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Los Alamos Honors Computer Code Team With Feynman Innovation Prize

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Winners of the 2015 Richard P. Feynman Innovation Prize at Los Alamos National Laboratory, from left, Larry J. Cox, Forrest B. Brown, Avneet Sood, Gregg W. McKinney, Jeffrey S. Bull and H. Grady Hughes. Also on the winning team but not pictured are Laura Casswell, Michael L. Fensin, John T. Goorley, Michael R. James, Brian C. Kiedrowski, Roger L. Martz, Stepan G. Mashnik, Garrett E. McMath, Richard E. Prael and Trevor Wilcox. Courtesy/LANL

 

LANL News:

This year’s honorees for the Richard P. Feynman Innovation Prize at Los Alamos National Laboratory are the Monte Carlo Radiation Read More

MIT Professor Delivers 45th Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture At Smith Auditorium July 27

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MIT’s Dr. Alan Guth, award winning theoretical particle physicist, will speak Monday, July 27 in Los Alamos. Courtesy/NMC

NMC News:

MIT Professor Dr. Alan Guth will deliver the 45th Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Monday, July 27 in Duane W. Smith Auditorium, 1300 Diamond Dr. in Los Alamos.

The lecture, “Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?” is free and open to the public.

Inflationary cosmology gives a plausible explanation for many observed features of the universe, including its uniformity, its mass density, and the patterns of the ripples that are observed Read More

Los Alamos Peace Vigils Scheduled At Ashley Pond

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National peace and justice activist and former Jesuit priest John Dear

NATIONAL PEACE GROUP News:

Thursday Aug. 6 and Sunday Aug. 9, hundreds of protesters are scheduled to converge on Los Alamos for the 70th Anniversary Peace and Disarmament Vigils commemorating the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

National peace and justice activists expected to attend include John Dear, Rev. James Lawson, Medea Benjamin, Kathy Kelly, Roshi Joan Halifax, Ken Butigan and Rev. Lennox Yearwood and individuals from the 250 Campaign Nonviolence National Conference Participants, Upaya Read More

Record Amount Raised For LANL Scholarships

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From left, Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship fundraising campaign champion Steven Girrens (LANL Associate Director for Engineering Sciences) and LANL Foundation scholarship program officer Tony Fox celebrate a record-breaking total. Since 1999 more than 1,000 students have been awarded $5 million in scholarships, funded by LANS, LANL employees, contractors and retirees, and the general public. Photo by Ed Vigil/LANL

LANLF News:

ESPAÑOLA — The LANL Foundation reports that the Los Alamos Employees’ Scholarship Fund (LAESF) once again broke fundraising records during the Read More

Faith & Science: Intelligent Design Theory Wednesday

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Faith & Science:
Intelligent Design Theory

Everyone who accepts the Hebrew Scriptures as revealed truth believes in intelligent design of the universe and its inhabitants. But, what is this Intelligent Design (ID) Theory?

To its proponents, a few scientists and groups in the UK and US, it’s a scientific conclusion and method based on observations and logical deductions. To its detractors, including many scientists of faith and a Pennsylvania court, it’s not science and does not belong in science classrooms. This talk will explore these points of view and encourage each person to decide Read More

DisrupTech Introduces Tech Startup Candidates

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Audience members at the Los Alamos Golf Course Event Center in search of ‘the next big thing’. Photo by Roger Snodgrass/ladailypost.com

 

By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

DisrupTech auditioned a set of eight creative scientific ideas in the early stages of commercialization out of Los Alamos National Laboratory. With expert feedback from investors and the business community, prospective startups had a chance to see how they stacked up in the public arena at the Los Alamos Golf Course Event Center on Thursday.

Event sponsors added to the competitive interest, by putting a little Read More

Scenes From ScienceFest At Bradbury Science Museum

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A visitor watches a video Saturday inside the Bradbury Science Museum in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Many interactive exhibits fill the Bradbury Science Museum, drawing people of all ages. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Staff Report

Visitors have poured into the Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos during the three day ScienceFest festival that began Thursday.

People of all ages participated in interactive demonstrations and hands-on activities and listened to dynamic speakers meant to engage kids, families, and individuals who are interested Read More

Los Alamos Main Gate Now And Then

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Ken Uher of White Rock at the Main Gate check-in station recreated for ScienceFest 2015, which runs through today. Uher brought out his 1939 Buick Special Convertible Opera Coupe Saturday to add to the historical drama of the day. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Ken Uher of White Rock places a newspaper from the era on the seat of his 1939 Buick, which he brought out Saturday to the Main Gate check-in station recreated for this weekend’s ScienceFest 2015. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Ken Uher of White Rock places political buttons from the Manhattan Project era inside Read More

ScienceFest Event Explores Computational Mathematics

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The crowd listens as computational mathemetician Nathaniel Morgan talks about the past and future of his field Thursday at UnQuarked – The Wine Room. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Nathaniel Morgan gives the audience a (very) short course in computational mathematics. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post
 
Los Alamos may be the only place in the world where you can find more than 60 members of the community gathered at a local watering hole to hear a talk on computational mathematics.

That’s exactly what happened Read More

NPS And DOE Officials Visit Los Alamos To Discuss Manhattan Project National Historical Park

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Victor Knox, NPS point person for the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Officials from the National Park Service (NPS) and the Department of Energy (DOE) were in town Thursday to discuss the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which will be partially located In Los Alamos.

NPS Assistant Director for Partnerships Jeff Reinhold described the local group working on the Park as “amazing.”

“This is an amazing group. Their commitment and knowledge is impressive and they have an Read More