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During the 2019/2020 academic year, CREDDS sent five PhD students for extended internships at NNSA laboratories: Paul Christodoulou worked with Ricardo Lebensohn at LANL/MST-8, Emmeline Sheu worked with Kevin Baldwin at LANL/CINT, Edwin Chiu worked with John Mitchell at SNL/CCR, Ethan Sprague worked with Ibo Matthews at LLNL/NIF. Marco Echeverria worked with Alison Saunders at LLNL.

In the wake of the COVID-19 epidemic, CREDDS organized a 13-week online summer school on dynamic deformation of solids. The school has 166 registrants from 38 institutions. Lecturers include professors from several US universities and technical staff members from three NNSA laboratories.

Rowan Baird, an undergraduate summer researcher supported at TAMU by CREDDS and the USRG program, won first place in her group at the TAMU 2019 REU/USRG poster competition. Her poster was selected from among 36 competitors. Congratulations!

 

CREDDS collaborates with another NNSA center at Texas A&M University, the Center for Excellence in Nuclear Training and University-Based Research (CENTAUR), to engage undergraduate summer interns.

CREDDS director, Michael Demkowicz, presents to undergraduate researchers working within CREDDS, CENTAUR, and other programs at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University.

CENTAUR director, Sherry Yennello, presents to CREDDS and CENTAUR undergraduate researchers.

CREDDS co-sponsors, together with the undergraduate summer research grant (USRG) program at Texas A&M University, eight undergraduate summer students during the summer of 2019: Sasha George (Texas A&M University), Anthony Chavez (Rio Hondo College), Elizabeth Schiesser (U. of Connecticut), Rowan Baird (U. of Mississippi), Hunter Harris (Texas A&M University), Andres Ramirez (U. of Arkansas), Carrie Jones (Texas A&M University), Peter Evans (Texas A&M University).

Five CREDDS PhD students went on extended internships at NNSA labs in the past year: Paul Christodoulou worked with Ricardo Lebensohn at LANL/MST-8, Ben Derby worked with Kevin Baldwin at LANL/CINT, Liya Semenchenko worked with Dan Coughlin at LANL/SIGMA, Avery Samuel worked with Saryu Fensin at LANL/MST-8, and Marco Echeverria worked with Tomorr Haxhimali and Robert Rudd at LLNL.

CREDDS had its first on-site review on May 22-23, 2019. We thank our reviewers for their commitment to fostering excellence in the NNSA’s SSAA projects: Tod Caldwell (NNSA), Allen Dalton (NNSA), Michael Kreisler (NNSA), Darby Luscher (LANL), Nathan Barton (LLNL), Cristopher Seagle (SNL), and David Dombrowski (LANL).

CREDDS held its first center scientific advisory committee (CSAC) meeting on April 9, 2019. We are grateful to our CSAC members, who provided us invaluable feedback and advice: Ellen Cerreta (Los Alamos National Lab), Mukul Kumar (Lawrence Livermore National Lab), Brad Boyce (Sandia National Lab), Don Brenner (North Carolina State U.), and Marisol Koslowski (Purdue U.).

The NNSA’s Stewardship Science Academic Alliances (SSAA) program establishes the Center for Research Excellence on Dynamically Deformed Solids (CREDDS). Learn more about the mission of CREDDS in this press release from Texas A&M University.