Strategic Investments
The IAS makes strategic investments in a broad range of areas important to this partnership.
Katharine Chartrand, New Mexico Consortium, knc@newmexicoconsortium.org 505-412-4177
2007 Biothreat Nonproliferation Conference
We held a Biological Threat Non-Proliferation (BioNP) Conference in New Mexico in December 2007. The conference brought together experts and representatives from biomedical research, the biothreat reduction community, and relevant governmental agencies to discuss the current status of biothreat non-proliferation and science and technology development necessary to support an integrated approach to non-proliferation.
NMSU/LANL Collaborative Efforts in Chem/Bio/Nuclear Threat Reduction
Dr. Rayson of New Mexico State University (NMSU) met with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) scientists to work on joint proposals for the investigation of chemical processes leading to the development of new sensing technologies for the detection or sequestration of chemical and biological warfare agents and the detection of nuclear materials. These discussions were a direct extension of proposed projects for which seed monies have or will be requested from the New Mexico State Department of Economic Development and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) program. Dr. Doorn of LANL mentors Dr. Rayson’s efforts to expand research to include the detection of biomolecules (e.g., ssDNA and RNA) in conjunction with submission of a pilot project to the NIH SCORE program.
UNM Center for Science, Tech and Policy/NM 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.
Nuclear, Particle, Astrophysics and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminar
The IAS partners with the Physics and Astronomy (PandA) Department at the University of New Mexico (UNM) to support a regular weekly videoteleconference (VTC) seminar in Nuclear, Particle, Astrophysics, and Cosmology (NUPAC) every Tuesday at 2 p.m. UNM and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) partner to put together the seminar, which takes place at UNM and is sent by videoconferencing to the Oppenheimer Study Center at LANL. This program began in the spring of 2008 and will continue through the fall in the same locations. Dr. Emil Mottola coordinates the seminars from LANL and Drs. Rouzbeh Allahverdi, Michael Gold, and Dineesh Loomba coordinate from UNM.
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