

[Actions over the next year to achieve the goal]{.underline}:

-   Develop core technologies in algorithms, mathematical models,
    software, and advanced hardware that contribute across many
    application areas.

-   Develop S&T projects and programs that address the needs of
    science-based predictive models.

-   Leverage the development of the computing technologies and resources
    derived from programmatic areas in predictive science.

-   Develop new and improved mathematical methods for addressing the
    challenges of multiscale problems.

-   Incorporate the new models into scientific simulation software that
    achieves greater performance from supercomputers than we can achieve
    today.

-   Progress toward developing the mathematics, algorithms, and software
    that enable effective, scientifically critical models of complex
    systems, including highly nonlinear or uncertain phenomena, or
    processes that interact on vastly different scales or contain both
    discrete and continuous elements.

-   Collaborate closely with the science campaigns to ensure the
    vitality of the focused experimental programs upon which the
    credibility of new simulations depends.

-   Provide the necessary computing capability to code users, in
    collaboration with industrial partners and government agencies.

-   Evaluate mission-critical requirements to guide us in selecting
    particular architectures well suited to our workload.

[Funding Sources]{.underline}: DOE/NN, LDRD, DOE/SC

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**Appendix B -- List of LANL Strategic Goals**

**National Security Goals**

**A. Science-Based Prediction**

Create an integrating core competency for Science-Based Prediction of
complex systems linking experiment, simulation, and theory.

**B. Nuclear Weapons**

Design and engineer manufacturable and certifiable replacement nuclear
weapons without new nuclear testing.

**C. Nonproliferation**

Be acknowledged as the premier laboratory for nonproliferation research
and development.

**D. Preferred Laboratory**

Be the preferred laboratory for providing the defense, intelligence, and
homeland security communities with revolutionary, success-enabling
science and technology.

**E. Materials Science**

Be the best materials science and technology lab in the world in support
of our mission.

**F. Energy Security**

Use LANL expertise and capability to solve national problems in energy
security.

**G. Office of Science**

Be a strategic partner of the Office of Science to benefit their
national missions and the science-base critical to our national security
missions.

**Enabling Goals**

**H. Workforce**

Build the agile workforce for the future.

**I. Business**

Employ those business practices that best serve our trusted, competitive
scientific solutions.

**J. Corporate Approach**

Institute an integrated corporate approach to plan, allocate, and manage
Laboratory resources to maximize accomplishment of LANL mission.

**K. Laboratory Management**

Laboratory management leads a culture of trust in our people, mission,
science, and business.

**L. Communication**

Communicate accurately and consistently in a timely, open, and
interactive way.

**M. Facilities**

Modernize and consolidate facilities/infrastructure to support safe,
secure, and efficient Laboratory operations.

**N. Compliance**

Improve efficiency with which we achieve regulatory compliance and
manage risk to support operational excellence.

**O. Creativity**

Enhance science & technology creativity and productivity.

**P. Knowledge Management**

Adopt the best knowledge management solution for LANL.

*Source: <http://int.lanl.gov/goals/> (November 7, 2005)*

**Appendix C -- Theoretical Division FY06 Laboratory Directed Research
and Development Portfolio**

+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| **        | **P | **Pr  | **Project Title**                | **T  |
| Principal | I's | oject |                                  | Divi |
| Inv       | G   | Num   |                                  | sion |
| estigator | rou | ber** |                                  | Grou |
| (PI)**    | p** |       |                                  | p(s) |
|           |     |       |                                  | I    |
|           |     |       |                                  | nvol |
|           |     |       |                                  | veme |
|           |     |       |                                  | nt** |
+===========+=====+=======+==================================+======+
| *         |     |       |                                  |      |
| *Directed |     |       |                                  |      |
| Research  |     |       |                                  |      |
| Projects  |     |       |                                  |      |
| with a T  |     |       |                                  |      |
| Division  |     |       |                                  |      |
| Principal |     |       |                                  |      |
| Inves     |     |       |                                  |      |
| tigator** |     |       |                                  |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Eddy      | T-4 | 20040 | Bose-Einstein Condensate         | T-DO |
| T         |     | 134DR | Physics: Dynamics and            | /QC, |
| immermans |     |       | Applications                     | T-4, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-8, |
|           |     |       |                                  |      |
|           |     |       |                                  | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -11, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -13, |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Alexander | T-6 | 20050 | Coming Out of the Cosmic Dark    | T-6, |
| Heger     |     | 031DR | Ages - The First Stars in the    | T-7, |
|           |     |       | Universe                         |      |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-8, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-16 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Byron     | T   | 20040 | Understanding the Molecular      | T    |
| Goldstein | -10 | 087DR | Mechanisms of Pathogen           | -10, |
|           |     |       | Recognition by the Immune        | T    |
|           |     |       | System: Biothreat Reduction      | -12, |
|           |     |       | through Predictive Science       | T-13 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Bette     | T   | 20050 | Rational Vaccine Design: Theory  | T-8, |
| Korber    | -10 | 155DR | and Experimental Validation      | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -10, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-13 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Alexander | T   | 20051 | Nanoscale Fluctuations in        | T-11 |
| Balatsky  | -11 | 164DR | Multifunctional Materials        |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Darryl    | T   | 20060 | New Classes of Materials For     | T-11 |
| Smith     | -11 | 136DR | Gamma-Ray and Neutron Detection  |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Joel      | T   | 20040 | Fission Fragment Physics in      | T-4, |
| Kress     | -12 | 842DR | Extreme Environments (U)         | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -12, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-16 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| A.        | T   | 20051 | Cross sections for the Isomer of | T-6, |
| Hayes     | -16 | 149DR | 235U                             | T-16 |
| -Sterbenz |     |       |                                  |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| A.        | T   | 20060 | Mix Processes in Inertial        | T-6, |
| Hayes     | -16 | 081DR | Confinement Fusion               | T-16 |
| -Sterbenz |     |       |                                  |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Juan Paz  | T   | 20050 | Cold Atom Quantum Simulators     | T-DO |
|           | -DO | 076DR |                                  | /QC, |
|           | /QC |       |                                  | T-4, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-11 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Zoltan    | C   | 20040 | Statistical Physics of           | C    |
| Toroczkai | NLS | 141DR | Infrastructure Networks          | NLS, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-7, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -10, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -12, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-13 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Robert    | C   | 20041 | Dynamics of Complex Networks:    | C    |
| Ecke      | NLS | 010DR | Biology, Information, and        | NLS, |
|           |     |       | Security                         | T-7, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -12, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-13 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Robert    | C   | 20050 | Nonlinear Behavior in Complex    | C    |
| Ecke      | NLS | 631DR | Systems                          | NLS, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-7, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-8, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -11, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -12, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-13 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Robert    | C   | 20050 | Cooperative Phenomena in Soft    | C    |
| Ecke      | NLS | 632DR | Matter                           | NLS, |
|           |     |       |                                  |      |
|           |     |       |                                  | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -10, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -11, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -12, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-13 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| *         |     |       |                                  |      |
| *Directed |     |       |                                  |      |
| Research  |     |       |                                  |      |
| Projects  |     |       |                                  |      |
| with a    |     |       |                                  |      |
| Non-T     |     |       |                                  |      |
| Division  |     |       |                                  |      |
| Principal |     |       |                                  |      |
| Inves     |     |       |                                  |      |
| tigator** |     |       |                                  |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Pat       | B-3 | 20050 | Metabolome Scale                 | T-10 |
| Unkefer   |     | 123DR | Characterization of the          |      |
|           |     |       | Biothreat Agent, Bacillus        |      |
|           |     |       | anthracis                        |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Jaqueline | C-  | 20040 | Understanding Electronic and     | T    |
| Kiplinger | SIC | 093DR | Magnetic Communication Between   | -11, |
|           |     |       | f-Electrons in Actinide and      | T-12 |
|           |     |       | Lanthanide Materials             |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Thomas    | C-  | 20050 | Be-Specific Human Immune         | T    |
| McCleskey | SIC | 127DR | Response and Development of CBD  | -10, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-12 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| James     | EE  | 20040 | Science of Geological Carbon     | T-13 |
| Carey     | S-6 | 042DR | Sequestration: Integration of    |      |
|           |     |       | Experimentation and Simulation   |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Manvendra | EE  | 20050 | Resolving the                    | T-7  |
| Dubey     | S-6 | 014DR | Aerosol-Climate-Water Puzzle:    |      |
|           |     |       | Predictive Science for Global    |      |
|           |     |       | Stability and Security           |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Steen     | EE  | 20050 | Protocell Assembly               | T-6, |
| Rasmussen | S-6 | 064DR |                                  | T-7  |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Tom       | IS  | 20050 | Thinking Telescopes: Pursuing a  | T-6  |
| Vestrand  | R-1 | 161DR | New Paradigm for Discovery in    |      |
|           |     |       | Observational Science            |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Geoff     | IS  | 20060 | DREAM: a Dynamic Radiation       | T-8  |
| Reeves    | R-1 | 060DR | Environment Assimilation Model   |      |
|           |     |       | to understand acceleration,      |      |
|           |     |       | transport, and losses in natural |      |
|           |     |       | and HANE-produced radiation      |      |
|           |     |       | belts                            |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| W.        | ISR | 20040 | Radiography with Background      | T-7  |
| Pr        | -DO | 072DR | Radiation                        |      |
| iedhorsky |     |       |                                  |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| John      | MST | 20040 | Localization and Itinerancy in   | T-1, |
| Sarrao    | -10 | 014DR | Plutonium                        | T-11 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Robert    | MST | 20050 | Lagrangian Measurements of Fluid | C    |
| Ecke      | -10 | 066DR | Mixing                           | NLS, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-7, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -11, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -12, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -13, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-14 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Marilyn   | MS  | 20040 | Solid-State Quantum Information  | T-4, |
| Hawley    | T-8 | 049DR | Processing : A New Approach to   | T-13 |
|           |     |       | Demonstrate Quantum Entanglement |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| James     | MS  | 20050 | Material Response During Dynamic | T-4, |
| Glownia   | T-C | 107DR | Loading at Subpicosecond Time    | T-11 |
|           | INT |       | and Nanometer Length Scales      |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Jeremy    | NMT | 20040 | Phase Transitions and Strong     | T    |
| Mitchell  | -16 | 844DR | Anharmonicities in Plutonium     | -DO, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-1, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-11 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| David     | NMT | 20050 | Pu-H Interactions: Studies of    | T    |
| Moore     | -16 | 043DR | Plutonium Hydride Phenomena (U)  | -DO, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-1, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-12 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| David L.  | NMT | 20060 | Structure and Bonding in         | T-12 |
| Clark     | -DO | 019DR | Actinide Oxides                  |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Gordon    | NMT | 20060 | Advanced Actinide Separations in | T-12 |
| Jarvinen  | -DO | 088DR | Alkaline Media for Spent Nuclear |      |
|           |     |       | Fuel and Defense Materials       |      |
|           |     |       | Processing                       |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Andrew    | P   | 20030 | Neutrino Physics and Fundamental | T-6, |
| Hime      | -23 | 030DR | Symmetries                       | T-8, |
|           |     |       |                                  |      |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-16 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Juan      | P   | 20040 | Energetic-Particle Interactions  | T-4, |
| Fernandez | -24 | 064DR | with Dense Plasmas: A Study      | T    |
|           |     |       | Relevant to Boost and to Fast    | -12, |
|           |     |       | Ignition Using Laser-Driven      | T-15 |
|           |     |       | High-Current Charge-Neutralized, |      |
|           |     |       | Mev/Nucleon Ion Beams            |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Patrick   | P   | 20060 | Heavy Quarks as a Probe of a New | T-8, |
| McGaughey | -25 | 049DR | State of Matter                  | T-16 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Mark      | PAD | 20050 | New Americium Delta-A Metric for | T-16 |
| Chadwick  | NWP | 184DR | Primary Certification (U)        |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| **Ex      |     |       |                                  |      |
| ploratory |     |       |                                  |      |
| Research  |     |       |                                  |      |
| Projects  |     |       |                                  |      |
| with a T  |     |       |                                  |      |
| Division  |     |       |                                  |      |
| Principal |     |       |                                  |      |
| Inves     |     |       |                                  |      |
| tigator** |     |       |                                  |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Anders    | T-1 | 20060 | Simulation and Modeling of the   | T-1, |
| Niklasson |     | 551ER | Quantum Response                 | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -12, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-14 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Dana      | T-3 | 20050 | A System-Scale Theory for Fast   | T-3, |
| Knoll     |     | 271ER | Magnetic Reconnection            | T-15 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Duan      | T-3 | 20060 | Next Generation Data Structure   | T-3  |
| Zhang     |     | 693ER | for Carta Blanca                 |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Eddy      | T-4 | 20040 | Secure Communications in Fiber   | T-4, |
| T         |     | 461ER | Links Using Randomness and       | T-7, |
| immermans |     |       | Nonlinearity of Optical Fibers   |      |
|           |     |       |                                  | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -11, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-13 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Michael   | T-6 | 20040 | Precision Cosmology: A First     | T    |
| S. Warren |     | 195ER | Principles Approach to Galaxy    | -DO, |
|           |     |       | Clustering                       | T-6, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-8  |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Michael   | T-6 | 20060 | A Faster Multipole Method        | T-6, |
| S. Warren |     | 350ER |                                  | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -10, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-11 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Kevin     | T-7 | 20040 | Modeling Invariance in Data      | T-7  |
| Vixie     |     | 379ER | Space                            |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Daniel    | T-7 | 20040 | Efficient Modeling of Systems    | T-7  |
| Ta        |     | 481ER | with Uncertainty on Multiple     |      |
| rtakovsky |     |       | Scales                           |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Salman    | T-8 | 20050 | Taming and Accelerating          | T-8  |
| Habib     |     | 379ER | Particle-In-Cell                 |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Rajan     | T-8 | 20060 | Multigene Correlations and Their | T-8  |
| Gupta     |     | 340ER | Implications for Cardiovascular  |      |
|           |     |       | Disease                          |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Yuri      | T-8 | 20060 | Supersymmetry Breaking in        | T-8  |
| Shirman   |     | 694ER | Various Dimensions               |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Hans      | T   | 20030 | Proteins in Protein Networks     | T-10 |
| Fra       | -10 | 839ER |                                  |      |
| uenfelder |     |       |                                  |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| K.        | T   | 20060 | Nascent Protein Folding Inside   | T-10 |
| Sa        | -10 | 230ER | the Tunnel of the Ribosome:      |      |
| nbonmatsu |     |       | Cotranslational Folding          |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Kim       | T   | 20040 | Understanding and Predicting the | T    |
| Rasmussen | -11 | 262ER | Initiation of DNA Transcription  | -10, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -11, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-13 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Ivar      | T   | 20040 | Quantum Devices for Electronic   | T-4, |
| Martin    | -11 | 391ER | Circuitry and Advanced Detection | T    |
|           |     |       |                                  | -11, |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-13 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| James     | T   | 20060 | Monte Carlo Estimation of        | T-11 |
| G         | -11 | 272ER | Eigenvalues of Ultradimensional  |      |
| ubernatis |     |       | Matrices and Continuous          |      |
|           |     |       | Operators                        |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Darryl    | T   | 20060 | Manipulation and Control of      | T-11 |
| Smith     | -11 | 589ER | Electron Spins in Semiconductors |      |
|           |     |       | with Strain Engineering          |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Richard   | T   | 20040 | Hybrid Density Functional Theory | T-12 |
| Martin    | -12 | 256ER | Investigations in Condensed      |      |
|           |     |       | Matter                           |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| David     | T   | 20060 | Development of an Engineering    | T-12 |
| Hanson    | -12 | 226ER | Model for Rubber Elasticity      |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Gennady   | T   | 20040 | New Mathematical Tools for the   | T    |
| Berman    | -13 | 237ER | Quantum Dynamics of a            | -13, |
|           |     |       | Bose-Einstein Condensate         | T-QC |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Eli       | T   | 20060 | Energy Distributions in Granular | C    |
| Ben-Naim  | -13 | 305ER | Flows                            | NLS, |
|           |     |       |                                  |      |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-13 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Michael   | T   | 20060 | Novel Physics Inspired Approach  | T-7, |
| Chertkov  | -13 | 473ER | to Error-Correction              | T-13 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Alejandro | T   | 20050 | Atomistic Studies of Fast        | T-14 |
| Strachan  | -14 | 343ER | Chemical Processes in            |      |
|           |     |       | Nano-structured Metastable       |      |
|           |     |       | Composites                       |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Giovanni  | T   | 20030 | Collisionless Magnetic           | T-15 |
| Lapenta   | -15 | 129ER | Reconnection in 3D Geometries    |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Luis      | T   | 20040 | Error-Minimizing, Implicit       | T-15 |
| Chacon    | -15 | 218ER | Adaptive-Grid Solutions of Time  |      |
|           |     |       | Dependent Problems               |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Giovanni  | T   | 20060 | Role of a New Attractive Force   | T-15 |
| Lapenta   | -15 | 399ER | on the Genesis of Solar Systems  |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Joseph    | T   | 20040 | Supernovae Neutrinos             | T-6, |
| Carlson   | -16 | 415ER |                                  | T-16 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| A.        | T   | 20051 | Antineutrino Monitoring of       | T-6, |
| Hayes     | -16 | 087ER | Reactors                         | T-8, |
| -Sterbenz |     |       |                                  |      |
|           |     |       |                                  | T-16 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Robert    | C   | 20040 | The Dynamics of Two-Dimensional  | CNLS |
| Ecke      | NLS | 284ER | Turbulence                       |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| **Ex      |     |       |                                  |      |
| ploratory |     |       |                                  |      |
| Research  |     |       |                                  |      |
| Projects  |     |       |                                  |      |
| with a    |     |       |                                  |      |
| Non-T     |     |       |                                  |      |
| Division  |     |       |                                  |      |
| Principal |     |       |                                  |      |
| Inves     |     |       |                                  |      |
| tigator** |     |       |                                  |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| John      | B-1 | 20040 | Genetic Programs Underlying Key  | CNLS |
| Dunbar    |     | 393ER | Physiological States in          |      |
|           |     |       | Burkholderia Pseudomallei        |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Reginaldo | B-4 | 20060 | Improved Molecular Catalysts for | T-12 |
| Rocha     |     | 518ER | Water Splitting                  |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Christian | B-5 | 20040 | Response Networks of M.          | CNLS |
| Forst     |     | 184ER | Tuberculosis and Bio-Threat      |      |
|           |     |       | Agents                           |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Michael   | CC  | 20040 | Design Principles of Genetic     | T-10 |
| Wall      | S-3 | 295ER | Regulatory Networks              |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Michael   | CC  | 20050 | Implicit Adaptive Mesh           | T-15 |
| Pernice   | S-3 | 315ER | Refinement: a                    |      |
|           |     |       | Magnetohydrodynamics Application |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Xinxin    | C-  | 20040 | Fermion Quantum Phase            | T-4  |
| Zhao      | INC | 171ER | Transitions                      |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Shawn     | D   | 20040 | Measurement of Vibrational       | T-12 |
| McGrane   | X-2 | 358ER | Anharmonicities for Chemical     |      |
|           |     |       | Dynamics                         |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Manvendra | EE  | 20060 | Complex Dynamical Climate        | T-3, |
| Dubey     | S-6 | 686ER | Systems at IGPP                  | T-7  |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Claudia   | EE  | 20060 | Solid Earth Geoscience at IGPP:  | T-7  |
| Lewis     | S-9 | 688ER | Transient & Steady-State Earth   |      |
|           |     |       | Processes                        |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Katrin    | IS  | 20060 | Exploring the Darkness: Cosmic   | T-6, |
| Heitmann  | R-1 | 495ER | Voids                            | T-8  |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Reiner    | IS  | 20060 | Space Weather at IGPP            | T-15 |
| Friedel   | R-1 | 687ER |                                  |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Rene      | LA  | 20060 | The s-Process in the Sm-Eu-Gd    | T-6  |
| Reifarth  | NSC | 357ER | Region - A Probe for Stellar     |      |
|           | E-3 |       | Mixing                           |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| R.        | MST | 20050 | Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov | T-11 |
| M         | -10 | 430ER | Inhomogeneous Superconducting    |      |
| ovshovich |     |       | State                            |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Marcelo   | MST | 20040 | Study of Phases with Hidden      | T-11 |
| Jaime     | -NH | 294ER | Order Parameter in the Actinides |      |
|           | MFL |       | and other Strongly Correlated    |      |
|           |     |       | Electron Systems                 |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Quanxi    | M   | 20060 | Use of Strain Engineering to     | T-11 |
| Jia       | ST- | 497ER | Tune the Physical Properties of  |      |
|           | STC |       | Nanoscale Metal-oxide Films      |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Todd      | P   | 20040 | Development of Technology for    | T-6  |
| Haines    | -23 | 923ER | Particle Astrophysics and Other  |      |
|           |     |       | Applications                     |      |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+
| Hui Li    | X-1 | 20051 | Physics of Astrophysical Jets    | T-6, |
|           |     | 169ER |                                  | T-15 |
+-----------+-----+-------+----------------------------------+------+

**Appendix D -- Technical Descriptions of Groups**

**Theoretical Division Office/Special Projects Office---Quantum
Computing (T-DO)**

Division technical staff are engaged in special projects that do not
organizationally fit into an established group in the Division. A major
effort is the study of the transition from quantum to classical
("decoherence") physics, and the study of quantum-based information and
computing and their associated technology, closely coordinated with the
Los Alamos Quantum Institute. In addition, technical staff members carry
out research in relativistic heavy ions, high-spin states in nuclei,
neutron physics, electronic and structural materials, and nonlinear
science. **Technical staff includes approximately 7 Technical Staff
Members (including 2 Senior Fellows and 4 Fellows), 2 Limited-term
Technical Staff Members, 1 Postdoctoral Associate, and 2 Graduate
Research Assistants.**

**Equation of State and Mechanics of Materials (T-1)**

T-1 develops theory and computational models to describe the Equation of
State and Mechanics of Materials (EOS/MOM), including, but not limited
to, materials of interest to nuclear weapons, and implements these
models in computer codes that contribute in particular to the SESAME
Equation-of-State and Materials Properties Library, which is maintained
by T-1. The group has an active research program outside the EOS/MOM
program developing theory, methodology, and calculation to support and
enhance that program, funded by sources both internal (LDRD) and
external (DoD), Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative, and others) to the
Laboratory. Relevant areas of research include strong electron
correlation; actinide electronic structure; first-principles prediction
of mechanical and thermodynamic properties of multicomponent materials;
multiphase EOS theory; microscopic, mesoscopic, and continuum-level
mechanical behavior of materials; direct numerical simulation of
materials properties; energetic materials; grain growth phenomena; and
order-N numerical techniques for electronic structure calculation.
Capability developed in support of EOS/MOM is used to support related
programs such as Pu aging studies and other projects in the nuclear and
conventional defense communities, civilian research communities,
commercial applications, and threat reduction. **Technical staff
includes approximately 13 Technical Staff Members (including 1 Fellow),
4 Limited-term Technical Staff Members, 4 Postdoctoral Associates, and 1
Graduate Research Assistant.**

**Fluid Dynamics (T-3)**

T-3 staff members are involved in modern hydrodynamic theory, materials
modeling, and computational simulations. There is an emphasis on
coupling advanced numerical methods for fluid dynamics at all flow
velocities with models for other processes, including chemical
reactions, phase change, heat and mass transfer, plasma behavior,
constitutive properties of structural materials, and combustion.
Advanced models and methods are incorporated in fully functional 2- and
3-D computer simulation codes and implemented on the full spectrum of
computing hardware from high-performance workstations to massively
parallel supercomputers. Current application areas include nuclear and
conventional weapons, internal combustion engines, structural materials,
process chemistry for the oil and gas industries, ferrous metals and
chemical industries, models for casting, and circulation models for the
global ocean. **Technical staff includes approximately 27 Technical
Staff Members, 1 Limited-term Technical Staff Member, 2 Postdoctoral
Associates, and 2 Graduate Research Assistants.**

**Atomic and Optical Theory (T-4)**

T-4 staff members develop methods for and perform calculations of atomic
structure, scattering cross sections, opacities, exotic atoms, and
quantum and nonlinear optics, including effects of high energy-density
environments and interaction with external electromagnetic fields.
Current efforts include the evaluation of opacities for a wide range of
physical conditions, nonequilibrium kinetics, quantum molecular dynamics
simulations of dense plasmas and shocked hydrocarbons, hohlraum
spectroscopy, plasma sources of x-ray ultraviolet radiation,
strong-field ionization and scattering, decoherence and chaos, quantum
computing, and Bose-Einstein and Fermion condensates of cold atoms. The
group provides interactive web sites for user calculations of opacities
of mixtures and for calculations of atomic structure and cross sections.
It also organizes and partially sponsors the annual Los Alamos Summer
School for undergraduate students in physics. **Technical staff includes
approximately 7 Technical Staff Members (including 1 Fellow), 4
Limited-term Technical Staff Members, and 8 Postdoctoral Associates.**

**Theoretical Astrophysics (T-6)**

T-6 staff members are involved in 1) studies of stellar evolution
including supernovae, intermediate mass stars, nucleosynthesis, and
oscillations; 2) nuclear physics and its applications; 3) large-scale
structures in the universe; 4) relativistic astrophysics involving
compact objects such as white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes; 5)
comets and asteroids in the solar system; and 6) planetary interiors and
evolution. The group has considerable strength in computer and
computational science issues underlying multidimensional simulations and
the analysis of massive data sets. T-6 is exceptional among theoretical
astrophysics organizations across the nation in its explicit emphasis on
connecting fundamental science to national needs and Laboratory
missions. **Technical staff includes approximately 8 Technical Staff
Members (including 1 Fellow), 3 Limited-term Technical Staff Members, 5
Postdoctoral Associates, 3 Graduate Research Assistants, and 4
Undergraduate Students.**

**Mathematical Modeling and Analysis (T-7)**

T-7 combines the strengths of applied mathematicians, mathematical
physicists, and numerical analysts to derive, analyze, and solve
mathematical models of complex problems. Its mission is to conduct
forefront basic and applied research in mathematical modeling and
analysis, provide theoretical leadership and support for the Laboratory
and other programs of national interest, and to furnish an effective
interface with academic science. In accordance with this mission, T-7
maintains its multidisciplinary, but highly mathematically oriented
character, by supporting a strong applied research effort that is
grounded in basic research. The applied mathematicians in T-7 have made
substantial contributions in solving large systems of linear and
nonlinear equations, the theoretical and numerical solutions of
nonlinear partial differential equations, modeling the long-time
predictability of ocean dynamics, nonlinear optical transmission lines,
the applications of wavelets, applied stochastic modeling and deriving
effective parameters for homogenizing multiscale problems, and the
mathematical modeling of disease transmission and pattern formation in
biological systems. **Technical staff includes approximately 8 Technical
Staff Members, 11 Limited-term Technical Staff Members, 6 Postdoctoral
Associates, 6 Graduate Research Assistants, and 1 Undergraduate
Student.**

**Elementary Particles and Field Theory (T-8)**

T-8 conducts research in particle physics, both on the standard model of
electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions, and on theories that
extend it. This includes a strong program in computational quantum
chromodynamics to calculate the hadron spectrum, quark masses, and weak
matrix elements, especially those that are required to quantitatively
understand the experimentally observed CP violation. There is a
significant effort to elucidate the structure of theories that invoke
supersymmetry and extra dimensions. Cosmology, particle-astrophysics,
gravity, and formation and evolution of large-scale structure in the
universe are growing activities in the group. Fundamental issues of
quantum field theory forms another key focus of research, especially in
the arena of systems far from equilibrium and the study of long-distance
structure of quantized gravity. Multidisciplinary efforts include
studies at the interface of elementary particle physics, nuclear
physics, and astrophysics; application of scaling ideas to biological
and ecological systems; and the study of viral evolution with an eye to
understanding and controlling the AIDS epidemic. Efforts in quantum
science and technology include understanding the emergence of classical
behavior from underlying quantum dynamics and designing feedback control
for quantum dynamical systems. Computational science is a major thrust
area, with applications to scaling theory to stochastic equations for
nonequilibrium dynamics, modern dynamical systems theory for accelerator
design, and the study of biological systems. This group maintains close
ties with experimental efforts in neutrino physics and astrophysics,
satellite tracking, cosmological surveys, and has made a major
contribution to the production and trapping of anti-hydrogen.
**Technical staff includes approximately 7 Technical Staff Members
(including 1 Fellow), 5 Postdoctoral Associates, 2 Graduate Research
Assistants, and 1 Undergraduate Student.**

**Theoretical Biology and Biophysics (T-10)**

T-10 focuses on the modeling of biological systems, molecular modeling,
and the analysis and informatics of molecular and cellular biological
data. Its activities reflect the needs both to further our understanding
of living systems at the cellular and molecular levels and to improve
the nation\'s health and economic welfare. T-10 is one of the few
research groups in the world devoted to mathematical modeling and
computational analysis of problems in cellular and molecular biology.
T-10 has created and is responsible for the maintenance of the HIV, HCV,
and Influenza Sequence databases, as well as the HIV Immunology Database
and the HIV Resistance Database. Research efforts span a number of
topics including understanding dynamics and treatment of viral diseases
such as HIV, influenza, and hepatitis; immune system modeling;
receptor-ligand interactions and cell signaling; computational aspects
of the human genome initiative; pattern recognition in DNA sequences;
high-performance computational studies of macromolecular structure and
dynamics; RNA structure; membranes and membrane proteins; protein
function and dynamics; and protein folding. **Technical staff includes
approximately 13 Technical Staff Members (including 2 Senior Fellows and
1 Fellow), 6 Limited-term Technical Staff Members, 7 Postdoctoral
Associates, 8 Technicians, 3 Graduate Research Assistants, and 2
Undergraduate Students.**

**Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics (T-11)**

T-11 conducts research in condensed matter theory including electronic,
structural, and transport properties of metals, semiconductors,
compounds and alloys; microscopic modeling of materials properties and
textures; fundamental studies of nonlinear and nonequilibrium systems;
quantum field theory and algebraic approaches to statistical mechanics
and materials physics; investigations of the properties of heavy
fermions, high-temperature and organic superconductors and other
strongly correlated electronic systems; phenomenology and other aspects
of layered anisotropic superconductors; development of advanced
algorithms for scientific computing (e.g., quantum Monte Carlo,
molecular and Langevin dynamics involving multiple time and length
scales) and the development of visualization tools for large data sets;
magnetoresistance in perovskites; Ginzburg-Landau models of elastic,
martensitic, and displacive phase-transformation materials; microscopic
aspects of shock waves in materials; aspects of quantum information
related to condensed matter systems; device physics; nanophysics and
nanotechnology; and applications of condensed matter physics to soft
matter (polymers, organics, and biomaterials). **Technical staff
includes approximately 11 Technical Staff Members (including 2 Fellows),
5 Limited-term Technical Staff Members, 9 Postdoctoral Associates, 3
Graduate Research Assistants, and 1 Undergraduate Student.**

**Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Physics (T-12)**

This group is staffed by theoretical chemists and physicists who work on
projects aimed towards an improved understanding of the behavior of
matter. Generally, projects seek to describe how basic forces operating
at the atomic, molecular, and mesoscopic level manifest themselves in
the properties of matter at more macroscopic scales. Current activities
include research both in gas-phase and condensed-phase phenomena and
projects apply state-of-the-art computational approaches in fundamental
and applied studies of the physics and chemistry of molecules and
materials. Research projects include the development and application of
techniques for calculating the electronic properties of molecules, the
dynamics and kinetics of chemical reactions, atomistic simulations of
materials, molecular modeling of catalysts, the study of solute-solvent
interactions, and chemical and biological process modeling. **Technical
staff includes approximately 13 Technical Staff Members (including 2
Fellows), 3 Limited-term Technical Staff Members, 9 Postdoctoral
Associates, and 2 Graduate Research Assistants.**

**Complex Systems (T-13)**

T-13 creates new methods for solving complex problems and applies them
to problems at the forefront of technology. This group also initiates
and coordinates work on complex systems throughout the
Division. Incomplete knowledge of the factors that govern the behavior
of complex systems leads to the need for a probabilistic description. In
keeping with this fact, T-13 has a strong program in several branches of
statistical physics. This work includes complex networks, statistical
fluid dynamics, with application to turbulent and multiphase fluid
mixing, granular flow, and modeling of fluid flow in petroleum
reservoirs. Each of these efforts has a theoretical and computational
component, which is also closely tied to experiment. Another strong
effort involves the modeling of laser-matter interactions for inertial
confinement fusion studies. A vigorous program on uncertainty
quantification addresses the problem of assigning error bars or
confidence levels to predictions based on large-scale simulations.
Computational and theoretical work on complex biological systems is
represented by research on the spread of influenza, recognition
mechanisms for protein-DNA binding, control of transcription, and
regulation of gene expression. Modeling and simulation of nanodevices
and large quantum computers is also an active area of research that has
attracted wide interest. **Technical staff includes approximately 11
Technical Staff Members, 1 Long-term Visiting Staff Member, 2
Limited-term Technical Staff Members, and 6 Postdoctoral Associates.**

**Explosives and Organic Materials (T-14)**

The group is involved with the modeling and prediction of the properties
and response characteristics of explosives and other organic materials,
particularly polymers. A majority of the work is funded by the nuclear
weapons program and has direct impact on both stockpile certification
calculations and the design and analysis of experiments for validation
purposes. Within that context, T-14 strives to obtain fundamental
understanding of the various processes involved and connect them
together with appropriate multiscale modeling programs. This group
interacts strongly with other groups within the Division, Laboratory,
and universities to accomplish this goal. Topics of general interest are
the mechanical and reactive behavior of organic crystals and polymeric
materials, ignition and detonation characteristics of explosive
formulations, and how detonation and explosion waves interact with other
materials. Included within the group is expertise in hydrodynamics and
shock interactions, reactive flow simulations, equations of state for
organic materials, molecular modeling with classical and quantum
mechanical methods, micromechanical simulations, and material response
characterization. Current projects include studies of the initiation and
burn processes in damaged and intact explosive materials, advanced
energetic equations of state, response characteristics of composite
polymeric materials, and the prediction of materials and chemical
reaction properties with molecular modeling. These efforts support
advanced defense applications, including nuclear and counterterrorism
programs. **Technical staff includes approximately 8 Technical Staff
Members, 2 Limited-term Technical Staff Members, 3 Postdoctoral
Associates, and 3 Graduate Research Assistants.**

**Plasma Theory (T-15**)

T-15 studies the theory of the fourth state of matter (after solid,
liquid, and gas), plasma, or ionized gas. Most of the matter in the
universe is in the plasma state: flames, fluorescent lights, the
earth\'s magnetosphere, the sun, the stars, nebulae, thermonuclear
explosions, plasmas confined in magnetic fields for magnetic fusion
energy, and plasmas used for industrial processing. Because plasmas are
ionized and carry electric currents, they interact strongly with
electromagnetic fields. This group studies the basic properties and
collective motions of plasmas and electromagnetic fields. A major
activity is development of efficient, parallel computer codes for the
modeling and simulation of plasmas, using both fluid and kinetic
descriptions. Numerical simulation of magnetized plasmas is particularly
challenging because of the high degree of anisotropy and large range of
length and time scales. Some codes developed by T-15 are in wide use
throughout the U.S. magnetic fusion community, including the NIMROD
toroidal simulation code, the DCON code for rapid determination of the
stability of axisymmetric toroidal plasmas, and the CHIP code for
modeling helicity injection into tokamaks. Other more powerful codes are
under development using advanced numerical methods. Another topic of
interest is astrophysical plasmas, particularly the behavior of plasmas
undergoing magnetic reconnection, and their role in the evolution of
active galactic nuclei. A relatively new and rapidly growing area of
emphasis is the study of strongly coupled plasmas of interest in high
energy-density physics. **Technical staff includes approximately 7
Technical Staff Members, 1 Limited-term Technical Staff Member, 4
Postdoctoral Associates, and 6 Graduate Research Assistants.**

**Nuclear Physics (T-16)**

T-16 covers a wide range of basic and applied nuclear physics relevant
to the Laboratory, NNSA, and the DOE. Basic nuclear physics research in
T-16 includes few- to many-body nuclear physics including nuclear
structure and reactions; QCD at high density in astrophysics and at high
energy-density addressing RHIC physics; nuclear astrophysics; neutrino
physics; and fundamental symmetries. Current projects include
high-density QCD and neutrino physics relevant to astrophysical
phenomenon and high-energy density QCD as revealed in relativistic heavy
ion collider (RHIC) experiments. The theory effort is closely tied to
the Laboratory and national DOE experimental nuclear physics program.
Applied nuclear physics encompasses nuclear physics relevant to TR and
Stockpile Stewardship, including fission theory, reaction theory,
sensitivity studies, and analyzing and testing nuclear data and
providing it to the Laboratory and the nation. Current efforts include
modeling of nuclear cross-sections and spectra, improvement of fission
theories, developing codes and libraries for transmutation and
radioactivity calculations, and nuclear data processing and testing for
use in radiation transport codes. T-16 maintains close ties with leading
university and national laboratory groups in both basic and applied
theory. **Technical staff includes approximately 12 Technical Staff
Members (including 2 Fellows), 1 Limited-term Technical Staff Member, 4
Postdoctoral Associates, and 1 Graduate Research Assistant.**

**Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS)**

CNLS identifies and studies fundamental nonlinear and complex problems
and promotes the use of the results in applied research. It stimulates
interdisciplinary research and information exchanges inside and outside
the Laboratory and provides a Laboratory focal point for collaboration
with academic and other centers of excellence in nonlinear science. CNLS
disseminates recent developments in nonlinear science and introduces
students and postdoctoral researchers to this subject. The Center
achieves these goals by hosting and co-hosting conferences and
workshops; through extensive visitor, postdoctoral, and student
programs; and through interactions with Laboratory staff. The major
research areas include networks research with applications to biology,
information science and agent-based systems, biological physics,
statistical physics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics,
turbulence, condensed matter physics (both soft materials and electronic
properties), and computer science. **Technical staff includes
approximately 2 Technical Staff Members (including 1 Fellow), 19
Postdoctoral Associates, and 2 Graduate Research Assistants.**

Appendix E -- Management Position Descriptions

  -------------------------- ------------------- ---------------- ----------------------
  **Name:** John M. Wills    **Organization:**                    
                             T-1, Equation of                     
                             State and Mechanics                  
                             of Materials Group                   

  **Job Title:** Group       **Series/Level:**   **Pay Basis:**   **Clearance Level:** Q
  Leader                     TSM                 Exempt           

  **Reports to:** Alan                                            
  Bishop, Theoretical                                             
  Division Leader                                                 

  **Summary:** As a member                                        
  of the Theoretical                                              
  Division management team,                                       
  the group leader provides                                       
  leadership, project                                             
  management, capability                                          
  development, and line                                           
  management for the                                              
  Equation of State and                                           
  Mechanics of Materials                                          
  Group (T-1). The group                                          
  develops theory and                                             
  computational models to                                         
  describe the Equation of                                        
  State and Mechanics of                                          
  Materials (EOS/MOM),                                            
  including, but not limited                                      
  to, materials of interest                                       
  to nuclear weapons, and                                         
  implements these models in                                      
  computer codes that                                             
  contribute in particular                                        
  to the SESAME                                                   
  Equation-of-State and                                           
  Materials Properties                                            
  Library, which is                                               
  maintained by T-1. The                                          
  group also has an active                                        
  research program                                                
  developing theory,                                              
  methodology, and                                                
  calculation to support and                                      
  enhance that program.                                           
  Other relevant areas of                                         
  research include strong                                         
  electron correlation;                                           
  actinide electronic                                             
  structure;                                                      
  first-principles                                                
  prediction of mechanical                                        
  and thermodynamic                                               
  properties of                                                   
  multicomponent materials;                                       
  linear scaling electronic                                       
  structure theory;                                               
  multiphase EOS theory;                                          
  microscopic, mesoscopic,                                        
  and continuum-level                                             
  mechanical behavior of                                          
  materials; direct                                               
  numerical simulation of                                         
  materials properties;                                           
  energetic materials; grain                                      
  growth phenomena; and                                           
  order-N numerical                                               
  techniques for electronic                                       
  structure calculation.                                          
  Capability developed in                                         
  support of EOS/MOM is used                                      
  to support related                                              
  programs such as Pu aging                                       
  studies and other projects                                      
  in the nuclear and                                              
  conventional defense                                            
  communities, civilian                                           
  research communities,                                           
  commercial applications,                                        
  and threat reduction.                                           

  **Primary Functions and                                         
  Responsibilities (may not                                       
  include all duties                                              
  assigned):** The group                                          
  leader will develop and                                         
  manage the group\'s human,                                      
  financial, computing, and                                       
  other resources; will                                           
  develop new programs and                                        
  funding on behalf of the                                        
  group and Division; will                                        
  assist staff in pursuing                                        
  new and innovative                                              
  research ideas; and will                                        
  develop staff members and                                       
  postdoctoral appointees in                                      
  all key capability areas                                        
  within the group. The                                           
  group leader will be                                            
  proactive and decisive in                                       
  handling all personnel                                          
  issues. The group leader                                        
  will also maintain an                                           
  active research effort, at                                      
  the half to three-fourths                                       
  level. The group leader is                                      
  responsible for nurturing                                       
  a safe and secure working                                       
  environment through the                                         
  proper implementation of                                        
  ISM, ISSM, IWM, and AA/EEO                                      
  objectives. The group                                           
  leader ensures that group                                       
  operations are consistent                                       
  with applicable Division,                                       
  Laboratory, and DOE                                             
  policies. In addition to                                        
  ensuring that the group                                         
  delivers on program                                             
  deliverables as agreed to                                       
  with customers, the group                                       
  leader is responsible for                                       
  maintaining close working                                       
  relationships with other                                        
  groups within the                                               
  Division, with relevant                                         
  program managers, and with                                      
  other organizations                                             
  outside the Division and                                        
  Laboratory.                                                     

  **Technical Expertise and                                       
  Responsibilities:**                                             
  Research experience in                                          
  electronic structure                                            
  theory and computational                                        
  methodology, particularly                                       
  applied to the electronic,                                      
  magnetic, and structural                                        
  properties of *f*-electron                                      
  elements and compounds and                                      
  strongly-correlated                                             
  *f*‑electron materials.                                         
  Research experience in                                          
  first-principles EOS                                            
  theory and computation.                                         
  Dr. Wills participates in                                       
  LDRD-funded projects on                                         
  plutonium and                                                   
  plutonium-compound                                              
  electronic structure,                                           
  structural phase                                                
  stability, structural                                           
  parameters,                                                     
  thermodynamics, magnetic                                        
  structure, and                                                  
  superconducting                                                 
  properties. He is also a                                        
  researcher for Advanced                                         
  Fuel Cycle Initiative                                           
  (AFCI)-funded projects on                                       
  first-principles modeling                                       
  of advanced nuclear fuels,                                      
  and is the PI for EOS                                           
  theory and modeling of                                          
  aging effects in plutonium                                      
  for the ESC.                                                    

  **Required Knowledge,                                           
  Skills and Abilities:**                                         
  Demonstrated knowledge and                                      
  research experience in one                                      
  or more of the group\'s                                         
  technical focus areas                                           
  listed above, as well as                                        
  demonstrated impact in the                                      
  community through refereed                                      
  publications, invited                                           
  talks at national and                                           
  international conferences,                                      
  and service to the                                              
  scientific community.                                           
  Performance in previous                                         
  work assignments that                                           
  demonstrate good business                                       
  practices, scientific                                           
  leadership, and effective                                       
  project leadership skills                                       
  is necessary. This                                              
  includes, in particular,                                        
  project planning and                                            
  implementation;                                                 
  motivation, consensus                                           
  building and conflict                                           
  resolution involving                                            
  personnel at diverse                                            
  levels; and the ability to                                      
  satisfy customer                                                
  requirements in a timely                                        
  manner by making sound                                          
  programmatic and technical                                      
  decisions. Demonstrated                                         
  excellent verbal and                                            
  written communication                                           
  skills. Demonstrated                                            
  ability to formulate                                            
  research programs that                                          
  should attract support                                          
  from both internal (LDRD)                                       
  and external (DOE, DoD,                                         
  AFCI, and others) agencies                                      
  and programs is required.                                       
  This position requires a Q                                      
  access authorization,                                           
  which normally requires                                         
  U.S. citizenship.                                               

  **Desired Knowledge,                                            
  Skills, and Abilities:**                                        
  Experience in line                                              
  management. Experience in                                       
  program development,                                            
  including NNSA and DoD                                          
  programs. Familiarity with                                      
  LANL management policies                                        
  on employment, affirmative                                      
  action, and salary                                              
  management.                                                     

  **Management/Supervisory                                        
  Responsibilities:** As                                          
  group line manager,                                             
  responsibilities include                                        
  all business, operations,                                       
  HR management                                                   
  actions/issues.                                                 

  **Working Conditions:**                                         
  Office and computational                                        
  work and frequent domestic                                      
  and foreign travel.                                             
  -------------------------- ------------------- ---------------- ----------------------

  -------------------------- ------------------- ------------------- ----------------
  **Name:** Mark Schraad                         **Organization:**   
                                                 T-3, Fluid Dynamics 
                                                 Group               

  **Job Title:** Acting      **Series/Level:**   **Pay Basis:**      **Clearance
  Group Leader               TSM                 Exempt              Level:** Q

  **Reports to:** Alan                                               
  Bishop, Theoretical                                                
  Division Leader                                                    

  **Summary:** As a member                                           
  of the Theoretical                                                 
  Division management team,                                          
  the group leader provides                                          
  leadership, project                                                
  management, capability                                             
  development and line                                               
  management for the Fluid                                           
  Dynamics Group (T-3). The                                          
  group performs basic                                               
  research in the area of                                            
  computational continuum                                            
  mechanics. Members of the                                          
  group develop basic                                                
  numerical algorithms for                                           
  low/high-speed fluid                                               
  dynamics, including                                                
  multiphase/field, reacting                                         
  flows with turbulence. A                                           
  continuum mechanics                                                
  component of the group                                             
  pursues models for                                                 
  high-rate plasticity,                                              
  brittle and ductile                                                
  failure, and solid-solid                                           
  phase transformations for                                          
  metallic, ceramic, and                                             
  composite materials. The                                           
  group also develops                                                
  numerical methods for                                              
  global climate modeling,                                           
  including ocean and sea                                            
  ice models and is engaged                                          
  in the coupling of these                                           
  models with atmospheric                                            
  components. In addition to                                         
  ensuring that the group                                            
  delivers on program                                                
  deliverables as agreed to                                          
  with customers, the group                                          
  leader will be responsible                                         
  for maintaining close                                              
  working relationships with                                         
  other groups within the                                            
  Division, with relevant                                            
  program managers, and with                                         
  other organizations                                                
  outside the Division and                                           
  Laboratory.                                                        

  **Primary Functions and                                            
  Responsibilities (may not                                          
  include all duties                                                 
  assigned):** The group                                             
  leader will develop and                                            
  manage the group\'s human,                                         
  financial, computing, and                                          
  other resources; will                                              
  develop new programs and                                           
  funding on behalf of the                                           
  group and Division; will                                           
  assist staff in pursuing                                           
  new and innovative                                                 
  research ideas; and will                                           
  develop staff members and                                          
  postdoctoral appointees in                                         
  all key capability areas                                           
  within the group. The                                              
  group leader will be                                               
  proactive and decisive in                                          
  handling all personnel                                             
  issues. The group leader                                           
  will also maintain an                                              
  active research effort, at                                         
  the half to three-fourths                                          
  level. The group leader is                                         
  responsible for nurturing                                          
  a safe and secure working                                          
  environment through the                                            
  proper implementation of                                           
  ISM, ISSM, IWM, and AA/EEO                                         
  objectives. The group                                              
  leader ensures that group                                          
  operations are consistent                                          
  with applicable Division,                                          
  Laboratory, and DOE                                                
  policies.                                                          

  **Technical Expertise and                                          
  Responsibilities:** The                                            
  T-3 group leader maintains                                         
  technical expertise in the                                         
  general areas of                                                   
  computational solid                                                
  mechanics, materials                                               
  modeling, multifield flow,                                         
  and fluid-solid                                                    
  interaction. General                                               
  research interests include                                         
  multiscale constitutive                                            
  modeling of composite,                                             
  cellular, micro-, and                                              
  nano-structured materials;                                         
  micromechanics,                                                    
  homogenization techniques,                                         
  and nonlocal continuum                                             
  theories; and                                                      
  scale-dependent behavior,                                          
  instabilities, and                                                 
  localization phenomena in                                          
  structured media. Dr.                                              
  Schraad is the PIfor the                                           
  Cellular Materials                                                 
  Modeling component of the                                          
  Engineering Analysis                                               
  Project under the ASC                                              
  Materials & Physics                                                
  program element. Specific                                          
  research efforts are                                               
  directed toward modeling                                           
  the dynamic behavior of                                            
  soft cellular material                                             
  systems and the                                                    
  development of numerical                                           
  algorithms for the                                                 
  simulation of such                                                 
  behavior.                                                          

  **Required Knowledge,                                              
  Skills and Abilities:**                                            
  Demonstrated knowledge and                                         
  research experience in one                                         
  or more of the group\'s                                            
  technical focus areas                                              
  listed above. Demonstrated                                         
  impact in the                                                      
  computational physics                                              
  community through refereed                                         
  publications, invited                                              
  talks at national and                                              
  international conferences,                                         
  and service to the                                                 
  scientific community.                                              
  Performance in previous                                            
  work assignments that                                              
  demonstrate good business                                          
  practices, scientific                                              
  leadership, and effective                                          
  project leadership skills                                          
  is necessary. This                                                 
  includes, in particular,                                           
  project planning and                                               
  implementation;                                                    
  motivation, consensus                                              
  building and conflict                                              
  resolution involving                                               
  personnel at diverse                                               
  levels; and the ability to                                         
  satisfy customer                                                   
  requirements in a timely                                           
  manner by making sound                                             
  programmatic and technical                                         
  decisions. Demonstrated                                            
  excellent verbal and                                               
  written communication                                              
  skills. Demonstrated                                               
  ability to formulate                                               
  research programs that                                             
  should attract support                                             
  from the DOE, DoD, LDRD,                                           
  and/or NW programs is                                              
  required. This position                                            
  requires a Q access                                                
  authorization, which                                               
  normally requires U.S.                                             
  citizenship.                                                       

  **Desired Knowledge,                                               
  Skills, and Abilities:**                                           
  Experience in line                                                 
  management. Experience in                                          
  program development,                                               
  including NNSA and DoD                                             
  programs. Familiarity with                                         
  LANL management policies                                           
  on employment, affirmative                                         
  action, and salary                                                 
  management.                                                        

  **Management/Supervisory                                           
  Responsibilities:** As                                             
  group line manager,                                                
  responsibilities include                                           
  all business, operations,                                          
  and human resource                                                 
  management actions/issues.                                         

  **Working Conditions:**                                            
  Office and computational                                           
  work and frequent domestic                                         
  and foreign travel.                                                
  -------------------------- ------------------- ------------------- ----------------

+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Name:** James   | **              |               |               |
| Cohen             | Organization:** |               |               |
|                   | T-4, Atomic and |               |               |
|                   | Optical Theory  |               |               |
|                   | Group           |               |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Job Title:**    | **              | **Pay         | **Clearance   |
| Group Leader      | Series/Level:** | Basis:**      | Level:** Q    |
|                   | TSM             | Exempt        |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Reports to:**   |                 |               |               |
| Alan Bishop,      |                 |               |               |
| Theoretical       |                 |               |               |
| Division Leader   |                 |               |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Summary:**      |                 |               |               |
|                   |                 |               |               |
| As a member of    |                 |               |               |
| the Theoretical   |                 |               |               |
| Division          |                 |               |               |
| management team,  |                 |               |               |
| the group leader  |                 |               |               |
| provides          |                 |               |               |
| leadership,       |                 |               |               |
| project           |                 |               |               |
| management,       |                 |               |               |
| capability        |                 |               |               |
| development and   |                 |               |               |
| line management   |                 |               |               |
| for the Atomic    |                 |               |               |
| and Optical       |                 |               |               |
| Theory Group      |                 |               |               |
| (T-4). Group T-4  |                 |               |               |
| develops methods  |                 |               |               |
| for and performs  |                 |               |               |
| calculations of   |                 |               |               |
| atomic structure, |                 |               |               |
| scattering cross  |                 |               |               |
| sections, atomic  |                 |               |               |
| kinetics,         |                 |               |               |
| opacities,        |                 |               |               |
| quantum molecular |                 |               |               |
| dynamics, exotic  |                 |               |               |
| atoms, quantum    |                 |               |               |
| and nonlinear     |                 |               |               |
| optics, and cold  |                 |               |               |
| atom physics.     |                 |               |               |
| Current           |                 |               |               |
| applications      |                 |               |               |
| include a new     |                 |               |               |
| opacity code,     |                 |               |               |
| high              |                 |               |               |
| energy-density    |                 |               |               |
| environments,     |                 |               |               |
| warm dense        |                 |               |               |
| matter,           |                 |               |               |
| nonequilibrium    |                 |               |               |
| kinetics,         |                 |               |               |
| radiative         |                 |               |               |
| properties of hot |                 |               |               |
| dense matter,     |                 |               |               |
| quantum           |                 |               |               |
| simulations of    |                 |               |               |
| dense plasmas and |                 |               |               |
| shock dynamics,   |                 |               |               |
| strong-field      |                 |               |               |
| ionization and    |                 |               |               |
| scattering,       |                 |               |               |
| electromagnetic   |                 |               |               |
| wave propagation, |                 |               |               |
| adaptive optics,  |                 |               |               |
| coherence and     |                 |               |               |
| chaos in ion      |                 |               |               |
| traps, quantum    |                 |               |               |
| computing, and    |                 |               |               |
| Bose-Einstein and |                 |               |               |
| Fermion           |                 |               |               |
| condensates. The  |                 |               |               |
| group provides    |                 |               |               |
| interactive web   |                 |               |               |
| sites for user    |                 |               |               |
| calculations of   |                 |               |               |
| opacities of      |                 |               |               |
| mixtures and for  |                 |               |               |
| calculations of   |                 |               |               |
| atomic structure  |                 |               |               |
| and cross         |                 |               |               |
| sections. It also |                 |               |               |
| organizes and     |                 |               |               |
| partially         |                 |               |               |
| sponsors the      |                 |               |               |
| annual Los Alamos |                 |               |               |
| Summer School for |                 |               |               |
| undergraduate     |                 |               |               |
| students in       |                 |               |               |
| physics.          |                 |               |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Primary         |                 |               |               |
| Functions and     |                 |               |               |
| Responsibilities  |                 |               |               |
| (may not include  |                 |               |               |
| all duties        |                 |               |               |
| assigned):**      |                 |               |               |
|                   |                 |               |               |
| The group leader  |                 |               |               |
| will develop and  |                 |               |               |
| manage the        |                 |               |               |
| group\'s human,   |                 |               |               |
| financial,        |                 |               |               |
| computing, and    |                 |               |               |
| other resources;  |                 |               |               |
| will develop new  |                 |               |               |
| programs and      |                 |               |               |
| funding on behalf |                 |               |               |
| of the group and  |                 |               |               |
| Division; will    |                 |               |               |
| assist staff in   |                 |               |               |
| pursuing new and  |                 |               |               |
| innovative        |                 |               |               |
| research ideas;   |                 |               |               |
| and will develop  |                 |               |               |
| staff members and |                 |               |               |
| postdoctoral      |                 |               |               |
| appointees in all |                 |               |               |
| key capability    |                 |               |               |
| areas within the  |                 |               |               |
| group. The group  |                 |               |               |
| leader will be    |                 |               |               |
| proactive and     |                 |               |               |
| decisive in       |                 |               |               |
| handling all      |                 |               |               |
| personnel issues. |                 |               |               |
| The group leader  |                 |               |               |
| will also         |                 |               |               |
| maintain an       |                 |               |               |
| active research   |                 |               |               |
| effort, at the    |                 |               |               |
| half to           |                 |               |               |
| three-fourths     |                 |               |               |
| level. The group  |                 |               |               |
| leader is         |                 |               |               |
| responsible for   |                 |               |               |
| nurturing a safe  |                 |               |               |
| and secure        |                 |               |               |
| working           |                 |               |               |
| environment       |                 |               |               |
| through the       |                 |               |               |
| proper            |                 |               |               |
| implementation of |                 |               |               |
| ISM, ISSM, IWM,   |                 |               |               |
| and AA/EEO        |                 |               |               |
| objectives. The   |                 |               |               |
| group leader      |                 |               |               |
| ensures that      |                 |               |               |
| group operations  |                 |               |               |
| are consistent    |                 |               |               |
| with applicable   |                 |               |               |
| Division,         |                 |               |               |
| Laboratory, and   |                 |               |               |
| DOE policies. In  |                 |               |               |
| addition to       |                 |               |               |
| ensuring that the |                 |               |               |
| group delivers on |                 |               |               |
| program           |                 |               |               |
| deliverables as   |                 |               |               |
| agreed to with    |                 |               |               |
| customers, the    |                 |               |               |
| group leader will |                 |               |               |
| be responsible    |                 |               |               |
| for maintaining   |                 |               |               |
| close working     |                 |               |               |
| relationships     |                 |               |               |
| with other groups |                 |               |               |
| within the        |                 |               |               |
| Division, with    |                 |               |               |
| relevant program  |                 |               |               |
| managers, and     |                 |               |               |
| with other        |                 |               |               |
| organizations     |                 |               |               |
| outside the       |                 |               |               |
| Division and      |                 |               |               |
| Laboratory.       |                 |               |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Technical       |                 |               |               |
| Expertise and     |                 |               |               |
| Re                |                 |               |               |
| sponsibilities:** |                 |               |               |
|                   |                 |               |               |
| Dr. Cohen has     |                 |               |               |
| general expertise |                 |               |               |
| in atomic,        |                 |               |               |
| molecular, and    |                 |               |               |
| optical physics.  |                 |               |               |
| He is responsible |                 |               |               |
| for overseeing    |                 |               |               |
| and evaluating    |                 |               |               |
| research in this  |                 |               |               |
| discipline.       |                 |               |               |
| Cohen's personal  |                 |               |               |
| research is       |                 |               |               |
| mainly in the     |                 |               |               |
| areas of          |                 |               |               |
| developing        |                 |               |               |
| methods for and   |                 |               |               |
| calculating cross |                 |               |               |
| sections for      |                 |               |               |
| atomic            |                 |               |               |
| collisions. This  |                 |               |               |
| expertise         |                 |               |               |
| includes the      |                 |               |               |
| interface of      |                 |               |               |
| atomic and        |                 |               |               |
| nuclear physics.  |                 |               |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Required        |                 |               |               |
| Knowledge, Skills |                 |               |               |
| and Abilities:**  |                 |               |               |
|                   |                 |               |               |
| Demonstrated      |                 |               |               |
| knowledge and     |                 |               |               |
| research          |                 |               |               |
| experience in one |                 |               |               |
| or more of the    |                 |               |               |
| group\'s          |                 |               |               |
| technical focus   |                 |               |               |
| areas listed      |                 |               |               |
| above.            |                 |               |               |
| Demonstrated      |                 |               |               |
| impact in the     |                 |               |               |
| technical         |                 |               |               |
| community through |                 |               |               |
| refereed          |                 |               |               |
| publications,     |                 |               |               |
| invited talks at  |                 |               |               |
| national and      |                 |               |               |
| international     |                 |               |               |
| conferences, and  |                 |               |               |
| service to the    |                 |               |               |
| scientific        |                 |               |               |
| community.        |                 |               |               |
| Performance in    |                 |               |               |
| previous work     |                 |               |               |
| assignments that  |                 |               |               |
| demonstrate good  |                 |               |               |
| business          |                 |               |               |
| practices,        |                 |               |               |
| scientific        |                 |               |               |
| leadership, and   |                 |               |               |
| effective project |                 |               |               |
| leadership skills |                 |               |               |
| is necessary.     |                 |               |               |
| This includes, in |                 |               |               |
| particular,       |                 |               |               |
| project planning  |                 |               |               |
| and               |                 |               |               |
| implementation;   |                 |               |               |
| motivation,       |                 |               |               |
| consensus         |                 |               |               |
| building and      |                 |               |               |
| conflict          |                 |               |               |
| resolution        |                 |               |               |
| involving         |                 |               |               |
| personnel at      |                 |               |               |
| diverse levels;   |                 |               |               |
| and the ability   |                 |               |               |
| to satisfy        |                 |               |               |
| customer          |                 |               |               |
| requirements in a |                 |               |               |
| timely manner by  |                 |               |               |
| making sound      |                 |               |               |
| programmatic and  |                 |               |               |
| technical         |                 |               |               |
| decisions.        |                 |               |               |
| Demonstrated      |                 |               |               |
| excellent verbal  |                 |               |               |
| and written       |                 |               |               |
| communication     |                 |               |               |
| skills.           |                 |               |               |
| Demonstrated      |                 |               |               |
| ability to        |                 |               |               |
| formulate         |                 |               |               |
| research programs |                 |               |               |
| that should       |                 |               |               |
| attract support   |                 |               |               |
| from the DOE,     |                 |               |               |
| LDRD, and/or      |                 |               |               |
| nuclear weapons   |                 |               |               |
| programs is       |                 |               |               |
| required. This    |                 |               |               |
| position requires |                 |               |               |
| a Q access        |                 |               |               |
| authorization,    |                 |               |               |
| which normally    |                 |               |               |
| requires U.S.     |                 |               |               |
| citizenship.      |                 |               |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Desired         |                 |               |               |
| Knowledge,        |                 |               |               |
| Skills, and       |                 |               |               |
| Abilities:**      |                 |               |               |
|                   |                 |               |               |
| Experience in     |                 |               |               |
| line management.  |                 |               |               |
| Experience in     |                 |               |               |
| program           |                 |               |               |
| development.      |                 |               |               |
| Familiarity with  |                 |               |               |
| LANL management   |                 |               |               |
| policies on       |                 |               |               |
| employment,       |                 |               |               |
| affirmative       |                 |               |               |
| action, and       |                 |               |               |
| salary            |                 |               |               |
| management.       |                 |               |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Manag           |                 |               |               |
| ement/Supervisory |                 |               |               |
| Re                |                 |               |               |
| sponsibilities:** |                 |               |               |
|                   |                 |               |               |
| As group line     |                 |               |               |
| manager,          |                 |               |               |
| responsibilities  |                 |               |               |
| include all       |                 |               |               |
| business,         |                 |               |               |
| operations, and   |                 |               |               |
| human resource    |                 |               |               |
| management        |                 |               |               |
| actions/issues.   |                 |               |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Working         |                 |               |               |
| Conditions:**     |                 |               |               |
|                   |                 |               |               |
| Office and        |                 |               |               |
| computational     |                 |               |               |
| work and frequent |                 |               |               |
| domestic and      |                 |               |               |
| foreign travel.   |                 |               |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+

  -------------------------- ------------------- ---------------- ----------------
  **Name:** Michael Warren   **Organization:**                    
                             T-6, Theoretical                     
                             Astrophysics Group                   

  **Job Title:** Acting      **Series/Level:**   **Pay Basis:**   **Clearance
  Group Leader               TSM                 Exempt           Level:** Q

  **Reports to:** Alan                                            
  Bishop, Theoretical                                             
  Division Leader                                                 

  **Summary:** As a member                                        
  of the Theoretical                                              
  Division management team,                                       
  the Theoretical                                                 
  Astrophysics (T‑6) Group                                        
  Leader will lead the                                            
  theoretical astrophysics                                        
  effort in the Division,                                         
  provide scientific                                              
  leadership and line                                             
  management of the group,                                        
  as well as carry out                                            
  his/her own research.                                           
  Researchers in T-6 work in                                      
  a broad range of areas in                                       
  stellar, nuclear, and                                           
  high-energy astrophysics                                        
  including the formation                                         
  and evolution of stars,                                         
  planets, supernovae,                                            
  compact objects, active                                         
  galactic nuclei (AGN),                                          
  x-ray bursts, gamma-ray                                         
  bursts, large scale                                             
  structures and cosmology.                                       
  The position offers the                                         
  opportunity to grow                                             
  programs in theoretical                                         
  and computational                                               
  astrophysics and build or                                       
  expand collaborations with                                      
  other groups at Los Alamos                                      
  and beyond in areas such                                        
  as gamma-ray observations,                                      
  high-energy-astrophysics                                        
  and space-science                                               
  satellites, thinking                                            
  telescopes, nuclear and                                         
  particle theory and                                             
  experiments, radiation and                                      
  particle transport and                                          
  hydrodynamics, and                                              
  high-density equation of                                        
  state. LANL is part of a                                        
  number of scientific                                            
  collaborations \[e.g.,                                          
  Supernova Science Center                                        
  (SSC), Joint Institute for                                      
  Nuclear Astrophysics                                            
  (JINA)\] and observational                                      
  initiatives (e.g., SDSS,                                        
  Swift, DESTINY). T-6 is                                         
  also responsible for the                                        
  important task of                                               
  developing and exploiting                                       
  the synergy between                                             
  theoretical astrophysics                                        
  and national defense                                            
  programs (e.g., analysis                                        
  of data from complex,                                           
  multiscale events) and for                                      
  the recruitment of                                              
  outstanding new talent.                                         

  **Primary Functions and                                         
  Responsibilities (may not                                       
  include all duties                                              
  assigned):** The group                                          
  leader will develop and                                         
  manage the group\'s human,                                      
  financial, computing, and                                       
  other resources; will                                           
  develop new programs and                                        
  funding on behalf of the                                        
  group and Division; will                                        
  assist staff in pursuing                                        
  new and innovative                                              
  research ideas; and will                                        
  develop staff members and                                       
  postdoctoral appointees in                                      
  all key capability areas                                        
  within the group. The                                           
  group leader will be                                            
  proactive and decisive in                                       
  handling all personnel                                          
  issues. The group leader                                        
  will also maintain an                                           
  active research effort, at                                      
  the half to three-fourths                                       
  level. The group leader is                                      
  responsible for nurturing                                       
  a safe and secure working                                       
  environment through the                                         
  proper implementation of                                        
  ISM, ISSM, IWM, and AA/EEO                                      
  objectives. The group                                           
  leader ensures that group                                       
  operations are consistent                                       
  with applicable Division,                                       
  Laboratory, and DOE                                             
  policies.                                                       

  **Technical Expertise and                                       
  Responsibilities:** Lead                                        
  software development and                                        
  manage output of                                                
  multibillion particle                                           
  simulations of large-scale                                      
  structure in the universe.                                      
  Demonstrated world-class                                        
  expertise in programming                                        
  of state-of-the-art                                             
  parallel supercomputers.                                        
  Design of cost-effective                                        
  clustered computing                                             
  systems. Development of                                         
  \"A Faster Multipole                                            
  Method,\" which will be                                         
  the world\'s first                                              
  memory-efficient scalable                                       
  biomolecular simulation                                         
  algorithm. Develop the                                          
  hardware and basic                                              
  software infrastructure                                         
  for \"Thinking                                                  
  Telescopes\" in order to                                        
  manage hundreds of                                              
  terabytes of time-domain                                        
  sky imagery. Develop                                            
  cosmological hydrodynamics                                      
  methods for the simulation                                      
  of primordial stars.                                            
  Maintain and further                                            
  develop parallel code for                                       
  3-D simulations of                                              
  core-collapse supernovae.                                       
  Software development,                                           
  architecture evaluation,                                        
  and management of the NASA                                      
  project \"Software Tools                                        
  for Reliable                                                    
  High-Performance                                                
  Distributed Disk Arrays.\"                                      

  **Required Knowledge,                                           
  Skills and Abilities:**                                         
  Demonstrated impact in the                                      
  astrophysics community.                                         
  Demonstrated ability to                                         
  provide scientific and                                          
  project leadership,                                             
  project management skills,                                      
  and fiscally responsible                                        
  business practices. These                                       
  include planning and                                            
  implementation,                                                 
  motivation, consensus                                           
  building and conflict                                           
  resolution, and the                                             
  ability to satisfy sponsor                                      
  requirements in a timely                                        
  manner by making sound                                          
  programmatic and technical                                      
  decisions. Demonstrated                                         
  ability to function                                             
  effectively in an                                               
  environment of rapidly                                          
  changing priorities.                                            
  Demonstrated effective                                          
  communication skills, both                                      
  oral and written.                                               
  Demonstrated ability to                                         
  attract and establish                                           
  research programs from                                          
  sponsors comparable to                                          
  those that support                                              
  activities within the                                           
  group, such as the DOE,                                         
  LDRD, industrial partners,                                      
  and other agencies.                                             
  Demonstrated commitment to                                      
  safe and secure working                                         
  practices that are                                              
  comparable to Laboratory                                        
  ISM, ISSM, and IWM                                              
  policies. Demonstrated                                          
  commitment to workforce                                         
  diversity objectives.                                           
  Ability to obtain a DOE Q                                       
  clearance, which normally                                       
  requires U.S. citizenship.                                      

  **Desired Knowledge,                                            
  Skills, and Abilities:**                                        
  Experience in line                                              
  management. Experience in                                       
  program development,                                            
  including NNSA programs.                                        
  Familiarity with LANL                                           
  management policies on                                          
  employment, affirmative                                         
  action, and salary                                              
  management.                                                     

  **Management/Supervisory                                        
  Responsibilities:** As                                          
  group line manager,                                             
  responsibilities include                                        
  all business, operations,                                       
  and human resource                                              
  management actions/issues.                                      

  **Working Conditions:**                                         
  Office and computational                                        
  work and frequent domestic                                      
  and foreign travel.                                             
  -------------------------- ------------------- ---------------- ----------------

  -------------------------- ------------------- ------------------- ---------------- ----------------
  **Name:** James (Mac)                          **Organization:**                    
  Hyman                                          T-7, Mathematical                    
                                                 Modeling and                         
                                                 Analysis Group                       

  **Job Title:** Group       **Series/Level:**                       **Pay Basis:**   **Clearance
  Leader                     TSM                                     Exempt           Level:** Q

  **Reports to:** Alan                                                                
  Bishop, Theoretical                                                                 
  Division Leader                                                                     

  **Summary:** As a member                                                            
  of the Theoretical                                                                  
  Division management team,                                                           
  the group leader provides                                                           
  leadership, project                                                                 
  management, capability                                                              
  development, and line                                                               
  management for the                                                                  
  Mathematical Modeling and                                                           
  Analysis Group (T-7). This                                                          
  group combines the                                                                  
  strengths of applied                                                                
  mathematicians,                                                                     
  mathematical physicists,                                                            
  and numerical analysts to                                                           
  derive, analyze, and solve                                                          
  mathematical models of                                                              
  complex problems. T-7                                                               
  maintains its                                                                       
  multidisciplinary, but                                                              
  highly mathematically                                                               
  oriented character, by                                                              
  supporting a strong                                                                 
  applied research effort                                                             
  that is grounded in basic                                                           
  research. The applied                                                               
  mathematicians in T-7 have                                                          
  made substantial                                                                    
  contributions in solving                                                            
  large systems of linear                                                             
  and nonlinear equations,                                                            
  the theoretical and                                                                 
  numerical solutions of                                                              
  nonlinear partial                                                                   
  differential equations,                                                             
  modeling the long-time                                                              
  predictability of ocean                                                             
  dynamics, nonlinear                                                                 
  optical transmission                                                                
  lines, the applications of                                                          
  wavelets, in applied                                                                
  stochastic modeling and                                                             
  deriving effective                                                                  
  parameters for                                                                      
  homogenizing multiscale                                                             
  problems, and the                                                                   
  mathematical modeling of                                                            
  disease transmission and                                                            
  pattern formation in                                                                
  biological systems. The                                                             
  group also organizes and                                                            
  co-sponsors (with Arizona                                                           
  State University) the                                                               
  annual Mathematical and                                                             
  Theoretical Biology                                                                 
  Institute, an intensive                                                             
  summer workshop designed                                                            
  to give undergraduate                                                               
  minority students hands-on                                                          
  experience with                                                                     
  mathematical, statistical,                                                          
  and scientific research.                                                            

  **Primary Functions and                                                             
  Responsibilities (may not                                                           
  include all duties                                                                  
  assigned):** The group                                                              
  leader will develop and                                                             
  manage the group\'s human,                                                          
  financial, computing, and                                                           
  other resources; will                                                               
  develop new programs and                                                            
  funding on behalf of the                                                            
  group and Division; will                                                            
  assist staff in pursuing                                                            
  new and innovative                                                                  
  research ideas; and will                                                            
  develop staff members and                                                           
  postdoctoral appointees in                                                          
  all key capability areas                                                            
  within the group. The                                                               
  group leader will be                                                                
  proactive and decisive in                                                           
  handling all personnel                                                              
  issues. The group leader                                                            
  will also maintain an                                                               
  active research effort, at                                                          
  the half to three-fourths                                                           
  level. The group leader is                                                          
  responsible for nurturing                                                           
  a safe and secure working                                                           
  environment through the                                                             
  proper implementation of                                                            
  ISM, ISSM, IWM, and AA/EEO                                                          
  objectives. The group                                                               
  leader ensures that group                                                           
  operations are consistent                                                           
  with applicable Division,                                                           
  Laboratory, and DOE                                                                 
  policies. In addition to                                                            
  ensuring that the group                                                             
  delivers on program                                                                 
  deliverables as agreed to                                                           
  with customers, the group                                                           
  leader will be responsible                                                          
  for maintaining close                                                               
  working relationships with                                                          
  other groups in the                                                                 
  Division, relevant program                                                          
  managers, and other                                                                 
  organizations outside the                                                           
  Division and Laboratory.                                                            

  **Technical Expertise and                                                           
  Responsibilities:** The                                                             
  group leader has a strong                                                           
  publication record in                                                               
  numerical methods for                                                               
  partial differential                                                                
  equations and the                                                                   
  mathematical analysis of                                                            
  nonlinear models with                                                               
  applications to weapons                                                             
  physics and national                                                                
  security simulations, such                                                          
  as modeling the spread of                                                           
  epidemics. Dr. Hyman has                                                            
  demonstrated ability to                                                             
  build, fund, and lead                                                               
  programs in computational                                                           
  science and engineering.                                                            
  The group leader is also                                                            
  responsible for technical                                                           
  leadership in the analysis                                                          
  of mathematical models,                                                             
  theoretical biology,                                                                
  numerical algorithms, and                                                           
  software design.                                                                    

  **Required Knowledge,                                                               
  Skills and Abilities:**                                                             
  Demonstrated knowledge and                                                          
  research experience in one                                                          
  or more of the group\'s                                                             
  technical focus areas                                                               
  listed above. Demonstrated                                                          
  impact in the technical                                                             
  community through refereed                                                          
  publications, invited                                                               
  talks at national and                                                               
  international conferences,                                                          
  and service to the                                                                  
  scientific community.                                                               
  Performance in previous                                                             
  work assignments that                                                               
  demonstrate good business                                                           
  practices, scientific                                                               
  leadership, and effective                                                           
  project leadership skills                                                           
  is necessary. This                                                                  
  includes, in particular,                                                            
  project planning and                                                                
  implementation;                                                                     
  motivation, consensus                                                               
  building and conflict                                                               
  resolution involving                                                                
  personnel at diverse                                                                
  levels; and the ability to                                                          
  satisfy customer                                                                    
  requirements in a timely                                                            
  manner by making sound                                                              
  programmatic and technical                                                          
  decisions. Demonstrated                                                             
  excellent verbal and                                                                
  written communication                                                               
  skills. Demonstrated                                                                
  ability to formulate                                                                
  research programs that                                                              
  should attract support                                                              
  from the DOE, LDRD, and/or                                                          
  nuclear weapons programs                                                            
  is required. This position                                                          
  requires a Q access                                                                 
  authorization, which                                                                
  normally requires U.S.                                                              
  citizenship.                                                                        

  **Desired Knowledge,                                                                
  Skills, and Abilities:**                                                            
  Experience in line                                                                  
  management. Experience in                                                           
  program development.                                                                
  Familiarity with LANL                                                               
  management policies on                                                              
  employment, affirmative                                                             
  action, and salary                                                                  
  management.                                                                         

  **Management/Supervisory                                                            
  Responsibilities:** As                                                              
  group line manager,                                                                 
  responsibilities include                                                            
  all business, operations,                                                           
  and human resource                                                                  
  management actions/issues.                                                          

  **Working Conditions:**                                                             
  Office and computational                                                            
  work and frequent domestic                                                          
  and foreign travel.                                                                 
  -------------------------- ------------------- ------------------- ---------------- ----------------

  -------------------------- ------------------- ------------------- ---------------- ----------------
  **Name:** Rajan Gupta                          **Organization:**                    
                                                 T-8, Elementary                      
                                                 Particles and Field                  
                                                 Theory Group                         

  **Job Title:** Group       **Series/Level:**                       **Pay Basis:**   **Clearance
  Leader                     TSM                                     Exempt           Level:** Q

  **Reports to:** Alan                                                                
  Bishop, Theoretical                                                                 
  Division Leader                                                                     

  **Summary:** As a member                                                            
  of the Theoretical                                                                  
  Division management team,                                                           
  the group leader provides                                                           
  leadership, capability                                                              
  development, and line                                                               
  management for the                                                                  
  Elementary Particles and                                                            
  Field Theory Group (T-8).                                                           
  This group conducts                                                                 
  research in particle                                                                
  physics, including a                                                                
  strong program in                                                                   
  computa-tional quantum                                                              
  chromodynamics to                                                                   
  calculate the hadron                                                                
  spectrum, quark masses,                                                             
  and weak matrix elements,                                                           
  especially those required                                                           
  to quantitatively                                                                   
  understand the                                                                      
  experimentally observed CP                                                          
  violation. There is an                                                              
  effort to elucidate the                                                             
  structure of theories that                                                          
  invoke supersymmetry and                                                            
  extra dimensions and                                                                
  understand neutrino                                                                 
  interactions and masses.                                                            
  Cosmology,                                                                          
  particle-astrophysics,                                                              
  gravity, and studies of                                                             
  the formation and                                                                   
  evolution of the                                                                    
  large-scale structure of                                                            
  the universe are growing                                                            
  activities. Fundamental                                                             
  issues of quantum field                                                             
  theory is another key                                                               
  focus of research,                                                                  
  especially in systems far                                                           
  from equilibrium and the                                                            
  study of long-distance                                                              
  structure of quantized                                                              
  gravity. Multidisciplinary                                                          
  efforts include studies at                                                          
  the interface of                                                                    
  elementary particle                                                                 
  physics, nuclear physics,                                                           
  and astrophysics;                                                                   
  application of scaling                                                              
  ideas to biological and                                                             
  ecological systems; and                                                             
  the study of viral                                                                  
  evolution with an eye to                                                            
  understanding and                                                                   
  controlling the AIDS                                                                
  epidemic. Efforts in                                                                
  quantum science and                                                                 
  technology include                                                                  
  understanding the                                                                   
  emergence of classical                                                              
  behavior from underlying                                                            
  quantum dynamics and                                                                
  designing feedback control                                                          
  for quantum dynamical                                                               
  systems. Computational                                                              
  science is a major area,                                                            
  with applications to                                                                
  scaling theory to                                                                   
  stochastic equations for                                                            
  nonequilibrium dynamics,                                                            
  modern dynamical systems                                                            
  theory for accelerator                                                              
  design, to the study of                                                             
  biological systems. The                                                             
  group maintains ties with                                                           
  experimental efforts in                                                             
  neutrino- and                                                                       
  astrophysics, satellite                                                             
  tracking, cosmological                                                              
  surveys, and contributed                                                            
  to the production and                                                               
  trapping of anti-hydrogen                                                           
  efforts.                                                                            

  **Primary Functions and                                                             
  Responsibilities (may not                                                           
  include all duties                                                                  
  assigned):** Develop and                                                            
  manage the group\'s human,                                                          
  financial, computing, and                                                           
  other resources; develop                                                            
  new programs and funding                                                            
  on behalf of the group and                                                          
  Division; assist staff in                                                           
  pursuing new and                                                                    
  innovative research ideas;                                                          
  and develop staff members                                                           
  and postdoctoral                                                                    
  appointees in all key                                                               
  capability areas within                                                             
  the group. The group                                                                
  leader will be proactive                                                            
  and decisive in handling                                                            
  all personnel issues. The                                                           
  group leader will also                                                              
  maintain an active                                                                  
  research effort, at the                                                             
  half to three-fourths                                                               
  level. The group leader is                                                          
  responsible for nurturing                                                           
  a safe and secure working                                                           
  environment through the                                                             
  proper implementation of                                                            
  ISM, ISSM, IWM, and AA/EEO                                                          
  objectives. The group                                                               
  leader ensures that group                                                           
  operations are consistent                                                           
  with applicable Division,                                                           
  Laboratory, and DOE                                                                 
  policies. In addition to                                                            
  ensuring that the group                                                             
  delivers on program                                                                 
  deliverables as agreed to                                                           
  with customers, the group                                                           
  leader will be responsible                                                          
  for maintaining close                                                               
  working relationships with                                                          
  other groups in the                                                                 
  Division, relevant program                                                          
  managers, and other                                                                 
  organizations outside the                                                           
  Division and Laboratory.                                                            

  **Technical Expertise and                                                           
  Responsibilities:** Dr.                                                             
  Gupta has a 25-year record                                                          
  of distinguished research                                                           
  and leadership at the                                                               
  national and international                                                          
  level in Lattice QCD and                                                            
  high-performance                                                                    
  computing. He provides                                                              
  scientific leadership                                                               
  within the Lab, nationally                                                          
  and internationally. Dr.                                                            
  Gupta helps group members                                                           
  obtain funding, provides                                                            
  an environment supportive                                                           
  of research, and recruits                                                           
  outstanding staff members,                                                          
  post-doctoral fellows, and                                                          
  students. Dr Gupta                                                                  
  developed and is leading                                                            
  multidisciplinary efforts                                                           
  in national security,                                                               
  computational biology, and                                                          
  automated image                                                                     
  processing.                                                                         

  **Required Knowledge,                                                               
  Skills and Abilities:**                                                             
  Demonstrated knowledge and                                                          
  research experience in one                                                          
  or more of the group\'s                                                             
  technical focus areas                                                               
  listed above. Demonstrated                                                          
  impact in the technical                                                             
  community through refereed                                                          
  publications, invited                                                               
  talks at national and                                                               
  international conferences,                                                          
  and service to the                                                                  
  scientific community.                                                               
  Performance in previous                                                             
  work assignments that                                                               
  demonstrate good business                                                           
  practices, scientific                                                               
  leadership, and effective                                                           
  project leadership skills                                                           
  is necessary. This                                                                  
  includes, in particular,                                                            
  project planning and                                                                
  implementation;                                                                     
  motivation, consensus                                                               
  building and conflict                                                               
  resolution involving                                                                
  personnel at diverse                                                                
  levels; and the ability to                                                          
  satisfy customer                                                                    
  requirements in a timely                                                            
  manner by making sound                                                              
  programmatic and technical                                                          
  decisions. Demonstrated                                                             
  excellent verbal and                                                                
  written communication                                                               
  skills. Demonstrated                                                                
  ability to formulate                                                                
  research programs that                                                              
  should attract support                                                              
  from the DOE, LDRD, and                                                             
  other agencies is                                                                   
  required. This position                                                             
  requires a Q access                                                                 
  authorization, which                                                                
  normally requires U.S.                                                              
  citizenship.                                                                        

  **Desired Knowledge,                                                                
  Skills, and Abilities:**                                                            
  Experience in line                                                                  
  management and program                                                              
  development. Familiarity                                                            
  with LANL management                                                                
  policies on employment,                                                             
  affirmative action, and                                                             
  salary management.                                                                  

  **Management/Supervisory                                                            
  Responsibilities:** As                                                              
  line manager,                                                                       
  responsibilities include                                                            
  all business, operations,                                                           
  and human resource                                                                  
  management actions.                                                                 

  **Working Conditions:**                                                             
  Office and computational                                                            
  work and frequent domestic                                                          
  and foreign travel.                                                                 
  -------------------------- ------------------- ------------------- ---------------- ----------------

  -------------------------- ------------------- ------------------- ---------------- ----------------
  **Name:** Antonio Redondo                      **Organization:**                    
                                                 T-10, Theoretical                    
                                                 Biology and                          
                                                 Biophysics Group                     

  **Job Title:** Group       **Series/Level:**                       **Pay Basis:**   **Clearance
  Leader                     TSM                                     Exempt           Level:** Q

  **Reports to:** Alan                                                                
  Bishop, Theoretical                                                                 
  Division Leader                                                                     

  **Summary:** As a member                                                            
  of the Theoretical                                                                  
  Division management team,                                                           
  the group leader provides                                                           
  leadership, project                                                                 
  management, capability                                                              
  development, and line                                                               
  management for the                                                                  
  Theoretical Biology and                                                             
  Biophysics Group (T-10).                                                            
  This group focuses on the                                                           
  modeling of biological                                                              
  systems, molecular                                                                  
  modeling, and the analysis                                                          
  and informatics of                                                                  
  molecular and cellular                                                              
  biological data. Its                                                                
  activities reflect the                                                              
  needs both to further our                                                           
  understanding of living                                                             
  systems at the cellular                                                             
  and molecular levels and                                                            
  to improve the nation\'s                                                            
  health and economic                                                                 
  welfare. T-10 is one of                                                             
  the few research groups in                                                          
  the world devoted to                                                                
  mathematical modeling and                                                           
  computational analysis of                                                           
  problems in cellular and                                                            
  molecular biology. The                                                              
  group has created and is                                                            
  responsible for the                                                                 
  maintenance of the HIV,                                                             
  HCV, and Influenza                                                                  
  Sequence databases, as                                                              
  well as the HIV Immunology                                                          
  Database, and the HIV                                                               
  Resistance Database.                                                                
  Research efforts span a                                                             
  number of topics including                                                          
  understanding dynamics and                                                          
  treatment of infectious                                                             
  diseases such as HIV,                                                               
  influenza, and hepatitis;                                                           
  host-pathogen                                                                       
  interactions; immune                                                                
  system modeling; cell                                                               
  signaling; computational                                                            
  aspects of the human                                                                
  genome initiative; pattern                                                          
  recognition in DNA                                                                  
  sequences;                                                                          
  high-performance                                                                    
  computational studies of                                                            
  macromolecular structure                                                            
  and dynamics; RNA                                                                   
  structure; membranes and                                                            
  membrane proteins; protein                                                          
  function and dynamics; and                                                          
  protein folding.                                                                    

  **Primary Functions and                                                             
  Responsibilities (may not                                                           
  include all duties                                                                  
  assigned):** The group                                                              
  leader will develop and                                                             
  manage the group\'s human,                                                          
  financial, computing, and                                                           
  other resources; will                                                               
  develop new programs and                                                            
  funding on behalf of the                                                            
  group and Division; will                                                            
  assist staff in pursuing                                                            
  new and innovative                                                                  
  research ideas; and will                                                            
  develop staff members and                                                           
  postdoctoral appointees in                                                          
  all key capability areas                                                            
  within the group. The                                                               
  group leader will be                                                                
  proactive and decisive in                                                           
  handling all personnel                                                              
  issues. The group leader                                                            
  will also maintain an                                                               
  active research effort, at                                                          
  the half to three-fourths                                                           
  level. The group leader is                                                          
  responsible for nurturing                                                           
  a safe and secure working                                                           
  environment through the                                                             
  proper implementation of                                                            
  ISM, ISSM, IWM, and AA/EEO                                                          
  objectives. The group                                                               
  leader ensures that group                                                           
  operations are consistent                                                           
  with applicable Division,                                                           
  Laboratory, and DOE                                                                 
  policies. In addition to                                                            
  ensuring that the group                                                             
  delivers on program                                                                 
  deliverables as agreed to                                                           
  with customers, the group                                                           
  leader will be responsible                                                          
  for maintaining close                                                               
  working relationships with                                                          
  other groups in the                                                                 
  Division, relevant program                                                          
  managers, and other                                                                 
  organizations outside the                                                           
  Division and Laboratory.                                                            

  **Technical Expertise and                                                           
  Responsibilities:** Dr.                                                             
  Redondo has a Ph.D. in                                                              
  Applied Physics from the                                                            
  California Institute of                                                             
  Technology. Dr. Redondo                                                             
  has active research                                                                 
  efforts in immunology/cell                                                          
  signaling and in modeling                                                           
  infectious diseases. He                                                             
  has been a major                                                                    
  organizer, with Gary                                                                
  Resnick of the CHS, of the                                                          
  CTCP. He has been a group                                                           
  leader in T Division for                                                            
  11.5 years, 11 in the                                                               
  Theoretical Chemistry and                                                           
  Molecular Physics Group,                                                            
  and currently for the                                                               
  Theoretical Biology and                                                             
  Biophysics Group. He has                                                            
  an extensive publication                                                            
  record and has been PI for                                                          
  a multitude of research                                                             
  projects involving                                                                  
  internal and external                                                               
  collaborations.                                                                     

  **Required Knowledge,                                                               
  Skills and Abilities:**                                                             
  Demonstrated knowledge and                                                          
  research experience in one                                                          
  or more of the group\'s                                                             
  technical focus areas                                                               
  listed above. Demonstrated                                                          
  impact in the technical                                                             
  community through refereed                                                          
  publications, invited                                                               
  talks at national and                                                               
  international conferences,                                                          
  and service to the                                                                  
  scientific community.                                                               
  Performance in previous                                                             
  work assignments that                                                               
  demonstrate good business                                                           
  practices, scientific                                                               
  leadership, and effective                                                           
  project leadership skills                                                           
  is necessary. This                                                                  
  includes project planning                                                           
  and implementation;                                                                 
  motivation, consensus                                                               
  building and conflict                                                               
  resolution involving                                                                
  personnel at diverse                                                                
  levels; and the ability to                                                          
  satisfy customer                                                                    
  requirements in a timely                                                            
  manner by making sound                                                              
  programmatic and technical                                                          
  decisions. Demonstrated                                                             
  excellent verbal and                                                                
  written communication                                                               
  skills. Demonstrated                                                                
  ability to formulate                                                                
  research programs that                                                              
  should attract support                                                              
  from the DOE, NIH, DoD,                                                             
  LDRD, and other external                                                            
  agencies is required. This                                                          
  position requires a Q                                                               
  access authorization,                                                               
  which normally requires                                                             
  U.S. citizenship.                                                                   

  **Desired Knowledge,                                                                
  Skills, and Abilities:**                                                            
  Experience in line                                                                  
  management and program                                                              
  development. Familiarity                                                            
  with LANL management                                                                
  policies on employment,                                                             
  affirmative action, and                                                             
  salary management.                                                                  

  **Management/Supervisory                                                            
  Responsibilities:** As                                                              
  group line manager,                                                                 
  responsibilities include                                                            
  all business, operations,                                                           
  and human resource                                                                  
  management actions/issues.                                                          

  **Working Conditions:**                                                             
  Office and computational                                                            
  work and frequent domestic                                                          
  and foreign travel.                                                                 
  -------------------------- ------------------- ------------------- ---------------- ----------------

+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Name:** Robert  | **              |               |               |
| C. Albers         | Organization:** |               |               |
|                   | T-11, Condensed |               |               |
|                   | Matter and      |               |               |
|                   | Statistical     |               |               |
|                   | Physics Group   |               |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Job Title:**    | **              | **Pay         | **Clearance   |
| Group Leader      | Series/Level:** | Basis:**      | Level:** Q    |
|                   | TSM             | Exempt        |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Reports to:**   |                 |               |               |
| Alan Bishop,      |                 |               |               |
| Theoretical       |                 |               |               |
| Division Leader   |                 |               |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Summary:** As a |                 |               |               |
| member of the     |                 |               |               |
| Theoretical       |                 |               |               |
| Division          |                 |               |               |
| management team,  |                 |               |               |
| the group leader  |                 |               |               |
| provides          |                 |               |               |
| leadership,       |                 |               |               |
| project           |                 |               |               |
| management,       |                 |               |               |
| capability        |                 |               |               |
| development, and  |                 |               |               |
| line management   |                 |               |               |
| for the Condensed |                 |               |               |
| Matter and        |                 |               |               |
| Statistical       |                 |               |               |
| Physics Group     |                 |               |               |
| (T-11). This      |                 |               |               |
| group conducts    |                 |               |               |
| research in       |                 |               |               |
| condensed matter  |                 |               |               |
| theory including  |                 |               |               |
| electronic,       |                 |               |               |
| structural, and   |                 |               |               |
| transport         |                 |               |               |
| properties of     |                 |               |               |
| metals,           |                 |               |               |
| semiconductors,   |                 |               |               |
| compounds and     |                 |               |               |
| alloys;           |                 |               |               |
| microscopic       |                 |               |               |
| modeling of       |                 |               |               |
| materials         |                 |               |               |
| properties and    |                 |               |               |
| textures;         |                 |               |               |
| fundamental       |                 |               |               |
| studies of        |                 |               |               |
| nonlinear and     |                 |               |               |
| nonequilibrium    |                 |               |               |
| systems; quantum  |                 |               |               |
| field theory and  |                 |               |               |
| algebraic         |                 |               |               |
| approaches to     |                 |               |               |
| statistical       |                 |               |               |
| mechanics and     |                 |               |               |
| materials         |                 |               |               |
| physics;          |                 |               |               |
| investigations of |                 |               |               |
| the properties of |                 |               |               |
| heavy fermions,   |                 |               |               |
| high-temperature  |                 |               |               |
| and organic       |                 |               |               |
| superconductors   |                 |               |               |
| and other         |                 |               |               |
| strongly          |                 |               |               |
| correlated        |                 |               |               |
| electronic        |                 |               |               |
| systems;          |                 |               |               |
| phenomenology and |                 |               |               |
| other aspects of  |                 |               |               |
| layered           |                 |               |               |
| anisotropic       |                 |               |               |
| superconductors;  |                 |               |               |
| development of    |                 |               |               |
| advanced          |                 |               |               |
| algorithms for    |                 |               |               |
| scientific        |                 |               |               |
| computing and the |                 |               |               |
| development of    |                 |               |               |
| visualization     |                 |               |               |
| tools for large   |                 |               |               |
| data sets;        |                 |               |               |
| magnetoresistance |                 |               |               |
| in perovskites;   |                 |               |               |
| Ginzburg-Landau   |                 |               |               |
| models of         |                 |               |               |
| elastic,          |                 |               |               |
| martensitic, and  |                 |               |               |
| displacive        |                 |               |               |
| pha               |                 |               |               |
| se-transformation |                 |               |               |
| materials;        |                 |               |               |
| microscopic       |                 |               |               |
| aspects of shock  |                 |               |               |
| waves in          |                 |               |               |
| materials;        |                 |               |               |
| aspects of        |                 |               |               |
| quantum           |                 |               |               |
| information       |                 |               |               |
| related to        |                 |               |               |
| condensed matter  |                 |               |               |
| systems; device   |                 |               |               |
| physics;          |                 |               |               |
| nanophysics and   |                 |               |               |
| nanotechnology;   |                 |               |               |
| and applications  |                 |               |               |
| of condensed      |                 |               |               |
| matter physics to |                 |               |               |
| soft matter       |                 |               |               |
| (polymers,        |                 |               |               |
| organics, and     |                 |               |               |
| biomaterials).    |                 |               |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Primary         |                 |               |               |
| Functions and     |                 |               |               |
| Responsibilities  |                 |               |               |
| (list may not     |                 |               |               |
| include all       |                 |               |               |
| duties            |                 |               |               |
| assigned):**      |                 |               |               |
|                   |                 |               |               |
| The group leader  |                 |               |               |
| will develop and  |                 |               |               |
| manage the        |                 |               |               |
| group\'s human,   |                 |               |               |
| financial,        |                 |               |               |
| computing, and    |                 |               |               |
| other resources;  |                 |               |               |
| will develop new  |                 |               |               |
| programs and      |                 |               |               |
| funding on behalf |                 |               |               |
| of the group and  |                 |               |               |
| Division; will    |                 |               |               |
| assist staff in   |                 |               |               |
| pursuing new and  |                 |               |               |
| innovative        |                 |               |               |
| research ideas;   |                 |               |               |
| and will develop  |                 |               |               |
| staff members and |                 |               |               |
| postdoctoral      |                 |               |               |
| appointees in all |                 |               |               |
| key capability    |                 |               |               |
| areas within the  |                 |               |               |
| group. The group  |                 |               |               |
| leader will be    |                 |               |               |
| proactive and     |                 |               |               |
| decisive in       |                 |               |               |
| handling all      |                 |               |               |
| personnel issues. |                 |               |               |
| The group leader  |                 |               |               |
| will also         |                 |               |               |
| maintain an       |                 |               |               |
| active research   |                 |               |               |
| effort, at the    |                 |               |               |
| half to           |                 |               |               |
| three-fourths     |                 |               |               |
| level. The group  |                 |               |               |
| leader is         |                 |               |               |
| responsible for   |                 |               |               |
| nurturing a safe  |                 |               |               |
| and secure        |                 |               |               |
| working           |                 |               |               |
| environment       |                 |               |               |
| through the       |                 |               |               |
| proper            |                 |               |               |
| implementation of |                 |               |               |
| ISM, ISSM, IWM,   |                 |               |               |
| and AA/EEO        |                 |               |               |
| objectives. The   |                 |               |               |
| group leader      |                 |               |               |
| ensures that      |                 |               |               |
| group operations  |                 |               |               |
| are consistent    |                 |               |               |
| with applicable   |                 |               |               |
| Division,         |                 |               |               |
| Laboratory, and   |                 |               |               |
| DOE policies. In  |                 |               |               |
| addition to       |                 |               |               |
| ensuring that the |                 |               |               |
| group delivers on |                 |               |               |
| program           |                 |               |               |
| deliverables as   |                 |               |               |
| agreed to with    |                 |               |               |
| customers, the    |                 |               |               |
| group leader will |                 |               |               |
| be responsible    |                 |               |               |
| for maintaining   |                 |               |               |
| close working     |                 |               |               |
| relationships     |                 |               |               |
| with other groups |                 |               |               |
| in the Division,  |                 |               |               |
| relevant program  |                 |               |               |
| managers, and     |                 |               |               |
| other             |                 |               |               |
| organizations     |                 |               |               |
| outside the       |                 |               |               |
| Division and      |                 |               |               |
| Laboratory.       |                 |               |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Technical       |                 |               |               |
| Expertise and     |                 |               |               |
| Re                |                 |               |               |
| sponsibilities:** |                 |               |               |
|                   |                 |               |               |
| The T-11 Group    |                 |               |               |
| Leader, Dr.       |                 |               |               |
| Albers, has       |                 |               |               |
| technical         |                 |               |               |
| expertise in      |                 |               |               |
| electronic        |                 |               |               |
| structure of      |                 |               |               |
| materials,        |                 |               |               |
| including         |                 |               |               |
| simple-metal,     |                 |               |               |
| transition-metal, |                 |               |               |
| rare-earth,       |                 |               |               |
| actinide, and     |                 |               |               |
| heavy-electron    |                 |               |               |
| materials, with a |                 |               |               |
| particular        |                 |               |               |
| emphasis on       |                 |               |               |
| systems with      |                 |               |               |
| strong            |                 |               |               |
| electron-electron |                 |               |               |
| correlations;     |                 |               |               |
| tight-binding     |                 |               |               |
| approaches to     |                 |               |               |
| materials         |                 |               |               |
| modeling;         |                 |               |               |
| mechanical and    |                 |               |               |
| structural        |                 |               |               |
| properties of     |                 |               |               |
| transition-metal  |                 |               |               |
| and actinide      |                 |               |               |
| materials;        |                 |               |               |
| modeling of       |                 |               |               |
| solid-solid phase |                 |               |               |
| transitions       |                 |               |               |
| including         |                 |               |               |
| martensitic and   |                 |               |               |
| complex           |                 |               |               |
| materials; and    |                 |               |               |
| mu                |                 |               |               |
| ltiple-scattering |                 |               |               |
| theories of x-ray |                 |               |               |
| absorption        |                 |               |               |
| structure (in     |                 |               |               |
| both the XANES    |                 |               |               |
| and EXAFS         |                 |               |               |
| regimes), some    |                 |               |               |
| knowledge of      |                 |               |               |
| photoemission and |                 |               |               |
| related           |                 |               |               |
| electronic        |                 |               |               |
| spectroscopies.   |                 |               |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Required        |                 |               |               |
| Knowledge, Skills |                 |               |               |
| and Abilities     |                 |               |               |
| (minimum KSAs     |                 |               |               |
| required for job  |                 |               |               |
| performance):**   |                 |               |               |
|                   |                 |               |               |
| Demonstrated      |                 |               |               |
| knowledge and     |                 |               |               |
| research          |                 |               |               |
| experience in one |                 |               |               |
| or more of the    |                 |               |               |
| group\'s          |                 |               |               |
| technical focus   |                 |               |               |
| areas listed      |                 |               |               |
| above.            |                 |               |               |
| Demonstrated      |                 |               |               |
| impact in the     |                 |               |               |
| technical         |                 |               |               |
| community through |                 |               |               |
| refereed          |                 |               |               |
| publications,     |                 |               |               |
| invited talks at  |                 |               |               |
| national and      |                 |               |               |
| international     |                 |               |               |
| conferences, and  |                 |               |               |
| service to the    |                 |               |               |
| scientific        |                 |               |               |
| community.        |                 |               |               |
| Performance in    |                 |               |               |
| previous work     |                 |               |               |
| assignments that  |                 |               |               |
| demonstrate good  |                 |               |               |
| business          |                 |               |               |
| practices,        |                 |               |               |
| scientific        |                 |               |               |
| leadership, and   |                 |               |               |
| effective project |                 |               |               |
| leadership skills |                 |               |               |
| is necessary.     |                 |               |               |
| This includes     |                 |               |               |
| project planning  |                 |               |               |
| and               |                 |               |               |
| implementation;   |                 |               |               |
| motivation,       |                 |               |               |
| consensus         |                 |               |               |
| building and      |                 |               |               |
| conflict          |                 |               |               |
| resolution        |                 |               |               |
| involving         |                 |               |               |
| personnel at      |                 |               |               |
| diverse levels;   |                 |               |               |
| and the ability   |                 |               |               |
| to satisfy        |                 |               |               |
| customer          |                 |               |               |
| requirements in a |                 |               |               |
| timely manner by  |                 |               |               |
| making sound      |                 |               |               |
| programmatic and  |                 |               |               |
| technical         |                 |               |               |
| decisions.        |                 |               |               |
| Demonstrated      |                 |               |               |
| excellent verbal  |                 |               |               |
| and written       |                 |               |               |
| communication     |                 |               |               |
| skills.           |                 |               |               |
| Demonstrated      |                 |               |               |
| ability to        |                 |               |               |
| formulate         |                 |               |               |
| research programs |                 |               |               |
| that should       |                 |               |               |
| attract support   |                 |               |               |
| from LDRD, the    |                 |               |               |
| DOE, and other    |                 |               |               |
| external agencies |                 |               |               |
| is required. This |                 |               |               |
| position requires |                 |               |               |
| a Q access        |                 |               |               |
| authorization,    |                 |               |               |
| which normally    |                 |               |               |
| requires U.S.     |                 |               |               |
| citizenship.      |                 |               |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Desired         |                 |               |               |
| Knowledge,        |                 |               |               |
| Skills, and       |                 |               |               |
| Abilities:**      |                 |               |               |
|                   |                 |               |               |
| Experience in     |                 |               |               |
| line management.  |                 |               |               |
| Experience in     |                 |               |               |
| program           |                 |               |               |
| development.      |                 |               |               |
| Familiarity with  |                 |               |               |
| LANL management   |                 |               |               |
| policies on       |                 |               |               |
| employment,       |                 |               |               |
| affirmative       |                 |               |               |
| action, and       |                 |               |               |
| salary            |                 |               |               |
| management.       |                 |               |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Manag           |                 |               |               |
| ement/Supervisory |                 |               |               |
| Re                |                 |               |               |
| sponsibilities:** |                 |               |               |
|                   |                 |               |               |
| As group line     |                 |               |               |
| manager,          |                 |               |               |
| responsibilities  |                 |               |               |
| include all       |                 |               |               |
| business,         |                 |               |               |
| operations, and   |                 |               |               |
| human resource    |                 |               |               |
| management        |                 |               |               |
| actions/issues.   |                 |               |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+
| **Working         |                 |               |               |
| Co                |                 |               |               |
| nditions:**Office |                 |               |               |
| and computational |                 |               |               |
| work and frequent |                 |               |               |
| domestic and      |                 |               |               |
| foreign travel.   |                 |               |               |
+-------------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+

  -------------------------- ------------------- ------------------- --------------- ----------------
  **Name:** Joel D. Kress    **Organization:**                                       
                             T-12, Theoretical                                       
                             Chemistry and                                           
                             Molecular Physics                                       
                             Group                                                   

  **Job Title:** Acting                          **Series/Level:**   **Pay Basis:**  **Clearance
  Group Leader                                   TSM                 Exempt          Level:** Q

  **Reports to:** Alan                                                               
  Bishop, Theoretical                                                                
  Division Leader                                                                    

  **Summary:** As a member                                                           
  of the Theoretical                                                                 
  Division management team,                                                          
  the group leader provides                                                          
  scientific leadership,                                                             
  project management,                                                                
  capability development,                                                            
  and line management for                                                            
  the group. The members of                                                          
  T-12 seek to understand                                                            
  the behavior of materials                                                          
  by describing how basic                                                            
  forces operating at the                                                            
  atomic and molecular level                                                         
  manifest themselves in the                                                         
  properties of matter at                                                            
  more macroscopic levels.                                                           
  Current activities in T-12                                                         
  include research both in                                                           
  gas phase and condensed                                                            
  phase phenomena. These                                                             
  projects apply                                                                     
  state-of-the-art                                                                   
  computational approaches                                                           
  for fundamental and                                                                
  applied studies of the                                                             
  physics and chemistry of                                                           
  molecules and materials.                                                           
  Research projects include                                                          
  the development and                                                                
  application of techniques                                                          
  for calculating the                                                                
  electronic properties of                                                           
  molecules and solids,                                                              
  atomistic simulations of                                                           
  materials, the dynamics                                                            
  and kinetics of chemical                                                           
  reactions, molecular                                                               
  modeling of catalysts, and                                                         
  the study of                                                                       
  solute-solvent                                                                     
  interactions. Particular                                                           
  applications of this                                                               
  research are to the                                                                
  properties of actinide                                                             
  materials and transition                                                           
  metals, to the properties                                                          
  of polymers, biological                                                            
  solvation processes, and                                                           
  fuel cell technologies.                                                            
  Work in the group supports                                                         
  applied missions of the                                                            
  Laboratory, including the                                                          
  ASC program, threat                                                                
  reduction programs, and                                                            
  the DOE Basic Energy                                                               
  Sciences programs. The                                                             
  group also obtains                                                                 
  significant support from                                                           
  the LDRD program in both                                                           
  its exploratory research                                                           
  and developmental research                                                         
  missions.                                                                          

  **Primary Functions and                                                            
  Responsibilities (may not                                                          
  include all duties                                                                 
  assigned):** The group                                                             
  leader will develop and                                                            
  manage the group\'s human,                                                         
  financial, computing, and                                                          
  other resources; will                                                              
  develop new programs and                                                           
  funding on behalf of the                                                           
  group and Division; will                                                           
  assist staff in pursuing                                                           
  new and innovative                                                                 
  research ideas; and will                                                           
  develop staff members and                                                          
  postdoctoral appointees in                                                         
  all key capability areas                                                           
  within the group. The                                                              
  group leader will be                                                               
  proactive and decisive in                                                          
  handling all personnel                                                             
  issues. The group leader                                                           
  will also maintain an                                                              
  active research effort, at                                                         
  the half to three-fourths                                                          
  level. The group leader is                                                         
  responsible for nurturing                                                          
  a safe and secure working                                                          
  environment through the                                                            
  proper implementation of                                                           
  ISM, ISSM, IWM, and AA/EEO                                                         
  objectives. The group                                                              
  leader ensures that group                                                          
  operations are consistent                                                          
  with applicable Division,                                                          
  Laboratory, and DOE                                                                
  policies.                                                                          

  **Technical Expertise and                                                          
  Responsibilities:** Dr.                                                            
  Kress is the PI for the                                                            
  *Theory and Simulation of                                                          
  Polymer Aging* task                                                                
  supported by the ESC,                                                              
  where results from this                                                            
  work are presented                                                                 
  quarterly at the PBX 9501                                                          
  Working Group meetings and                                                         
  annually at the LANL                                                               
  Energetic Materials                                                                
  Review. He is also PI for                                                          
  the LDRD-DR project                                                                
  *Fission Fragment Physics                                                          
  in Extreme Environments                                                            
  (U)* and participates in                                                           
  the LDRD-DR project                                                                
  *Energetic-Particle                                                                
  Interactions With Dense                                                            
  Plasmas*. He participates                                                          
  in an Office of Science                                                            
  funded project on                                                                  
  developing metal catalysts                                                         
  for hydrogen fuel cells.                                                           
  Dr. Kress' research                                                                
  experience includes                                                                
  coupling molecular                                                                 
  dynamics simulations with                                                          
  electronic structure                                                               
  theory, with applications                                                          
  to the equation-of-state                                                           
  and optical properties of                                                          
  shock-compressed molecular                                                         
  fluids and materials,                                                              
  aqueous chemical                                                                   
  processes, and                                                                     
  nanotechnology.                                                                    

  **Required Knowledge,                                                              
  Skills and Abilities:**                                                            
  Demonstrated knowledge and                                                         
  research accomplishments                                                           
  in one or more of the                                                              
  group\'s technical                                                                 
  research focus areas.                                                              
  Demonstrated ability to                                                            
  provide scientific and                                                             
  project leadership,                                                                
  project management skills,                                                         
  and fiscally responsible                                                           
  business practices. These                                                          
  include planning and                                                               
  implementation,                                                                    
  motivation, consensus                                                              
  building and conflict                                                              
  resolution, and the                                                                
  ability to satisfy sponsor                                                         
  requirements in a timely                                                           
  manner by making sound                                                             
  programmatic and technical                                                         
  decisions. Demonstrated                                                            
  ability to function                                                                
  effectively in an                                                                  
  environment of rapidly                                                             
  changing priorities.                                                               
  Demonstrated effective                                                             
  communication skills, both                                                         
  oral and written.                                                                  
  Demonstrated ability to                                                            
  attract and establish                                                              
  research programs from                                                             
  sponsors that support                                                              
  activities within the                                                              
  group, such as DOE, LDRD,                                                          
  industrial partners, and                                                           
  other agencies.                                                                    
  Demonstrated commitment to                                                         
  safe and secure work                                                               
  practices comparable to                                                            
  Laboratory ISM, ISSM, and                                                          
  IWM policies. Demonstrated                                                         
  commitment to workforce                                                            
  diversity objectives.                                                              
  Ability to obtain a DOE Q                                                          
  clearance, which normally                                                          
  requires U.S. citizenship.                                                         

  **Desired Knowledge,                                                               
  Skills, and Abilities:**                                                           
  Experience working with                                                            
  DOE or other federal                                                               
  program office personnel.                                                          
  Familiarity with LANL                                                              
  policies on employment,                                                            
  affirmative action, and                                                            
  salary management. Formal                                                          
  training in technical                                                              
  management.                                                                        

  **Management/Supervisory                                                           
  Responsibilities:** As                                                             
  group line manager,                                                                
  responsibilities include                                                           
  all business, operations,                                                          
  and human resource                                                                 
  management actions/issues.                                                         

  **Working Conditions:**                                                            
  Office and computational                                                           
  work and frequent domestic                                                         
  and foreign travel.                                                                
  -------------------------- ------------------- ------------------- --------------- ----------------

  -------------------------- ------------------- --------------- ----------------
  **Name:** Gennady P.       **Organization:**                   
  Berman                     T-13, Theoretical                   
                             Complex Systems                     
                             Group                               

  **Job Title:** Acting      **Series/Level:**   **Pay Basis:**  **Clearance
  Group Leader               TSM                 Exempt          Level:** Q

  **Reports to:** Alan                                           
  Bishop, Theoretical                                            
  Division Leader                                                

  **Summary:** As a member                                       
  of the Theoretical                                             
  Division management team,                                      
  the group leader provides                                      
  scientific leadership,                                         
  project management,                                            
  capability development,                                        
  and line management for                                        
  the Theoretical Complex                                        
  Systems Group (T-13). The                                      
  complex systems group is                                       
  strongly                                                       
  interdisciplinary,                                             
  conducting research under                                      
  the umbrella of                                                
  statistical and nonlinear                                      
  physics with applications                                      
  in physical, information,                                      
  and biological sciences.                                       
  Specific core competencies                                     
  include computational                                          
  fluid dynamics, granular                                       
  flow, colloidal systems,                                       
  coding theory, complex                                         
  networks, uncertainty                                          
  quantification,                                                
  quantum-computing                                              
  technologies, algorithm                                        
  development, agent-based                                       
  systems modeling, and                                          
  theoretical and                                                
  computational biology in                                       
  the areas of genomics,                                         
  proteomics, and                                                
  epidemiology. T-13 is a                                        
  vanguard research group at                                     
  the Laboratory focusing on                                     
  developing fundamentally                                       
  novel solutions and                                            
  technologies that are                                          
  later put in practice by                                       
  its customers. The basic                                       
  research is supported by                                       
  NIH, DOE, and LDRD funds,                                      
  and applied research and                                       
  technology development is                                      
  supported by DARPA, NSA,                                       
  DTRA, DHS, and USG/IC. In                                      
  addition to ensuring that                                      
  the group delivers on                                          
  program objectives as                                          
  agreed to with customers,                                      
  the group leader will be                                       
  responsible for                                                
  maintaining close working                                      
  relationships with other                                       
  groups in the Division,                                        
  with relevant program                                          
  managers, and with other                                       
  organizations outside the                                      
  Division (especially C, B,                                     
  and D divisions) and                                           
  outside the Laboratory.                                        

  **Primary Functions and                                        
  Responsibilities (may not                                      
  include all duties                                             
  assigned):** The group                                         
  leader will work with the                                      
  deputy group leader and                                        
  T-13 project leaders/PIs                                       
  to develop and manage the                                      
  group\'s human, financial,                                     
  computing, and other                                           
  resources; will develop                                        
  new programs and funding                                       
  on behalf of the group and                                     
  Division; will assist                                          
  staff in pursuing new and                                      
  innovative research ideas;                                     
  and will develop staff                                         
  members and postdoctoral                                       
  appointees in all key                                          
  capability areas within                                        
  the group. The group                                           
  leader will be proactive                                       
  and decisive in handling                                       
  all personnel issues. The                                      
  group leader will also                                         
  maintain an active                                             
  research effort, at the                                        
  half to three-fourths                                          
  level. The group leader is                                     
  responsible for nurturing                                      
  a safe and secure working                                      
  environment through the                                        
  proper implementation of                                       
  ISM, ISSM, IWM, and AA/EEO                                     
  objectives. The group                                          
  leader ensures that group                                      
  operations are consistent                                      
  with applicable Division,                                      
  Laboratory, and DOE                                            
  policies.                                                      

  **Technical Expertise and                                      
  Responsibilities:** Dr.                                        
  Berman's expertise is in                                       
  quantum and classical                                          
  nonlinear dynamical                                            
  systems; scalable quantum                                      
  computation (PI on                                             
  ARDA/NSA, LDRD projects);                                      
  novel algorithms for                                           
  detecting fraudulent                                           
  activities (with                                               
  CITIgroup, PI on IPD                                           
  project); quantum                                              
  measurement (PI on DARPA                                       
  project); quantum                                              
  technologies and                                               
  nanodevices (LDRD                                              
  project); Bose-Einstein                                        
  condensates (PI on LDRD                                        
  project); chemical and                                         
  biosensors; negative                                           
  refraction index                                               
  materials---applications                                       
  to novel antennas;                                             
  compound resonances in                                         
  heavy nuclei; and neutron                                      
  dynamics in the trap (with                                     
  P-23, LANSCE). Established                                     
  collaborations with ARO,                                       
  NSA, ARDA, DARPA, U.S. Air                                     
  Force, and other agencies.                                     

  **Required Knowledge,                                          
  Skills and Abilities:**                                        
  Demonstrated knowledge and                                     
  research excellence in one                                     
  or more of the group\'s                                        
  technical focus areas                                          
  listed above. Performance                                      
  in previous work                                               
  assignments that                                               
  demonstrate scientific                                         
  leadership, effective                                          
  project leadership skills,                                     
  and good business                                              
  practices; these include                                       
  project planning and                                           
  implementation,                                                
  motivation, consensus                                          
  building, and conflict                                         
  resolution, and the                                            
  ability to satisfy                                             
  customer requirements in a                                     
  timely manner by making                                        
  sound programmatic and                                         
  technical decisions.                                           
  Demonstrated effective                                         
  communication skills, oral                                     
  and written. Good                                              
  interpersonal skills.                                          
  Ability to build effective                                     
  research teams.                                                
  Demonstrated strong impact                                     
  in complex-systems-related                                     
  research, as evidenced by                                      
  publications, level of                                         
  citations, talks, and                                          
  service to the scientific                                      
  and DOE community.                                             
  Demonstrated ability to                                        
  formulate research                                             
  programs that attract                                          
  support from external                                          
  funding agencies.                                              
  Demonstrated commitment to                                     
  Laboratory ISM, ISSM, and                                      
  IWM policies; responsible                                      
  fiscal management; and                                         
  workforce diversity.                                           

  **Desired Knowledge,                                           
  Skills, and Abilities:**                                       
  Successful record of                                           
  mentoring and motivating                                       
  workers. Demonstrated                                          
  engagement with customers                                      
  and sponsors, and                                              
  experience in building and                                     
  ensuring funding for new                                       
  projects. Experience in                                        
  interacting effectively                                        
  with DOE and other federal                                     
  program managers.                                              

  **Management/Supervisory                                       
  Responsibilities:** As                                         
  group line manager,                                            
  responsibilities include                                       
  all business, operations,                                      
  and human resource                                             
  management actions/issues.                                     

  **Working Conditions:**                                        
  Office and computational                                       
  work and frequent domestic                                     
  and foreign travel.                                            
  -------------------------- ------------------- --------------- ----------------

  -------------------------- ------------------- --------------- -------------------
  **Name:** Edward M. Kober  **Organization:**                   
                             T-14, Explosives                    
                             and Organic                         
                             Materials Group                     

  **Job Title:** Group       **Series/Level:**   **Pay Basis:**  **Clearance
  Leader                     TSM                 Exempt          Level:** Q

  **Reports to:** Alan                                           
  Bishop, Theoretical                                            
  Division Leader                                                

  **Summary:** As a member                                       
  of the Theoretical                                             
  Division management team,                                      
  the group leader provides                                      
  leadership, project                                            
  management, capability                                         
  development, and line                                          
  management for the                                             
  Explosives and Organic                                         
  Materials Group (T-14).                                        
  This group is involved                                         
  with the modeling and                                          
  prediction of the                                              
  properties and response                                        
  characteristics of                                             
  explosives and other                                           
  organic materials,                                             
  particularly polymers. A                                       
  majority of the work has                                       
  direct impact on both                                          
  stockpile certification                                        
  calculations and the                                           
  design and analysis of                                         
  experiments for validation                                     
  purposes, therefore, the                                       
  group strives to obtain                                        
  fundamental understanding                                      
  of the various processes                                       
  involved and connect them                                      
  with appropriate                                               
  multiscale modeling                                            
  programs. Topics of                                            
  general interest are the                                       
  mechanical and reactive                                        
  behavior of organic                                            
  crystals and polymeric                                         
  materials, ignition and                                        
  detonation characteristics                                     
  of explosive formulations,                                     
  and how detonation and                                         
  explosion waves interact                                       
  with other materials.                                          
  Included within the group                                      
  is expertise in                                                
  hydrodynamics and shock                                        
  interactions, reactive                                         
  flow simulations,                                              
  equations of state for                                         
  organic materials,                                             
  molecular modeling with                                        
  classical and quantum                                          
  mechanical methods,                                            
  micromechanical                                                
  simulations, and material                                      
  response characterization.                                     
  Current projects include                                       
  studies of the initiation                                      
  and burn processes in                                          
  damaged and intact                                             
  explosive materials,                                           
  advanced energetic                                             
  equations of state,                                            
  response characteristics                                       
  of composite polymeric                                         
  materials, and the                                             
  prediction of materials                                        
  and chemical reaction                                          
  properties with molecular                                      
  modeling. These efforts                                        
  support advanced defense                                       
  applications, including                                        
  nuclear and                                                    
  counterterrorism programs.                                     

  **Primary Functions and                                        
  Responsibilities (may not                                      
  include all duties                                             
  assigned):** The group                                         
  leader will develop and                                        
  manage the group\'s human,                                     
  financial, computing, and                                      
  other resources; will                                          
  develop new programs and                                       
  funding on behalf of the                                       
  group and Division; will                                       
  assist staff in pursuing                                       
  new and innovative                                             
  research ideas; and will                                       
  develop staff members and                                      
  postdoctoral appointees in                                     
  all key capability areas                                       
  within the group. The                                          
  group leader will be                                           
  proactive and decisive in                                      
  handling all personnel                                         
  issues. The group leader                                       
  will also maintain an                                          
  active research effort, at                                     
  the half to three-fourths                                      
  level. The group leader is                                     
  responsible for nurturing                                      
  a safe and secure working                                      
  environment through the                                        
  proper implementation of                                       
  ISM, ISSM, IWM, and AA/EEO                                     
  objectives. The group                                          
  leader ensures that group                                      
  operations are consistent                                      
  with applicable Division,                                      
  Laboratory, and DOE                                            
  policies. In addition to                                       
  ensuring that the group                                        
  delivers on program                                            
  deliverables as agreed to                                      
  with customers, the group                                      
  leader will be responsible                                     
  for maintaining close                                          
  working relationships with                                     
  other groups in the                                            
  Division, relevant program                                     
  managers, and other                                            
  organizations outside the                                      
  Division and Laboratory.                                       

  **Technical Expertise and                                      
  Responsibilities:** The                                        
  T-14 Group Leader                                              
  currently contributes to                                       
  several projects requiring                                     
  expertise in quantum                                           
  chemical and molecular                                         
  dynamics simulations,                                          
  including: 1) modeling the                                     
  physical properties of                                         
  polymeric materials and                                        
  relating the simulations                                       
  to experimental results                                        
  and higher length-scale                                        
  models, 2) modeling the                                        
  reaction properties of                                         
  energetic materials at                                         
  high temperatures and                                          
  pressures, and 3) modeling                                     
  the aging properties of a                                      
  weapons material. Dr.                                          
  Kober also assists in the                                      
  development and evaluation                                     
  of continuum level                                             
  reactive burn models.                                          

  **Required Knowledge,                                          
  Skills and Abilities:**                                        
  Demonstrated knowledge and                                     
  research experience in one                                     
  or more of the group\'s                                        
  technical focus areas                                          
  listed above. Demonstrated                                     
  impact in the technical                                        
  community through refereed                                     
  publications, invited                                          
  talks at national and                                          
  international conferences,                                     
  and service to the                                             
  scientific community.                                          
  Performance in previous                                        
  work assignments that                                          
  demonstrate good business                                      
  practices, scientific                                          
  leadership, and effective                                      
  project leadership skills                                      
  is necessary. This                                             
  includes project planning                                      
  and implementation;                                            
  motivation, consensus                                          
  building and conflict                                          
  resolution involving                                           
  personnel at diverse                                           
  levels; and the ability to                                     
  satisfy customer                                               
  requirements in a timely                                       
  manner by making sound                                         
  programmatic and technical                                     
  decisions. Demonstrated                                        
  excellent verbal and                                           
  written communication                                          
  skills. Demonstrated                                           
  ability to formulate                                           
  research programs that                                         
  attract support from LDRD,                                     
  NNSA, and other external                                       
  agencies is required. This                                     
  position requires a Q                                          
  access authorization,                                          
  which normally requires                                        
  U.S. citizenship.                                              

  **Desired Knowledge,                                           
  Skills, and Abilities:**                                       
  Experience in line                                             
  management and program                                         
  development. Familiarity                                       
  with LANL management                                           
  policies on employment,                                        
  affirmative action, and                                        
  salary management.                                             

  **Management/Supervisory                                       
  Responsibilities:** As                                         
  group line manager,                                            
  responsibilities include                                       
  all business, operations,                                      
  and human resource                                             
  management actions/issues.                                     

  **Working Conditions:**                                        
  Office and computational                                       
  work and frequent domestic                                     
  and foreign travel.                                            
  -------------------------- ------------------- --------------- -------------------

+------------------+----------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Name:** Alan   | **O            |               |                 |
| H. Glasser       | rganization:** |               |                 |
|                  | T-15, Plasma   |               |                 |
|                  | Theory Group   |               |                 |
+------------------+----------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Job Title:**   | **S            | **Pay         | **Clearance     |
| Group Leader     | eries/Level:** | Basis:**      | Level:** Q      |
|                  | TSM            | Exempt        |                 |
+------------------+----------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Reports to:**  |                |               |                 |
| Alan Bishop,     |                |               |                 |
| Theoretical      |                |               |                 |
| Division Leader  |                |               |                 |
+------------------+----------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Summary:** As  |                |               |                 |
| a member of the  |                |               |                 |
| T Division       |                |               |                 |
| management team, |                |               |                 |
| the group leader |                |               |                 |
| provides         |                |               |                 |
| leadership,      |                |               |                 |
| project          |                |               |                 |
| management,      |                |               |                 |
| capability       |                |               |                 |
| development, and |                |               |                 |
| line management  |                |               |                 |
| for the Plasma   |                |               |                 |
| Theory Group     |                |               |                 |
| (T-15). This     |                |               |                 |
| group studies    |                |               |                 |
| the theory of    |                |               |                 |
| the fourth state |                |               |                 |
| of matter,       |                |               |                 |
| plasma, or       |                |               |                 |
| ionized gas.     |                |               |                 |
| This group       |                |               |                 |
| studies the      |                |               |                 |
| basic properties |                |               |                 |
| and collective   |                |               |                 |
| motions of       |                |               |                 |
| plasmas and      |                |               |                 |
| electromagnetic  |                |               |                 |
| fields. A major  |                |               |                 |
| activity is      |                |               |                 |
| development of   |                |               |                 |
| efficient,       |                |               |                 |
| parallel         |                |               |                 |
| computer codes   |                |               |                 |
| for the modeling |                |               |                 |
| and simulation   |                |               |                 |
| of plasmas,      |                |               |                 |
| using both fluid |                |               |                 |
| and kinetic      |                |               |                 |
| descriptions.    |                |               |                 |
| Numerical        |                |               |                 |
| simulation of    |                |               |                 |
| magnetized       |                |               |                 |
| plasmas is       |                |               |                 |
| particularly     |                |               |                 |
| challenging      |                |               |                 |
| because of the   |                |               |                 |
| high degree of   |                |               |                 |
| anisotropy and   |                |               |                 |
| large range of   |                |               |                 |
| length and time  |                |               |                 |
| scales. Codes    |                |               |                 |
| developed by     |                |               |                 |
| T-15 are in wide |                |               |                 |
| use throughout   |                |               |                 |
| the U.S.         |                |               |                 |
| magnetic fusion  |                |               |                 |
| community,       |                |               |                 |
| including the    |                |               |                 |
| NIMROD toroidal  |                |               |                 |
| simulation code, |                |               |                 |
| the DCON code    |                |               |                 |
| for rapid        |                |               |                 |
| determination of |                |               |                 |
| the stability of |                |               |                 |
| axisymmetric     |                |               |                 |
| toroidal         |                |               |                 |
| plasmas, and the |                |               |                 |
| CHIP code for    |                |               |                 |
| modeling         |                |               |                 |
| helicity         |                |               |                 |
| injection into   |                |               |                 |
| tokamaks. Other  |                |               |                 |
| codes are under  |                |               |                 |
| development      |                |               |                 |
| using advanced   |                |               |                 |
| numerical        |                |               |                 |
| methods. Another |                |               |                 |
| topic of         |                |               |                 |
| interest is      |                |               |                 |
| astrophysical    |                |               |                 |
| plasmas,         |                |               |                 |
| particularly the |                |               |                 |
| behavior of      |                |               |                 |
| plasmas          |                |               |                 |
| undergoing       |                |               |                 |
| magnetic         |                |               |                 |
| reconnection,    |                |               |                 |
| and their role   |                |               |                 |
| in the evolution |                |               |                 |
| of active        |                |               |                 |
| galactic nuclei. |                |               |                 |
| A relatively new |                |               |                 |
| and rapidly      |                |               |                 |
| growing area of  |                |               |                 |
| emphasis is the  |                |               |                 |
| study of         |                |               |                 |
| strongly coupled |                |               |                 |
| plasmas of       |                |               |                 |
| interest in high |                |               |                 |
| energy-density   |                |               |                 |
| physics.         |                |               |                 |
+------------------+----------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Primary        |                |               |                 |
| Functions and    |                |               |                 |
| Responsibilities |                |               |                 |
| (may not include |                |               |                 |
| all duties       |                |               |                 |
| assigned):**     |                |               |                 |
|                  |                |               |                 |
| The group leader |                |               |                 |
| will develop and |                |               |                 |
| manage the       |                |               |                 |
| group\'s human,  |                |               |                 |
| financial,       |                |               |                 |
| computing, and   |                |               |                 |
| other resources; |                |               |                 |
| will develop new |                |               |                 |
| programs and     |                |               |                 |
| funding on       |                |               |                 |
| behalf of the    |                |               |                 |
| group and        |                |               |                 |
| Division; will   |                |               |                 |
| assist staff in  |                |               |                 |
| pursuing new and |                |               |                 |
| innovative       |                |               |                 |
| research ideas;  |                |               |                 |
| and will develop |                |               |                 |
| staff members    |                |               |                 |
| and postdoctoral |                |               |                 |
| appointees in    |                |               |                 |
| all key          |                |               |                 |
| capability areas |                |               |                 |
| within the       |                |               |                 |
| group. The group |                |               |                 |
| leader will be   |                |               |                 |
| proactive and    |                |               |                 |
| decisive in      |                |               |                 |
| handling all     |                |               |                 |
| personnel        |                |               |                 |
| issues. The      |                |               |                 |
| group leader     |                |               |                 |
| will also        |                |               |                 |
| maintain an      |                |               |                 |
| active research  |                |               |                 |
| effort, at the   |                |               |                 |
| half to          |                |               |                 |
| three-fourths    |                |               |                 |
| level. The group |                |               |                 |
| leader is        |                |               |                 |
| responsible for  |                |               |                 |
| nurturing a safe |                |               |                 |
| and secure       |                |               |                 |
| working          |                |               |                 |
| environment      |                |               |                 |
| through the      |                |               |                 |
| proper           |                |               |                 |
| implementation   |                |               |                 |
| of ISM, ISSM,    |                |               |                 |
| IWM, and AA/EEO  |                |               |                 |
| objectives. The  |                |               |                 |
| group leader     |                |               |                 |
| ensures that     |                |               |                 |
| group operations |                |               |                 |
| are consistent   |                |               |                 |
| with applicable  |                |               |                 |
| Division,        |                |               |                 |
| Laboratory, and  |                |               |                 |
| DOE policies. In |                |               |                 |
| addition to      |                |               |                 |
| ensuring that    |                |               |                 |
| the group        |                |               |                 |
| delivers on      |                |               |                 |
| program          |                |               |                 |
| deliverables as  |                |               |                 |
| agreed to with   |                |               |                 |
| customers, the   |                |               |                 |
| group leader     |                |               |                 |
| will be          |                |               |                 |
| responsible for  |                |               |                 |
| maintaining      |                |               |                 |
| close working    |                |               |                 |
| relationships    |                |               |                 |
| with other       |                |               |                 |
| groups in the    |                |               |                 |
| Division,        |                |               |                 |
| relevant program |                |               |                 |
| managers, and    |                |               |                 |
| other            |                |               |                 |
| organizations    |                |               |                 |
| outside the      |                |               |                 |
| Division and     |                |               |                 |
| Laboratory.      |                |               |                 |
+------------------+----------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Technical      |                |               |                 |
| Expertise and    |                |               |                 |
| Res              |                |               |                 |
| ponsibilities:** |                |               |                 |
|                  |                |               |                 |
| The T-15 Group   |                |               |                 |
| Leader has       |                |               |                 |
| expertise in     |                |               |                 |
| theoretical and  |                |               |                 |
| computational    |                |               |                 |
| plasma physics,  |                |               |                 |
| magnetic fusion  |                |               |                 |
| energy,          |                |               |                 |
| astrophysical    |                |               |                 |
| plasmas,         |                |               |                 |
| strongly coupled |                |               |                 |
| plasmas, high    |                |               |                 |
| energy-density   |                |               |                 |
| physics,         |                |               |                 |
| advanced         |                |               |                 |
| computational    |                |               |                 |
| methods, and     |                |               |                 |
| applied          |                |               |                 |
| mathematics. Dr. |                |               |                 |
| Glasser is       |                |               |                 |
| familiar with    |                |               |                 |
| funding agencies |                |               |                 |
| such as the DOE  |                |               |                 |
| Office of Fusion |                |               |                 |
| Energy Sciences, |                |               |                 |
| LDRD, and the    |                |               |                 |
| nuclear weapons  |                |               |                 |
| program.         |                |               |                 |
+------------------+----------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Required       |                |               |                 |
| Knowledge,       |                |               |                 |
| Skills and       |                |               |                 |
| Abilities:**     |                |               |                 |
|                  |                |               |                 |
| Demonstrated     |                |               |                 |
| knowledge and    |                |               |                 |
| research         |                |               |                 |
| experience in    |                |               |                 |
| one or more of   |                |               |                 |
| the group\'s     |                |               |                 |
| technical focus  |                |               |                 |
| areas listed     |                |               |                 |
| above.           |                |               |                 |
| Demonstrated     |                |               |                 |
| impact in the    |                |               |                 |
| technical        |                |               |                 |
| community        |                |               |                 |
| through refereed |                |               |                 |
| publications,    |                |               |                 |
| invited talks at |                |               |                 |
| national and     |                |               |                 |
| international    |                |               |                 |
| conferences, and |                |               |                 |
| service to the   |                |               |                 |
| scientific       |                |               |                 |
| community.       |                |               |                 |
| Performance in   |                |               |                 |
| previous work    |                |               |                 |
| assignments that |                |               |                 |
| demonstrate good |                |               |                 |
| business         |                |               |                 |
| practices,       |                |               |                 |
| scientific       |                |               |                 |
| leadership, and  |                |               |                 |
| effective        |                |               |                 |
| project          |                |               |                 |
| leadership       |                |               |                 |
| skills is        |                |               |                 |
| necessary. This  |                |               |                 |
| includes project |                |               |                 |
| planning and     |                |               |                 |
| implementation;  |                |               |                 |
| motivation,      |                |               |                 |
| consensus        |                |               |                 |
| building and     |                |               |                 |
| conflict         |                |               |                 |
| resolution       |                |               |                 |
| involving        |                |               |                 |
| personnel at     |                |               |                 |
| diverse levels;  |                |               |                 |
| and the ability  |                |               |                 |
| to satisfy       |                |               |                 |
| customer         |                |               |                 |
| requirements in  |                |               |                 |
| a timely manner  |                |               |                 |
| by making sound  |                |               |                 |
| programmatic and |                |               |                 |
| technical        |                |               |                 |
| decisions.       |                |               |                 |
| Demonstrated     |                |               |                 |
| excellent verbal |                |               |                 |
| and written      |                |               |                 |
| communication    |                |               |                 |
| skills.          |                |               |                 |
| Demonstrated     |                |               |                 |
| ability to       |                |               |                 |
| formulate        |                |               |                 |
| research         |                |               |                 |
| programs that    |                |               |                 |
| attract support  |                |               |                 |
| from LDRD, the   |                |               |                 |
| DOE, and other   |                |               |                 |
| external         |                |               |                 |
| agencies is      |                |               |                 |
| required. This   |                |               |                 |
| position         |                |               |                 |
| requires a Q     |                |               |                 |
| access           |                |               |                 |
| authorization,   |                |               |                 |
| which normally   |                |               |                 |
| requires U.S.    |                |               |                 |
| citizenship.     |                |               |                 |
+------------------+----------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Desired        |                |               |                 |
| Knowledge,       |                |               |                 |
| Skills, and      |                |               |                 |
| Abilities:**     |                |               |                 |
|                  |                |               |                 |
| Experience in    |                |               |                 |
| line management. |                |               |                 |
| Experience in    |                |               |                 |
| program          |                |               |                 |
| development.     |                |               |                 |
| Familiarity with |                |               |                 |
| LANL management  |                |               |                 |
| policies on      |                |               |                 |
| employment,      |                |               |                 |
| affirmative      |                |               |                 |
| action, and      |                |               |                 |
| salary           |                |               |                 |
| management.      |                |               |                 |
+------------------+----------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Manage         |                |               |                 |
| ment/Supervisory |                |               |                 |
| Res              |                |               |                 |
| ponsibilities:** |                |               |                 |
|                  |                |               |                 |
| As group line    |                |               |                 |
| manager,         |                |               |                 |
| responsibilities |                |               |                 |
| include all      |                |               |                 |
| business,        |                |               |                 |
| operations, and  |                |               |                 |
| human resource   |                |               |                 |
| management       |                |               |                 |
| actions/issues.  |                |               |                 |
+------------------+----------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Working        |                |               |                 |
| Conditions:**    |                |               |                 |
|                  |                |               |                 |
| Office and       |                |               |                 |
| computational    |                |               |                 |
| work and         |                |               |                 |
| frequent         |                |               |                 |
| domestic and     |                |               |                 |
| foreign travel.  |                |               |                 |
+------------------+----------------+---------------+-----------------+

  -------------------------- ------------------- ---------------- --------------------
  **Name:** Joseph A.        **Organization:**                    
  Carlson                    T-16, Nuclear                        
                             Physics Group                        

  **Job Title:** Group       **Series/Level:**   **Pay Basis:**   **Clearance Level:**
  Leader                     TSM                 Exempt           Q

  **Reports to:** Alan                                            
  Bishop, Theoretical                                             
  Division Leader                                                 

  **Summary:** As a member                                        
  of the T Division                                               
  management team, the group                                      
  leader provides                                                 
  leadership, project                                             
  management, capability                                          
  development, and line                                           
  management for the Nuclear                                      
  Physics Group (T-16). This                                      
  group studies fundamental                                       
  nuclear theory, nuclear                                         
  reaction mechanisms,                                            
  nuclear structure, and                                          
  provides nuclear data to                                        
  the nation. The applied                                         
  theory team studies                                             
  nuclear reaction and                                            
  structure theory for                                            
  light, medium, and heavy                                        
  nuclei, including fission                                       
  theory. Areas of                                                
  application include                                             
  stockpile stewardship,                                          
  nonproliferation                                                
  applications, advanced                                          
  nuclear reactor and                                             
  accelerator systems for                                         
  energy production and                                           
  nuclear waste                                                   
  transmutation,                                                  
  radiochemical diagnostics                                       
  used in critical                                                
  assemblies, criticality                                         
  safety, light-element                                           
  fusion, standard cross                                          
  sections, and nuclear                                           
  astrophysics. The basic                                         
  theory team studies                                             
  physics relevant to the                                         
  Laboratory and the                                              
  national DOE nuclear                                            
  physics program, including                                      
  neutrino physics, few- and                                      
  many-body physics,                                              
  fundamental symmetries and                                      
  extensions of the standard                                      
  model, effective field                                          
  theory, hadronic physics                                        
  and high density and high                                       
  energy-density QCD                                              
  related, respectively, to                                       
  astrophysics and to RHIC                                        
  experiments. T-16                                               
  maintains close ties with                                       
  leading university and                                          
  national laboratory                                             
  groups.                                                         

  **Primary Functions and                                         
  Responsibilities (may not                                       
  include all duties                                              
  assigned):** The group                                          
  leader will develop and                                         
  manage the group\'s human,                                      
  financial, computing, and                                       
  other resources; will                                           
  develop new programs and                                        
  funding on behalf of the                                        
  group and Division; will                                        
  assist staff in pursuing                                        
  new and innovative                                              
  research ideas; and will                                        
  develop staff members and                                       
  postdoctoral appointees in                                      
  all key capability areas                                        
  within the group. The                                           
  group leader will be                                            
  proactive and decisive in                                       
  handling all personnel                                          
  issues. The group leader                                        
  will also maintain an                                           
  active research effort, at                                      
  the half to three-fourths                                       
  level. The group leader is                                      
  responsible for nurturing                                       
  a safe and secure working                                       
  environment through the                                         
  proper implementation of                                        
  ISM, ISSM, IWM, and AA/EEO                                      
  objectives. The group                                           
  leader ensures that group                                       
  operations are consistent                                       
  with applicable Division,                                       
  Laboratory, and DOE                                             
  policies. In addition to                                        
  ensuring that the group                                         
  delivers on program                                             
  deliverables as agreed to                                       
  with customers, the group                                       
  leader will be responsible                                      
  for maintaining close                                           
  working relationships with                                      
  other groups in the                                             
  Division, relevant program                                      
  managers, and other                                             
  organizations outside the                                       
  Division and Laboratory.                                        

  **Technical Expertise and                                       
  Responsibilities:** The                                         
  T-16 Group Leader conducts                                      
  forefront research in                                           
  areas relevant to the                                           
  Laboratory and the                                              
  national nuclear physics                                        
  program. Dr. Carlson's                                          
  research role encompasses                                       
  few- and many-body nuclear                                      
  physics, including nuclear                                      
  structure and low energy                                        
  reactions, and connections                                      
  to many-body quantum                                            
  physics in other areas. He                                      
  also conducts research in                                       
  neutrino and nuclear                                            
  astrophysics, and                                               
  fundamental symmetries, in                                      
  areas directly related to                                       
  the Laboratory's                                                
  experimental nuclear                                            
  physics program. Research                                       
  in these areas includes                                         
  studies of neutrino                                             
  physics in astrophysical                                        
  and experimental                                                
  environments and studies                                        
  of hadronic physics                                             
  through parity violation                                        
  in hadronic systems.                                            

  **Required Knowledge,                                           
  Skills and Abilities:**                                         
  Demonstrated knowledge and                                      
  research experience in one                                      
  or more of the group\'s                                         
  technical focus areas                                           
  listed above. Demonstrated                                      
  impact in the technical                                         
  community through refereed                                      
  publications, invited                                           
  talks at national and                                           
  international conferences,                                      
  and service to the                                              
  scientific community.                                           
  Performance in previous                                         
  work assignments that                                           
  demonstrate good business                                       
  practices, scientific                                           
  leadership, and effective                                       
  project leadership skills                                       
  is necessary. This                                              
  includes project planning                                       
  and implementation;                                             
  motivation, consensus                                           
  building and conflict                                           
  resolution involving                                            
  personnel at diverse                                            
  levels; and the ability to                                      
  satisfy customer                                                
  requirements in a timely                                        
  manner by making sound                                          
  programmatic and technical                                      
  decisions. Demonstrated                                         
  excellent verbal and                                            
  written communication                                           
  skills. Demonstrated                                            
  ability to formulate                                            
  research programs that                                          
  attract support from LDRD,                                      
  DOE, and other external                                         
  agencies is required. This                                      
  position requires a Q                                           
  access authorization,                                           
  which normally requires                                         
  U.S. citizenship.                                               

  **Desired Knowledge,                                            
  Skills, and Abilities:**                                        
  Experience in line                                              
  management. Experience in                                       
  program development.                                            
  Familiarity with LANL                                           
  management policies on                                          
  employment, affirmative                                         
  action, and salary                                              
  management.                                                     

  **Management/Supervisory                                        
  Responsibilities:** As                                          
  group line manager,                                             
  responsibilities include                                        
  all business, operations,                                       
  and human resource                                              
  management actions/issues.                                      

  **Working Conditions:**                                         
  Office and computational                                        
  work and frequent domestic                                      
  and foreign travel.                                             
  -------------------------- ------------------- ---------------- --------------------

+-------------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Name:** Robert  | **Or          |               |                 |
| E. Ecke           | ganization:** |               |                 |
|                   | T-CNLS,       |               |                 |
|                   | Center for    |               |                 |
|                   | Nonlinear     |               |                 |
|                   | Studies       |               |                 |
+-------------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Job Title:**    | **Se          | **Pay         | **Clearance     |
| Center Leader     | ries/Level:** | Basis:**      | Level:** Q      |
|                   | TSM           | Exempt        |                 |
+-------------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Reports to:**   |               |               |                 |
| Alan Bishop,      |               |               |                 |
| Theoretical       |               |               |                 |
| Division Leader   |               |               |                 |
+-------------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Summary:**      |               |               |                 |
|                   |               |               |                 |
| As a member of    |               |               |                 |
| the T Division    |               |               |                 |
| management team,  |               |               |                 |
| the center leader |               |               |                 |
| provides          |               |               |                 |
| leadership and    |               |               |                 |
| line management   |               |               |                 |
| for the           |               |               |                 |
| Laboratory's      |               |               |                 |
| Center for        |               |               |                 |
| Nonlinear Studies |               |               |                 |
| (CNLS). The       |               |               |                 |
| center identifies |               |               |                 |
| and studies       |               |               |                 |
| nonlinear and     |               |               |                 |
| complex problems  |               |               |                 |
| arising in both   |               |               |                 |
| basic and applied |               |               |                 |
| research,         |               |               |                 |
| coordinates the   |               |               |                 |
| study of these    |               |               |                 |
| problems into     |               |               |                 |
| interdisciplinary |               |               |                 |
| themes, and       |               |               |                 |
| fosters research  |               |               |                 |
| collaborations    |               |               |                 |
| among             |               |               |                 |
| researchers. The  |               |               |                 |
| CNLS provides a   |               |               |                 |
| link for          |               |               |                 |
| effective         |               |               |                 |
| interactions with |               |               |                 |
| academic and      |               |               |                 |
| industrial        |               |               |                 |
| centers of        |               |               |                 |
| excellence in     |               |               |                 |
| nonlinear         |               |               |                 |
| research. The     |               |               |                 |
| CNLS hosts        |               |               |                 |
| numerous visiting |               |               |                 |
| scholars,         |               |               |                 |
| postdoctoral      |               |               |                 |
| fellows, and      |               |               |                 |
| graduate          |               |               |                 |
| students;         |               |               |                 |
| organizes         |               |               |                 |
| lectures,         |               |               |                 |
| workshops, and    |               |               |                 |
| conferences on    |               |               |                 |
| topics of current |               |               |                 |
| scientific        |               |               |                 |
| interest; and     |               |               |                 |
| conducts a        |               |               |                 |
| research program  |               |               |                 |
| in the            |               |               |                 |
| theoretical       |               |               |                 |
| physical,         |               |               |                 |
| biological, and   |               |               |                 |
| mathematical      |               |               |                 |
| sciences, with    |               |               |                 |
| strong ties to    |               |               |                 |
| experimental      |               |               |                 |
| activities. The   |               |               |                 |
| center leader     |               |               |                 |
| provides          |               |               |                 |
| scientific        |               |               |                 |
| leadership and    |               |               |                 |
| line management   |               |               |                 |
| of CNLS and plays |               |               |                 |
| an institutional  |               |               |                 |
| role in           |               |               |                 |
| collaboration     |               |               |                 |
| with scientists   |               |               |                 |
| throughout the    |               |               |                 |
| Laboratory.       |               |               |                 |
+-------------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Primary         |               |               |                 |
| Functions and     |               |               |                 |
| Responsibilities  |               |               |                 |
| (list may not     |               |               |                 |
| include all       |               |               |                 |
| duties            |               |               |                 |
| assigned):**      |               |               |                 |
|                   |               |               |                 |
| The center leader |               |               |                 |
| is expected to    |               |               |                 |
| develop and lead  |               |               |                 |
| a program to      |               |               |                 |
| target and create |               |               |                 |
| cooperative       |               |               |                 |
| long-term         |               |               |                 |
| research programs |               |               |                 |
| consistent with   |               |               |                 |
| the Laboratory\'s |               |               |                 |
| strategic         |               |               |                 |
| research          |               |               |                 |
| objectives; to    |               |               |                 |
| develop a strong  |               |               |                 |
| working           |               |               |                 |
| relationship with |               |               |                 |
| the CNLS External |               |               |                 |
| Advisory          |               |               |                 |
| Committee; and    |               |               |                 |
| maintain          |               |               |                 |
| effective working |               |               |                 |
| relationships     |               |               |                 |
| throughout all    |               |               |                 |
| levels of the     |               |               |                 |
| Laboratory,       |               |               |                 |
| government        |               |               |                 |
| entities,         |               |               |                 |
| academia, and     |               |               |                 |
| industry. The     |               |               |                 |
| center leader is  |               |               |                 |
| expected to       |               |               |                 |
| maintain an       |               |               |                 |
| active research   |               |               |                 |
| program while     |               |               |                 |
| providing         |               |               |                 |
| technical vision  |               |               |                 |
| to nurture and    |               |               |                 |
| support existing  |               |               |                 |
| programs of       |               |               |                 |
| others at the     |               |               |                 |
| center. The       |               |               |                 |
| center leader     |               |               |                 |
| should be         |               |               |                 |
| energetic,        |               |               |                 |
| results-oriented, |               |               |                 |
| a catalyst for    |               |               |                 |
| change, and an    |               |               |                 |
| outstanding       |               |               |                 |
| relationship      |               |               |                 |
| builder. Line     |               |               |                 |
| management        |               |               |                 |
| responsibilities  |               |               |                 |
| includes          |               |               |                 |
| accountability    |               |               |                 |
| for quality of    |               |               |                 |
| research;         |               |               |                 |
| management of     |               |               |                 |
| financial and     |               |               |                 |
| human resources;  |               |               |                 |
| proactive support |               |               |                 |
| of Laboratory and |               |               |                 |
| Division ES&H,    |               |               |                 |
| security, and     |               |               |                 |
| AA/EEO/Diversity  |               |               |                 |
| objectives; the   |               |               |                 |
| communi           |               |               |                 |
| cations/marketing |               |               |                 |
| strategy for the  |               |               |                 |
| center; and       |               |               |                 |
| collaboration     |               |               |                 |
| with the          |               |               |                 |
| Theoretical       |               |               |                 |
| Division to       |               |               |                 |
| provide strategic |               |               |                 |
| direction for the |               |               |                 |
| organization.     |               |               |                 |
+-------------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Technical       |               |               |                 |
| Expertise and     |               |               |                 |
| Re                |               |               |                 |
| sponsibilities:** |               |               |                 |
|                   |               |               |                 |
| The CNLS center   |               |               |                 |
| leader has        |               |               |                 |
| technical         |               |               |                 |
| expertise in      |               |               |                 |
| nonlinear         |               |               |                 |
| dynamical         |               |               |                 |
| systems, hard and |               |               |                 |
| soft condensed    |               |               |                 |
| matter physics,   |               |               |                 |
| statistical       |               |               |                 |
| physics, pattern  |               |               |                 |
| formation,        |               |               |                 |
| hydrodynamic      |               |               |                 |
| stability,        |               |               |                 |
| granular          |               |               |                 |
| materials, and    |               |               |                 |
| fluid turbulence. |               |               |                 |
| Although Dr.      |               |               |                 |
| Ecke's primary    |               |               |                 |
| experience is in  |               |               |                 |
| experimental      |               |               |                 |
| physics, he also  |               |               |                 |
| has secondary     |               |               |                 |
| expertise in      |               |               |                 |
| numerical         |               |               |                 |
| simulation and in |               |               |                 |
| theory. He is     |               |               |                 |
| currently the PI  |               |               |                 |
| on five LDRD      |               |               |                 |
| projects with     |               |               |                 |
| main supervisory  |               |               |                 |
| responsibility    |               |               |                 |
| for four: a DR    |               |               |                 |
| project on Fluid  |               |               |                 |
| Mixing, an ER     |               |               |                 |
| project on 2-D    |               |               |                 |
| turbulence, and   |               |               |                 |
| two CNLS projects |               |               |                 |
| on soft matter    |               |               |                 |
| physics and       |               |               |                 |
| nonlinear/complex |               |               |                 |
| phenomena. Ecke's |               |               |                 |
| current research  |               |               |                 |
| consists of dense |               |               |                 |
| granular flow,    |               |               |                 |
| dynamics of 2-D   |               |               |                 |
| turbulence, and   |               |               |                 |
| Lagrangian mixing |               |               |                 |
| in inhomogeneous  |               |               |                 |
| fluid turbulence. |               |               |                 |
+-------------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Required        |               |               |                 |
| Knowledge, Skills |               |               |                 |
| and Abilities     |               |               |                 |
| (minimum KSA's    |               |               |                 |
| required for job  |               |               |                 |
| performance):**   |               |               |                 |
|                   |               |               |                 |
| Record of         |               |               |                 |
| scientific        |               |               |                 |
| accomplishment in |               |               |                 |
| an area of        |               |               |                 |
| research relevant |               |               |                 |
| to the center as  |               |               |                 |
| evidenced by an   |               |               |                 |
| outstanding       |               |               |                 |
| publication       |               |               |                 |
| record and/or     |               |               |                 |
| demonstrable      |               |               |                 |
| national or       |               |               |                 |
| international     |               |               |                 |
| reputation.       |               |               |                 |
| Demonstrated      |               |               |                 |
| success in        |               |               |                 |
| management of a   |               |               |                 |
| scientific        |               |               |                 |
| organization,     |               |               |                 |
| including         |               |               |                 |
| effective         |               |               |                 |
| resource          |               |               |                 |
| management.       |               |               |                 |
| Demonstrated      |               |               |                 |
| ability to foster |               |               |                 |
| an environment of |               |               |                 |
| teamwork,         |               |               |                 |
| quality,          |               |               |                 |
| technical         |               |               |                 |
| excellence,       |               |               |                 |
| innovation, and   |               |               |                 |
| creativity.       |               |               |                 |
| Demonstrated      |               |               |                 |
| experience in     |               |               |                 |
| building          |               |               |                 |
| collaborative     |               |               |                 |
| relationships     |               |               |                 |
| across boundaries |               |               |                 |
| (group, division, |               |               |                 |
| directorate,      |               |               |                 |
| Laboratory, and   |               |               |                 |
| external.)        |               |               |                 |
| Ability to        |               |               |                 |
| balance competing |               |               |                 |
| interests with    |               |               |                 |
| available         |               |               |                 |
| resources and     |               |               |                 |
| establish clear   |               |               |                 |
| priorities and    |               |               |                 |
| focus.            |               |               |                 |
| Exceptional       |               |               |                 |
| skills in leading |               |               |                 |
| and engaging      |               |               |                 |
| staff; and        |               |               |                 |
| possess the       |               |               |                 |
| ability to build  |               |               |                 |
| rapport within    |               |               |                 |
| the Laboratory.   |               |               |                 |
| Demonstrated      |               |               |                 |
| excellence in     |               |               |                 |
| effective written |               |               |                 |
| and oral          |               |               |                 |
| communications    |               |               |                 |
| skills.           |               |               |                 |
| Demonstrated      |               |               |                 |
| knowledge of and  |               |               |                 |
| commitment to     |               |               |                 |
| Laboratory goals  |               |               |                 |
| in assuring a     |               |               |                 |
| healthy, safe,    |               |               |                 |
| and secure        |               |               |                 |
| working           |               |               |                 |
| environment.      |               |               |                 |
+-------------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Desired         |               |               |                 |
| Knowledge,        |               |               |                 |
| Skills, and       |               |               |                 |
| Abilities:**      |               |               |                 |
|                   |               |               |                 |
| Knowledge of      |               |               |                 |
| national and      |               |               |                 |
| international     |               |               |                 |
| programs of       |               |               |                 |
| relevance to the  |               |               |                 |
| center\'s         |               |               |                 |
| activities.       |               |               |                 |
| Experience in     |               |               |                 |
| effective         |               |               |                 |
| decision-making   |               |               |                 |
| and comfort with  |               |               |                 |
| measuring,        |               |               |                 |
| defining and      |               |               |                 |
| taking prudent    |               |               |                 |
| risks. Proven     |               |               |                 |
| track record      |               |               |                 |
| using             |               |               |                 |
| collaboration     |               |               |                 |
| with subject      |               |               |                 |
| matter experts to |               |               |                 |
| solve problems    |               |               |                 |
| and implement     |               |               |                 |
| solutions. Q      |               |               |                 |
| access            |               |               |                 |
| authorization,    |               |               |                 |
| which normally    |               |               |                 |
| requires U.S.     |               |               |                 |
| citizenship.      |               |               |                 |
+-------------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Manag           |               |               |                 |
| ement/Supervisory |               |               |                 |
| Re                |               |               |                 |
| sponsibilities:** |               |               |                 |
|                   |               |               |                 |
| As a line         |               |               |                 |
| manager,          |               |               |                 |
| responsibilities  |               |               |                 |
| include all       |               |               |                 |
| business,         |               |               |                 |
| operations, and   |               |               |                 |
| human resource    |               |               |                 |
| management        |               |               |                 |
| actions/issues.   |               |               |                 |
+-------------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
| **Working         |               |               |                 |
| Conditions:**     |               |               |                 |
| Office and        |               |               |                 |
| computational     |               |               |                 |
| work and frequent |               |               |                 |
| domestic and      |               |               |                 |
| foreign travel.   |               |               |                 |
+-------------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+

  -------------------------- ------------------- --------------- ---------------
  **Name:** Paul J. Dotson   **Organization:**                   
                             T-DO, Theoretical                   
                             Division Office                     

  **Job Title:** Deputy      **Series/Level:**   **Pay Basis:**  **Clearance
  Division Leader            TSM                 Exempt          Level:** Q

  **Reports to:** Alan                                           
  Bishop, Theoretical                                            
  Division Leader                                                

  **Summary:** The                                               
  Theoretical Division                                           
  strives to recruit the                                         
  best scientific minds and                                      
  capabilities to further                                        
  our scientific                                                 
  understanding of the                                           
  physical world and to                                          
  establish a technical                                          
  foundation for both                                            
  current and future                                             
  national defense,                                              
  industrial and civilian                                        
  needs. This foundation                                         
  fosters the exploration of                                     
  interdisciplinary                                              
  frontiers of scientific                                        
  endeavor. In brief, the                                        
  Division's three central                                       
  mission elements are to                                        
  provide the best science                                       
  and scientists to LANL                                         
  national security                                              
  missions; pursue frontier                                      
  science to ensure                                              
  excellence in science                                          
  capabilities for LANL and                                      
  the nation; and to create                                      
  new scientific directions                                      
  and attract scientific                                         
  leaders to LANL. As a                                          
  member of the Division                                         
  management team, the                                           
  deputy division leader                                         
  works in conjunction with                                      
  the division leader to                                         
  provide external                                               
  visibility for the                                             
  Division, leadership for                                       
  collaborations for solving                                     
  challenging and complex                                        
  scientific problems, is                                        
  responsible for promoting                                      
  operational and scientific                                     
  excellence, and provides                                       
  scientific, technical and                                      
  operational leadership to                                      
  a workforce of                                                 
  approximately 400 in 13                                        
  groups and a Laboratory                                        
  center with an annual                                          
  budget of approximately                                        
  \$85M. The deputy division                                     
  leader leads by example                                        
  and nurtures a safe,                                           
  secure, stimulating,                                           
  productive, and                                                
  cost-effective work                                            
  environment, providing                                         
  direction and priorities                                       
  to groups and programs,                                        
  and addresses Laboratory                                       
  goals in recruiting,                                           
  diversity, ISM, ISSM,                                          
  maintains positive,                                            
  effective working                                              
  relationships within the                                       
  Division, with other                                           
  managers and researchers                                       
  at the Laboratory, and                                         
  with external customers,                                       
  sponsors, and                                                  
  stakeholders.                                                  

  **Primary Functions and                                        
  Responsibilities (may not                                      
  include all duties                                             
  assigned):** Together with                                     
  the division leader, the                                       
  deputy division leader                                         
  provides leadership and                                        
  management of T Division,                                      
  including overall                                              
  effectiveness of research                                      
  and operations. Effective                                      
  establishment and                                              
  maintenance of an active                                       
  recruiting pipeline,                                           
  including nurturing and                                        
  succession planning of the                                     
  next generation of the                                         
  Division's leaders                                             
  (technical, team, project,                                     
  group, and division).                                          
  Responsible for ISM, ISSM,                                     
  resource management, and                                       
  other priorities/goals of                                      
  the Laboratory. Provide                                        
  top-level support for                                          
  program                                                        
  execution/development.                                         
  Responsible for strategic                                      
  planning, productivity and                                     
  quality assessment,                                            
  organization and sizing,                                       
  allocation of space and                                        
  facilities, and effective                                      
  use of institutional                                           
  resources allocated to the                                     
  Division. Responsible for                                      
  the safety of Division                                         
  employees, ensuring all                                        
  relevant security                                              
  requirements are adhered                                       
  to, minimizing the                                             
  environmental impact of                                        
  the Division, and                                              
  adherence to all                                               
  applicable Laboratory and                                      
  DOE policies. The deputy                                       
  division leader is                                             
  expected to maintain                                           
  active research interests                                      
  while providing technical                                      
  vision to nurture and                                          
  support existing programs                                      
  of others throughout the                                       
  Division.                                                      

  **Required Knowledge,                                          
  Skills and Abilities:**                                        
  Demonstrated knowledge and                                     
  research experience in one                                     
  or more of the Division's                                      
  technical focus areas.                                         
  Demonstrated high impact                                       
  in the technical community                                     
  through an extensive                                           
  history of refereed                                            
  publications, invited                                          
  talks at national and                                          
  international conferences,                                     
  participation in                                               
  professional societies,                                        
  service to the scientific                                      
  community, and other                                           
  professional                                                   
  accomplishments. A strong                                      
  record of significant                                          
  expertise and                                                  
  distinguished scientific                                       
  and managerial                                                 
  accomplishment                                                 
  demonstrating the                                              
  following scientific                                           
  leadership                                                     
  characteristics/skills:                                        
  ability to effectively                                         
  lead change; ability to                                        
  develop people, including                                      
  future leaders; experience                                     
  building and maintaining                                       
  effective leadership                                           
  teams; demonstrated drive                                      
  for excellence and                                             
  results; ability to build                                      
  and sustain effective                                          
  sponsor relationships; and                                     
  exemplary personal                                             
  accountability, integrity,                                     
  and trust building skills.                                     
  Demonstrated interpersonal                                     
  and communication skills,                                      
  including proactive and                                        
  decisive handling of all                                       
  personnel issues.                                              
  Demonstrated commitment to                                     
  high-quality operations                                        
  and execution of defense                                       
  and basic research                                             
  activities, including                                          
  scientific excellence,                                         
  safety, security,                                              
  environment, diversity,                                        
  recruiting, retention,                                         
  employee development,                                          
  conflict resolution,                                           
  fiscal responsibility,                                         
  encouragement of                                               
  innovation and                                                 
  risk-taking, program                                           
  development, and project                                       
  management.                                                    

  **Desired Knowledge,                                           
  Skills, and Abilities:**                                       
  Knowledge of national                                          
  defense science and                                            
  technology related to                                          
  weapons of mass                                                
  destruction, energy                                            
  security, homeland                                             
  defense, conventional                                          
  munitions, and the                                             
  international intelligence                                     
  community. Ability to                                          
  obtain intelligence                                            
  compartmented clearances.                                      
  Demonstrated program                                           
  development success.                                           

  **Management/Supervisory                                       
  Responsibilities:** As a                                       
  Division line manager,                                         
  responsibilities include                                       
  all business, operations,                                      
  and human resource                                             
  management actions/issues                                      
  across the Division.                                           
  Function as division                                           
  leader in the leader's                                         
  absence.                                                       

  **Working Conditions:**                                        
  Office work and frequent                                       
  domestic and foreign                                           
  travel.                                                        
  -------------------------- ------------------- --------------- ---------------

  -------------------------- ------------------- --------------- ---------------
  **Name:** Alan R. Bishop   **Organization:**                   
                             T-DO, Theoretical                   
                             Division Office                     

  **Job Title:** Division    **Series/Level:**   **Pay Basis:**  **Clearance
  Leader                     TSM                 Exempt          Level:** Q

  **Reports to:** Associate                                      
  Director for Strategic                                         
  Research                                                       

  **Summary:** The                                               
  Theoretical Division                                           
  strives to recruit the                                         
  best scientific minds and                                      
  capabilities to further                                        
  our scientific                                                 
  understanding of the                                           
  physical world and to                                          
  establish a technical                                          
  foundation for both                                            
  current and future                                             
  national defense,                                              
  industrial, and civilian                                       
  needs. This foundation                                         
  fosters the exploration of                                     
  interdisciplinary                                              
  frontiers of scientific                                        
  endeavor. In brief, the                                        
  Division's three central                                       
  mission elements are to                                        
  provide the best science                                       
  and scientists to LANL                                         
  national security                                              
  missions; pursue frontier                                      
  science to ensure                                              
  excellence in science                                          
  capabilities for LANL and                                      
  the nation; and to create                                      
  new scientific directions                                      
  and attract scientific                                         
  leaders to LANL. The                                           
  division leader provides                                       
  external visibility for                                        
  the Division and                                               
  leadership for                                                 
  collaborations for solving                                     
  challenging and complex                                        
  scientific problems, is                                        
  responsible for promoting                                      
  operational and scientific                                     
  excellence, and provides                                       
  scientific, technical, and                                     
  operational leadership to                                      
  a workforce of                                                 
  approximately 400 in 13                                        
  groups and a Laboratory                                        
  center with an annual                                          
  budget of approximately                                        
  \$85M. The division leader                                     
  leads by example and                                           
  nurtures a safe, secure,                                       
  stimulating, productive,                                       
  and cost-effective work                                        
  environment, providing                                         
  direction and priorities                                       
  to groups and programs.                                        
  The division leader                                            
  effectively addresses                                          
  Laboratory goals in                                            
  recruiting, diversity,                                         
  ISM, ISSM, and maintains                                       
  positive, effective                                            
  working relationships                                          
  within the Division, with                                      
  other managers and                                             
  researchers at the                                             
  Laboratory, and with                                           
  external customers,                                            
  sponsors, and                                                  
  stakeholders. The division                                     
  leader is an active member                                     
  of the SR Directorate                                          
  management team, supports                                      
  Laboratory mission                                             
  planning and goals, and is                                     
  also expected to team with                                     
  other division and program                                     
  directors to be a major                                        
  contributor to the                                             
  strategic planning, policy                                     
  definition, and                                                
  decision-making for the                                        
  Laboratory.                                                    

  **Primary Functions and                                        
  Responsibilities (may not                                      
  include all duties                                             
  assigned):** Leadership                                        
  and management of T                                            
  Division, including                                            
  overall effectiveness of                                       
  research and operations.                                       
  Effective establishment                                        
  and maintenance of an                                          
  active recruiting                                              
  pipeline, including                                            
  nurturing and succession                                       
  planning of the next                                           
  generation of the                                              
  Division's leaders                                             
  (technical, team, project,                                     
  group, and division).                                          
  Responsible for ISM, ISSM,                                     
  resource management, and                                       
  other priorities/goals of                                      
  the Laboratory. Provide                                        
  top-level support for                                          
  program                                                        
  execution/development.                                         
  Responsible for strategic                                      
  planning, productivity and                                     
  quality assessment,                                            
  organization and sizing,                                       
  allocation of space and                                        
  facilities, and effective                                      
  use of institutional                                           
  resources allocated to the                                     
  Division. Responsible for                                      
  the safety of Division                                         
  employees, ensuring all                                        
  relevant security                                              
  requirements are adhered                                       
  to, minimizing the                                             
  environmental impact of                                        
  the Division, and                                              
  adherence to all                                               
  applicable Laboratory and                                      
  DOE policies. The T                                            
  Division Leader is                                             
  expected to maintain                                           
  active research interests                                      
  while providing technical                                      
  vision to nurture and                                          
  support existing programs                                      
  of others throughout the                                       
  Division.                                                      

  **Required Knowledge,                                          
  Skills and Abilities:**                                        
  Demonstrated knowledge and                                     
  research experience in one                                     
  or more of the Division's                                      
  technical focus areas.                                         
  Demonstrated high impact                                       
  in the technical community                                     
  through an extensive                                           
  history of refereed                                            
  publications, invited                                          
  talks at national and                                          
  international conferences,                                     
  participation in                                               
  professional societies,                                        
  service to the scientific                                      
  community, and other                                           
  professional                                                   
  accomplishments. A strong                                      
  record of significant                                          
  expertise and                                                  
  distinguished scientific                                       
  and managerial                                                 
  accomplishment                                                 
  demonstrating the                                              
  following scientific                                           
  leadership                                                     
  characteristics/skills:                                        
  ability to effectively                                         
  lead change; ability to                                        
  develop people, including                                      
  future leaders; experience                                     
  building and maintaining                                       
  effective leadership                                           
  teams; demonstrated drive                                      
  for excellence and                                             
  results; ability to build                                      
  and sustain effective                                          
  sponsor relationships; and                                     
  exemplary personal                                             
  accountability, integrity,                                     
  and trust building skills.                                     
  Demonstrated interpersonal                                     
  and communication skills,                                      
  including proactive and                                        
  decisive handling of all                                       
  personnel issues.                                              
  Demonstrated commitment to                                     
  high-quality operations                                        
  and execution of defense                                       
  and basic research                                             
  activities, including                                          
  scientific excellence,                                         
  safety, security,                                              
  environment, diversity,                                        
  recruiting, retention,                                         
  employee development,                                          
  conflict resolution,                                           
  fiscal responsibility,                                         
  encouragement of                                               
  innovation and                                                 
  risk-taking, program                                           
  development, and project                                       
  management.                                                    

  **Desired Knowledge,                                           
  Skills, and Abilities:**                                       
  Knowledge of DOE, NNSA,                                        
  DoD, and DHS, as well as                                       
  other national and                                             
  international programs of                                      
  relevance to the                                               
  Division\'s activities.                                        
  Practical knowledge of                                         
  Laboratory operations and                                      
  administration practices                                       
  and procedures.                                                

  **Management/Supervisory                                       
  Responsibilities:** As a                                       
  line manager,                                                  
  responsibilities include                                       
  all business, operations,                                      
  and human resource                                             
  management actions/issues.                                     
  The deputy division                                            
  leader, group leaders,                                         
  CNLS Center Leader, and                                        
  division office support                                        
  staff all report directly                                      
  to the division leader.                                        

  **Working Conditions:**                                        
  Office work and frequent                                       
  domestic and foreign                                           
  travel.                                                        
  -------------------------- ------------------- --------------- ---------------

**Appendix F -- Division Capabilities Quick Reference Guide**

*A posteriori* error estimates: T-7

*Ab initio* molecules & solids: T-1, -11, -12

Accelerator design: T-8

Adaptive mesh methods: T-1, -3, -6, -7

Adaptive optics: T-4

Agent-based modeling: T-7, -13, T-DO

Aqueous solutions/solvation: T-10, -12

AIDS virus mechanics, applications, & research: T-7, -8, -10

Algorithms for scientific computing: T-6, -7, -8, -11, -12, -13, CNLS

Analysis of frequent patterns: T-13

Anomalous fluctuations in nuclear reactions: T-13

Antihydrogen formation: T-4

Applied mathematics: T-7, -13, CNLS

Approximation theory: T-7

Astrophysics: T-4, -6, -8, -15, -16

Atomic struct., collisions, kinetics, & spectroscopy: T-1, -4, CNLS

Beams: T-15; (nuclear astrophysics & radioactive): T-6, -16

Biocatalysts: T-10

Bioinformatics: T-7, -10, -13

Biomaterials & biomechanics: T-3

Biological systems: T-7, -10, -12, -13, CNLS

Biophysics: T-7, -8, -10, -11, -12, -13, CNLS

Biothreat risk analysis: T-10

Black holes: T-6

Bose-Einstein condensation: T-4, -12 , -13, CNLS

Casting: T-3

Cell receptors: T-10, -12

Cell signaling: T-10, -12

Cellular biology analysis: T-7, -10, -13

Cellular materials: T-3

Ceramic research: T-1

Chemical industries: T-3, -12

Chemical reactions/processes: T-3, -12, -14, CNLS

Chiral perturbation theory: T-8, -16

Coding theory: CNLS

Cold atoms: T-4

Combustion systems: T-3, -6, -12

Comets & asteroids: T-6

Compact stellar remnants: T-6

Complex fluids: T-3, -7, -12. -13, CNLS

Complex networks: T-7, -10, -13, CNLS

Complex systems and biological networks: T-10

Composite research: T-1, -3, -12

Computational electromagnetics: T-7

Computational fluid dynamics: T-3, -6, -7, -12, -13, CNLS

Computational geometry: T-7

Computer-aided manufacturing: T-3

Computers (large quantum): T-13, CNLS

Condensed matter statistical physics: T-11, -12, CNLS

Condensed matter theory: T-7, -11, -12, CNLS

Conformal field theory: T-8

Continuum mechanics: T-3, -13

Cosmic large-scale structure: T-6, -8

Cosmic magnetic field phenomena: T-3, -6

C-P violations: T-6, -8, -16

Degenerate fermionic gases: T-4

Dense plasmas: T-4, -6, -12, -15

Design of solid state quantum computers: T-13

Developmental genetics: T-13

DNA sequences (pattern recognition): T-7, -10, -13

DNA & RNA structure & dynamics: T-10, CNLS

Dynamical systems (mathematics): T-7, -13, CNLS

Dynamics & kinetics of chemical reactions: T-12

Early universe: T-6, -8, T-DO

Electrodynamics: T-15

Electromagnetic interactions: T-6, -8, -16

Electromagnetic propagation: T-4

Electronic & structural principles: T-1, -11, -12, T-DO

Electronic structure calculations: T-1, -10, -11, -12

Electroweak interactions: T-6, -16

Elementary particle interactions: T-8

Epidemiology: T-6, -7, -8, -10, -13, CNLS

Equation of state: T-1, -4, -6, -12, -14

Environmental systems: T-7, -12

Exhaust studies: T-3

Exotic atoms & molecules: T-4

Exotic nuclei: T-6, -16

Explosives: T-3, -12, -14

Ferrous metals: T-3

Few-body (exact calculations): T-16

Fission & fusion reactor analysis: T-16

Fluid structure interactions: T-3

Forces at atomic, molecular, & solid level: T-11, -12, -14, CNLS

Frequency conversion: T-4

Fusion energy: T-15

Gas phase & condensed phenomena: T-12

Gas process chemistry: T-3

Gene expression analysis: T-10, -13

General relativity: T-6, -8

Geometrical mechanics: T-7

Geosciences: T-3, -7

Global climate studies: T-3, -7

Grid generation/optimization: T-1, -3, -7

Hadron spectrum calculations: T-8

Hadronic scattering: T-6, -16

Hadrons: T-8, -16

HCV sequence database: T-10

Hearing processes: T-DO

Heat transfer: T-3

Heavy ions: T-8, -16, T-DO

High explosives: T-3, -12, -14

High-spin states in nuclei: T-DO

High-temperature superconductors: T-11, CNLS

HIV studies: T-7, -8, -10

HIV sequence database: T-10

Hohlraum spectroscopy: T-4

Homology and comparative modeling: T-10

Host-pathogen interactions: T-10

Hydrodynamics & shock interactions: T-3, -6, -7,\
-12, -13, -14

Hydrophobic effects: T-10, -12

Image analysis development: T-1, -7, -12, CNLS

Immune response: T-10

Influenza sequence database: T-10

Information scanning & gathering: T-13

Information sciences: CNLS

Integratable systems: T-7, -13, CNLS

Interface between nuclear & particle physics: T-6,\
-16

Intermetallic research: T-1, -11

Ion traps: T-4

Isomer physics: T-6, -16

Large data set analysis: T-6, -7, CNLS

Large-scale simulation of biomolecular complexes: T-10

Laser-matter interactions: T-4, -13

Lasers: T-4

Linear & nonlinear solvers: T-3, -7, CNLS

Liquids: T-3, -10, -12

Many body condensed matter theory: T-11, CNLS

Martensites & shape-memory alloys: T-11

Mass transfer: T-3

Materials:

Atomistic simul. of: T-11, -12, CNLS

Behavior: T-11, -12

Burn process in: T-14

Composites & casting: T-3

Mathematical probl. in mat. sci.: T-3, -7, -13. CNLS

Memory (shape-alloy): T-3, -7, -11

Microscopic modeling of: T-11, -12, CNLS

Organic materials: T-11, -12, -14

Properties library: T-1

Static & dynamic properties of: T-1, -11, -12

Study of physics & chemistry of: T-11, -12

Thermodynam. & mech. behav. of: T-1, -3, -11, -12, 13

Mathematical biology: T-10

Mesh generation modeling: T-3, -7

Membrane: T-10

Membrane proteins: T-10

Micromechanics: T-3

Mimetic discretization methods: T-7

Modeling: all groups

Molecules:

Biology: T-10, -12, CNLS

Calculating electronic properties: T-12

Catalysts: T-12

Biocatalysts: T-10

Determining shapes: T-13

Large-scale molecular dynamics: T-10, -11, -12, CNLS

Ligand binding: T-10, -12

Properties: T-12, -14, CNLS

Protein folding: T-10, -12

Transcriptional control: T-11, -13, CNLS

Molecular genetics: T-13

Multigrid methods: T-3, -6, -7

Multiphase flow: T-3, -13

Multiscale physics modeling: T-3, -6, -7, -11, CNLS

Multiscale materials: T-1, -3, -11, -12, -14, CNLS

Muonic & antiprotonic atoms: T-4

Nanotechnology: T-8, -11, -12, -13, CNLS

Nebulae & interstellar matter: T-4, -6

Neural network pattern recognition: T-10, -13, -16

Neurophysics: T-11, CNLS

Neutron sources: T-15

Neutrino properties: T-6, -8, -16

Nonequilibrium kinetics: T-4, -12

Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics: T-1, -8, -12,\
-13, CNLS

Nonlinear physics: T-7, -8, -11, -13, CNLS

Nonlinear systems analysis: T-3, -7, -12, -13, CNLS

Nuclear & conventional defense: T-1, -3, -13

Nuclear applications: T-6, -16

Nuclear astrophysics: T-6, -16

Nuclear data libraries: T-16

Nuclear physics: T-6, -16

Nuclear reaction mechanisms: T-6, -16

Nuclear structure studies: T-6, -16, T-DO

Numerical analysis: T-3, -7

Object-oriented scientific computing: T-3

Ocean circulation models: T-3

Ocean dynamics (long-term ): T-3, -7

Oil process chemistry: T-3, -12

Opacities & interactive website: T-4, -6

Optical properties of materials: T-11, -12, CNLS

Optics: T-4

Organic device physics: T-11, -12

Parallel algorithms : T-3, -6, -7, -8, -10, -11, -12, CNLS

Partial differential equations: T-7, -13, CNLS

Pattern recognition: T-1, -10, -12

Petroleum recovery: T-7, -13

Phase transformations in materials: T-3, -11, -12

Phylogenetics and evolution: T-10

Photonics: T-7, -12, -13, CNLS

Plasma behavior: T-3, -12

Plasma physics theory: T-13, -15

Polymer chemistry & physics: T-11, -12, -14, CNLS

Proliferation issues: T-6, -14, -16

Properties: transcriptional control: CNLS

Protein-ligand interactions: T-10

Protein structure & folding: T-10, -12, -13, CNLS

Quantum chemistry: T-12

Quantum chromodynamics: T-8

Quantum computing: T-4, -8, -11, -13, T-DO, CNLS

Quantum field theory: T-8, -11

Quantum measurement: T-8, -13

Quantum Monte Carlo: T-11, -16

Quantum neural technologies: T-13

Quark-gluon plasma: T-8, -16

Quasars & galaxy formation: T-6

Rare isotope accelerators: T-6, -16

Radiative/collisional processes in plasmas: T-4, -12

Radiochemistry: T-6

Reactor safety: T-3, -16

Reaction theory: T-6, -12, -16

Reactive flow: T-3, -6, -12, -14

Receptor-ligand interactions: T-10, -12

Scaling laws: T-8

Semiconductors: T-1, -11, -12

Sequence analysis: T-10

Signal processing: T-1, -7, -12, T-DO

Simulations: all groups

Soft matter: T-11, -12, -13, CNLS

Software engineering: T-7

Solar & stellar physics: T-3, -4, -6

Solitons in transmission lines: T-7, CNLS

Statistical physics: T-1, -7, -8, -10, -11, -12, -13, CNLS

Stochastic equations: T-7, -8, -11, -13, CNLS

Stochastic processes T-7, -11, -12, -13

Stockpile safety: T-DO

Structural pathomics

Structural modeling of biomolecular complexes

Superconductivity theory: T-11

Supernovae: T-6, -16

Systems, accelerator-driven (reactions & scattering in): T-16

Theoretical physics: all groups

Theoretical biology: T-10

Theoretical biophysics: T-10

Tokomak disruptions: T-15

Transition from quantum to classical physics: T-8, -13

Turbulence studies: T-3, -7, -13, CNLS

Ultracold plasmas: T-4

Uncertainty quantification: T-6, -7, -13, -16

Upscaling: T-7, -13

Vaccine design: T-10

Viral diseases & dynamics: T-6, -7, -8, -10, CNLS

Warm Dense Matter: T-15

Wavelet theory: T-1, -7, -12, -14, -DO, CNLS

Weapons suppport: most groups to varying degrees

Certification methodology: T-13

Conventional: T-3

Equation of state: T-1, -12

Explosives: T-12, -14

Fluid dynamics: T-3, -7, -13

High-energy density physics: T-4, -6

Materials: T-11, -12

Nuclear: T-3, -6, -16

Opacities: T-4

Sensitivity Studies: T-6

Wildfire studies: T-3

**Appendix G -- List of Referenced Documents**

Publications are available on the Theoretical Division web site at
<http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/t/publications>.

Hard copies may be obtained by contacting the Division Office at
505-667-4401.

![](media/image20.jpeg){width="1.101388888888889in"
height="1.426388888888889in"}The *Annual Self-Assessment*, an
institutional document, includes an organizational summary, details
about the Division's current thrust areas, its contributions to Appendix
F measures, and data on publications, invited presentations, honors,
awards, professional memberships, and other statistics about the
Division and its technical staff. The most current version,
*Self-Assessment 2004-2005* (LA-UR-05-2732) is available at
www.lanl.gov/orgs/t/publications/self_assessment_2005.shtml. Versions
from previous years are available in hard copy.

![](media/image21.jpeg){width="1.0944444444444446in"
height="1.4041666666666666in"}

Theoretical Division's *Nuclear Weapons Program Highlights* is published
annually, usually in late spring. This publication contains two-page
unclassified technical highlights of research and projects in support of
the Laboratory's Nuclear Weapons Program. *Nuclear Weapons Program
Highlights 2004-2005* (LA-UR-05-3853) is at
www.lanl.gov/orgs/t/publications/research_highlights_2005.shtml.
Versions from previous years are available in hard copy.

![](media/image22.jpeg){width="1.1506944444444445in"
height="1.5027777777777778in"}*Theoretical Division Research Highlights*
document complements the annual Self-Assessment document. Organized by
group/discipline, this publication contains two-page technical
highlights of research conducted by the Division staff over the previous
year and reflects the broad spectrum of problems and projects addressed
by T Division. (This publication was previously titled "Special
Feature.") *Research Highlights 2005* (LA-UR-05-1500) can be found on
the web at www.lanl.gov/
orgs/t/publications/research_highlights_2005.shtml. The previous year's
version, *Special Feature 2004*, is at
www.lanl.gov/orgs/t/publications/docs/ special_feature2004.pdf. Versions
from previous years are available in hard copy.

![](media/image23.jpeg){width="1.1298611111111112in"
height="1.4722222222222223in"}Composed of contributions from more than
90 distinguished Theoretical Division staff and alumni, this two-volume
book---*Theory in Action, Highlights in the Theoretical Division at Los
Alamos 1943--2003* (LA-14000-H)---is an archival window into six decades
of creativity, major discipline and mission challenges, and successes.
The book addresses 19 areas of research that extend to virtually every
major technical initiative at Los Alamos. It is on the web as a PDF at
www.lanl.gov/orgs/t/publications/docs/theory_action2004.pdf.

![](media/image24.jpeg){width="1.86875in"
height="0.6298611111111111in"}Formed in October 1980, the Center for
Nonlinear Studies (CNLS) organizes research related to nonlinear and
complex systems phenomena. More information, publications, and details
on current activities can be found at http://cnls.lanl.gov/External/.

-   Theoretical Division Review Committee reports are available on a
    limited distribution basis. Requests should be made to the
    Theoretical Division Office, 505-667-4401.

-   Detailed descriptions of each group in the Theoretical Division are
    available upon request; contact the Theoretical Division Office,
    505-667-4401.

Appendix H -- Acronym List

+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| # Acronym             | **Definition**                               |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| AAAS                  | American Association for the Advancement of  |
|                       | Science                                      |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| AFCI                  | Advanced fuel cycle initiative               |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| AFOSR                 | Air Force Office of Scientific Research      |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| AGEX                  | above ground experiments                     |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| AGN                   | active galactic nuclei                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| ARDA                  | advanced research and development activity   |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| ARO                   | Army Resource Office                         |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| ASC                   | Advanced Simulation and Computing            |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| ASCR                  | Advanced Scientific Computing Research       |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| ATLAS                 | Advanced test line for actinide separations  |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| AWE                   | UK Atomic Weapons Establishment              |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| BEC                   | Bose Einstein condensate                     |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| C Division            | Chemistry Division                           |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| CARE                  | Cooperative Agreement on Research and        |
|                       | Education                                    |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| CDC                   | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| CEA                   | Comissariat á l'Énergie Atomique (France)    |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| CHS                   | Center for Homeland Security                 |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| CINT                  | LANL Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies  |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| CMR                   | colossal magnetoresistance                   |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| CNLS                  | Center for Nonlinear Studies                 |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| COSIM                 | LANL Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice Modeling     |
|                       | project                                      |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| CRADA                 | Cooperative Research & Development agreement |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| CTCP                  | Center for Theoretical and Computational     |
|                       | Pathomics                                    |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| DARHT                 | Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test     |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| DARPA                 | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency    |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| DHS                   | Department of Homeland Security              |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| DoD                   | Department of Defense                        |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| DOE                   | Department of Energy                         |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| DOE/DP                | DOE/Defense Programs                         |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| DOE/EERE              | Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy       |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| DOE/NN-20             | DOE/Nuclear Nonproliferation                 |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| DOE/SC                | DOE Office of Science                        |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| TRC/DART              | Total Recordable Cases/Days Away From Work,  |
|                       | Restricted Work Activity, or Transfers to    |
|                       | Another Job                                  |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| DSW                   | Directed Stockpile Work                      |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| DTRA                  | U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency         |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| EOS                   | equation of state                            |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| EOS-MOM               | Equation of State and Mechanics of Materials |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| ESC                   | enhanced surveillance campaign               |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| HCV                   | Hepatitis C virus                            |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| HE                    | High Explosives                              |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| HHS                   | US Department of Health and Human Services   |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| HS                    | Homeland Security                            |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| IETS                  | Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy    |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| ISM                   | Integrated Safety Management                 |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| ISSM                  | Integrated Safeguards & Security Management  |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| IWM                   | Integrated Work Management                   |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| JINA                  | Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics     |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| LANL                  | Los Alamos National Laboratory               |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| LANSCE                | Los Alamos Neutron Science Center            |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| # Acronym             | **Definition**                               |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| LDRD                  | Laboratory Directed Research and Development |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| LDRD DR               | LDRD Directed Research                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| LDRD ER               | LDRD Exploratory Research                    |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| LEP                   | Life Extension Project                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| LLNL                  | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory       |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| MD                    | Molecular Dynamics                           |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| MEAM                  | Modified embedded atomic method              |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| MSEC                  | Materials, Science, and Engineering Council  |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| NASA                  | National Aeronautics and Space               |
|                       | Administration                               |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| NCAR                  | National Center for Atmospheric Research     |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| NETL                  | National Energy Technology Laboratory        |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| NHMFL                 | National High Magnetic Field Laboratory      |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| NIF                   | National Ignition Facility                   |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| NIH                   | National Institutes of Health                |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| NISAC                 | National Infrastructure Simulation and       |
|                       | Analysis Center                              |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| NMR                   | nuclear magnetic resonance                   |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| NMT Division          | Nuclear Materials Technology Division        |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| NNSA                  | National Oceanic and Atmospheric             |
|                       | Administration                               |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| NOAA                  | National Renewable Energy Laboratory         |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| NREL                  |                                              |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| NSA                   | National Security Administration             |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| NSF                   | National Science Foundation                  |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| NW                    | Nuclear Weapons                              |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| OLED                  | organic light emitting diode                 |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| ORNL                  | Oak Ridge National Laboratory                |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| OSTP                  | U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| PI                    | Principal Investigator                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| PNAC                  | Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics and        |
|                       | Cosmology                                    |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| POC                   | point of contact                             |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| QCD                   | Quantum Chromodynamics                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| QMD                   | Quantum Molecular Dynamics                   |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| QMU                   | Quantification of Margins and Uncertainty    |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| RHIC                  | relativistic heavy ion collider              |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| RRW                   | Robust Replacement Warhead                   |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| SBP/CS                | Science-based Prediction for Complex Systems |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| SciDAC                | DOE Scientific Discovery through Advanced    |
|                       | Computing                                    |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| SDSS-II               | Sloan Digital Sky Survey                     |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| SFI                   | Santa Fe Institute                           |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| SNL                   | Sandia National Laboratories                 |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| SR                    | Strategic Research Directorate               |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| SSC                   | Supernova Science Center                     |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| STB                   | Science and Technology Base Programs         |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| TDRC                  | Theoretical Division Review Committee        |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| TR                    | Threat Reduction                             |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| UC                    | University of California                     |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| UNM                   | University of New Mexico                     |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| UQ                    | Uncertainty Quantification                   |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| V&V                   | Verification & Validation                    |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| WP                    | Weapons Physics Directorate                  |
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| WSR                   | Weapon Supporting Research                   |
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