Visiting the CRF

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April 2012
Post, May 3, 2012 • On April 10-12, CRF manager Damian Rouson and senior technical staff member Karla Morris taught an intensive workshop on object-oriented programming (OOP) in Fortran 2003 at the University of California at Berkeley. OOP aims to increase a program's maintainability in part by reducing cross-module data dependencies and to increase a...

August Visitor Departures
Post, November 24, 2014 • Many of the students and faculty visiting the CRF under the DOE Office of Science Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) program returned to their universities in August. To learn more about their work at the CRF, click on the links below. Samira Iqbal, 6/2/14 – 8/7/14, Host: Ethan...
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California Council on Science and Technology visits CRF
Post, August 9, 2013 • On July 15, seven members of the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) visited the Combustion Research Facility. Transportation Energy Center Director Bob Carling and Deputy Director of Chemical Sciences Dawn Manley gave the visitors an overview of the CRF. Blake Simmons, Senior Manager of Biofuels and BioMaterials Science...
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CRF Hosts Visitors from General Motors
Post, November 6, 2012 • CRF Hosts Visitors from General Motors Transportation Director Bob Carling, Senior Manager Dawn Manley, and Manager Dennis Siebers hosted two visitors from General Motors this summer. CRF researchers toured Mike Harpster, the director of the Propulsion Research Lab, and Paul Najt, group manager of the SI Engine Systems, through the...
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CRF Reunion Luncheon Brings Together Staff, Retirees, Postdocs, and Visitors
Post, September 12, 2014 • With more than100 visiting researchers each year, many paths cross at the Combustion Research Facility. The CRF reunion luncheon, held during the 35th International Symposium on Combustion in San Francisco the first week of August, brought together a number of current staff, retirees, past and present postdocs, and other visitors....
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CRF Seismic Retrofit Complete
Post, September 29, 2014 • The installation of new exterior concrete/steel seismic buttress walls, which are attached to the building steel framework. They reinforce the building structure so the building acts like one “box” during an earthquake. On Friday, Sept. 12, Sandia National Laboratories completed a three-year seismic retrofit of the Combustion Research Facility’s (CRF’s)...
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CRF Summer Undergraduate Internship Opportunities – Apply by January 10, 2014
Post, December 1, 2013 • The Combustion Research Facility is seeking undergraduate and community college interns for 10-week appointments in summer 2014. Interns will be paired with a CRF scientist to conduct experimental, computational, or modeling research related to CRF programs. Applicants must be U.S. citizens majoring in math, physical science, or engineering, with a...
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CRF Summer Visiting Faculty Opportunities – Apply by January 10, 2014
Post, December 1, 2013 • The Combustion Research Facility is seeking visiting faculty researchers for 10-week appointments in summer 2014. The Visiting Faculty Program (VFP) seeks faculty members and their students at institutions historically underrepresented in the research community in order to expand the workforce vital to DOE mission areas. Faculty members develop a proposal...
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CRF Visitor Program News Winter-Spring 2012
Post, May 1, 2012 • CRF Visitors Darwin Arifin Darwin Arifin is a return graduate student visitor from the University of Colorado. He will be participating in experiments related to the production of hydrogen and carbon monoxide via thermochemical redox cycles of ceria and doped ceria. Such thermochemical cycles are a means to produce precursors...
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CRF Visitors, January 2014
Post, March 12, 2014 • Adam Wahab 9/16/2013-1/21/2014 Host: Wayne Staats During a several-month visit, Adam Wahab assisted Wayne Staats, Jeff Koplow, Justin Vanness, and Ryan Gorman in developing a new lighting technology that uses a variant of the Sandia Cooler—a highly efficient heat exchanger for microelectronic devices—to cool the LED array. Specifically, Adam created...

CRF Visitors, July and August 2013
Post, November 21, 2013 • Russell Fitzgerald 6/3/13-7/26/13 Host: Isaac Ekoto General Electric (GE) research scientist and former Sandian Russell Fitzgerald came to the CRF for two months to work with Isaac Ekoto to evaluate the suitability of employing an in situ carbon monoxide (CO) detection technique in an optically accessible gas turbine test rig...
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CRF Visitors, September 2013
Post, November 21, 2013 • Niels Leermakers 5/1/2013-9/13/2013 Host: Mark Musculus Niels Leermakers, a Ph.D. candidate from Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands, visited the CRF for four months to collaborate with Mark Musculus on a DOE project to better understand details of the temporal and spatial evolution of soot and soot precursors under...
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DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences program managers visit the CRF
Post, June 26, 2012 • Program managers Dr. Wade Sisk and Dr. Mark Pederson of the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) made a recent visit to the CRF. Over their two-day visit, Dr. Sisk and Dr. Pederson met informally with managers of BES-funded projects. The BES program supports fundamental research to understand, predict,...

EERE Officials Visit CRF
Post, May 21, 2014 •   Paul Miles leads David Danielson, on the far left, and the rest of the group through the small-bore diesel/light-duty diesel laboratory. On April 14, officials from the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) visited the Combustion Research Facility. The guests included David Danielson, EERE Assistant Secretary;...
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Faculty and Students Pursue CRF Research under DOE Programs
Post, July 17, 2014 • Under the supervision of mentor Ethan Hecht, Samira Iqbal of Las Positas College works on a reactor that is used to characterize the kinetics of pulverized coal oxy-combustion under pressure. The DOE Office of Science Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) initiative maintains a decades-long legacy of developing the...
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February 2012
Post, April 25, 2012 • Senior manager of the Livermore Valley Open Campus, Andy McIlroy, presented a poster at the Industry-National Laboratory Workshop on Materials for Energy held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from January 30-February 1. The poster, entitled “Clean and Efficient Combustion for Energy Security,” was featured in the session on Energy: grid, carbon...

February CRF Visitor Departures
Post, April 17, 2014 • Xiaoying Han Xiaoying Han 2/3/2014-2/14/2014 Host: Habib Najm As part of an ongoing collaboration with Habib Najm, Professor Xiaoying Han of Auburn University (Alabama) returned to the CRF to continue research on methods for model reduction in stochastic chemical systems. Prof. Han’s work is focused on developing a theoretical framework...

January 2012
Post, March 7, 2012 • January 17 Transportation Energy Center Director, Bob Carling, conducted the CRF portion of the Leadership Livermore Annual Tour. Leadership Livermore is a program created by the Livermore Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the City of Livermore to bring different individuals and organizations together to get a “behind the scenes”...

June Visitors
Post, August 9, 2013 • Jesse Quinlan 5/20/13–6/14/138351 Visiting StudentHosted by Joe Oefelein Jesse Quinlan, a graduate student at the University of Virginia (UV) who is also affiliated with NASA Langley Research Center, collaborated with researchers at the CRF over several weeks on a project to help develop combustion models applicable to the supersonic combustion...
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March 2012
Post, April 25, 2012 • On March 6, the Director of the Transportation Energy Center, Bob Carling, spoke on opportunities and challenges in transportation energy at the Satellite Kick-off Symposium for I2CNER: The International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research. Held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the event lasted two days and featured speakers...

November 2011
Post, December 8, 2011 • November 18, 2011 CRF manager Dennis Siebers hosted a visit with scientists Waldir Martignoni, Edimilson de Oliveira and Luiz Lopreato from Petrobras, a multinational energy corporation headquartered in Brazil. Traditionally an oil company, Petrobras is invested in developing environmentally friendly alternate energy sources. November 16, 2011 Hal Stillman, Director of...

Pennsylvania Congressman Chaka Fattah visits CRF
Post, August 9, 2013 • On July 15, Congressman Chaka Fattah (PA-2nd) visited the Combustion Research Facility. He met with Transportation Energy Center Director Bob Carling and Deputy Director of Chemical Sciences Dawn Manley to learn about research programs at the CRF and visited Mark Musculus’ optical engine lab. Congressman Fattah serves on the Appropriations...
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Sandia Hosts Friends and Family Day
Post, June 20, 2012 • Last month, Sandia/California vice president Rick Stulen hosted a Family and Friends Day so that researchers could share their work and achievements with those close to them. Over 1,100 visitors participated. Several CRF staff members were on hand to greet them, including researcher Mark Musculus, who kindly toured visitors through...

September 2014 Visitor Departures
Post, November 25, 2014 • WDTS departure Christopher Nilsen 6/23/2014-9/4/2014 Chuck Mueller Chuck Mueller, left, and WDTS intern Christopher Nilsen. Christopher Nilsen was one of the many of the students and faculty visiting the CRF under the DOE Office of Science Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) program. Damir Valiev 10/7/2013 – 9/1/2014 Jackie...
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Students and Professors Spend the Summer at Sandia under DOE’s WDTS Program
Post, August 20, 2014 • This past summer, the CRF was the research home to 11 students and 2 professors who participated in the DOE Office of Science's Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) Program. By allowing students and professors to conduct research internships at national laboratories, this program is helping to develop the...
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