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Los Alamos Chamber: 2025 Business Award Winners

The 2025 business awardees include Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op, Beef & Leaf, Blue Window Bistro, The Family YMCA, Flowers by Gillian, Los Alamos Co-op Market, Los Alamos County, Los Alamos Daily Post, Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC), Samizdat Bookstore & Teahouse, and Zia Credit Union, selected after 527 votes cast by the public, gather for a group photo on stage at the pond. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

The 2025 Chamber Business Awards rest on tables waiting to be presented to the winners on stage Friday at Ashley Pond Park. Courtesy/Chamber 

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Los Alamos National Laboratory: Understanding Quantum Computing’s Most Troubling Problem

In a new paper, Los Alamos scientists collect and review years of work on barren plateaus, a mathematical dead end that has plagued variational quantum computing. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

In variational quantum computing, a barren plateau represents a mathematical point from which quantum algorithms reach a dead end, stalling progress and wasting time and resources.

For the past six years, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has led the world in trying to understand one of the most frustrating barriers that faces variational quantum computing: the barren plateau.

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Environmental Management Cleanup Forum Meet June 12

EM-LA/N3B News:

Please join us for a community meeting from 5-7 p.m., Thursday, June 12, 2025, at the Cities of Gold, Tribal Room.

This event will feature discussions and public input on the environmental legacy cleanup mission at LANL, recent progress and work to protect water quality. The community discussion and Q&A will follow two short presentations by EM-LA and N3B.  

The meeting will be hosted by Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and its legacy cleanup contractor, Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos, LLC (N3B). 

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‘Hope Is Not A Strategy’ … LANL Tour Details Operations To Reduce Risk Of Wildfires

LANL Emergency Management Division Leader Jeff Dare addresses members of the media on May 28 at the Emergency Operations Center during the Wildfire Preparedness Media Tour. Courtesy/LANL

Media visit the East Jemez Interagency Fire Center during the May 28 Wildfire Preparedness Media Tour. Courtesy/LANL

LANL Wildland Fire Program Manager Richard Nieto addresses the media May 28 at the East Jemez Interagency Fire Center during the Wildfire Preparedness Media Tour. Courtesy/LANL

By KIRSTEN LASKEY 
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

Let’s face it: the odds are not looking Read More

EM-LA And N3B to Discuss Cleanup Progress Environmental Management Cleanup Forum June 12 Added To LANL Electronic Public Reading Room

LANL News:

Per regulatory requirements, this email is to notify you that new documents have been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room.

All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above.

For legacy cleanup documents that were posted prior to April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room.

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Scenes From JROMC Dinner Honoring Scholarship Winners

J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee (JROMC) 2025 scholarship recipients, memorial lecture speaker Dr. John Dabiri, back row 4th from left, JROMC Vice-Chair Sara Scott, left, and JROMC Chair Anna Llobet Megias, right, gather for a photo at the special dinner held to honor the scholarship recipients Sunday at Gabriel’s restaurant in northern Santa Fe. The JROMC, with financial support from community donors, honors J. Robert Oppenheimer’s legacy through thought-provoking public lectures by distinguished speakers; a scholarship program for high school students exhibiting exceptional Read More

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