Chamber Breakfast Facilitates Communication Between LANL and Local Small Businesses
Local small business representatives met Thursday at UNM-LA with LANL staff to discuss relationships between the laboratory and the local business community. The event was sponsored by the Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.comFifty local small business owners and managers met with the new head of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Small Business Office, Chris Fresquez, and staff from the LANL Community Programs Office Thursday during a Business Breakfast at UNM-LA.
The Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce hosted the event, which Read More
Historical Museum Unveiling Groves Portrait at LANL 70-Year Celebration
LAHM News:
The community is invited to mark their calendars now because in celebration of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s 70th anniversary, April 5, 2013, the Los Alamos Historical Museum and LANL will hold a public celebration.
During this event, a magnificent portrait of Gen. Leslie Groves will be unveiled, which was recently donated to the Museum by the Groves family.
The community-wide celebration is set for 3 p.m. at the Betty Ehart Senior Center. More details to come.
LANL Staff Biography / General Leslie R. Groves
The Manhattan Project extended far beyond the fences surrounding Read More
Drell Named Winner of National Medal of Science
Sidney Drell. Courtesy/LLNL
LLNL News:
Sidney Drell, physicist, arms control expert and adviser, is one of 12 eminent researchers recently named by President Obama as a recipient of the National Medal of Science.
In addition, 11 inventors are recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Both awards represent the highest honors bestowed by the United States Government upon scientists, engineers and inventors.
“I am proud to honor these inspiring American innovators,” President Obama said. “They represent the ingenuity and imagination that has Read More
Meet LANL’s Chris Fresquez at Thursday’s Business Breakfast
CHAMBER News:
Members and prospective members of the Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce are invited to the Business Breakfast Roundtable: LANL and Small Biz event, 7:30-9 a.m., Thursday Jan. 31 at the UNM-LA Lecture Hall, 4000 University Dr.
The purpose of the gathering is to introduce Chris Fresquez of LANL’s Small Business Office to the business community.
There will be a roundtable/discussion format, so that business people can provide input as well as hear from Fresquez about his plans for the Lab’s Small Business Office.
The presentation starts at 8 a.m., but business people Read More
Skidmore Lecture: ‘The Seven LANL Explosives Fatalities – Technical and Human Perspectives (U)’
Memorial plaque. Courtesy/LANL
LAHS News:
Cary B. Skidmore of Los Alamos National Laboratory will give a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12 at Fuller Lodge at part of the Los Alamos Historical Society’s 2012-2013 lecture series, “History and Science.”
Skidmore’s lecture is “The Seven LANL Explosives Fatalities – Technical and Human Perspectives (U).”
When the implosion concept came to the Manhattan Project, it brought with it a need to use explosives in a new way.
Rather than destroying or breaking apart something, precisely shaped pieces were needed to assemble Read More
‘Nanotubes on a Chip’ May Simplify Optical Power Measurements
The circular patch of carbon nanotubes on a pink silicon backing is one component of NIST’s new cryogenic radiometer, shown with a quarter for scale. Gold coating and metal wiring has yet to be added to the chip. The radiometer will simplify and lower the cost of disseminating measurements of laser power. Photo by Tomlin/NIST
NIST News:
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has demonstrated a novel chip-scale instrument made of carbon nanotubes that may simplify absolute measurements of laser power, especially the light signals transmitted by optical fibers in telecommunications Read More
Intellus Training Begins Jan. 28 at UNM-LA
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