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Monday, June 20, 2005 Lab scientists put the squeeze on electron spinsLaboratory scientists have developed a novel method for controlling and measuring electron spins in semiconductor crystals of GaAs (gallium arsenide). The work suggests an alternative - and perhaps even superior - method of spin manipulation for future generations of “semiconductor spintronic” devices.
2005 Checkpoint and Upward Appraisal surveys to be distributed this week
University of California full-time and part-time Laboratory employees are scheduled to receive their 2005 Checkpoint and Upward Appraisal surveys no later than Friday (June 24). The surveys are being mailed to UC Lab employees at their mail stops.
Newsletter highlights Lab small business efforts
The revamped Small Business Program (SUP-4) newsletter is now available. The newsletter summarizes programs and activities of the program, which recently relocated to the Central Park Square Building in downtown Los Alamos.
Annual student meeting with Lab director is Wednesday
The annual student meeting with Laboratory Director Robert Kuckuck is Wednesday in the Duane Smith Auditorium at Los Alamos High School.
Speaker: changes in forest have altered nature of fires
Bark beetles aren’t the only things that have been “bugging” forests in the southwest, according to a forest health specialist who spoke recently at the Laboratory’s Bradbury Science Museum.
LASO to survey security and safeguards
The biannual safeguards and security audit of the Laboratory begins today and continues through June 27. The objective of the audit, done by the Los Alamos Site Office, is to verify adequate protection of Department of Energy assets through a comprehensive compliance and performance-oriented inspection. supercomputing
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A complex for capabilityWeapons Programs head will never forget three special days"It is up to your generation to find a way out of this problem we have created." The speaker was Hans Bethe. The high school student listening closely was Joe Martz . . . Currents, the Laboratory's monthly employee magazine, is now available online.  |
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