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LANL’s Feynman Center For Innovation Reaches Out To Teen Entrepreneurs

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Isaac Schilling, LAHS alum and Feynman Center coordinator for entrepreneurship event. Courtesy photo

By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN

The Feynman Center for Innovation at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, with the help of Los Alamos High School alumnus Isaac Schilling, will host a series of events for teenagers interested in entrepreneurship. 

The Teen Startup Challenge is a series of events to teach teens how to quickly and effectively share their entrepreneurial ideas with the goal of gaining funding to start a business or to expand a current venture, according to Schilling.

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New Mexico Congressional Delegation Responds To WIPP Accident Investigation Board Report

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NM CONGRESSIONAL News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Steve Pearce and Ben Ray Luján issued the following joint statement on the report by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Accident Investigation Board, analyzing the direct cause of the of the Feb. 14, 2014, radiological incident at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP): 

“According to today’s report, a series of critical failures of leadership at every level led to the very serious accident and release that put numerous New Mexicans at risk, shuttered

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DOE Hosting Los Alamos Town Hall At Fuller Lodge

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DOE News:

The Department of Energy will host a Town Hall meeting in Los Alamos Thursday, April 23, to discuss the Accident Investigation Board findings from the Feb. 14, 2014, drum breach at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

Members of the AIB will be on-hand to present the findings and answer questions.

The Los Alamos meeting is the second of two public meetings following the AIB’s release of its Phase II Report on the WIPP event. The report is available at https:////energy.gov/em/waste-isolation-pilot-plant-wipp-recovery 

The Los Alamos meeting begins at 5:30 p.m., April 23 at Read More

VIDEO: Heinrich Advocates Tech Transfer Legislation, ‎Labs’ Role In Monitoring Iran’s Nuclear Program

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – During a U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces hearing, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. advocated for legislation he sponsored to encourage technology transfer and highlighted the national laboratories’ role in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action for Iran’s Nuclear Program.

At the hearing with leadership from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Senator Heinrich Read More

Supercomputing Challenge Draws Over 200 Students

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LANL News:

  • Student teams thriughout New Mexico showcase year-long research projects April 21-22

More than 200 New Mexico students and their teachers will be at Los Alamos National Laboratory April 20-21 for the 25th annual New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge expo and awards ceremony.

“One of the goals of the year-long competition is to teach student teams how to use powerful computers to analyze, model and solve real-world problems,” said David Kratzer of the Laboratory’s High Performance Computer Systems group, LANL’s coordinator of the Supercomputing Challenge. “Participating students Read More

SFI Presents: ‘Rugged Landscapes And Timescale Distributions In Complex Systems’

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Dan Stein (New York University; SFI Science Board Co-Chair)
SFI News:
Santa Fe Institute (SFI) presents “Rugged Landscapes and Timescale Distributions in Complex Systems” at 12:15 p.m. Monday, April 20 at the Collins Conference Room.
Abstract
Complex systems are generally characterized by a high degree of metastability. In such cases it is often useful to characterize their dynamical behavior as a random walk on a “rugged landscape.”
There are many approaches toward studying this generic problem, and it remains a common theme in the mathematical analysis of
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SOC Contract Negotiations Underway With LANL

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SOC image. Courtesy/SOC

 

Staff Report

Negotiations are going down to the wire as the contract for SOC LLC to provide protective force services to Los Alamos National Laboratory ends April 25. 

SOC LLC was awarded a three year contract in 2010 with two one-year extension options at a total value of about $251 million. 

LANL spokesperson Kevin Roark said in a statement to the Los Alamos Daily Post: “While we still are hoping that SOC-LA – the protective force subcontractor for Los Alamos National Laboratory – can resolve this labor situation, in anticipation Read More

New Technique For Growing High-efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells Discussed Thursday At Science On Tap

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Scientists Aditya Mohite, left, and Wanyi Nie are perfecting a crystal production technique to improve perovskite crystal production for solar cells at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists Aditya Mohite and Wanyi Nie of the Materials Synthesis and Integrated Devices Group discuss their work on perfecting a crystal production technique to improve perovskite crystal production for solar cells in a Science on Tap conversation at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at UnQuarked the Wine Room, 145 Central Park Square in downtown Los Alamos. Read More

LANL: Promising Future Of Quantum Dots Explored In Conference In Santa Fe This Week

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Quantum dot LSC devices under ultraviolet illumination. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • ‘20 Years of Quantum Dots at Los Alamos’ Runs April 12-16

Researchers from around the world are gathering this week in Santa Fe to reflect on two decades of quantum dot research at a special topical conference, “20 Years of Quantum Dots at Los Alamos.”

The conference is hosted by the New Mexico Consortium and its program committee includes several past and present members of the Nanotechnology and Advanced Spectroscopy Team (NanoTech team) of the Chemistry Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory.

“This research, Read More

LANL Biologist Dr. Nathan McDowell To Speak At Phi Beta Kappa Banquet Honoring High School Scholars

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LANL biologist Dr. Nathan McDowell. Courtesy photo

By JOYCE ANN GUZIK

Sunday evening, April 26, the Los Alamos Phi Beta Kappa Association will hold its 59th annual banquet to honor the top graduates of Los Alamos High School.

Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest undergraduate honor society in the United States and has about 230 members in Los Alamos County (1.3 percent of the county’s population). The banquet for the honor graduates, Phi Beta Kappa Members, and their guests will be held at Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos starting at 5:30 p.m. and catered by The Blue Window.

The 52 students of the Class of 2015 who Read More