July
Quantum computers to clarify the connection between the quantum and classical worlds
A new algorithm will allow quantum computers to investigate how the classical world we experience emerges from the quantum world - 7/31/19
Faint foreshocks foretell California quakes
Minor shocks presaged impending main shocks days to weeks before the big event - 7/31/19
Numerical model pinpoints source of pre-cursor to seismic signals
Research could one day enable accurately predicting earthquakes - 7/29/19
Vampire algae killer’s genetic diversity poses challenge to biofuels
Multiple species of pathogen could impact commercial algae production - 7/22/19
Machine-learning competition boosts earthquake prediction capabilities
Competitors’ success predicting quake timing in the online Kaggle competition could help save lives, infrastructure - 7/18/19
Los Alamos National Laboratory brings 24,169 jobs, $3.1 billion to New Mexico
Independent UNM report analyzes contributions from employment, goods and services, construction and taxes - 7/18/19
Ground-breaking Los Alamos inventions grab honors
2019 Richard P. Feynman Innovation Prize recognizes nuclear power potential in space - 7/17/19
New Mexico Tech and Los Alamos National Laboratory make joint appointment to work on robotics projects
Engineer becomes first researcher hired under cooperative agreement - 7/16/19
Two Los Alamos scientists win Presidential Early Career Awards
Award honors scientists and engineers for outstanding contributions to their fields - 7/15/19
UNM and Los Alamos National Labs sign new cooperative joint faculty agreement
Five-year joint appointments will increase research opportunities - 7/9/19
Researchers cast neural nets to simulate molecular motion
Machine learning allows quantum mechanics to be efficiently applied to molecular simulations for drug development, detonation physics and more - 7/2/19
July
Fast Facts
Total employees: 13,137
Triad National Security, LLC: 9,397
Centerra Group, LLC Los Alamos (Guard Force): 281
Compa, Staff and support contractors: 478
Students: 1,323
Unionized craft workers: 1,160
Post doctoral researchers: 498
Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 34.7 square miles of DOE-owned property.
1,280 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 9 million square feet under roof.
Replacement value of $14.2 billion
FY17:
63% Weapons programs
10% Nonproliferation programs
4% Safeguards and Security
7% Environmental Management
4% DOE Office of Science
3% Energy and other programs
9% Work for Others
Triad and students only
35% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 43
65% male, 35% female
45% minorities
67% university degrees
27% hold undergraduate degrees
19% hold master’s degrees
21% have earned a PhD
145 R&D100 awards
34 E.O. Lawrence Awards
9 Presidential Early Career Awards
3 Glenn Seaborg Medals
Edward Teller Medal
Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines
Albuquerque to Los Alamos, NM
98 miles; 1 hr, 51 min.
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As of Aug. 18, 2020
