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LANL’s Emergency Services Division Leader Charged With Battery; No Longer Employed

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Tony Stanford
By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
 
Police have filed charges against Anthony “Tony” R. Stanford, who lost his job as Emergency Operations Division Leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory Friday.

“Mr. Stanford is not currently an employee of the Laboratory. As general policy, because of employee privacy, the Laboratory does not discuss personnel matters,” LANL Spokesperson Kevin Roark said.

Stanford, 56, was formally charged Monday, Feb. 4 with battery and assault against a female employee at the Laboratory.

The charges stem

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Regional Coalition of LANL Communities Meets Feb. 15

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COALITION News:

The next meeting of the Regional Coalition of LANL Communities is schedule for 9-11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 15 at the Santa Fe Community Foundation, 501 Halona St., in Santa Fe.

The Coalition is comprised of Los Alamos County, City of Espanola, City of Santa Fe, County of Santa Fe, Town of Taos, County of Taos and the Pueblo of Ohkay Owingeh.

The Coalition proactively addresses issues of the neighboring cities, counties and pueblos directly affected by Los Alamos National Laboratory site activities.

By working together, the governments are better poised to define the public interest Read More

Lecture Details LANL’s Collaboration on Italy’s Great Cupola

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Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral. Courtesy photo

LAHS NEWS:

Learn about the construction of Brunelleschi’s great dome for Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral in Florence, Italy and how collaborations with scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory may help to save it.

The Los Alamos Historical Society will sponsor a talk by Carlo Blasi, Eva Coisson and Federica Ottoni, from the University of Parma, Italy.

The speakers are Italian scientists and historians of Renaissance architecture. The event will take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15 at Fuller Lodge.

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SFI’s Science On Screen Series: Primer

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Professor Cris Moore

SFI News:

The popular Science On Screen series in Santa Fe continues at 7 p.m. today, Feb. 6 with a presentation by Santa Fe Institute Professor Cris Moore in the Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail in Santa Fe.

Moore a physicist, mathematician, computer scientist, and author – providing a window into Shane Carruth’s twisty and unforgettable 2004 cult film Primer, in which two young inventors, working after hours in a garage, craft a machine that opens up a universe of possibility … and consequences.

For tickets and prices, call the CCA Box Office at 505.982.1338. Read More

LANS: Funding Available for New Mexico Businesses

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LANS News:

  • Los Alamos Venture Acceleration Fund accepting 2013 applications

The Venture Acceleration Fund (VAF) of Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), the company that manages and operates Los Alamos National Laboratory for the National Nuclear Security Administration, is accepting applications for the 2013 calendar year.

Companies selected will receive awards that can range from $10,000 to $100,000 in order to commercialize technology and take it to market faster.

VAF helps innovative companies reach the next level of success through business and technology development activities, Read More

Luján Encourages Tech Transfer; Oversight of National Labs

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Rep. Ben Ray Luján

CONGRESSIONAL News:

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico’s Third District submitted the following statement into the record Tuesday during the House Energy and Commerce Committee mark-up of the Committee’s oversight plan for the current Congressional session.

“Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the inclusion of ‘management and operations issues at the Department of Energy’ within the Committee’s Oversight Plan for the 113th Congress.

“As Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is located in my district Read More

LANL Presents ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ to Rep. Nick Salazar

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LANL Executive Director Rich Marquez presents Rep. Nick Salazar with ‘Lifetime Achievement Award.’ Courtesy/LANL

  • Rep. Salazar Longest Serving House Member

SANTA FE – Los Alamos National Laboratory presented Rep. Nick Salazar, D-Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba and San Miguel counties, with a “Lifetime Achievement Award” at a breakfast Jan. 30 in Santa Fe.

Salazar received the highest honor recognizing his profound and significant contributions during his 63 years of service, which include expanding opportunities for research and development, small business and minority business Read More

Lecture Examines Seven LANL Explosive Fatalities

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Cary Skidmore. Courtesy photo

By Kirsten Laskey

In 1954, seven workers in Los Alamos lost their lives as a result of three high explosive accidents.

It is not a well-known event. In fact, at the time, even the workers’ families were not given a lot of information.

Times have changed, however, and Cary Skidmore, a group leader for the Explosives Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is sharing the story with the public.

Skidmore will present “The Seven LANL Explosives Fatalities: Technical and Human Perspective,” as part of the Los Alamos Historical Society’s lecture series.

The free talk Read More

SFI Seminar: Shared Information — New Insights and Problems in Decomposing Information in Complex System

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Eckehard Olbrich

SFI News:

The Santa Fe Institute presents a SFI Seminar by Eckehard Olbrich, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, at 12:15 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 7 in the Collins Conference Room at 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.

Olbrich’s seminar is titled “Shared Information — New Insights and Problems in Decomposing Information in Complex System.”

Abstract: How can the information that a set of random variables contains about another random variable be decomposed? To what extent do different subgroups provide the same, i.e. shared or redundant, Read More

DNA and Quantum Dots: All That Glitters is Not Gold

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The NIST team explored the behavior of quantum dots and gold nanoparticles placed in different configurations on small rectangular constructs made of self-assembled DNA. Laser light (green) allowed the team to explore changes in the fluorescent lifetime of the quantum dots when close to gold particles of different sizes. Courtesy/NIST

NIST News:

A team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has shown that by bringing gold nanoparticles close to the dots and using a DNA template to control the distances, the intensity of a quantum dot’s fluorescence Read More