SFI Colloquium: ‘Early Hunters and Extinctions in Northern Madagascar…
Henry T. Wright/Courtesy SFI
SFI News:
3:30 p.m • Thursday, Feb. 27 • Noyce Conference Room • 1399 Hyde Park Road • Santa Fe
Henry T. Wright of the University of Michigan and an SFI external professor will present an SFI Colloquium, “Early Hunters and Extinctions in Northern Madagascar: Research on the Newly Found Stone Age Peoples of Madagascar.”
Abstract. The idea that Ice Age hunters armed with tools of wood and stone drove major elements of their prey to extinction is nowhere resolved. Madagascar was thought to be a case of iron-using herders and farmers, arriving about 2,000 years ago Read More
LANS Selects CNSI to Continue Telecommunications Support
CNSI President Adnan Ahmed
BUSINESS News:
- Los Alamos Nominates CNSI for DOE Small Business of the Year Award
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – CNSI announced it has been selected by Los Alamos National Security LLC (LANS) to continue its work providing telecommunications support and related services at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
LANS has managed operations at the Laboratory since 2006 and CNSI was selected in 2008 to support telecommunications at the Laboratory. As part of the service contract, CNSI supports the Laboratory’s efforts to utilize the latest technology in its communications Read More
Algal Biology Focus of Next Brown Bag Lecture
LANL’s Shawn Starkenburg
LANL News:
Shawn Starkenburg, of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Bioenergy and Biome Sciences group, will talk about how algae can be used for transportation fuels in the next installment of the Brown Bag Lecture series noon-1 p.m., Feb. 26 at the Bradbury Science Museum at 15th Street and Central Avenue.
Single-celled algae have been targeted for commercial applications due to their ability to efficiently accumulate biomass and long chain carbon molecules for conversion to renewable transportation fuels and other useful bioproducts. Although Read More
SFI Seminar: ‘Medical, Scientific, Political, Journalististic Pitfalls in Study of Confusing Illnesses’
Julie Rehmeyer. Courtesy/SFI
SFI News:
12:15 p.m. • Wednesday, Feb. 26 • Collins Conference Room • 1399 Hyde Park Road • Santa Fe
Julie Rehmeyer, Santa Fe Institute journalism fellow, will discuss “Medical, Scientific, Political and Journalistic Pitfalls in the Study of Confusing Illnesses” Wednesday.
Explore Wonders of Science, Math at ‘Expanding Your Horizons’ Conference
LANL News:The event is 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., March 6 at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center.
Los Alamos National Laboratory partners with New Mexico Network for Women in Science and Engineering, Los Alamos Women in Science, Los Alamos National Security, LLC, and the LANL Foundation on EYH to increase awareness
SFI Seminar: ‘A Game Approach to the Emergence of Hostile Leadership’
Dave Phillips. Courtesy/SFI
SFI News:
12:15 p.m. • Tuesday, Feb. 26 • Collins Conference Room • 1399 Hyde Park Road • Santa Fe
Dave Phillips, curator of archaeology at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology and a research associate professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico, will discuss “A Game Approach to the Emergence of Hostile Leadership” Tuesday in a Santa Fe Institute Seminar.
Abstract: Recent archaeological models have examined consensual paths to incipient social leadership. A modification of the Hawk-Dove game explores conditions under which non-consensual
