Summer Programs 2006 - NECIS

NECIS is The Nanoscience, Engineering, and Computation Institute at Sandia that was established as a project within the 2006 Sandia Engineering Excellence late start Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program. NECIS conducted 48 coordinated research collaborations, from May through September of 2006, focused on the integration of nanoscale physical and biological science with computational science. In collaboration with key university partners, NECIS was designed to inspire
and expedite breakthroughs in nanotechnology that lay the foundation for discovery institutes in the spirit of the President’s “American Competitiveness Initiative.” In this capacity, NECIS has addressed these challenges by enabling:

1. Collaborations between nanoengineering and computational science;
2. Students to conduct research, on-site, with Sandians to train a new generation
   of researchers skilled in experimental, modeling, and simulation aspects of
   nanotechnology;
3. Domain experts from academia to work on-site at Sandia to perform cuttingedge
   research that will impact new curricula for nanotechnology;
4. Workshops and short courses to facilitate innovative research that combines
   experimental and computational approaches to nanoengineering.

Progression of Cellular Division Paper: "Cleaning Techniques and Mechancial Properities of Diatom Frustules," T. Lynch and B. Simmons See the NECIS Summer Proceedings 2006 for all NECIS papers.

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