Science

20 Years Later: NIST’s World Trade Center Investigation & Legacy

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By S. Shyam Sunder
NIST

The collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the worst-ever building disasters in recorded history — killing 2,749 people. More than 400 emergency responders were among those killed, the largest loss of life for this group in a single incident.

I was shocked to learn of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, along with the rest of the nation, while attending a conference in Krakow, Poland. My immediate thoughts that Tuesday turned to the safety of my family back home. Once I talked to them and knew Read More

LANL: New Name Change Service Makes It Easier For Researchers To Claim Their Earlier Work

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LANL News:

When researchers change their names, they lose claim to their earlier published work. Requesting that their names be updated on their previous work comes with many challenges — they’ve had to contact publishers one by one and go through the specific process requirements of each.

Now, a new partnership provides an effortless way for researchers to change their names and claim published papers from all stages of their careers.

Announced July 28, the partnership includes Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), 16 other national laboratories, and 13 scientific publishers Read More

NIST’s Quantum Crystal Could Be A New Dark Matter Sensor

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NIST physicists John Bollinger, left, and Matt Affolter adjust the laser and optics array used to trap and probe beryllium ions in the large magnetic chamber. The ion crystal may help detect mysterious dark matter. Courtesy/R. Jacobson/NIST

NIST News:

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have linked together, or “entangled,” the mechanical motion and electronic properties of a tiny blue crystal, giving it a quantum edge in measuring electric fields with record sensitivity that may enhance understanding of the universe.

The quantum sensor consists Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory Scientist Travis Sjostrom Honored For Excellence In Plasma Physics Research

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Travis Sjostrom’s research toward broad-ranging quantum Monte Carlo calculations for the uniform electron gas earned him the 2021 John Dawson Award. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) scientist Travis Sjostrom has been selected for a 2021 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research from the American Physical Society (APS).

Sjostrom is just one of seven scientists to receive the national award this year.

“It is such an honor for me,” Sjostrom said. “It is rewarding to see this field of theoretical research in warm dense matter, which has had many Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory Welcomes NGD Systems To Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium

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Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium has nearly 20 members now, including national and international partners. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

As the HPC community enters an era in which computation can be offloaded to storage devices, it is important to explore the mechanisms for using and programming these processing offloads.

To this end, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and NGD Systems are partnering through Los Alamos’ Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium (EMC3) to explore scalable computational storage offloads for ultrascale Read More

LAHS’s Phillip Ionkov Among Top U.S. And International High School STEM Students Attending Research Science Institute

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CEE News:

MCLEAN, VA — Phillip Ionkov of Los Alamos High School is among the 81 top achieving U.S. high school and international scholars the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) welcomed to the 38th annual Research Science Institute (RSI), sponsored in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

RSI is an intensive, six-week program that gives students the opportunity to conduct original, cutting-edge science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research.

Due to the coronavirus, RSI 2021 is being held virtually June 27 through Aug. 7.

“We are Read More

Infinity & Beyond: Galvanizing Students To Reach For Stars

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Screenshot taken during a July 15 Google Meet with Rio Rancho Public Schools’ Native American Summer Academy guest speaker Aaron Yazzie. Yazzie shows students a selfie the Mars Rover took. Photo by Kelly Pearce 

Screenshot taken during July 15 Google Meet with Rio Rancho Public Schools’ Native American Summer Academy guest speaker Aaron Yazzie. Yazzie shows students pictures of Mars from the Mars Rover with a picture of himself on the Navajo Nation near Tuba City Ariz. Photo by Kelly Pearce 

By KELLY PEARCE
Teach Plus New Mexico

What inspired you to work at NASA? How long does it take to travel Read More

Final 2021 Los Alamos Faith & Science Forum Talk: ‘The History Of Vaccines And The Christian Response To Vaccination’ By Glenn Magelssen July 28

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LAFSF News:

The final lecture in the 2021 Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum (LAFSF) summer series is “The History of Vaccines and the Christian Response to Vaccination” by Glenn Magelssen.

Magelssen’s Zoom talk is 6:30 p.m., MDT, Wednesday, July 28.

Abstract: Vaccines have been important to human history for at least 200 years. For some of you reading this abstract you may remember getting a smallpox and/or a polio vaccine. I have included a picture of a person with smallpox as a reference to how lethal this disease was. In this talk I’ll describe the different types of vaccines. The histories Read More

BlueHalo Selects New Mexico For State-Of-The-Art Manufacturing, Research And Technology Complex

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The expected completion date is October 2022 for BlueHalo’s new facility. Courtesy/BlueHalo

Courtesy/BlueHalo

From the Office of the Governor:

ALBUQUERQUE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Mayor Tim Keller announced Tuesday that BlueHalo, an integrated national security and technology company, has chosen the MaxQ site in Albuquerque for a new state-of-the-art campus to facilitate BlueHalo’s acceleration into production and long-term commitment to investing in New Mexico and creating high-wage manufacturing jobs.

The Max Q location, at Gibson and Carlisle Blvd SE, was selected Read More

Energy Secretary Recognizes Exceptional Project Management At Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Members of the ECCCE project team stand in front of some of the cooling equipment they installed at the Strategic Computing Complex at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Construction of the project was completed last year, 10 months early and $20 million under budget.

The team responsible for managing the Exascale Class Computing Cooling Equipment (ECCCE) project at Los Alamos National Laboratory was recognized last week by the Secretary of Energy with an Achievement Award. Construction of the project was completed last year, 10 months early and $20 million under Read More