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LANL Seeks Housing for Summer Students

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LANL News:
 
Los Alamos National Laboratory is well into its Summer 2013 student placement campaign and we are getting a lot of inquiries regarding housing options for students.
 
This year the LANL Student Programs Office will be facilitating the process via a new “Student Housing” web page.
 
If you or your neighbors have a living space that would be suitable and available for students, please forward the details to Rebecca Duran (rduran@lanl.gov) in the LANL Student Programs Office.
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Applications for UNM-LA / LANL Tech Frontiers 2013 Program Accepted Through April 8

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LANL/UNM-LA News:
 
Applications for UNM-LA/LANL Tech Frontiers 2013 program are being accepted through April 8.
 
This coming summer LANL and the University of New Mexico Los Alamos campus are teaming up to deliver the Tech Frontiers 2013 program for area high school students.
 
The program will provide an exceptional opportunity for high school students to explore fields of technology likely to remain extremely important throughout the 21st century.
 
Participating students will learn about materials science, robotics, computer science, and technologies related
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New Mexico Severe Weather Awareness Week 2013

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Los Alamos National Laboratory during a morning rain and hail storm. Courtesy/LANL

NOAA News:

Monday marked the beginning of New Mexico Severe Weather Awareness Week 2013, which runs through Friday, March 29.

To bring awareness to the community, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service released the following information:

What Types of Severe Weather Can I Expect in New Mexico?

  • All 33 counties in New Mexico experience severe thunderstorms producing high winds, large hail, deadly lightning, and heavy rains at some time during the year.
  • During
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SFI Seminar: Structural Determinants of Scoring Dynamics and Outcomes in Team Competitions

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SFI

Thursday, March 28, 2013 • 12:15 p.m. • Collins Conference Room

Aaron Clauset, University of Colorado, Boulder; SFI External Professor will present the seminar, Structural Determinants of Scoring Dynamics and Outcomes in Team Competitions.

Abstract: The outcomes of many team-based competitions are determined by the steady accumulation of minor interactions over time.

Yet we lack a general understanding of their fundamental dynamics and how those dynamics are shaped by a competition’s structure.

We introduce a novel generative model that can directly quantify a competition’s Read More

Nuclear Submarine Officers Visit San Ildefonso Pueblo Home

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USS Santa Fe Commander Timothy Poe receives gifts from Deborah and Elmer Torres during Saturday’s Pueblo visit. Photo by Salvador Zapien/ladailypost.com

The Red Turtle Dancers perform Buffalo, Butterfly and Rain dances for Commander Timothy Poe in the San Ildefonso Pueblo living room of Doborah and Elmer Torres. Photo by Salvador Zapien/ladailypost.com

Jerome Trujillo, 5, a member of the Red Turtle Dancers has been dancing since he was 2 years old. Photo by Salvador Zapien/ladailypost.com

 

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post

SAN ILDEFONSO PUEBLO – USS Santa Fe Commander Read More

SFI Seminar: Information-Based Physics: — An Intelligent Embedded Agent’s Guide to the Universe

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Kevin Knuth.

SFI Seminar

Tuesday, March 26, 2013 • 12:15 p.m. • Collins Conference Room

Kevin Knuth, University at Albany – SUNY, will present a seminar on Information-Based Physics: An Intelligent Embedded Agent’s Guide to the Universe.

Abstract: In this talk, I propose an approach to understanding the foundations of physics by considering the optimal inferences an intelligent agent can make about the universe in which he or she is embedded. Information acts to constrain an agent’s beliefs.

However, at a fundamental level, any information is obtained from interactions where something Read More

Portrait Unveiling Set for Manhattan Project Leader

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LANL News:

  • Family of Gen. Leslie Groves to donate official portrait to Los Alamos Historical Society

The family of the U.S. Army general who oversaw the building of Los Alamos National Laboratory will donate his official military portrait to the Los Alamos Historical Society Friday, April 5.

Gen. Leslie Groves was commander of the Army Corps of Engineers Manhattan Engineer District.

WHO: Los Alamos Historical Society, the family of Gen. Leslie Groves, Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan, Lt. Col. Antoinette Gant, Commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Albuquerque Read More

SFI Seminar: Graph Grammars and Directed Hypergraphs — Discrete Models of Chemistry

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Peter F. Stadler

SFI Seminar:

Monday, March 25, 2013 • 12:15 p.m. • Collins Conference Room

Graph Grammars and Directed Hypergraphs: Discrete Models of Chemistry

Peter F. Stadler, University of Leipzig; SFI External Professor

Abstract: Labeled (multi)graphs have a long tradition as models of molecules as witnessed by the field of “chemical graph theory.”

Chemical reactions, in this setting, are naturally thought of as graph transformations, a notion that goes back to the work Dugundji and Ugi.

In a more convenient framework chemical reaction mechanism are seen as transformation Read More

LANL Director Charlie McMillan Dines for Charity

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Gathered for lunch at the Dixie Girl Restaurant Tuesday, from left, Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan, LANL Associate Director of Engineering Steve Girrens, Los Alamos Daily Post Publisher Carol A. Clark and TRK Management owner Roger Waterman. Lunch with the Laboratory director was an auction item at this year’s Red and Black Ball that raised nearly $1,000 for the Los Alamos Family YMCA. As a charity, the local YMCA ensures that health and wellness programs are available for all individuals and families despite an inability to pay. In 2012, the Read More

Lansing Details LANL’s New Security Initiative

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Conceptual image of “Split Road” Option. See link to power point presentation below for full description of the three options under consideration. Courtesy/LANL
 
By KAREN KENDALL
First Vice President
Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos

Mike Lansing, associate director for Safeguards and Security at Los Alamos National Laboratory spoke to the Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos Tuesday lunch meeting March 19. 

Lansing, who is starting his fourth year at LANL, discussed the “game plan for the future of the ‘large intestine.’”

He said his team must balance supporting the mission of Read More