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Have a safe day!
Tuesday, Oct. 29
2:30 p.m.
Theoretical Physics Seminar (NOTE DATE) - Curia II
Speaker: Vikram Rentala, Michigan State University
Title: Discriminating Higgs Production Mechanisms Using Jet Energy Profiles
3:30 p.m.
DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over
THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR THIS WEEK
Wednesday, Oct. 30
3:30 p.m.
DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over
4 p.m.
Fermilab Colloquium - One West
Speaker: Lance Cooley, Fermilab
Title: Superconductivity and the Environment: A Roadmap
Click here for NALCAL,
a weekly calendar with links to additional information.
Ongoing and upcoming conferences at Fermilab
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Tuesday, Oct. 29
- Breakfast: All-American breakfast
- Breakfast: bacon, egg and cheese bagel
- Tuna melt
- Smart cuisine: pork loin with raspberry sauce
- Chicken pot pie
- Gourmet chicken salad croissant
- Kiwi pecan chicken salad
- Green pork chili
- Chef's choice soup
- Assorted pizza by the slice
Wilson Hall Cafe menu
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Wednesday, Oct. 30
Lunch
- Chicken satay
- Jasmine rice
- Sauteed pea pods
- Coconut cake
Friday, Nov. 1
Dinner
Closed
Chez Leon menu
Call x3524 to make your reservation.
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November wellness offerings, fitness classes and discounts
Wellness offerings for November include Lunch & Learn, book fair, fitness classes, athletic league and new employee discount information.
Free Wellness Offerings
Lunch & Learn: Supplements and Cholesterol
Wednesday, Nov. 13, noon-1 p.m.
Curia II
There are plenty of supplements and vitamins out there that promise healthier cholesterol numbers, but what's the truth behind those promises? Are there foods that naturally provide the same benefit? Learn what does, and doesn't, improve cholesterol. No registration is needed. Feel free to bring your lunch. There will be giveaways for all attendees.
BuZheng Qigong and Tai Chi Easy
Mondays and Fridays through Dec. 20, noon-1 p.m.
Ramsey Auditorium
Wednesdays through Dec. 18, 7-8 a.m.
Ramsey Auditorium
Book Fair
Wednesday, Nov. 20, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 21, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.
Wilson Hall atrium
Fitness Classes
Kyuki-Do
Mondays and Wednesdays, Nov. 11 - Dec. 18, 5-6 p.m.
Fitness Center gym
$60/person
Yoga
Tuesdays, Nov. 12 - Jan. 14 (no class Dec. 24 or 31), noon-1 p.m.
Ramsey Auditorium
$90/person
Butts & Guts
Wednesdays, Nov. 13 - Dec. 11, 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Ramsey Auditorium
$40/person
Athletic League
Indoor soccer
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6 p.m.
Fitness Center gymnasium
Gym membership is required to participate. Contact O'Sheg Oshinowo for more information.
Employee Discount
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey
For other discount information, visit the WDRS employee discounts Web page.
For more information, contact Jeanne Ecker in the Wellness Office at x2548 or at jecker@fnal.gov.
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10 years of service to Fermilab
Earlier this year, members of the directorate presented Fermilab employees with awards for 10 years of service to the laboratory. Fermilab Today congratulates the employees.
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The directorate recently honored employees with 10-Year Service Awards. Front row, from left: Greg Bock (directorate), Valeri Poloubotko, Barbara Brooks, Al Wywialowski, Jeffrey Larson, John Cassidy, Dan Bauer, Svetlana Lebedeva, Young-Kee Kim (directorate). Back row, from left: Tim Messer, Molly Anderson, Tom Kubicki, Josh O'Connell, Philip Varghese, Tom Boes. Photo: Cindy Arnold
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The directorate recently honored employees with 10-Year Service Awards. Front row, from left: Don Mitchell, Kevin Anderson, Young-Kee Kim (directorate), Nicole Gee, Heath O'Connell, Jack Anderson (directorate). Back row, from left: Adam Lyon, Michael Sarychev, Matthew Kufer, Eric Pirtle. Photo: Reidar Hahn
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The directorate recently honored employees with 10-Year Service Awards. Front row, from left: Stuart Henderson (directorate), Crae Tate, Daniele Turrioni, Vaia Papadimitrio. Back row, from left: Kevin Burkett, Barb Book, Alex Hernandez, Beth Karau. Photo: Reidar Hahn
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Evergreen Park junior benefits from firm (and Fermilab) commitment
From Southtown Star, Oct. 25, 2013
Virginia Miller is a junior at Evergreen Park High School and already is chalking up experiences that will solidify her college applications.
This past summer, Miller, 17, was one of a handful of students who earned an internship at Fermilab in Batavia.
She was chosen after a rigorous application process that included filling out extensive paperwork along with collecting teacher recommendations.
She got a call for an interview at the University of Illinois - Chicago campus, after which the list of applicants was narrowed down to about 50 candidates.
She made the cut and was chosen as one of 18 who got the chance to see what goes on inside Fermilab for six weeks over the summer.
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Planning the future
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Fermilab Director
Nigel Lockyer
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The first public meeting of the newest incarnation of the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel — known informally as P5 — will take place this weekend at Fermilab. Our lab is honored to be the first to host the panel, which has been charged by DOE and NSF with developing an updated strategic plan for U.S. high-energy physics under various budget scenarios. The P5 process is critically important for Fermilab as it will guide the focus of HEP project funding for the next decade. This weekend's meeting will focus on neutrino physics, Snowmass and the international context. The panel will hear from particle physics leaders in Europe (CERN, Italy and the UK), Asia (China and Japan) and Brazil.
In preparation for the visit of the P5 panel to Batavia, our lab's scientific staff have been engaged in an intensive planning process of their own. A working group was charged with developing a set of recommendations on Fermilab's role in an optimized particle physics program over the next 10 years. The group has met several times over the last month with the broader scientific staff to discuss options and potential plans. The group is delivering recommendations to me this week that I will use in my discussion with the P5 panel.
In tandem with the working group's activities, I have been engaged with the LBNE project team in intensive work to plan the strategy for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment. This was the focus of a series of meetings last week with DOE officials and is also the reason for my first visit to South Dakota this week. Yesterday I arrived at the Sanford Lab and received a brief overview of the site (including the mandatory and thorough safety training). Today I will go underground and engage South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard in a discussion of particle accelerators and neutrino physics. The current LBNE plans and strategy will also be discussed Sunday morning at the P5 meeting.
I encourage all Fermilab employees and users with an interest in the planning process to attend the open sessions of this weekend's meeting in Ramsey Auditorium. On Saturday the panel will hear from the convenors of the Snowmass working groups and from the directors of CERN, KEK and IHEP Beijing. Sunday is dedicated to neutrino physics, with presentations from the various experimental groups. The open sessions end with a town hall meeting on Sunday at 4 p.m.
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Dew and frost
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| The patterns formed by heavy dew earlier this month (top) and heavy frost last week (bottom) are visible in these close-ups of greenery inside Main Ring Road. Photo: Elliott McCrory, AD |
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New employees - October
The following regular employees started at Fermilab in October:
Daniel Bowring, APC; Jin Chang, CS; Rafael Coelho Lopes de Sa, CMS; Elisabetta Furlan, PPD; Pawel Kryczinski, PPD; Dennis Loppnow, FESS; Marco Mambelli, SCD; Keenan Newton, CCD; Flor Nunez, TD; Anne Schukraft, PPD; Liang Zhang, CCD.
Fermilab welcomes them to the laboratory.
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Astronomers use fake data to tackle dark energy
From Nature, Oct. 24, 2013
The dark energy that is blowing the universe apart is perhaps the most important problem in cosmology today. To help understand its mysterious nature, astronomers are hoping that competitions to crunch fake data will prepare them for the large amounts of information expected from sky surveys that will hunt for dark energy's effects.
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