SFI Seminar: Inferring the Past for Traits that Alter Speciation and Extinction
SFI News:
Sarah “Sally” Otto, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, will present a seminar at the Santa Fe Institute, “Inferring the Past for Traits that Alter Speciation and Extinction” Tuesday, April 30 • 3:30 p.m. • Noyce Conference Room at 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.
Abstract: I will describe BiSSE, a likelihood-based approach to infer how speciation and extinction rates depend on the state of a particular character. The phylogenetic tree of a group of species contains information about character transitions and about diversification: Read More
LANL’s LAESF Reception Honors Students
LANL Director Charlie McMillan speaking during LAESF event Thursday. Photo by Richard Robinson
LANL Director Charlie McMillan with Sam Baty, left, and Dalton Smith. Photo by Richard Robinson
LANL News:
Direstor Charlie McMillan spoke at a Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund reception thursday evening.
The event recognized students from seven Northern New Mexico counties who are recipients of this year’s scholarships through the Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund.
Funding for the scholarships comes from $411,500 in donations from Los Alamos National Laboratory employees Read More
Innovation Shines at 23rd New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge
Justin Sanchez of Albuquerque’s La Cueva High School during the finalist team judging at the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge expo and awards ceremony at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The styrofoam balls represent a word while the sticks that connect them represent a correlation between the words. Courtesy photoRoger Wiens Book Signing May 4 at CB Fox
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LANL: Seventy Three New Mexico Students Receive Scholarships
Gold Scholarship Winners Kevin Gao, Danielle Harrier and Micaela Lucero. Courtesy/LANL
LANL FOUNDATION News:
Seventy-three students from seven Northern New Mexico counties are recipients of this year’s scholarships through the Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund.
Funding for the scholarships comes from $411,500 in donations from Los Alamos National Laboratory employees and Los Alamos National Security, LLC.
Los Alamos High School senior Kevin Gao, Micaela Lucero of St. Michael’s High and Danielle Harrier of Pojoaque High School share this year’s gold scholarship, which provide Read More
NNSA Hosts Nordic Countries in Technical Exchange Meeting
The technical exchange at the Remote Sensing Laboratory in Las Vegas, Nev. consisted of sharing information regarding techniques, processes, systems, capabilities and data analysis for aerial measuring. Courtesy/NNSA
NNSA News:
LAS VEGAS – The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Office of Emergency Operations last week hosted a Nordic Aerial Measuring System (AMS) Technical Exchange at its Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL) in Las Vegas, Nev.
The technical exchange consisted of sharing information regarding techniques, processes, systems, capabilities and data Read More
SFI Seminar: A Physicist Looks at Cancer, Tumor Location, and the Tumor Environment
Clare Yu
SFI Seminar
Monday, April 29 • 12:15 p.m. • Collins Conference Room, 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe
A Physicist Looks at Cancer, Tumor Location, and the Tumor Environment
Clare Yu, University of California, Irvine
Abstract: I will discuss what physics can bring to cancer biology, and the types of questions that physicists can ask such as “Why does a tumor grow where it does?” and “How does the microenvironment of a tumor affect its growth?”
Cancer cells do not act alone. They get their cues from the their environment which consists of the extracellular matrix Read More
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