GreenWORKS for Affordable Housing
| January 23, 2009 | ||
| 9:00 am | to | 5:00 pm |
The City of Santa Fe and Enterprise Green Communities are sponsoring GreenWORKS, an architectural design competition in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The contest judging and entries will be presented at Santa Fe Complex on January 23. The entries will remain available for public viewing at the complex until mid-February. Read more
You Can Still Donate to sfX
Thanks to you, the Complex has become a home for art & science in Santa Fe. You’ve come to our blenders to learn about triceratops and stereo imaging. You’ve enjoyed the best of underground theater and music. You’ve listened to ground-breaking artists like Woody Vasulka describe their journey through the technological frontiers of art. And, you expressed your support to the city council when it passed a major funding proposal for the complex. You can continue your support by click here and making tax-deductible donation to Santa Fe Complex to support our work in 2009. Read more
Steel: The Framework of Our Civilization
| January 15, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
More than any other metal, our civilization relies on steel. Everywhere we look, we see it. Steel covers the bodies of cars, trains, and buses. Steel bars reinforce concrete walls and bridges, and steel I-beams support the floors and roofs of buildings. Steel is used in so many things that we take it for granted as we use our steel tools, tables, chairs, staples, zippers, and utensils without a second thought. And yet, such common use of steel has only been possible since modern steelmaking practices were developed about 150 years ago. Read more
Come Visit Us
Santa Fe Complex is located next to the Railyard Art District and within walking distance of the hotels, restaurants and shops at the plaza downtown. We’re housed in two facilities, the conference area at 624 Agua Fria and the project space at 632 Agua Fria. Read more
Supercomputing Challenge Board of Directors Meeting
| January 15, 2009 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 3:00 pm |
The New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge board of directors will hold its 1st quarter 2009 meeting at Santa Fe Complex on Wednesday, January 15 from 10:00am to 3:00pm. The Supercomputing Challenge is a nationally recognized program that promotes computational thinking in science and engineering so that the next generation of high school graduates is better prepared to compete in an information based economy. Teams of students work throughout the school year to complete science projects using high-performance supercomputers. Each team of up to five students and a sponsoring teacher defines and works on a single computational project of its own choosing.
Supercomputing Challenge teams tackle a range of interesting problems to solve. The most successful projects address a topic that holds great interest for the team. In recent years, ideas for projects have come from astronomy, geology, physics, ecology, mathematics, economics, sociology, and computer science. For more information on the challenge, visit its website.
Santa Fe Complex’s JP Gonzales works with students at the kickoff event for the 08-09 challenge. The annual program kicked off at the Glorieta Conference Center outside Santa Fe last October. Dr. Ed Angel, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico, Director of the Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) and Santa Fe Complex board member, was the keynote speaker.
Groove Poetry
| January 11, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 11:00 pm |
Long-time Santa Fe radio personality Jack Kolkmeyer says the growing popularity of poetry opens the door to his latest effort: an cross-generational dialogue in rhyme and rhythm. He launches this effort in an evening with his son, Nic Kolkmeyer, Vince Kadlubek and The Word Quartet. Jacks hopes this is the first of many poetic conversations between young and (slightly) older. Read more
A thank you reception @ sfX
| December 17, 2008 | ||
| 5:30 pm | to | 6:30 pm |
Last week, the city council approved a major financial support package for Santa Fe Complex. Hundreds of our supporters called and emailed their councilors in support of this package. Almost 100 of you came to the council’s meeting to express your support directly.
We’d like to thank you for your support. Please come to sfX Wednesday night for a casual early evening get-together before Jack’s Leibowitz’s talk. We’ll have smiles and refreshments for all of you.
Drop by after work. The reception will start at 5:30, followed by Jack’s talk at 6:30. See you then.
P.S. If you’re in Albuquerque, you can treat yourself to a ride on the Railruner’s debut in Santa Fe. It may not be the A-train but we’re jazzed that the Railrunner inaugurates its service to Santa Fe just in time for our thankyou reception Wednesday night. Take the #516 from downtown Albuquerque at 4:15 and you’ll be at the Santa Fe Depot by 5:46, just in time for a five minute walk to the complex, the reception and Jack Leibowitz’ talk at 6:30.
The #519 leaves at 8:15, arriving in downtown ABQ at 9:42> If you can’t tear yourself away, the #521 heads south at 9:30 to arrive at 10:57.
It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: The Railrunner’s first day in Santa Fe, a warm evening at Santa Fe Complex (the home of the locomotive repair facility for original train service here 100 years ago, by the way, and an evening with Jack Leibowitz.
An Engineer’s View of the Cell
| January 20, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
The processes by which a cell senses and responds to its environment are exceedingly complex and have so far withstood attempts to obtain a predictive understanding of them. In this lecture, we will examine how the study of cellular decision making can be aided by feedback control theory, a branch of engineering that has enabled the analysis and design of complex man-made systems, such as planes, trains and automobiles.
Dr. Pablo Iglesias joins us from Johns Hopkins University where he is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. His research focuses on the mathematical modeling of signal transduction pathways, focusing on directed cell migration and cellular division.. For more information on Dr. Iglesias, click here.
The quantitative biology (q-bio) lecture series is dedicated to dissemination of biological knowledge gained through quantitative experimentation and computational, mathematical, and/or statistical analyses of data. The lectures will be presented by internationally-renowned experts and aimed at the general public. Visit its home page for information on coming seminars.
GUTS XL
| December 19, 2008 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
GUTS XL is a new member of the Project GUTS family, bridging the initial GUTS program and the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge. The program is designed for students with an advanced level of modeling skills.
Capulin Energy Cooperative Second Meeting
| December 28, 2008 | ||
| 9:00 am | to | 12:00 pm |
The organizers of Capulin Energy Cooperative will hold a second meeting at sfX on December 28 from 9:00 am to noon. This follows their start-up meeting on Saturday, December 13 when they worked with representatives of the Rocky Mountains Farmers Union, a Greenwood Village, Colorado-based grassroots organization that provides technical training for cooperatives, among other services.
