Roger Weins to Speak at Military Order of the World Wars Dinner Meeting Feb. 18
Dr. Roger WeinsRegional Coalition of LANL Communities Meets Feb. 21
LANL News:
The Regional Coalition of LANL Communities regular business meeting is 9-11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 21, at Espanola City Council Chambers, 105 Paseo de Oñate.
The Regional Coalition is comprised of eight cities and counties surrounding the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory. Founded in 2011, the Regional Coalition works in partnership to ensure national decisions incorporate local needs and concerns.
The organization’s focus is environmental remediation, regional economic development and site employment and adequate funding for LANL. Read More
NMC Gives UNM Large Scale Computer System for Science and Engineering Research
CARC Systems Group staff members Susan Wilson and Ben Archuleta assist in unloading the second shipment of supercomputer equipment sent from the NMC to UNM. Courtesy/NMC
NMC News:
The New Mexico Consortium (NMC), one of the largest technology-based businesses in Los Alamos County, has repurposed a supercomputer cluster by giving it to one of its partners, the University of New Mexico (UNM.) The 120-node/960 core, AMD/Infiniband-based system will be housed at the UNM supercomputer center, the Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC), and made available for parallel research Read More
Discover E 2014 at LAHS Feb. 20!
Discover E provides interesting, interactive and fun engineering, science, math and technology demonstrations. Courtesy photo
Students brace for the big bang. Courtesy photo
DISCOVER E News:
Discover E (Engineering) is an evening of interesting, interactive and fun engineering, science, math and technology demonstrations for K-12 students and their parents or guardians. The 12th annual Engineers Week activity is 4:30-7 p.m.,Thursday, Feb. 20 at the Los Alamos High School Commons Area.
The event is co-sponsored by the Los Alamos Chapter of ASM International (a professional society Read More
SFI Colloquium: Agent-based Modeling and Public Health – Progress and Potential
Ross A. Hammond, Brookings Institution
SFI Colloquium:
Tuesday, Feb. 11 • 3:30 p.m. • Noyce Conference Room • 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe
Agent-based Modeling and Public Health: Progress and Potential
Abstract. Complex social dynamics drive many important public health outcomes, and understanding these dynamics can be critical for designing effective public policies. Advanced computational modeling such as agent-based modeling (ABM) is increasingly used to understand multi-level determinants of complex public health challenges and to design and test effective responses.
Early Read More
Historical Society Lecture Features LANL Historian Alan Carr Tuesday at Fuller Lodge
LANL Historian Alan Carr
LA HISTORICAL SOCIETY News:
The Los Alamos Historical Society presents Alan B. Carr, author of “On The Front Lines of the Cold War,” 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 11, at Fuller Lodge.
Carr will explore the political landscape of the later Cold War years from the Los Alamos perspective by introducing the Laboratory leaders and technologies that helped win history’s most dangerous conflict.
Carr is the Historian for Los Alamos National Laboratory. During his tenure as Laboratory Historian, Carr has produced several publications pertaining to the Manhattan Project, early Read More
Science Cinema Draws Locals to the Bradbury
Charles Arnold and his sons, Judah, 4 and Samuel, 2, take part in Saturday’s Science Cinema at the Bradbury Science Museum. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.comThe Bradbury Science Museum sees a lot of traffic throughout the year – about 80,000 people – a large chunk of whom are tourists. In an effort to attract more Los Alamos residents through its doors, the Bradbury recently began a series called Science Cinema.
The series is 10:30 a.m. every Saturday in the museum’s auditorium. A short film addressing a topic in Read More
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