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National Engineers Week 2004 Tuesday, February 24 11:00 a.m. Engineering Updates - 8th Flr - Hornets Nest Dave Pushka, PPD - NuMI Magnet Support Stand Installation Rod Walton, FESS - A Holistic Approach to Building Design 1:30 p.m. Special Joint Experimental Theoretical Physics Seminar (NOTE DATE, TIME, LOCATION) - Curia II Speaker: T. Browder, University of Hawaii Title: Belle Results 3:00 p.m. Special Theoretical Physics Seminar (NOTE DATE, TIME, LOCATION) Theory Conf Rm Speaker: E. Ponton, Fermilab WH-3NE Title: Implications of Higher Dimensional Spacetime Symmetries 3:30 p.m. Director's Coffee Break - 2nd Flr X-Over THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR TODAY
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Tuesday, February 24 Tomato Florentine Chicken and shrimp Jambalaya $3.50 Blackened catfish w/red beans and rice and choice of one side $4.75 Cajun chicken wrap served w/side salad $4.75 Andouille sausage po boy sandwich w/caramelized onions and a Creole honey mustard sauce served w/soup or fries $4.75 Cobb salad on romaine lettuce $3.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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Accelerator Division Celebrates a Record Week for the Tevatron Last week the Accelerator Division achieved several new Tevatron records. On February 18, operators reached a new initial luminosity record of 6.3x1031. They also broke the record for single-store integrated luminosity with 3.4 pb-1. The integrated luminosity for one calendar week also reached a new level of 12.5 pb-1. |
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Graduate Students: Last Chance to Apply for the 2004 URA Thesis Award | ||
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Each year, research at Fermilab produces 50-60 PhD theses.
Beyond earning the writer a nice framable piece of paper
(with calligraphy!), a thesis could also net a check for $3,000.
For the seventh year, The Universities Research Association offers
the URA Thesis Award to the thesis with the best "clarity of presentation,
originality, and physics content." A thesis must have been completed
during 2003, and must be submitted to the Thesis Awards Committee
along with a supporting letter by March 1.
The Computer Division's Stephen Wolbers, Chair of the Awards Committee, encourages people to continue submitting. URA President Fred Bernthal will present the award at the Fermilab User's Meeting in June. Last year's winner, University of Chicago's Val Prasad, now at LBL, didn't know his advisor had submitted his thesis on KTeV until Wolbers made the congratulatory phone call.
"My advisor, Ed Blucher, and the postdocs on the experiment kept insisting that the thesis be both comprehensive and comprehensible," said Prasad.
"The end result was, of course, something that not only served as a
good doorstop but also helped pay for several rounds of drinks."
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From the Daily Herald, February 22, 2004 Opening eyes to math, science by Jennifer Patterson Education has always been an important part of Dr. Leon Lederman's life. And not just his own.
The former director of Fermilab in Batavia and Nobel Prize-winning physicist was born to Russian immigrant parents who valued a strong mind as much as a strong back.
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From the New York Times, February 21, 2004 New Data on 2 Doomsday Ideas, Big Rip vs. Big Crunch by James Glanz MARINA DEL REY, Calif., Feb. 20 — A dark unseen energy is steadily pushing the universe apart, just as Einstein predicted, suggesting the universe may have a more peaceful end than recent theories envision, according to striking new measurements of distant exploding stars by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.
The energy, whose source remains unknown, was named the cosmological constant by Einstein. In a prediction in 1917 that he later called "my greatest blunder," Einstein posited a kind of antigravity force that was pushing galaxies apart with a strength that did not change over billions of years of cosmic history.
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Good Morning!
Last July, the Department of Energy held a review of the Run II accelerator
campaign. In my presentation at that review, I said we would focus on:
The next DOE review of the Run II accelerator campaign starts today.
We will present our plans for the next year and will state that
the laboratory will maintain its focus on Run II. The end result
of this will be more than new luminosity records; it will be
the exciting new physics results coming from D0 and CDF
throughout Run II.
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February 20 - February 23 - Operations established three stores during this period. Those stores along with one already established provided approximately 59 hours and 32 minutes of luminosity to the experiments. - Operations established store 3245 with antiprotons from the Recycler. - A failed Antiproton Source Septa connector halted stacking for four hours.
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Fermilab Engineers Week Activities Don't forget to sign up for the Engineers Week Finale Luncheon by Wednesday, February 25. The deadline to sign up for the golf ball challenge is also February 25. Send an email to e-week@fnal.gov to reserve your place for the luncheon. More information and a full schedule for Engineers Week can be found online.
Budker Seminar Tonight
Scottish Country Dancing |
