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Tuesday, March 16 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar - Curia II (NOTE LOCATION) Speaker: R. Ischebeck, DESY Title: Measurement of the Transverse Coherence at the TTF Free Electron Laser
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Tuesday, March 16 Tuscan Vegetable soup Portabella ravioli w/sundried tomato cream sauce $3.50 Golden fried chicken tenders w/a market side $3.50 Roast beef w/grilled portabella mushrooms and fresh mozzarella $4.75 Grilled chicken sandwich w/green chiles and pepperjack $4.75 Turkey club salad $3.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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Fermilab's Visual Media Services Posts 1,000th Video Stream | ||
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On Thursday, March 11, shortly after the Long Range Planning Committee
meeting concluded, Visual Media Services posted its 1,000th
video stream. This milestone represents four years of production
streaming for the department and one of the most inclusive
collections of streaming video for the field of particle physics.
It also represents a wealth of valuable information for the
Fermilab community. Jim Shultz and Al Johnson are the members of
the VMS department who provide the planning, setup,
recording and processing for this very popular service.
The streaming inventory can be found online.
Almost every Colloquium since early 2000 can be searched online, including
complete plenary sessions of the Snowmass Conference in 2001 and the
Lepton Photon Conference from last summer and, most recently, the
summary reports of the Long Range Planning Committee.
"With this impressive milestone, our department is looking forward
to the next 1,000 streams," said Head of Visual Media Services Fred Ullrich.
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Student Research at Fermilab Honored | ||
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Illinois Math and Science Academy seniors Mark Czynski and Sasha Rahlin
spent every Wednesday of their junior year in Wilson Hall, searching
for supersymmetry in CDF Monte Carlo data. The results of their
research, carried out with Maria Spiropulu under IMSA's mentorship
program, are taking them across the U.S. and around the globe.
"We did all this research, and all these opportunities just fell into our laps," said Rahlin. They won Best in Category at the 2003 Illinois Junior Academy of Science State Science Fair, and were subsequently invited to present their work at February's AAAS meeting in Seattle. This summer, Czynski will travel to Russia to present their results at the Sakharov's Readings research conference, while Rahlin will head to China for the third annual Asia Pacific Economic Corporation Youth Science Festival.
"It took us a long time to get our minds around the analysis method,"
said Czynski. But, he added, once they each read many books
and articles on supersymmetry and spent hours learning how
to use the analysis software, "Man, was it fun!"
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Good Morning!
Users from two Spanish universities, the University of Barcelona and
the University of Cantabria, are collaborators on CDF. Through the years,
Fermilab scientists have worked side by side with Spanish collaborators
on experiments at our own and other laboratories. Events like the
one in Spain last week remind us of the special role of particle physics
in bringing together men and women of science from many countries
in every part of the globe. For us at Fermilab, it is both our
privilege and our responsibility to carry forward the tradition
of a field long known for its leadership in international
collaboration. It has never been more important.
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March 12 - March 15 - During this 72 hour period Operations established two stores that, along with an existing store, provided approximately 56 hours and 48 minutes of luminosity to the experiments. - The TeV suffered a quench while aborting a study beam - Recycler stashed antiprotons - An MCenter power supply suffered a LCW leak - TeV began its ten-day shutdown. The rest of the machines began a five-day shutdown.
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From Northern Star, March 15, 2004 Blagojevich cuts NIU’s budget by 2 percent: Research areas may be eliminated to ease funding problems by Fernie Grace Tiflis ...Although NIU President John Peters said no academic services, job positions and health and safety needs will be sacrificed, some research areas will be eliminated to ease the university’s budget problems, said Eddie Williams, executive vice president of business and finance and chief of operations.
These research areas include the Advanced Photon Grant, a project with Argonne National Laboratory and the Illinois Consortium for Accelerator Research with Fermilab.
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Fermilab Association of Rocketry The Fermilab Association of Rocketry is having its monthly club meeting on March 17, 2004 at 5:00 p.m. in the lower level of the village barn. We will also have one of our winter building sessions after the meeting. If you have something you want to build, bring it with you. Or just come, hang out and talk about rockets! more information |
