Pramod Khargonekar is one of the speakers for upcoming lectures cosponsored by the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee. Courtesy photo
JROMC NEWS RELEASE
We are delighted to collaborate with two partner organizations to bring to you two free lectures on the following fascinating topics:
“History of the Santa Fe Indian School,” by Bernie Gurule, Feb. 13, 2025
JROMC is pleased to co-host with Los Alamos Public Library a new talk on the History of the Santa Fe Indian School from school principal, Bernie Gurule, on Thursday, Feb13 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m at the Mesa Public Library, in Los Alamos NM.
Title:
History of the Santa Fe Indian School
Abstract:
The Santa Fe Indian School educates the youth of 19 indigenous pueblos from the state of New Mexico. The roughly 700 students from grades 7 to 12 study their own native languages, participate in the culture of their communities, and develop skills to pursue their futures.
The Santa Fe Indian School’s long history in our region began in 1890 when it was established as part of the federal boarding school initiative to assimilate Native American children. Starting in the 1920s and 1930s, shifts in federal Indian policy led to the creation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the beginning of a new direction for the Santa Fe Indian School. In 2000, the Santa Fe Indian School Act returned the land of the school to be held in trust for the 19 Pueblo Governors of New Mexico. Today, this trust has built a program based on educational sovereignty supporting their own cultural and traditional beliefs.
Speaker Biography:
Bernie Gurule, originally from Los Lunas, has had a long career in education. Upon retirement from his role as principal of a high school in Alaska, he returned to his family in New Mexico and has taken up the post of principal of the middle school at Santa Fe Indian School.
“Future of Work and Workers in the AI Era,” by Prof. Pramod Khargonekar, Feb. 19, 2025
JROMC is pleased to co-host this lecture as part of 2025 Engineers Week. Prof. Pramod Khargonekar, Vice-Chancellor for Research and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Irvine, will speak on February 19, 2025 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm at Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos, NM.
Title: Future of Work and Workers in the AI Era
Abstract:
As automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies continue their remarkably rapid development, it is expected that many facets of work and lives of workers will be impacted. In this talk, we will begin with some data and insights from historical examples of technological impacts on work and workers in the Industrial Revolution. This will be followed by a discussion of AI as a “general purpose technology.” Next, we will cover emerging knowlege about how current and projected AI developments arelimpacting work and workers. We will also discuss how a human-centered approach to AI can help shape the future of work and workers.
This event is sponsored by:
- Los Alamos National Laboatory Engineering Leadership Council and National Security Education Center
- Los Alamos ScienceFest
- J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee
- New Mexico Consortium
Speaker Biography:
Prior to his arrival at UC Irvine in 2016, Khargonekar was on the faculty at the University of Florida, the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan. In 2013, he was appointed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to serve as assistant director for the Directorate of Engineering and served as a member of the NSF senior leadership and management team. Khargonekar’s research and teaching interests include systems and control theory, machine learning and applications to smart electric grid and neural engineering. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Federation of Automatic Control and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has won the Control Systems Award, Baker Prize, Control Systems Society Bode Lecture Prize and CSS Axelby Award from IEEE.