LANL Director Testifies Before Senate Subcommittee
LANL Director Charlie McMillan testifies June 1 before a Senate subcommittee. Courtesy/LANL
LANL’s June Connections News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan and the directors of Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories recently spoke before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, Committee on Armed Services.
The purpose of the hearing was to to receive testimony on NNSA management of its national security laboratories and to review the budget request for Fiscal Year 2014.
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SFI Seminar: LANL Scientist Speaks on Statistical Inference
David Wolpert
SFI News:
The Santa Fe Institute presents a free seminar titled Statistical Inference: The Hidden World within Science.
David Wolpert of Los Alamos National Laboratory is an SFI External Professor and will present the seminar at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, June 20 in the Noyce Conference Room at SFI, 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.
Statistical inference — machine learning — is central to science in that it is the foundation of data analysis. Wolpert argues that its relationship with science is both far broader and far deeper.
He illustrates this breadth by showing how it can be applied to Read More
SFI Colloquium Hosts Two Seminars This Week
Tullis Onstott
SFI News:
The Santa Fe Institute is hosting two seminars this week. The first, by Princeton scientist Tullis Onstott will explore “Life in Earth’s Deep Biosphere: From Bacterial Finches to Bactivorous Meiofauna.”
The talk is 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 18 in the Noyce Conference Room at the Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.
For more than 10 years, scientists have been exploring this subterranean desert down to depths of 5 km and finding within it oases inhabited by very tenacious life forms. At depths ranging from 0.6 to 1.5 km, a surprisingly diverse community Read More
LANL Website Wins Best in Show
STC News:
The Society for Technical Communication honored employees who worked on the Los Alamos National Laboratory external/public website in a ceremony at its annual conference in May in Atlanta, Ga.
The website won a Best in Show award in the prestigious International Summit Awards Competition. The STC International Summit Awards Competition encourages and recognizes excellence in the industry and is open to all technical communication professionals.
The honorees include LANL employees Ann Rafferty, web project lead, Lilly Anaya, web team leader and Monika Bittman, senior web Read More
College Students Attend Los Alamos Dynamics Summer School at LANL
Katy Korkos of the Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce discusses local businesses and details the many activities available in town for college students gathered at Tuesday’s day-long orientation at the Los Alamos Research Park. The students are participating in the LANL/UCSD Los Alamos Dynamics Summer School Engineering Institute. During Tuesday’s orientation, the students heard from a variety of speakers including LANL’s Associate Director of Engineering Steve Girrens who welcomed them to the Laboratory. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
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LANL Honors Community Volunteers
A tasty breakfast prepared by Daniel’s Cafe was served to community volunteers being honored at the 2012 Vecinos Volunteers Event hosted Wednesday by Los Alamos Natinal Laboratory at Fuller Lodge. Current and retired Laboratory employees submitted their volunteer hours worked at a charitable organization. Los Alamos National Security, LLC, rewarded those efforts through a monetary contribution to the organizations. LANS contributed $177,450 to 239 nonprofit organizations this year. Since the program’s inception in 2008, LANL volunteers have logged 1.2 million hoursNo SFI Public Lecture Tonight
SFI News:
The announcement of an SFI public lecture this evening, June 11, was in error.
The next lecture is scheduled for Wednesday, June 26.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
-The Santa Fe Institute Read More
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