Hello,
Please find attached a flier for an exciting new week long program
at Sandia/CA for graduate students. Please share the flier with your
university contacts and students who may be interested in the Summer
Institute.
Sandia’s Summer Institute: Technology and Policy Tools for Energy in
an Uncertain World is a new cross-discipline week-long research
program for top graduate students from the nation’s premier
universities. Twenty select graduate students will collaborate in
small teams, working side-by-side with leading scientists from
Sandia. Participants will develop new career skills by solving
challenging problems in a fast-paced, collegial work environment.
The Institute addresses technical topics of national interest
through hands-on projects using world-class facilities and is led by
top scientists and engineers. It also offers networking
opportunities with the best and brightest scientists and students in
the nation.
Students will have the opportunity to select from the following
technical focus areas:
Uncertainty Quantification in Predictive Simulation – Focus on
Chemical Systems Participants will work on the development and
testing of uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods for chemical
systems of relevance in combustion. The work will involve
algorithmic research on Bayesian inference and Polynomial Chaos UQ
methods.
Measurement Uncertainty with Imaging Detectors – Focus on Optical
Engine Diagnostics Explore uncertainty in measurement of in-cylinder
soot using 2-color optical pyrometry imaging in a heavy-duty optical
engine. Run the optical engine and intensified cameras and develop
Matlab scripts for soot temperature and volume fraction imaging.
Measurement of Uncertainty in Biological systems – Focus on
Biomass-to-Biofuels processes Explore variability and uncertainty in
the various steps for biomass-to-biofuels conversion. Participants
will develop biochemical assays and measure the conversion of
biomass to fermentable sugars. Participants will then consider how
the variability of sugar production impacts biofuels economics.
Managing Uncertainty in Policy Decisions – Focus on Electric Vehicle
Adoption Drivers Participants will develop computer models for
consumer adoption of alternative-fuel vehicles. Students will then
use these models to explore key technology and policy drivers of
vehicle adoption and sensitivity of their results to underlying
uncertainties.
Interested in learning more or applying? Visit
<http://www.sandia.gov/summer_institutehttp://www.sandia.gov/summer_institute
Applications due March 15th. Housing, meals and transportation will
be provided by Sandia for Institute participants.
Sincerely,
Nerayo
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Nerayo Teclemariam, Ph.D.
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Advanced Systems Engineering & Deployment
Sandia National Laboratories
7011 East Avenue, MS 9292
Livermore, CA 94550