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LANL Foundation Santa Fe Office Ribbon Cutting May 12
LANL Foundation News:
The community is invited to join LANL Foundation staff, leadership and board members for an official ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house at its new Santa Fe office.
The event is 5-7 p.m., Thursday, May 12 at the LANL Foundation satellite office at the Santa Fe Design Center, 418 Cerrillos Road (one block east of the Railyard train station). There is parking on site, as well as on Sandoval Street.
There will be a ribbon cutting ceremony and remarks at 6 p.m. There also will be live music, and the LANL Foundation is partnering with Design Center restaurants to provide complimentary Read More
LANL News Roundup For Week Of April 4, 2022
‘Frustrated’ nanomagnets order themselves through disorder: Extremely small arrays of magnets with strange and unusual properties can order themselves by increasing entropy, or the tendency of physical systems to disorder, a behavior that appears to contradict standard thermodynamics — but doesn’t. ‘Paradoxically, the system orders because it wants to be more disordered,’ said Cristiano Nisoli, a physicist at Los Alamos and coauthor of a paper about the research in Nature Physics. ‘Our research demonstrates entropy-driven order in a structured system of magnets at equilibrium.’ Read More
LANL Historian Alan B. Carr Entertains Large Audience With Manhattan Project History
LANL historian Alan B. Carr, left, and LANL Director Thom Mason at the JROMC and Los Alamos Historical Society presentation Monday evening at the Smith Auditorium. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
Some 500 people gather at the Smith Auditorium Monday evening to hear a talk by LANL historian Alan B. Carr titled ‘Manhattan: The View from Los Alamos of History’s Most Secret Project’, sponsored by the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee (JROMC) and Los Alamos Historical Society. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com
By REBECCA SHANKLAND
JROMC Board Member
In a whirlwind tour through Read More
LAPSA Participates In Tactical Communications Training
Members of the Los Alamos Public Safety Association (LAPSA) took part in a March 30 Tactical Communications Training Seminar. From left, LAPSA Vice President and Senior Emergency Management/Security Administrator Rodney Roberson of the Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office, LAPSA President and Behavioral Health Response Team Coordinator Alice Bodelson of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), presenter Lt. Scott Tillema, LAPSA Secretary and Security Specialist Donna Martinez of Protective Force Operations, Defense Security Program at LANL and LAPSA member and Director Read More
NNSA Breaks Ground On Y-12 Security Project
Defense Nuclear Security Associate Administrator Jeffrey Johnson
NNSA News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) this week held the groundbreaking of the multiyear Security Infrastructure Revitalization Program at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee.
The project will replace a portion of the existing perimeter intrusion detection and assessment system, known as PIDAS, and upgrade other security features.
The PIDAS was first installed at Y-12 in 1988, but the age of the system is not the only driver for the revitalization Read More
LANL: Perseverance Analyzes First Sounds From Mars
The Perseverance with the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars April 7, 2021. Courtesy/NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.
LANL News:
The NASA Perseverance rover, which has been exploring the Jezero Crater on Mars since February 2021, has recorded the acoustic environment of the red planet for the first time. Using the SuperCam microphone developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and a consortium of French universities under the Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales, an international research team published the first analysis of these sounds April 1 in Nature.
“For the first time we were able to record Read More