Welcome to the New Mexico Consortium

NMC MISSION

The New Mexico Consortium (NMC) is a non-profit corporation formed by the three New Mexico Universities under a teaming agreement with The University of California (UC) to partner with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to advance scientific research and education in New Mexico. The NMC

• Leverages the strengths of three research universities to achieve common goals,
• Builds joint programs in support of common interests,
• Develops strategic partnerships with government, industry and other universities in support of the partnership, and
• Provides common organization and facilities to support these initiatives.

The NMC's Focus areas are Solar Energy, High Performance Computing and Food Security.  For access to the full web sites for these initiatives, please join the NMC Network. The NMC Network provides information about NM University and LANL staff research interests in these areas, research working groups, external funding targets, workshops and conferences and other information about these initiatives.

Solar Energy
Using the sun to create usable, renewable energy is a major focus of the New Mexico Consortium’s Biological Laboratories.  NMC researchers are working with scientists at other institutions and consortia nationwide to combine solid-state solar energy with bio-energy conversion in an effort to maximize the overall use of a natural, renewable, cost-effective resource.

 Super-Computing
This initiative focuses on large-scale computing research.  Included under this umbrella are the Parallel Reconfigurable Observational Environment (PRObE), an NSF-sponsored project aimed at providing a large-scale, low-level computer systems research facility, and the Ultra Scale Research Center (USRC), which focuses on building a national Exascale Computing program.

High Level Training Using Virtual Reality
The VISIBLE Team is a LANL-NMC partnership that creates virtual reality products for use in training various professionals in several fields, including, for instance, emergency responders, nuclear facility inspectors and industrial facility operators.

Food Security
Considering the increasing global population and the decreasing amount of space available for people and agriculture, NMC researchers are focusing on finding ways to become more efficient with our global food production processes.  This includes utilizing land and water resources more efficiently, reconsidering how we sow and harvest crops for maximum efficiency, quickly detecting stress conditions that adversely affect crops, and creating more nutritious food crops that can withstand these environmental stresses

For more complete information about these programs, their goals, their activities and who is working on them, join the NMC Network, or contact Katharine Chartrand knc@newmexicoconsortium.org.