National Laboratory

LANL News:

Regional Coalition of LANL Communities will hold a business meeting at 9 a.m. Friday, Jan. 17 at the Taos County offices, 105 Albright St. in Taos. The meeting is open to the public.

The Regional Coalition is comprised of eight cities and counties surrounding the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL.) Founded in 2011, the Regional Coalition works in partnership to ensure national decisions incorporate local needs and concerns. The organization’s focus is environmental remediation, regional economic development and site employment, and Read More

Ole Peters. Courtesy/SFI

SFI News:

The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) will host a SFI Seminar by Ole Peters of London Mathematical Laboratory titled “A Discourse on Decision Theory” at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Collins Conference Room at SFI, 1390 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe. Attendees are invited to bring their lunch.

Abstract: In April 2010 I presented a seminar at SFI where I demonstrated that certain classic problems in economics can be resolved by methods that present an alternative to the dominant formalism of expected utilities in decision theory. Specifically, I noted that simple Read More

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Work on the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) High Pressure Fire Loop (HPFL) project at its Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas, was completed in December 2013 on schedule and more than $5 million under budget.

Completion of HPFL enhances the reliability of safety-class fire suppression systems to ensure that the Pantex Plant will be able to meet mission assignments in critical production areas. This project reduces the risk of unplanned facility system outages, reduces system maintenance requirements and represents NNSA’s broader efforts Read More

LANL’s Gabriel Montaño named president-elect of the Society for Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos & Native Americans in Science. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

B-61. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

• First in series of evening lectures open to public

Los Alamos National Laboratory Senior Fellow Houston “Terry” Hawkins talks about the role that the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile plays in maintaining the nation’s defense — and that of our allies — in a talk at 5:30 p.m., Jan. 15 at the Bradbury Science Museum. The talk is the first in a series of evening lectures planned this year at the museum that are free and open to the public.

“President Obama has reaffirmed that as long as nuclear weapons exist the U.S. will maintain a safe, secure and effective arsenal that Read More

Leto Peel. Courtesy/SFI

SFI News:

Leto Peel of the University of Colorado at Boulder will give a Santa Fe Institute Seminar titled ‘Active Discovery of Network Roles for Predicting the Classes of Network Nodes’ at 12:15 p.m. Friday, Jan. 10 in the Collins Conference Room at the Santa Fe Institute, 1390 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.

Members of the public are welcome and invited to bring their lunch.  

Abstract: We consider a network in which we know how the nodes are connected, but we do not know the class labels of the nodes. We wish to identify the best subset of nodes to label, in order to most accurately Read More

Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker. Courtesy photo

Staff Report

Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker, former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and presently affiliated with Stanford University, will deliver a free public lecture in Los Alamos entitled “Iran and North Korea, what a difference a year makes!”

The lecture will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 10 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1967 18th St. in Los Alamos.

“One year ago, Iran’s President Ahmadinejad was threatening to wipe Israel off the face of the map while Iran’s nuclear program was progressing Read More