Rosenfest will provide diverse program of lectures and events

May 12, 2011—The upcoming Rosenfest Lectures on May 18-20 hold something for everyone.

A series of lectures in honor of Louis Rosen, founder of the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), will highlight the past and future for LANL’s signature science facility. In addition, statues of Manhattan Project leaders J. Robert Oppenheimer and Gen. Leslie Groves will be unveiled by Los Alamos County officials at historic Fuller Lodge at 4:45 p.m. Thursday, May 19.

A rare and diverse suite of lecture topics and speakers will be presented throughout the day on May 19 and during the morning of May 20. In addition to entertaining and informative talks about the life of Louis Rosen peppered throughout the event:

• Bob Redwine of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Erich Vogt of TRIUMF, Canada’s National Laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, will discuss the implications of LANSCE on the university community and the field of nuclear physics,
• John Browne, former director of LANL and LANSCE, will talk about “LANSCE and the Shift to Neutrons and Materials Science,” and
• Bernie Rosen will discuss his brother’s legacy as a family man outside of the Neutron Science Center. 

Many other speakers are scheduled as well.

For a full schedule of events and details about how to register for them, visit the Rosenfest website.

For more information about the remarkable Louis Rosen, father of LANSCE, visit his biography page on the Rosenfest website.