University Partnerships and International Collaborations
Historically, universities have had a close relationship with the Department of Energy’s Defense Programs national laboratories. In fact, Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore have been operated for the Department of Energy by the University of California for many years. The mission of the Defense Programs laboratories is focused on Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship, and ASC and the universities share a common and critical interest in making that vision a reality. The success of ASC depends on the ability to show that simulations can credibly be used to replace nuclear testing as a means of ensuring stockpile confidence. Universities recognize the challenge in developing new kinds of simulation tools across a number of related disciplines to accomplish this mission.
About ASC and Universities
Collaborations with universities involve training, recruiting, and working with top researchers in key disciplines required by stockpile stewardship. These partnerships help establish and validate large-scale, multidisciplinary research in modeling and simulation. Collaborating universities are integrated into program activities that challenge vision of what is possible in science-based modeling and simulation. Students gain unique experience using state-of-the-art equipment and the resources of three national laboratories. After graduation, the opportunity may exist to join the laboratory teams providing cutting-edge technologies to ensure the nation’s security. Students and faculty are invited to explore the possiblities with ASC.
Alliances
The Academic Strategic Alliance Program (ASAP) engages the U.S. academic community in making significant advances in science-based modeling and simulation technologies. Research conducted through this partnership contributes to the knowledge base required to demonstrate the capabilities of modeling and simulation across a broad spectrum of science and engineering applications using some of the most powerful computers in the world. The ASAP encourages collaboration between the national laboratories and universities in the advancement of science-based multi-disciplinary modeling and simulation technologies, and educating and recruiting individuals with skills critical to the ASC Program.
Graduate Fellowships
Recognizing the scarcity of U.S. citizens enrolling for advanced degrees in fields crucial to the success of ASC, two complementary Fellowship programs, both administered by the Krell Institute, are supported.
Institutes
The ASC Program supports an Institute at each of the three Defense Program laboratories, to advance basic and applied research initiatives in computational sciences in support of the ASC Program.
These ASC Institutes attract university experts to work with laboratory staff in research initiatives, and serve as focal points for laboratory-university interactions in support of the ASC Program.
Lab-specific Institute information is available at the following links:
International Collaborations
Russia
Others