Center for Nonlinear Studies

CNLS Events:

Talks at CNLS this week :

Wed 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University) Seminar: Molecules as quantum processors: Quantum process tomography as a tool for unraveling quantum coherent effects in photosynthesis.

Wed 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM TBA Seminar: IS & T Seminar

Thu 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Yoshitomo Kamiya (T-4 and CNLS) Postdoc Seminar: Formation of magnetic microphases in Ca3Co2O6

Talks at CNLS next week :

Mon, May. 21st 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Colloquium: No Colloquium

Thu, May. 24th 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Jared Whitehead (CCS-2 and CNLS) Postdoc Seminar: ULTIMATE STATE OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL RAYLEIGH-BENARD CONVECTION BETWEEN FREE-SLIP FIXED-TEMPERATURE BOUNDARIES

Visitors at CNLS this week :

Alan Aspuru-Guzik (May. 15th, 2012 to May. 25th, 2012) Harvard University

Vladimir Chernyak (Apr. 30th, 2012 to Jul. 20th, 2012) Wayne State University

Vicenc Gomez Cerda (Apr. 30th, 2012 to May. 25th, 2012)

Jonathan Yeddidia (May. 7th, 2012 to May. 18th, 2012) Disney Research

Visitors arriving at CNLS next week :
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Upcoming Workshops :
- 32nd Annual Conference: Optimization and Control of Smart Grids, Santa Fe, NM, May 21-25, 2012
- Chemistry and Physics of the Heavy Elements, Santa Fe, NM, June 20-22, 2012
- 6th q-bio Summer School, Santa Fe, NM, July 23 - August 7, 2012
- 6th q-bio Conference, Santa Fe, NM, August 8 - 12, 2012

Featured Items:
- Claire White (LANSCE-LC/CNLS) has received the first 2012 NSSA Prize for Outstanding Student Research to recognize her outstanding research pioneering a new methodology to elucidate accurate structural representations of complex materials by combining neutron diffraction and computational chemistry.
- Armin Rahmani (T-5/CNLS) has published "General Method for Calculating the Universal Conductance of Strongly Correlated Junctions of Multiple Quantum Wires" in the January 20th issue of Physics Review B.
- Andrew Sykes (T-4/CNLS) has published "Probing the Quantum State of a 1D Bose Gas Using Off-Resonant Light Scattering" in the December 29th issue of Physical Review Letters.
- Yoshitomo Kamiya (T-4/CNLS) has published "Dimensional Crossover in the Quasi-Two-Dimensional Ising-O(3) Model" in the December 21st issue of Physical Review B.
- Ido Regev's paper, "Statistical Mechanics of the Anomalous Behavior of Tetrahedral Liquids," will be published in the European Physics Letters.
- CNLS Postdoc Giovanni Bellesia and CNLS Affiliate Gnana Gnanakaran, along with collaborators from Michigan State University and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, were featured in the LANL News for their research finding a potential key for unlocking biomass energy. Their paper, "Restructuring the Crystalline Cellulose Hydrogen Bond Network Enhances Its Depolymerization Rate," was just published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
In the World News:
- The Los Alamos-IBM supercomputing project 'Roadrunner' recently broke the petaflop barrier in computing speed. This landmark feat, which was previously predicted to be impossible for current super computer architecture has been widely reported by news agencies such as the New York Times and CNN. This achievement was hailed as a sign that the United States is regaining the lead in computer science. The code that was used to demonstrate the highest speed to date models the visual cortex and grew out of collaborations that were started at the CNLS conference Grand Challenges in Neural Computation.
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