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United Way Monster Mash is today Laboratory employees can enjoy music, games and food and enter contests to win prizes today at the 2002 United Way Monster Mash in the Otowi Building at Technical Area 3. Lab workers are encouraged to bring their completed pledge cards to the pre-Halloween party, which is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Otowi Cafeteria side dining rooms and the outdoor east patio. Monster Mash is open to all Laboratory workers. Ernestine Romero, "La Jovencita," will give a free concert and party favors will be handed out while they last. There also will be a Best Costume and Pumpkin-Carving contest for prizes at 12:30 p.m. The prizes include "Chamber Checks" and five "Park Almost Anywhere" Laboratory parking passes. A panel of "VIP judges," also known as Lab upper management, will select the contest winners. For more information, questions or comments on this year's campaign, write to unitedway@lanl.gov by electronic mail. Or go to the United Way Web sites at www.losalamos.com/unitedway/ or www.uwsfc.org online. For more information, see the Oct. 25 Daily Newsbulletin. As of last Friday, $393,135 has been pledged or donated to this year's campaign. "Ergonomics Expo" is Tueday at Technical Area 55 Glove box ergonomics is just one of the booths planned for the next Health/Ergo @ Work Expo on Tuesday at Technical Area 55. Sponsored by the Laboratory's Institutional Ergonomics Committee (IEC), the expo is from 9 a.m. to noon in the building PF-264 conference room 107 (outside the fence.) It is the last in a series of six traveling expos this year and is open to all Lab workers. Door prizes, refreshments and give aways also are planned. For more information, contact Grey-Vigil at 5-1318 or go to http://www-xdiv.lanl.gov/x8/ergo online. For more information, see the Oct. 24 Daily Newsbulletin. West to deliver Santa Fe Institute Memorial Lectures this week in Santa Fe Laboratory physicist Geoffrey West is giving three talks this week in Santa Fe as part of the Santa Fe Institute's Community Lecture Series. West, of Elementary Particles and Field Theory (T-8), will deliver the Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Lecture over three evenings beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the James A. Little Theater at the New Mexico School for the Deaf. The talks are free and open to the public, but seating is limited. On Tuesday, the first lecture, "Size, Scale and Fractals from the Big Bang to Life," discusses the concept of scaling and what is a fractal. Examples to be discussed include the limits to growth, the speed of dinosaurs, drug dosages, cooking turkeys, brain size, metabolic rate and the evolution of the fundamental forces of nature. The second lecture on Wednesday, "Origins and Fundamental Unifying Principles of Universal Scaling Laws in Biology," attempts to answer the question of why people stop growing. Examples to be discussed include the cardiovascular system, trees and plants, ecosystems and growth charts. The third lecture also at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday is titled, "Applications and Speculations," and asks the questions Why do we die? Are we efficient? and Can we quantify evolution? More information about West's research on fractals and the tree of life can be found in the July 1997 Reflections magazine (Adobat Acrobat Reader required). New Mexico School for the Deaf is located at 1060 Cerrillos Road. More information about the Santa Fe Institute can be found at http://www.santafe.edu online. For more information, call 984-8800. --Steve Sandoval IGPP's Keller thanked at retirement reception Part of IGPP open house PHOTO: Laboratory scientist Charles "Chick" Keller, center, talks with Burton Wendroff, left, of Mathematical Modeling and Analysis (T-7), and Jody Heiken of Communication Arts and Services (IM-1), at a retirement reception for Keller last Thursday in the Otowi Building side rooms at Technical Area 3. Inset photo: Keller holds a Acoma pot given to him by Los Alamos staff members at Keller's retirement reception. Keller led the Laboratory's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics for 13 years. The IGPP held an open house last week to celebrate its 20th anniversary at Los Alamos. The institute is part of the Lab's Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) Division. Photos by Ed Vigil, Public Affairs
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