High-Speed Imaging Explored at Bradbury Science Museum
Downtown Friday Nights is sponsored by the Los Alamos Creative District in coordination with local businesses and cultural organizations. Courtesy/BSM
LANL News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory Laboratory’s Bradbury Science Museum will host “What’s in a Click: The Wonders of High Speed Imaging,” 5-8 p.m. Friday, June 28.
Laboratory personnel and their families and the general public can learn about the advances of high-speed cameras and the discoveries scientists at LANL have made with them.
The museum partners with Fuller Lodge Art Center, the Los Alamos Historical Museum and Read More
LANL Takes Step Toward Remediating Contaminated Groundwater Plume
Cheryl Rodriguez of NNSA’s Los Alamos Field Office and Dave McInroy of Los Alamos National Laboratory turn the valve necessary to release treated groundwater into a man-made reservoir. The effort is part of a pump and treat test of chromium-contaminated groundwater. Courtesy/NNSA
NNSA News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory environmental program experts are one step closer to determining the best way to remediate a chromium plume in groundwater beneath Mortandad Canyon.
Members of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Laboratory environmental cleanup offices began
Los Alamos/Tribogenics Create Highly Portable Imaging System
A hand-held calculator that was X-rayed by Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers using the MiniMAX camera, a lightweight, portable X-ray machine that could revolution imaging of closed containers. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- Application to be featured at IAEA conference on nuclear security in Vienna
LOS ALAMOS/MARINA DEL REY – Los Alamos National Laboratory and Tribogenics, the pioneer of innovative X-ray solutions, have partnered to create a unique, lightweight, compact, low-cost X-ray system that uses the MiniMAX (Miniature, Mobile, Agile, X-ray) camera to provide real-time Read More
US-Russia Partnership Reaches Key Milestone in Converting Russian Nuclear Weapons into US Nuclear Fuel
HEU. Courtesy/NNSAFormer LANL Workers Plead Guilty to Atomic Energy Act Violations
Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni and Marjorie Roxby Mascheroni. Courtesy photo
FBI News:
ALBUQUERQUE—The Justice Department today announced that a scientist and his wife who both previously worked as contractors at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico have pleaded guilty to charges under the Atomic Energy Act and other charges relating to their communication of classified nuclear weapons data to a person they believed to be a Venezuelan government official.
The guilty pleas, which were entered today by Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni, 77, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Argentina, Read More
SFI Lecture: Learn Why Time is a One-Way Street
Leonard Susskind
SFI News:
The Santa Fe Institute will present a Community Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 26 at the James A. Little Theater at SFI, 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.
Leonard Susskind, director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics will speak on the topic, “Why is Time a One-Way Street?” Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
Anyone can see that the past is different from the future. Anyone, that is, but theoretical physicists, whose equations do not seem to distinguish the past from the future, Susskind writes in his abstract. How then do physicists Read More
Sara Del Valle Speaks on Epidemic Modeling
Sara Del Valle
SFI News:
Sara Del Valle Of Los Alamos National Laboratory will present a seminar on “Understanding the Impact of Human Behavior and Heterogeneous Mixing Patterns on Social Networks and Epidemics” at 12:15 p.m. Friday, June 27 in the Collins Conference Room at the Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.
Social and mass media have recently played a crucial role in informing and influencing people’s perceptions about the spread of infectious diseases, Del Valle writes.
Community perception can influence human behavior, which can in turn impact the spread of an epidemic Read More
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