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Acqua alle Funi
Water to the Ropes
the GSA online journal
http://www.fnal.gov/orgs/gsa/AaF/


Spring 1999
"Acqua alle Funi" is an online journal intended to entertain news and views relevant one way or another to the Fermilab graduate student community. The GSA hopes to receive attention and contributions from the Lab community and particularly from the young high energy physics people.
The first Acqua alle Funi legend dates to 1586 at the erection of the Obelisk in Saint Peter's Square.
"Acqua all Funi" was used as a rallying cry by some of the constructors of the Fermilab accelerator during the moments that preceded its successful operation in 1972. In 1978 a metal sculpture by Fermilab Director R. R. Wilson was erected in the reflecting pond in front of the Wilson Hall. It is a hyperbolic obelisk named "Acqua alle Funi."
March 17, No 1
Acqua alle Funi was featured in the April 16, Ferminews issue at the "Talk of the lab"
The Welcome Note to Acqua alle Funi by Chris Quigg

New Fermilab Director Appointed
Michael Witherell

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DOE Pulse
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 GSA call for NP abstracts  
The Graduate Student Association invites the graduate students to register (online form will appear here soon) and submit abstracts for the New Perspectives 99 (July 8-10) conference. Abstracts can be for oral or poster presentation. Posters presented to the NP starting in 1999 enter automatically for one of the three prizes of the "George Michail Poster Award" sponsored by the Universities Research Association. New Perpectives is a conference endorsed by the American Physical Society and the Division of Particles and Fields, and sponsored by Fermilab and URA. More details will appear in the near future at the GSA page and here.

SUSY 99 Reduced Registration Fee for Graduate Students
The organizers of SUSY99 (Fermilab,June 14-19) offer a reduced fee to the first thirty graduate students that register to the conference
Consider this Just shoot me
Take a shift at the Centennial High Energy Physics Exhibit
Listen the Science Friday Talk of the Nation
Visit DOE's Ofice of Science,Division of High Energy Physics
 		LHC, Les Horribles Cernettes
The Physics Chanteuse
Maldacena Macarena
Olds and NewsBites

Users Executive Committee and Graduate Student Associaton '98-'99
DOE FY2000 Budget Request to Congress
Science Is Serious Business to the 'Mel Brooks of Physics' A conversation with Dr. Leon Lederman Jul 14 '98, NY Times Science
Putting Their Money Where Their Minds Are Aug 25 '98 NY Times Science
A Millennial Angst for Particle Physics Jan 19, NY Times Science
New Findings Help Balance the Cosmological Books Feb 9, NY Times Science
Superstrings: An Interview with Brian Greene Winter'96 Cornell Science & Technology Magazine
Brian Greene's "Elegant Universe" Amazon.com , Calling it a cover-up would be far too dramatic... First Chapter of Greene's book
Matter-Antimatter asymmetry March 1, The University of Chicago News
On February 24, 1999, the First Epsilon-Prime/Epsilon Result from the KTeV Experiment,
was Presented at Fermilab by Peter Shawhan, a University of Chicago Graduate Student. Kaons at TeVatron
George E. Brown Jr., the Congressman Who Loved Science March 9, NY Times Science
Argentina site preparations begin for high-energy cosmic ray surveyMarch 29, 1999, the University of Chicago News
Cosmologists are arrogant...Reflections 2000 UCChicago commentaries, M. Turner essay "Limits to our arrogance?"
news.excite.com, Joe Lykken, Pekka Sinervo, the Main Injector and the Higgs particle June 1
Reviews

The man who loved Ideas by Chris Quigg, published in FermiNews
Aesthetic Science by Chris Quigg, published in Scientific American
Acqua all Funi suggests

Features,Opinions

Of Wine and Cheese
My data, Your data, Everybody's data

Trends

Lomography not photography

Cinema

October Sky

Puzzles

Acqua alle Funi Cryptic Crossword by M.C.Kruse
The second puzzle is on the air.

Profiles

Andrew Green "An astronaut, a fireman, or an astronaut fireman... never quite decided."
Dec. 1998

Joseph Lykken "Building warp drive engines."
Feb. 1999



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