Can Spin Glasses be Used to Study Opinion Formation?
Helmut Katzgraber will present a talk at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, June 26 in the Medium Conference Room at the Santa Fe Institute.
Katzgraber works at the Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University and ETH Zurich.
His talk is, Boolean Decision Problems with Competing Interactions on Scale-Free Networks: Can Spin Glasses be Used to Study Opinion Formation?
Abstract: Spin glasses are paradigmatic models that deliver concepts relevant for a variety of systems.
However, despite ongoing research spanning several decades in the area of glassy systems, there remain many fundamental Read More
BREAKING NEWS: LANL Director Calls All-Employee Meeting Regarding Workforce Update
From/MS: Charles F. McMillan, A100
Date: June 20, 2012
Subject: Workforce Update and All-Employee Meeting
Over the past several months, we have been engaged in efforts to manage Laboratory costs to live within the current budget and to position the Laboratory to successfully deal with future funding scenarios.
With the help of the entire Laboratory, I believe we have been successful in working the myriad budget issues so that we can more confidently face future challenges while delivering on our mission commitments.
In the Fall of 2011, I established the Laboratory Integrated Stewardship Read More
NNSA Sites, Labs Earn 12 R&D 100 Awards
Courtesy/LANL
NNSA News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today congratulated its laboratories and production sites for receiving 12 of R&D Magazine’s 2012 R&D 100 Awards.
“Congratulations to this year’s R&D 100 award winners,” Energy Secretary Steven Chu said. “The research and development at the Department of Energy’s laboratories continues to help the nation meet our energy challenges, strengthen our national security and improve our economic competitiveness.”
Awarded annually by Read More
Police and Lab Join Forces for Robot Rodeo
Los Alamos Police Department explosive devices experts and LANL hazardous devices experts joined forces to compete against seven other teams in the sixth annual Robot Rodeo underway this week in Technical Area 49 at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In this scenario, a pair of robots inspect a car involved in a chase and abandoned by drug traffickers. Photo by Salvador Zapien/ladailypost.com
Bob Clark, a Hazardous Devices technician at Los Alamos National Laboratory makes some final adjustments to the LANL/LAPD team robot. Photo by Salvador Zapien/ladailypost.com
One of the tasks Read More
LANL Helps Medicine, Cosmetics and Crop Irrigation Businesses Gain Traction
LANL News:
Three small companies in the diverse fields of medicine, cosmetics and crop irrigation are the latest recipients of Venture Acceleration Fund (VAF) awards from the Los Alamos National Security, LLC.
Integrative Enzymatics, Vapour Organic Beauty and HydroBio will receive startup funding from the Laboratory to help them gain traction in their respective markets.
“The VAF program fills a unique need by providing capital that reduces a company’s risk,” said David Pesiri, the Laboratory’s Technology Transfer Division leader. “VAF is a catalyst for start-ups as well Read More
NNSA Production Office Open for Business
NNSA Production Office Manager Steve Erhart, left, presents DOE Secretary Steven Chu with an overview last year of a B83 tooling system. Courtesy/NNSA- New organization combines federal offices in Tennessee and Texas
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Production Office (NPO) is now in operation, providing federal oversight of nuclear production missions at the Pantex Site in Amarillo, Texas, and the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
“This is an historic move for NNSA that puts us in a position to improve performance, reduce
Seeing the Color of Disease
Microarrayer machines (A) now can mix colors and deposit them on microscope slides, which can be used to calibrate hyperspectral imagers (HSI) for use in medical applications. The finished slides can be custom-colored (B) to calibrate HSIs to find specific types of tumors or disease tissue. Close up, they resemble dot-matrix printwork (C). Credit: Clarke/NIST
NIST News:
A powerful color-based imaging technique is making the jump from remote sensing to the operating room—and a team of scientists* at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have taken steps to ensure it Read More
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