Black hole imaging simulation with Jipole
Pedro Naethe Motta
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Machine learning soft matter dynamics
Charlie Young
Charlie Young
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Tsunami modeling
Shane Coffing
Shane Coffing
About the center
What is CNLS?
The Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS) is part of Los Alamos National Laboratory's Theoretical Division. Since its formation in October 1980, the Center has organized and supported research focused on nonlinear and complex-systems phenomena.
Our purpose
CNLS Mission
- Identify and study complex nonlinear phenomena using statistical physics, nonlinear science, applied mathematics, and numerical simulation.
- Promote the application of scientific results to important research challenges.
- Stimulate interdisciplinary approaches to complex problems.
- Facilitate the exchange of scientific results and ideas between Laboratory scientists and external centers of excellence.
- Encourage exploration at the interfaces between conventional disciplines.
- Support interdisciplinary science that underpins the Laboratory's national-security mission.
What's happening
Calendar Items
Talks this week
| Tue 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Professor Ralf Drautz (ICAMS – Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) Seminar: Seaborg Institute talk Predicting Diffusion and Phase Formation Across the Periodic Table with Foundational Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials |
| Tue 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Seth Hoisington (Texas A&M University) Seminar: **Co-Design Summer School 2026 Student Presentation - Hybrid Seminar** Invariant-Domain Preserving implicit-explicit finite element methods for Gray Radiation Hydrodynamics |
| Wed 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Cody Melcher (University of Arizona) Seminar: Optimization Methods for Min--Max Problems |
| Thu 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Gregor Daiss and Zachary Johnson Postdoc Seminar: Works In Progress Session 6 |
Talks next week
| Mon, Jul. 27th 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Simon Foucart (TAMU) Seminar: Model-Informed Learning: Recent Results on Optimal Recovery |
| Mon, Jul. 27th 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Massimiliano Di Ventra (Dep. of Physics, University of California San Diego) Seminar: MemComputing and the future of computing |
| Tue, Jul. 28th 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Clemens Bechinger (Physics Department, University of Konstanz, Germany) Seminar: AI and active Matter |
| Wed, Jul. 29th 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Ryan D. Friese (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) Seminar: Lamellar: Enabling Memory-Safe Distributed HPC in Rust |
Visitors this week
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Ralf Drautz (Jul. 21st, 2026 to Jul. 24th, 2026) ICAMS – Ruhr-Universität Bochum - Dept. of Physics
Visitors next week
Recent Arrivals
- CNLS welcomes Ulam Scholar Andrea Bertozzi (Jul. 14th, 2026) from Univeristy of California Los Angeles.
