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Sandia; Kirtland Holding Joint Environmental Meeting

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CCNS News:

The Department of Energy (DOE) and Department of Defense (DOD) will host their semi-annual public meeting about the Sandia National Laboratories Environmental Programs and the Kirtland Air Force Base Environmental Restoration Program

The meeting is set for 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23 at the Cesar Chavez Community Center, 7505 Kathryn Southeast in Albuquerque, off Louisiana Boulevard and Zuni.

DOE will present about Sandia issues between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.

DOD will present about Kirtland issues between 7 p.m. and 8 pm. The agenda will be provided at the meeting.

The agenda includes Read More

Dignitaries Dedicate PRObE Center at Research Park

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LANL Director Charlie McMillan, center, and U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan joined by other dignitaries, cut the ribbon on the new PRObE Center at the Los Alamos Research Park Thursday. Photo by Blake Jackson/LACDC

Staff Report

A grand opening celebration was held Thursday, Oct. 18 at the Los Alamos Research Park attended by many dignitaries, including U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, LANL Director Charlie McMillan and NSF representative Dr. Keith Marzullo, each of whom spoke at the event.

The New Mexico Consortium, LANL, Carnegie Mellon University and the National Science Foundation partnered to create Read More

Princeton/NIST Collaboration Puts Wheels on the Quantum Bus

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Micrograph of a quantum bus device similar to the one measured for this experiment. Note the Princeton tiger is 1 mm from head to tail. The spin-orbit qubits are located at the nexus of the seven gate electrodes. Photo by K. Petersson/Princeton

NIST News:

In yet another step toward the realization of a practical quantum computer, scientists working at Princeton and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have shown how a major hurdle in transferring information from one quantum bit, or qubit, to another might be overcome.*

Their so-called “quantum bus” provides the link that would enable Read More

LANL’s Contributions to Curiosity Power Source Wins DOE Secretary Award

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Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, second from left, with the Los Alamos National Laboratory MMRTG Team. Courtesy/LANL
 
LANL News:
 
  • Secretary of Energy‘s Achievement Award Recognizes Work to Power Mars Rover
 
A small team of Los Alamos National Laboratory employees received the Secretary of Energy’s Achievement Award for their contributions on the thermoelectric generator that provides electrical power and heat to the Mars Science Laboratory’s Curiosity rover.
 
Photo: The award recognizes LANL’s contribution to Mars rover power source.
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SFI Seminar: Mathematics in the 21st Century – Shall They Be Different?

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SFI News:

Pierre Cartier of Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques will present the talk, “Mathematics in the 21st Century: Shall They Be Different?” at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, in the Medium Conference Room of the Santa Fe Institute. 

Abstract: I shall first review the heritage of the “short 20th century” in mathematics. A major success in the first half of this century was the appearance of the encyclopedic textbook by Bourbaki, putting in action the Hilbert’s programme.

I shall explain how it changed deeply our global perception of mathematics. Read More

Researchers Examine Use of Cosmic-Ray Radiography on Damaged Reactor Cores

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Los Alamos National Laboratory Muon Radiography team members stand in front of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi reactor complex during a visit to evaluate whether Los Alamos’ Scattering Method for cosmic-ray radiography could be used to image the location of nuclear materials within the reactor buildings. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Tiny Travelers from Deep Space Could Assist in Healing Fukushima’s Nuclear Scar

Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have devised a method to use cosmic rays to gather detailed information from inside the damaged cores of the Fukushima Daiichi Read More

Public Invited to View ‘Pink Skies’ at 6:30 p.m. Today!

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LANL News:

“Pink Skies,” an inspirational documentary about the empowerment of women – overcoming obstacles as athletes and as human beings, is coming to Los Alamos National Laboratory for employees to view this afternoon.

Community members may view the film at 6:30 p.m. today at Duane Smith Auditorium at no charge.

The film follows Ruth, a breast cancer survivor as she hopes to join an incredible team of nearly 200 women from 31 countries to create a World Record all Women’s Skydiving Formation.

The team also has a goal to raise nearly $1 million for breast cancer research Read More

Los Alamos PRObE Center Allows Computer Scientists to Test Super-Computing and Big Data Systems Software Scale

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World’s First Large Scale High Performance Super-Computing Systems Research Facility Opening at New Mexico Consortium
 

U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan
 

LANL / NMC News:

The New Mexico Consortium (NMC), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have partnered to create the PRObE Center (Parallel Reconfigurable Observational Environment), a one-of-a-kind computer systems research center located at the Los Alamos Research Park.

A grand opening celebration is scheduled from 1-3 p.m. Thursday, Oct.

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LANL Training: How to Use Electronic Public Reading Room

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Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

The public is invited to participate in a trainingon how to use the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Electronic Public Reading Room.

The training is set for Tuesday, Oct. 23 with two one-hour sessions to choose from including 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the J. Robert Oppenheimer Study Center, WestJemez Road at Casa Grande.

Foreign nationals are allowed at the morning training only.

The Department of Energy (DOE) and Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), are holding the training on the contents and use of LANL’s Electronic Public Reading Room (EPRR.) Read More

NNSA Holds Radiation Emergency Training in Denmark

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NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Participants from five countries took part in a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) International Training Course on Consequence Management (I-CM) last week in Denmark.

The training was hosted by the Danish Emergency Management Agency.

“The training was part of NNSA’s broader effort to build and enhance nuclear emergency management systems worldwide,” said NNSA Associate Administrator for Emergency Operations Joseph Krol. “The international course provided commonly accepted methods in addition to lessons learned by NNSA responders in Read More