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Having a laugh after Monday’s April Fool’s Day hoax ran in the Los Alamos Daily Post, from left, ChemCam team members Dot Delapp, Agnes Cousin, Nina Lanza, Ryan Jackson, Operations Manager Bruce Barraclough, Los Alamos Police Chief Wayne Torpy, Los Alamos Daily Post webmaster and columnist Greg Kendall who wrote the story, Steve Bendy and Steve Johnston at the ChemCam operatons center Tuesday inside LANL’s Community Programs Office. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos Police Chief Wayne Torpy keeps his hands to himself as he sits with members of the ChemCam Read More

Col. Paul Tibbets IV, right, sits in the cockpit of “Fifi,” a B-29 bomber, with his grandfather and Enola Gay pilot Paul W. Tibbets Jr., in this October 1998 photo taken in Midland, Texas. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Grandson of Enola Gay Pilot Gives 70th Anniversary Lecture

• Paul Tibbets IV to remember his grandfather, share experiences of his own Air Force career April 10 at Bradbury Science Museum

Col. Paul Tibbets IV, grandson of Enola Gay pilot Paul W. Tibbets Jr., talks about his grandfather and his experiences as a U.S. Air Force pilot flying B-1 and B-2 bombers during a talk at 5:30 Read More

Burton Voorhees

SFI Seminar

Burton Voorhees, Athabasca University will speak on “Information Spread in Structured Populations.”

Tuesday April 2 • 12:15 p.m. • Collins Conference Room

Abstract: Given a finite, genetically homogeneous population, suppose that a single mutant in introduced.

What is the probability this mutant will become fixed in the population? In 1958 the Australian statistician Patrick Moran answered this question for birth-death processes in unstructured populations.

Whether and how the introduction of structure in the population alters the Moran Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Bette Korber. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

• Scientists get inside look at how AIDS virus grooms its assault team

A new study by Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of Pennsylvania scientists defines previously unknown properties of transmitted HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS.

The viruses that successfully pass from a chronically infected person to a new individual are both remarkably resistant to a powerful initial human immune-response mechanism, and they are blanketed in a greater amount of envelope protein that helps them access and Read More

Courtesy/LANL

Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

• Once the World’s Fastest Supercomputer; Central to the Success of Stockpile Stewardship

Roadrunner, the first supercomputer to break the once-elusive petaflop barrier—one million billion calculations per second—will be decommissioned Sunday, March 31.

During its five operational years, Roadrunner, part of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program to provide key computer simulations for the Stockpile Stewardship Program, was a workhorse system providing computing power for stewardship Read More