Los Alamos National Laboratory Team Cracks The Code On Bane Of Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms
Barren plateaus were a little-understood but common problem in quantum algorithm development. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- Barren plateaus have long plagued progress in the field of variational quantum computing, but their understanding has been limited — until now
Quantum computers are still a nascent technology, but researchers are busy building complex machine learning algorithms to test the capabilities of quantum learning. Sometimes, however, their algorithms hit a mysterious dead end; a mathematical path from which there is no way forward or backward — the dreaded barren plateau. Read More
Don And Lois Coffin Celebrate 75th Wedding Anniversary … A Diamond Jubilee!
Don and Lois Coffin of Los Alamos on their wedding day, Sept. 10, 1949. Courtesy photo
COMMUNITY News:
On September 10,1949, Don Owen Coffin, the son of a teacher, and Lois Mabel Hamilton, the daughter of a preacher, promised “till death do us part”, and began a long, happy, and fruitful marriage. Don was just starting his senior year at Simpson College (Indianola, IA) and Lois was working for the Bell telephone company. A year later, after Don received his BS from Simpson, Don and Lois packed up a 1951 Ford borrowed from his dad, along with the wedding gift from her folks, which was a small travel trailer Read More
Public Comment Period Opens For Fire Fuels Mitigation Project Around TA-72 At Los Alamos National Laboratory
NNSA News:
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is proposing a fire fuels mitigation project in lower Sandia Canyon at the Technical Area 72 Outdoor Live Fire Range and surrounding areas at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
This assessment focuses on activities occurring in the Sandia Canyon 100-year floodplain that include:
- Vegetation maintenance that involves mowing and thinning of the defensible space around the existing buildings;
- Vegetation maintenance under the existing above ground power line right-of-way;
- Vegetation maintenance along the existing
N3B Bids Farewell To Three Summer Interns Who Made Significant Contributions
Student intern Sam Gervais, left, with mentor N3B Engineering Director Brian Caldwell. Gervais designed a generator UPS system for the Technical Area (TA)-54 Operations Center and supported the replacement of the HVAC unit at Building 2 in TA-54 during his 10-week internship. Courtesy/N3B
Student intern Sofia Enriquez, right, with mentor N3B Environmental Remediation Water Program Director Mike Erickson. Enriquez created a program for users to generate geophysical well log cross-sections to support the analysis of the aquifer beneath Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy/N3B Read More
J. Robert Oppenheimer: Rare View Of LANL’s First Director
SALA News:
As part of the Oppenheimer Festival 2024, the SALA Event Center is proud to present a unique event titled “J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Rare View of the Laboratory’s First Director.” This exclusive presentation, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Aug. 29, will offer attendees an unparalleled look into the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the first director of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
Alan B. Carr, a distinguished historian from LANL, will connect via Zoom to lead this presentation. He will provide insights into Oppenheimer’s life through an array of primary source Read More
Laboratory Retiree Group First Tuesday Breakfast Sept. 3
LRG News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory retirees (and potential retirees) are invited to drop in at the Laboratory Retiree Group (LRG) monthly breakfast social, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3 at Muy Salsas at 1315 Trinity Drive.
LRG will pay for coffee and tea and individuals will pay for their breakfast and other drinks.
Contact sgirard@losalamos.com or 505.672.3497 for more information.
More information about the LRG can be found at https://lalrg.org. Read More
NNSA Los Alamos Field Office Approves Proposal For Fiber Optic Cable And Waterline Replacement Projects
NNSA Los Alamos Field Office News:
NNSA’s Los Alamos Field Office (NA-LA) has approved proposals by San Ildefonso Services to install a fiber optic line, and for Los Alamos County to replace a waterline.
These lines would be located within Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Technical Area 72 and the New Mexico Department of Transportation rights-of-way for N.M. 4 and N.M. 502. The waterline and fiber optic line would be collocated for a portion of their length.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is conducting an environmental analysis for the fiber Read More
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