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US, China Hold Joint Meeting to Discuss Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Technology

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Beijing, China. Courtesy photo

NNSA News:

  • Eighth U.S.-China PUNT Joint Coordinating Committee Meeting Held in Beijing

NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Anne Harrington

BEIJING – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the China National Energy Administration (NEA) this week held the 8th Joint Coordinating Committee meeting of the 1998 U.S.-China Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Technology (PUNT) Agreement.

NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Anne Harrington and Director General of the NEA Nuclear Power Department Read More

New Mexico Consortium Launches Volunteer Program

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The NMC Biological Laboratory at Entrada PArk in Los Alamos will support cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional initiatives in plant biology and biomedical technology and engineering. The laboratory is scheduled to begin operations in June. Courtesy/NMC

NMC News:

  • Volunteer recruitment open houses and information sessions are scheduled for later this month

The New Mexico Consortium (NMC) invites community members interested in volunteering to attend one of the upcoming open houses and information sessions:

  • 2-2:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18
  • 5:30-6 p.m. Tuesday, April 23

Both open Read More

Regional Coalition of LANL Communities Meets April 19

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Meeting Agenda

Regional Coalition of LANL Communities

Business Meeting

 

Española City Council Chambers

405 N. Paseo de Oñate in Española

April 19, 2013, 9:00 – 11:00 AM

 

9:00

Info

Welcome & Introductions

Mayor Coss

 

Action

Confirmation of Quorum

Mayor Coss

 

Action

Approval of Agenda

Mayor Coss

 

Action

Approval of Minutes: March 2013

Mayor Coss
 

Info

 

 

 

 

 

Report of the Chairman- Los Alamos NNSA Site Manager Update; NM Environment Dept. Leadership Change

 

Report of Board Members

– Update on Manhattan

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NNSA’s Sequoia Supercomputer Transitions to Classified Work

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OSIRIS simulation on Sequoia of the interaction of a fast-ignition-scale laser with a dense DT plasma. The laser field is shown in green, the blue arrows illustrate the magnetic field lines at the plasma interface and the red/yellow spheres are the laser-accelerated electrons that will heat and ignite the fuel. Courtesy/NNSA

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced that its Sequoia supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has completed its transition to classified computing.

The move is in support of the Read More

Students Descend on LANL for Supercomputing Challenge Expo

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Melrose High School students react to being named as the winning team at a recent New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge awards ceremony. Their research project modeled behavior of wildfires. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Research by student teams to be showcased

More than 200 New Mexico students and their teachers will be at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) April 21-23 for the 23rd annual New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge expo and awards ceremony.

More than 60 teams of students from elementary, middle, and high school are expected at the event, said David Kratzer of the Laboratory’s High Read More

Dr. Momchilo Vuyisich to Speak at Phi Beta Kappa Banquet Honoring High School Scholars

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Dr. Momchilo (Momo) Vuyisich

Dr. Momchilo (Momo) Vuyisich to Speak at Phi Beta Kappa Banquet Honoring High School Scholars
By JOYCE ANN GUZIK

On Sunday evening, April 28, the Los Alamos Phi Beta Kappa Association will hold its 57th 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 255 members in Los Alamos County (1.5 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 Read More

Employers Thanked/Honored for Support

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ESGR News:

SANTA FE – Twenty-one New Mexico businesses and public entities were honored last week for their support of members of the New Mexico Guard and Reserve.

The New Mexico Chapter of the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), hosted the lunchtime event April 11 at the National Guard Armory Aviation Support Facility in Santa Fe.

ESGR works to assist and educate employers about working with employees who are members of the National Guard or Reserve Units.

Larger businesses honored are Los Alamos National Security, Chugach Management, Fresenius Medical Corp., Honeywell, Lovelace Read More

SFI Colloquium: The Triple Revolution – Groups to Social Networks, Personalized Internet, Mobile Access

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Barry Wellman

SFI News:

Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, will speak on “The Triple Revolution: Groups to Social Networks, Personalized Internet, Mobile Access” during the upcoming SFI Colloquium at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 16 in the Noyce Conference Room at the Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.

Abstract: I discuss the structural changes that have facilitated the turn to social networks.

I show how digital media — the Internet and mobile devices — have been both responded to and amplified the social network revolution in how people connect in the community, Read More

Roger Wiens, Elizabeth MacDonald Join Great Conversations!

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Roger Wiens will guide a Great Conversation April 28. Courtesy photo

LAPSF News:

Great Conversations is an afternoon of delicious appetizers and desserts and an in-depth conversation with a subject area expert. 

This is the 4th Annual Great Conversations hosted by the Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation.

It will take place 2-5 p.m., April 28 at Los Alamos High School in the new building. 

This is the fifth in a series about the conversations that will take place.

Roger Wiens: Satisfy your “Curiosity” about Mars!

Roger Wiens is the principal investigator of the ChemCam instrument Read More