Public Meeting to Discuss LANL’s NPDES Storm Water Permit
LANL News:
A public information meeting to discuss the biannual update on the NPDES Storm Water Individual Permit for Los Alamos National Laboratory will take place at 5:30 p.m.Wednesday, Jan. 22 at Cities of Gold Conference Center in Pojoaque.
The agenda is as follows:
- 5:30 p.m. Poster Session
- 5:50 p.m. Welcome Steve Veenis
- 6:00 p.m. Flooding Events Fall 2013 Armand Groffman
- 6:15 p.m. IP Compliance for 2013 Jeff Walterscheid, Kate Lynnes
- 6:35 p.m. IP Corrective
SFI Colloquim: Michael Nielsen Explores Using Modern Media for Learning
Michael Nielsen/Courtesy SFISFI News:
Writer and physicist Michael Nielsen will give a Santa Fe Institute Colloquium titled “Reinventing Explanation” at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 16 in the Noyce conference Room at the Santa Fe Institute.
Nielsen is one of the pioneers of quantum computation, and recently written a book called Reinventing Discovery which advocates for a more open scientific culture.
Abstract. Our society collectively devotes enormous resources and remarkable talent to producing entertainment products. A video game such as Grand Theft Auto V or a movie such as Avatar can Read More
Science on Screen Presents ‘The Road’ With Ole Peters
Movie poster for ‘The Road.’
SFI News:
The popular Science On Screen series continues at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21 at the Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail in Santa Fe. Santa Fe Institute (SFI) External Professor Ole Peters presents The Road, directed by John Hillcoat and adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy.
McCarthy’s heart-wrenching post-apocalyptic tale is translated to the screen in unforgettable fashion. Viggo Mortenson, Charlize Theron and Kodi Smit-McPhee play members of a family in a world where survival can be the only goal. Read More
Regional Coalition of LANL Communities Meets Friday
LANL News:
Regional Coalition of LANL Communities will hold a business meeting at 9 a.m. Friday, Jan. 17 at the Taos County offices, 105 Albright St. in Taos. The meeting is open to the public.
The Regional Coalition is comprised of eight cities and counties surrounding the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL.) 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 Read More
Decision Theory Subject of SFI Seminar by Ole Peters
Ole Peters. Courtesy/SFI
SFI News:
The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) will host a SFI Seminar by Ole Peters of London Mathematical Laboratory titled “A Discourse on Decision Theory” at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Collins Conference Room at SFI, 1390 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe. Attendees are invited to bring their lunch.
Abstract: In April 2010 I presented a seminar at SFI where I demonstrated that certain classic problems in economics can be resolved by methods that present an alternative to the dominant formalism of expected utilities in decision theory. Specifically, I noted that simple Read More
LANL Foundation CEO to Lead Statewide Organization
Susan Herrera
LANLF News:
Susan Herrera, CEO of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation, has been elected chair of the Board of the New Mexico Association of Grantmakers.
The Association serves foundations and private philanthropists throughout New Mexico. It hosted a conference “Finding Common Ground: Joining Together to Improve New Mexico” late last year at Tamaya Resort for grantmakers and nonprofits. The conference was partially funded by a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
Herrera has served as CEO of the LANL Foundation since 2008 and, in this capacity, manages a current Read More
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