Research Focus

The Theoretical Division has been an intellectual resource to the Los Alamos National Laboratory since 1943. We provide creative scientific and technological solutions to challenges in national security and related problems of national and global importance. Our research can be organized in four main categories. For more details see Groups/Contacts.

Materials Science
Equation of State (T-1)
Computational Fluid Dynamics (T-3)
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics (T-11)
Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Physics (T-12)
Explosives and Organic Materials (T-14)

Mathematical and Complex Systems
Mathematical Modeling and Analysis (T-7)
Computational Fluid Dynamics (T-3)
Theoretical Biology and Biophysics (T-10)
Complex Systems (T-13)
Plasma Theory (T-15)

Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics and Cosmology
Atomic and Optical Theory (T-4)
Theoretical Astrophysics (T-6)
Elementary Particles and Field Theory (T-8)
Nuclear Physics (T-16)
Quantum Computing (QC)

Center for Nonlinear Studies
Biological Physics
Statistical Physics and Nonequlibrium Statistical Mechanics
Turbulence
Geophysics
Condensed Matter Physics

T-Division R&D100 Awards 1988-2005
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