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Regional Coalition of LANL Communities Meets Nov. 7

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 Regional Coalition of LANL Communities will hold its regular business meeting 9-11 a.m., Nov. 7 at the City of Española Council Chambers, 405 North Paseo de Oñate.

 

Note, this is a Thursday rather than the Board of Director’s typical Friday morning meeting.

 

For more information, visit the Regional Coalition website at https:////regionalcoalition.org

 

Individuals with a disability in need of a reader, amplifier, qualified sign language interpreter, or any other form of auxiliary aid or service to attend or participate in the hearing of the meeting should Read More

SFI Talk: ‘Scaffolding and Entrenchment in the Evolution of Complex Systems’

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William Wimsatt. Courtesy/SFI

SFI News:

The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) presents a talk by William Wimsatt of University of Chicago and University of Minnesota, “Scaffolding and Entrenchment in the Evolution of Complex Systems,” at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30 in the Collins Conference Room at SFI, 1399 Hyde Park Road. The public is welcome to attend and bring a lunch.

Generative entrenchment reflects dependency relations in the development or operation of an adaptive system. Greater entrenchment yields greater conservatism in the evolution of parts or activities of the system because Read More

LANL: Nanoscale Engineering Boosts Performance of Quantum Dot Light Emitting Diodes

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The quantum dot device structure shown with a transmission electron microscopy (TEM) image of a cross-section of a real device. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Making the light at the end of the tunnel more efficient

Dramatic advances in the field of quantum dot light emitting diodes (QD-LEDs) could come from recent work by the Nanotechnology and Advanced Spectroscopy team at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Quantum dots are nano-sized semiconductor particles whose emission color can be tuned by simply changing their dimensions. They feature near-unity emission quantum yields and narrow emission Read More

LANL Holds Public Meeting on Proposed Open Burning Unit

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LANL News:

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), have submitted a Class 3 permit modification request to modify the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Hazardous Waste Facility Permit. The modification requests an Open Burning Unit at Technical Area 16.

A public meeting on this issue is 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30 at Fuller Lodge, 2132 Central Ave. in Los Alamos.

The public meeting will include a description of the programs that generate explosives waste, how that waste is treated, and various alternative treatments that were tested to Read More

SFI Seminar: How Size and Architecture Determine the Learning Capacity of Neural Networks

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SFI News:

SFI Seminar: How Size and Architecture Determine the Learning Capacity of Neural Networks

Wednesday, Oct. 23 • 12:15 p.m. • Collins Conference Room at the Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road.

Guido Montufar, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Abstract: Neural networks are artificial systems of computational units that can learn stochastic dependencies and coordinated behavior. These computational models serve to generate data representations, store and classify patterns, or generalize inferences.

The structure and size shape the space of things that

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NIST Carbon Nanotube Chips Go Ballooning for Climate Science

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Scientific balloon launched from New Mexico in September 2013 carrying an experimental instrument designed to collect and measure the energy of light emitted by the Sun, with the help of NIST chips coated with carbon nanotubes. Courtesy/LASP

NIST News:

A huge plastic balloon floated high in the skies over New Mexico Sept. 29, carrying instruments to collect climate-related test data with the help of carbon nanotube chips made by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

The onboard instrument was an experimental spectrometer designed to collect and measure visible and Read More

A Golden Anniversary for Space-Based Treaty Verification

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LANL researcher Richard Belian performs a final check of the Vela V-B satellite prior to its launch in April 1970. Vela V-B was the last of the Vela twin satellites launched as part of a program to improve the United States’ capability to detect, locate and identify nuclear explosions conducted in a variety of environments. Los Alamos is commemorating 50 years of space-based arms treaty verification efforts this month to coincide with the launch of the first Vela satellite Oct. 17, 1963. During the past 50 years, some 200 space vehicles have been launched with Los Alamos payloads aboard. Read More

LANL Garners NNSA Sustainability Awards

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NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Tuesday announced that it has awarded 18 Sustainability Awards for innovation and excellence to its national laboratories and sites. Los Alamos National Laboratory received four awards.

The awards recognize exemplary individual and team performance in advancing sustainability objectives through innovative and effective programs and projects that increase energy, water and fleet efficiency and reduce greenhouse gases, pollution and waste. NNSA has conducted an internal environmental stewardship Read More

High Tech Halloween Returns to Bradbury Science Museum Oct. 25

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Attendees look at the Spider exhibit at the 2012 High Tech Halloween event. Courtesy/LANL

 

BRADBURY News:

The Bradbury Science Museum (link here) hosts the 20th High Tech Halloween 4- 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25 as part of Los Alamos County’s Trick or Treat on MainStreet event.

Attendees will have a “spooktacular” time viewing demonstrations on cryogenics and robotics and participating in interactive shows involving lights, magnets, dry ice bubbles and optics. These activities are fun and also teach attendees scientific principles and applications.

There is Read More

It’s Back to Business at LANL Monday

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LANL Director Charlie McMillan

LANL News:

Memo to Los Alamos National Laboratory employees from Director Charlie McMillan:

I’m pleased to confirm what you may have already seen in news reports. The federal budget impasse has been temporarily resolved. I am lifting the suspension of operations planned for the end of the day Friday, Oct. 18. All LANS employees should report for work as normal (Monday.)

It will be important for us to resume affected operations in a methodical and deliberate way. Just as it takes a considerable amount of time to suspend operations at a place like ours, a return to Read More