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Dr. Richard Sayre Featured Speaker at League Lunch with a Leader March 18

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Dr. Richard Sayre

LWVLA News:

Dr. Richard Sayre is the featured speaker at the League of Women Voters of Los Alamos monthly Lunch with a Leader. The lunchtime event begins at 11:40 a.m. Tuesday, March 18 at Mesa Public Library and is open to the community.

Sayre is a senior research scientist at the New Mexico Consortium and Los Alamos National Laboratory. He came to Los Alamos in 2011 and is active in studying genetically modified foods.  

Sayre was formerly chair of the Department of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology at Ohio State University. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Read More

New LAFD Ladder Truck Heads to Active Service Monday

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 Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com

COUNTY News:

The Los Alamos Fire Department will host a brief ceremony Monday, March 10 celebrating the “push in” of its new ladder truck into active service for the first time. 

The public is invited to the 1 p.m. ceremony at Fire Station #1 on West Jemez Road. Officials from Los Alamos County, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the DOE/Los Alamos Field Office have been invited to participate in the ceremony. Read More

Los Alamos TV Series ‘Manhattan’ Enters Production Late March

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Physicists at a Manhattan District-sponsored colloquium at Los Alamos in 1946. Front row from left, Norris Bradbury, John Manley, Enrico Fermi and J. M. B. Kellogg. Robert Oppenheimer, in dark coat, is behind Manley; to Oppenheimer’s left is Richard Feynman. Courtesy/wikipedia

 

STATE News:

 

SANTA FE – Gov. Susana Martinez announced Thursday that “Manhattan,” an original one-hour drama series, will begin production in New Mexico later this month.

 

The series is set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history Read More

SFI Seminar: Why the Internet Won’t Get You Any More Friends

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SFI News:

SFI Community Lecture 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 12 at the James A. Little Theater, 1060 Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe.

Robin Dunbar
Director, Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford

Social media promises us an ever-expanding circle of friends, but that may be an empty promise. Social behavior is firmly rooted in biology, and our brains are hard-wired to maintain meaningful relationships with only about 150 people.

Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar formulated “Dunbar’s Number” to measure the cognitive Read More

Terry Wallace to Address LANL’s Role in Helping Government Meet National Security Challenges

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Terry Wallace, principal associate director for Global Security

LANL News:

Emerging threats to global security focus of March 12 talk at Bradbury Science Museum

Terry Wallace to address Lab’s role in helping the government meet national security challenges

Terry Wallace, principal associate director for Global Security at Los Alamos National Laboratory, will talk about potential emerging threats in a lecture at 5:30 p.m., March 12 at the Bradbury Science Museum. The talk is the third in a series of evening lectures planned this year at the museum that are free and open to the public.

“During Read More

NNSA: FY2015 Budget Request – Preserving President Obama’s Nuclear Security Vision

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NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The President’s FY2015 Budget Request for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), delivered to Congress Tuesday, includes $11.7 billion to support NNSA’s continued efforts to keep the American people safe by modernizing the U.S. nuclear stockpile, executing an aggressive international nuclear nonproliferation agenda and supporting U.S. Navy requirements.

“NNSA’s budget reaffirms the President’s commitment to nuclear security and nonproliferation. The FY15 request provides the resources we need to modernize and maintain an aging nuclear Read More

Udall: President’s Budget Proposal Good News For New Mexicans Overall

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U.S. Sen. Tom Udall. Courtesy photo
 
U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement about the President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget request:

“The president’s budget is a statement of the administration’s priorities for the year to come, and overall, it contains good news for New Mexicans. It continues to roll back the devastating sequestration cuts that risked jobs and threatened our state’s economy. Fiscally responsible investments in innovation and manufacturing, improving Read More

LANL: ‘Fore!’ Heads Up, Wide Use of More Flexible Metallic Glass Coming Your Way

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A piece of metallic glass that has been bent around onto itself with a 1mm radius and glued into place. It would spring back to a flat piece if the glue were removed. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Advances in Glass Alloys Lead to Strength, Flexibility

What do some high-end golf clubs and your living room window have in common? The answer is glass, but in the golf clubs’ case it’s a specialized glass product, called metallic glass, with the ability to be bent considerably and spring back into its original form.

Your windows, as you know, aren’t quite as forgiving of a sudden impact, and they shatter – they Read More

LANL’s Director Emeritus Sig Hecker Presents Comparative Look at Four Nuclear Hot Spots

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Siegfried S. Hecker

CIR News:

Santa Fe Council on International Relations World Affairs Discussion Event – A Comparative Look at Four Nuclear Hot Spots: India, Pakistan, North Korea and Iran.

Speaker: Siegfried S. Hecker, Director Emeritus, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Stanford University research professor

Thursday, March 20, 5 p.m.

Location: Santa Fe Woman’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail

$20 Non-members; $15 CIR Members – Qualified Students may attend for Free

Whereas North Korea and Iran are in the global spotlight today, South Asia remains the most dangerous Read More

LANL’s Roger Wiens Addresses Engineering Council

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Roger Wiens, principal investigator for the ChemCam instrument carried aboard the Mars rover Curiosity, was the speaker at Thursday’s Los Alamos Engineering Council dinner meeting at Fuller Lodge. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Technical professionals gathered for Thursday’s Los Alamos Engineering Council meeting. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

The Los Alamos Engineering Council held a dinner meeting Thursday at Fuller Lodge. The Council is an umbrella group for a number of engineering and Read More