October 2006
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Los Alamos Develops V&V Course
During spring 2006, the ASC Verification and Validation (V&V) Program element at Los Alamos supported the development of a one-quarter graduate course on code verification, model validation, and the quantification of prediction uncertainty. The course was taught by François Hemez of the Applied Physics (“X”) Division through the Engineering Institute, a joint, multidisciplinary research and educational program between Los Alamos and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Course content includes activities for verifying the convergence of calculations, quantifying experimental and numerical uncertainty, eliciting expert knowledge, and validating simulation predictions. Fourteen graduate students passed the course, which was presented by video-conferencing and a video-streaming-enabled website hosted by the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering. Student evaluation of the course was quite positive, and there are plans to expand this activity. Beyond its programmatic relevance for developing a predictive capability for the DOE Complex, the course serves the ancillary function of training and recruiting the next generation.
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