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Hi Los Alamos! We have the latest buzz right here. Let's keep you in the loop and get this morning started right! ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Los Alamos experts tackle data storage’s AI challenge
  • Meet the brothers whose Los Alamos roots predate the laboratory
  • Two Los Alamos physicists earn a rare national honor

Also on today's calendar: Wildfire Panel Discussion: New Mexico Wildfires Solutions & Answers and 5 more events.

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Sunshine, with a high of 59 and low of 39 degrees.
  • Thursday: Plenty of sun, temps: high: 59, low: 38.
  • Friday: Partly sunny, with a high of 56 and low of 38 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. SC26: Cerabyte to Address the Future of Data Storage for HPC and AI (storagenewsletter.com) — Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Gary Grider and Candace Culhane will join a November 20 panel examining whether data storage can keep pace with AI and supercomputing. The SC26 discussion at McCormick Place will explore industry investment challenges and emerging technologies, including panel participant Cerabyte’s ceramic storage.
   

2. LANL: Brothers On A Mission – Los Alamos Lineage Dates Back To The 1800s (losalamosreporter.com) — Brothers Juan-Antonio and Francisco Vigil help lead weapons experiments at Los Alamos National Laboratory on land once owned by their ancestor. Their family connection stretches from an 1800s land purchase to a great-grandfather's Manhattan Project work, a history they discovered through documents found after his death.
   

3. LANL Scientists Fan Guo And Shi-Zeng Lin Recognized For Physics Excellence And Named Fellows By American Physical Society (losalamosreporter.com) — Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists Fan Guo and Shi-Zeng Lin have earned American Physical Society fellowships, an honor awarded annually to no more than half of 1% of eligible members. Guo studies how particles gain energy in plasmas, while Lin explores quantum materials.
   

4. LANL cleanup contractor touts safety record as lawsuits allege myriad problems (santafenewmexican.com) — Los Alamos cleanup contractor N3B says it achieved its best safety record, while at least 15 former employees allege retaliation for raising safety concerns and other problems. The company rejects those allegations and is also defending a separate lawsuit involving a worker injured during chromium plume cleanup work.
   

5. Lady Horsemen get top seed for 3A state volleyball tournament; Santa Fe Indian School third (santafenewmexican.com) — Los Alamos volleyball is back in the state tournament after missing the postseason for the first time in seven years. Seeded fifth in Class 4A, the team faces No. 12 Belen at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Rio Rancho Events Center as Northern New Mexico teams begin their title bids.
   

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  • Happy Veterans Day!
    Thank you to all who have served. Los Alamos County government offices and services will join other federal, state, and local governments and close… (Nextdoor )
  • Spectra Tech, Inc. posted a job opening for Technical Project Manager 1 – Risk Analyst in Los Alamos. Apply here.
  • Domino's Pizza posted a job opening for Customer Service Rep / Pizza Maker Store (09309) in Los Alamos. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Los Alamos here.

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Los Alamos

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