http://ias.newmexicoconsortium.org There is a tremendous need for trained scientists capable of separating and handling radioactive wastes that are generated in the nuclear weapons programs and nuclear energy industries. In addition, many of the state-of-the-art facilities at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have important peacetime applications, such as the development of novel radioisotope products and nuclear imaging technologies useful in medical procedures, development of novel therapeutic agents, and environmental monitoring. The IAS seeks to develop the physical and intellectual resources of the partnership to develop world class programs in nuclear and radiochemistry in New Mexico. daily 1 2008-08-24T13:04:13Z http://ias.newmexicoconsortium.org/news2/isotopes-and-imaging-final-report The New Mexico Center for Isotopes and Medicine (NMCIM), in partnership with the University of New Mexico (UNM) Cancer Research and Treatment Center (CRTC) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Isotope Production Facility (IPF), hosted the “New Mexico Isotopes and Imaging Workshop.” The workshop was attended by 100 of the top isotopes and imaging scientists in the United States, along with medical residents, graduate and PharmD students. No publisher manager radiochemistry and nuke 2008-10-22T21:39:00Z News Item http://ias.newmexicoconsortium.org/news2/post-ba-internships-for-technicians The postdoctoral programs at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and other Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories serve as powerful mechanisms for recruiting the next generation of scientists into the DOE system. It has been documented that up to 50% of the new technical staff at LANL are recruited from among the ranks of postdoctoral researchers. Another invaluable class of technical employees at LANL is our technician workforce, but comparable mechanisms do not exist for the recruitment and retention of qualified technicians. We hope to diversify our technician workforce (drawing from a more diverse base of technical disciplines as well as a wider geographic target region), and to shape their training (much as postdoctoral researchers are educated in technical areas relevant to Laboratory programs). To this end, the IAS supports planning for the formation of a Technician Internship program, drawing prospective technicians in the same way that the postdoctoral program draws prospective technical staff. No publisher manager radiochemistry and nuke 2008-10-22T21:27:34Z News Item http://ias.newmexicoconsortium.org/news2/expanding-interactions-between-the-lanl-unm-nmsu This effort identified four possible initiatives to develop collaborations between the University of New Mexico (UNM) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in nuclear and radiochemistry programs. (1) A National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded joint summer school to train radiochemists with an emphasis on medical applications. (2) Collaboration on the proposal for the competed renewal of the UNM Cancer Center grant. (3) Joint appointments between LANL and the UNM Cancer Center to support this collaboration. (4) Supporting collaboration between UNM and LANL and UC San Diego (UCSD) on the UCSD radiopharmacy program by rotating the UCSD students through active research programs at LANL and UNM. No publisher manager radiochemistry and nuke 2008-10-22T21:55:10Z News Item http://ias.newmexicoconsortium.org/news2/cstp-new-mexico-nuclear-study-group-workshop The IAS-supported workshop on “What Role, If Any, For Nuclear Weapons?” was held on 11-12 September 2008 and organized by the Center for Science, Technology, and Policy (CSTP) at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and the New Mexico Nuclear Study Group. This workshop considered four questions central to nuclear weapon policy: (1) What role have nuclear weapons played in the past? (2) What role do nuclear weapons now play? (3) What role can nuclear weapons play? and (4) What role, if any, should nuclear weapons play in the future? The workshop was attended by over 50 scientists, engineers, social scientists, and practitioners from a wide array of institutions that included UNM, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Department of Defense, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. No publisher manager threat reduction radiochemistry and nuke 2008-10-28T18:23:41Z News Item http://ias.newmexicoconsortium.org/news2/2008-q-bio-conference The annual q-bio conference advances predictive modeling of cellular regulation, decision making, formation of response, and other information processing phenomena. The emphasis is on deep theoretical understanding, detailed modeling, and quantitative experimentation directed at understanding the behavior of particular regulatory systems and/or elucidating general principles of cellular information processing. Unlike many biological conferences, which focus on specific model systems, q-bio focuses on understanding of phenomena, which manifest themselves in many biological systems. No publisher manager mathematical biology radiochemistry and nuke 2008-10-23T14:57:13Z News Item http://ias.newmexicoconsortium.org/news2/3d-image-reconstruction-with-minimum-radiation The key challenge of improving modern interventional radiology is how to perform high-quality image reconstruction while minimizing the amount of radiation exposure to patient. This project is designed to answer this challenge. No publisher manager radiochemistry and nuke 2009-08-14T18:06:52Z News Item