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Los Alamos National Laboratory Team Cracks The Code On Bane Of Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms

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Barren plateaus were a little-understood but common problem in quantum algorithm development. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Barren plateaus have long plagued progress in the field of variational quantum computing, but their understanding has been limited — until now

Quantum computers are still a nascent technology, but researchers are busy building complex machine learning algorithms to test the capabilities of quantum learning. Sometimes, however, their algorithms hit a mysterious dead end; a mathematical path from which there is no way forward or backward — the dreaded barren plateau. Read More

N3B Bids Farewell To Three Summer Interns Who Made Significant Contributions

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Student intern Sam Gervais, left, with mentor N3B Engineering Director Brian Caldwell. Gervais designed a generator UPS system for the Technical Area (TA)-54 Operations Center and supported the replacement of the HVAC unit at Building 2 in TA-54 during his 10-week internship. Courtesy/N3B

Student intern Sofia Enriquez, right, with mentor N3B Environmental Remediation Water Program Director Mike Erickson. Enriquez created a program for users to generate geophysical well log cross-sections to support the analysis of the aquifer beneath Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy/N3B Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory Teams With Georgia Institute Of Technology For AI Energy-Grid Research

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LANL News:

  • Agreement with AI4OPT will drive research and training on AI problem-solving

A new agreement between Los Alamos National Laboratory and the National Science Foundation’s  Artificial Intelligence Institute for Advances in Optimization, or AI4OPT, at Georgia Institute of Technology will drive research in applied artificial intelligence and engage students and other professionals in the future of the burgeoning field.

“This collaboration will help develop new artificial intelligence technologies for the next generation of scientific discovery and the Read More

Los Alamos Projects Win Eight 2024 R&D 100 Awards … The ‘Oscars Of Innovation’

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Space plasma physicist Anthony Rogers connects a testing frame on a prototype compact space plasma analyzer in the Low Earth Orbit test chamber. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • From clean energy technology to monitoring space weather, the Lab’s winning innovations exemplify the Lab’s cutting-edge science and technology

LANL News:

Eight Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) led technologies won R&D 100 Awards, including three special recognition awards for corporate social responsibility, market disruptor and green technology. Often called the “Oscars of Innovation” – these awards Read More

TechSource, Inc. Of Los Alamos Recognized As One Of Fastest-Growing Companies In U.S.

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TechSource, Inc., headquartered in Los Alamos has been named on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Companies in the U.S. for the 10th time. Courtesy image

From TechSource, Inc.:

TechSource, Inc. is proud to be named on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Companies in the U.S. for the 10th time. TechSource ranked #3868 on the overall list, #39 in Engineering, and #4 in New Mexico. Compiled by Inc. Magazine, the Inc. 5000 list highlights top-tier, privately owned companies based on their percentage growth over a three-year period.

“Being recognized for this 10th Inc. 5000 award speaks Read More

Santa Fe Striders Announces 2024 Scholarship Recipients

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Education News:

The Santa Fe Striders would like to congratulate the winners of the 2024 Santa Fe Striders Scholarship for cross country and/or track scholar athletes. $7,000 was distributed between five recipients.

This is the first year the HelenAnn Phillips Scholarship was awarded. The 2024 Santa Fe Striders Scholarships were supported by the John C. Griswold Family Foundation, Admiral Robert & HelenAnn Phillips and the Corrida de Los Locos race.

Greta Smith, Anna Wetteland and Marisa Martinez. Courtesy photo

GRETA SMITH is a graduate of Santa Fe High School. She will be attending Read More

Tibbar Plasma Technologies Headquartered In Los Alamos Files Patent For New Type Of Fusion Device

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Tibbar Plasma Technologies, Inc., has filed a patent for a new type of fusion device. The team includes, from left,  Illustrator Pam Paine, Dr. Dan Karmgard, Senior Experimentalist Dr. William Gibson, President/CEO Dr. Rick Nebel, Intern Paul Thibodeaux, Senior Plasma Physicist Dr. John Finn and Chief Financial Officer Anthony W. Belletete, CPA. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com

Tibbar Plasma Technologies, Inc., (TPTI) headquartered in Los Alamos has filed a patent for a new type of fusion device. TPTI President/CEO Read More

LANL’s National Security Science Magazine Summer 2024: The New Mexico Issue Focuses On State

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New Mexico abounds with places to see the stars, thanks to low levels of light pollution. With that in mind, Los Alamos National Laboratory student Aerin Jacobson set out one August evening to photograph the Milky Way above this radio telescope, which is located on Lab property and is part of the Very Long Baseline Array—a network of 10 radio telescopes across the United States that is operated f rom the Array Operations Center in Socorro. Scientists use the radio telescopes to study radio signals from astronomical sources. Courtesy/LANL

By JAMES OWEN
LANL

This issue of National Security Science Read More

LANL: New Open-Source Code ‘Fierro’ Improves Safety And Performance Of Manufactured Parts

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LANL researcher Sarah Brown with a lattice simulation result from the Fierro code. Courtesy/LANL 

LANL News:

A new open-source code developed by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) accurately simulates the performance of manufactured parts accounting for the microstructure to make them stronger, safer, and better-performing.

Called Fierro, the code performs multiscale and multiphysics simulations, meaning it can simultaneously simulate different aspects of physical systems and their interactions across varied time and length scales. Fierro also offers multiphysics Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory: New Papers On Studies Of Innovative Energy Sources For Intermountain West

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The geography and history of the intermountain west region create unique energy opportunities. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Two new papers, both authored by Mohamed Mehana of the Earth and Environmental Sciences division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, explore the feasibility of well retrofitting and clean hydrogen production from fossil fuels.

“With no action taken, over 5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide will leak into the atmosphere annually from the Intermountain West region,” Mehana wrote in the paper. “This volume is the equivalent of 1 million cars’ annual exhausts.”

The Read More