Sandia National Laboratories and the University of California, Davis have partnered to host an on-going series of research networking symposiums, where registration is free and open to all Sandia personnel, College of Engineering faculty, and graduate students.
The symposium offers unique opportunities to connect with research partners, expand the impact of your work, build your research network, pique the interest of talented engineering students, and enhance Sandia’s mission.
The 2024 Sandia/UC Davis Research Partnership Symposium takes place on February 27th, 2024 at UC Davis and will focus on Climate Security. We are looking to you to establish research connections and foster beneficial collaboration across scientific disciplines.
The symposium will take place at the Putah Creek Lodge on the UC Davis campus at 685 Putah Creek Lodge Drive, Davis, CA 95616. Parking is available in the Putah Creek Lodge Parking Lot. Visitor parking is now through the AggiePark app.
Registration is free and open to all Sandia personnel and UC Davis faculty, postdoctoral staff, and graduate students. Registered participants will receive meeting invitations. Please register here.
Sandia and UC Davis researchers will present their respective research and collaboration interests in sessions throughout the morning and afternoon. The presentations are limited to 10 minutes with time for Q&A. A slide template will be provided.
General Schedule
| 8:30AM | Check-in Opens |
| 9:00AM | Welcome/Opening Remarks |
| 9:15AM | Sandia Priorities in Climate Security |
| 9:30AM | Funding Opportunities |
| 9:40AM | Climate Modification Modeling and Analysis |
| 10:45AM | Break |
| 11:00AM | Rapid Innovation in Renewable Energy |
| 12:15PM | Networking Lunch |
| 1:15PM | Industrial Decarbonization |
| 2:20PM | Low Carbon Fuels and Energy Carriers |
| 3:30PM | Break |
| 3:45PM | LDRD Sandia PI and Faculty Collaborator Roundtable |
| 4:15PM | Reception and Student Poster Session |
| 5:00PM | Symposium Concludes |
Sandia’s Mission Areas highlight Sandia’s primary research programs. In addition, Sandia’s Research Foundations and Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) provide a sense of the scope of research thrusts across the labs. The Sandia/UC Davis Research Partnership focuses in on the following four research areas:
Additive Manufacturing & Design
Sandia’s Additive Manufacturing & Design program is building a foundational technical basis to rapidly design, develop, prototype, produce, characterize, and insert additively manufactured components and system technologies in our nation’s nuclear deterrent. The ability to innovate new component designs will rapidly accelerate our nation’s response to emerging and evolving national security needs.
Key strategic thrusts for Sandia’s strategy include:
- Materials Reliability
- Design and Engineering
- Process and Acceptance Capabilities
- New Materials and Compelling Applications
- Data Management
Climate Security
Sandia’s national security mission, systems engineering strength, and breadth and diversity of programs position us to help address the national and global security threats associated with climate change. The Labs’ foundational research enables this work and supports climate-critical capabilities in four primary areas: high-reliability engineering; modeling and simulation; safety, risk, and vulnerability analysis; and sensors and sensor systems. This work builds on Sandia’s long heritage of providing the nation with climate-related innovation; research and development in atmospheric measurement and testing, climate modeling, clean energy and energy resilience, and safety and security has already contributed significantly to advancing climate security.
Key strategic thrusts for Sandia’s strategy include:
- Climate Modification Modeling & Analysis
- Rapid Innovation in Renewable Energy
- Industrial Decarbonization
- Low Carbon Fuels and Energy Carriers
Sensors & Detection Technologies
Research priorities in sensor and detection technologies span across Sandia’s mission space including:
- Detection of chemical and biological threats, including emerging pandemics
- Sensing and process automation in harsh environments for energy conversion and delivery systems, nuclear reactors, drilling operations, and management of nuclear waste
- Physical site security, border and transportation security, emergency response, and infrastructure security — specific technical challenges include sensing, tracking assessment and response to physical adversarial threats, especially unmanned aircraft systems
- Energy-efficient sensing and sensor data processing in connected and highly automated transportation systems constrained by size, weight, and power
Information Science, Computational Science, and Trusted Artificial Intelligence
Sandia relies on innovative and foundational Research and Development across the spectrum of data science and decision analytics approaches to have impact on multiple mission needs and domains (e.g., cybersecurity; discerning propagation of disinformation; monitoring ports of entry, advanced nuclear reactors, and physical security; as well as resilient energy production, transportation infrastructure, and making other critical infrastructures resilient to both attack and failure).
Partnership in research and development that advances the fields of Information Science, Computational Decision Science, and Trusted Artificial Intelligence to support these are of interest, including:
- Advanced statistical methods in machine learning, and explainability
- Optimization, game theory, and uncertainty quantification of system risk analyses that make use of both hard data and soft data (e.g., expert judgement, public opinion, economics)
- Scalable real-time streaming analytics
- Large-scale data analysis including the aggregation of data for identifying weak indicators, aspects of privacy, and multi-party computations
February 26, 2024: Sandia Information Session and Pizza
What: Sandia will be hosting a 30-minute information session for students and postdocs. Come by with questions or just to listen to research staff talk about Sandia and career opportunities for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and undergraduate students. We’ll ask students to register their information into our recruiting database to follow up on future events and hiring opportunities. Pizza will be provided.
When: Monday, February 26th at 6:00-7:00pm
Where: TBD
February 27, 2024: Student Poster Session
What: Come by to see research projects from fellow graduate students. Sandia recruiters will also be available to meet with graduate students to answer questions about Sandia and discuss career opportunities. We’ll ask students to register their information into our recruiting database to follow up on future events and hiring opportunities.
When: Tuesday, February 27th from 4:15-5:00pm
Where: Putah Creek Lodge
View Sandia’s careers page for all open positions.
Check out Sandia’s openings for Internships & Co-ops, Fellowships, and Postdoctoral Positions.
For questions about the event, contract your corresponding institutional liaisons:
UC Davis: Whitney Cheung and Ana Lucia Cordova (strategicinitiatives@ucdavis.edu)
Sandia National Laboratories: Devan Romero (devrome@sandia.gov), Julie Freutel (jfruet@sandia.gov), Erin Livermore (ekliver@sandia.gov), and Michael Green (mgreen3@sandia.gov)