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Los Alamos Historical Society To Host ‘If These Walls Could Talk’ Two-Part Lecture Series On Jan. 13 And Feb. 10

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LAHS News:

The Los Alamos Historical Society announces its upcoming free lectures 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13, and
Tuesday, Feb. 10, in the Pajarito Room of historic Fuller Lodge. These lectures will feature
stories based around the buildings of Los Alamos History.

The lecture on Jan. 13 is titled, “If These Walls Could Talk Part 1: Buildings of the Los Alamos Historic District”. In this lecture volunteers for the Los Alamos History Museum as well as staff from the Historical Society and Archives and Collections will share the history of the buildings in the Historic District as well as the people Read More

LANL Grad Student To Teach STEMarts LIVE CODING Bootcamp Kicking Off On Saturday Jan. 24

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STEMarts Lab News:

STEMarts LAB in Santa Fe is kicking off the new year with its first LIVE CODING Bootcamp on Jan. 24 featuring Kelcey Davis, graduate student/LANL astrophysicist, who will be teaching students how to analyze data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to understand galaxies.

https://stemarts.com/2025/11/24/stemarts-live-coding-lab-in-2026/

More About STEMarts Lab Bootcamps:

  • Bootcamp 1, Jan. 24, 2026
  • Visualizing galaxy data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

This Bootcamp introduces students to astrophysics through data from the James Webb Space Telescope Read More

Jan & Jas. Mercer-Smith Mark 50th Wedding Anniversary

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Jan and Jas. Mercer-Smith of Los Alamos celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at the Getty Museum with their daughter, Dr. Alison Mercer-Smith, and her husband, Joe Gu. The Mercer-Smiths met while summer undergraduate researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1973, and were married in Longview, Texas on Dec. 27, 1975. They lived in separate states during graduate school (UNC-Chapel Hill and Yale) and post-doctoral appointments (Rockefeller University and Harvard). After their experience at Oak Ridge, they had always hoped to work at a National Laboratory. And in 1983, they Read More

LANL Shares 10 Moments Of Community Connection In 2025

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Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • “Los Alamos National Laboratory a force for good through education, nonprofit giving, volunteerism”

At Los Alamos National Laboratory, we strive to be a force for good in the surrounding region, which includes the seven counties of Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Miguel, Santa Fe and Taos. This year, the Lab and its employees contributed to this endeavor through educational enrichment, philanthropy, volunteerism, safety and environmental stewardship.

Raising $2.7M for nonprofits, students and children through Read More

New Documents Added To LANL Electronic Reading Room

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LANL News:

The following documents have been added to the Los Alamos National Laboratory Electronic Reading Room. The document(s) have been submitted to fulfill one or more requirements of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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LRG First Tuesday Breakfast Jan. 6, 2026

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LRG News:

Lab retirees (and potential retirees) are invited to drop in at the Laboratory Retiree Group (LRG)

 monthly breakfast social on Tuesday Jan. 6 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. at Muy Salsas at 1315 Trinity Drive.

Come hang out and join the conversation with other Lab retirees.

LRG will pay for coffee and tea and individuals will pay for their breakfast and other drinks.

The LRG is a non-profit organization, which seeks to maintain communications with and to serve the needs and interests of all retirees from LANL. All laboratory retirees may join LRG.

Contact sgirard@losalamos.com Read More

LANL Co-Design Summer School Trains Next Generation Of Interdisciplinary Scientists

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Julien Loiseau designed the logo for the school himself, including a prickly pear and symbols for each of the main disciplines. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

            • Built as both a training ground and talent pipeline, program prepares students for breadth of computing work

For graduate students interested in high-performance computing, few problems today can be solved in isolation. Modern scientific challenges demand collaboration across disciplines — researchers working together to design software and algorithms that run efficiently on the world’s most powerful machines.

That philosophy Read More

Catch Of The Week: Spotify Scraping

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

In a reminder that the internet will always try to copy anything that isn’t nailed down, Spotify is investigating claims that a self-described “pirate archivist” group managed to scrape a massive portion of its music catalog. We are talking hundreds of terabytes of data, millions of tracks, and enough metadata to make any data hoarder weep with joy…Yikes!

The group, known as Anna’s Archive, says it scraped Spotify at scale using unauthorized accounts and automation. Not a dramatic smash-and-grab through a blinking server room, Read More

DOE’s Environmental Mgmt. Delivers Nuclear Remediation &Revitalization For American Communities In 2025

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DOE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Helping to grow America’s burgeoning nuclear renaissance, advancing infrastructure critical to winning the artificial intelligence (AI) race and safely addressing aging facilities to contribute to the modernization of America’s strategic deterrent — these are just some of the ways the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) helped enable American energy, innovation and security in 2025, according to a new document released today.

“Delivering Nuclear Remediation and Revitalization for American Energy, Security and Innovation” Read More

NNSA Renews University Consortium Grant For Research & Development Into Nuclear Science, Engineering, Security

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NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) announced a $25 million grant to a University of California, Berkeley-led consortium of nine universities and six National Laboratories for research and development (R&D) in nuclear science, engineering, and security.

This long-term investment will support the consortium at $5 million per year for five years. The grant, awarded for the fourth time to a UC-Berkeley-led consortium, follows the announcement of a funding opportunity issued in November 2024.

The mission Read More