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			Week of December 7 through December 13, 2009
MONDAY, December 7
		THERE WILL BE NO PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR TODAY
3:30		DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK		2^nd Flr X-Over
4:00		All Experimenters' Meeting Special Topics: LARP/LAFS Instrumentation at the LHC; Conventional Construction for the NOvA Far Detector; CMS/LHC Report		Curia II
TUESDAY, December 8
2:30		Particle Astrophysics Seminar (NOTE DATE)		1 West
		Speaker: Lee Smolin, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
		Title: Progress Report on Quantum Gravity
3:30		DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK		2^nd Flr X-Over
4:00		Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar		1 West
		Speakers: Valeri Balbekov and Valeri Lebedev, Fermilab
		Title: Longitudinal Instabilities
WEDNESDAY, December 9
3:30		DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK		2^nd Flr X-Over
4:00		Fermilab Colloquium		1 West
		Speaker: Lee Smolin, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
		Title: Using the Universe as a Laboratory to Probe the Planck Scale
THURSDAY, December 10
10:30		Particle Astrophysics Seminar (NOTE DATE and TIME)		1 West
		Speaker: Aaron Manalaysay, Physik Institut Universität Zürich
		Title: The Physics of Liquid Xenon Dark Matter Detectors
2:30		Theoretical Physics Seminar		Curia II
		Speaker: Tao Liu, University of Chicago
		Title: Prospects for MSSM Higgs Searches at the Tevatron and LHC
3:30		DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK		2^nd Flr X-Over
4:00		Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar		1 West
		Speaker: Robert Welton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
		Title: Next-Generation H^- Ion Sources for SNS
FRIDAY, December 11
3:30		DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK		2^nd Flr X-Over
4:00		Joint Experimental-Theoretical Physics Seminar		1 West
		Speaker: Dmitry Bandurin, Kansas State University
		Title: Determination of as and Double Parton Interactions in DZero
*** Announcements ***
	NOTE: There will be a Traffic Safety Seminar on Safe Winter Driving on Tuesday, December 8, at 11:30 a.m. in 1 West. Presenters: Illinois State Police Trooper Maria Navarro, and one of our own Fermilab Snow Plow Drivers
	Heartland Blood Centers will be here for the Fermilab Blood Drive on December 15 from 8:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M., and on December 16 from 9:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. in the Wilson Hall Ground Floor NE Training Room. Appointments can be scheduled on the web at: http://www-esh.fnal.gov or by calling Diana at x3771 or Margie at x5680.

December 4, 2009

Questions or Comments to M. Dixon: mdixon@fnal.gov