International Science Conferences in Santa Fe
Los Alamos National Laboratory sits on top of a once-remote mesa in northern New Mexico with the Jemez mountains as a backdrop to research and innovation covering multi-disciplines from bioscience, sustainable energy sources, to plasma physics and new materials.
Contact
- Nancy Ambrosiano
- Communications Office
- (505) 667-0471
Focus on insulating materials and radiation effects in solids
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, June 22, 2012—Los Alamos National Laboratory together with New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos National Bank and Netzsch Group are sponsoring two international conferences in Santa Fe. Organizers anticipate the arrival of more than 300 scientists from around the world.
What:
- The 2012 International Conference on Defects in Insulating Materials is the 18th edition of a series that began in 1956 at Argonne National Laboratory. International conferences take place every four years and are alternated with Europe-specific conferences. The series is a broad international forum on the science and technology of defect-related phenomena in crystalline and amorphous wide band-gap materials.
- Computer Simulation of Radiation Effects in Solids. This biennial conference is a major international forum to present and discuss the recent achievements in the advanced computer modeling of surface and bulk phenomena stimulated by all forms of irradiation. Fundamental understanding of these phenomena is often not accessible by experiments, since they occur on very small time and length scales. A recent development of both computer hardware and theoretical methodologies has pushed the field into the forefront of a modern science.
When: June 24 -29, 2012
Where: Held concurrently at Santa Fe Community Convention Center (SFCCC).
Technical contacts:
Dr. Chris Stanek @ 505-500-2685
Dr. Blas Uberuaga @ 505-699-3783
June
- Facility Receives LEED® Gold Certification
- LANL Celebrates 1000th Transuranic Waste Shipment
- Small Businesses Receive National Awards
- East Jemez Road Vehicle Access Portal
- Koonin Named As Independent Governor
Fast Facts
People
Total employees,
10,402
Los Alamos National Security, LLC, 6,929
SOC Los Alamos (Guard Force), 396
Contractors, 349
Students, 889
Post doctoral researchers, 427
Place
Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 36 square miles of DOE-owned property.
More than 2,000 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 8 million square feet under roof.
Replacement value of $9.8 billion
Budget
FY 2012: Approx. $2.2 billion
—57% Weapons programs
—9% Nonproliferation programs
—7% Safeguards and Security
—8% Environmental Management
—4% DOE Office of Science
—4% Energy and other programs
—11% Work for Others
Workforce Demographics
(LANS and students only)
34% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos, and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 46
—67%
male, 33% female
—44% minorities
—67% university degrees
—26% hold undergraduate degrees
—18% hold master’s degrees
—23% have earned a PhD
Major Awards
124 R&D100 awards since 1978
31 E.O. Lawrence Awards
The Seaborg Medal
The Edward Teller Medal
The Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines
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