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Friday, May 28 3:30 p.m. Wine & Cheese - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Joint Experimental Theoretical Physics Seminar - 1 West Speaker: S. Pate, New Mexico State University Title: Don't Forget to Measure Delta s
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Friday, May 28 Old Fashioned Ham & Bean Black and Bleu Bacon Cheeseburger $4.75 Grilled Chicken in a Mushroom Cream Sauce $3.75 Tex-Mex Lasagna $3.50 Roasted Veggie & Provolone Panini $4.75 Sicilian Style Pizza $2.75 Chili Rubbed Pork Loin $4.75 Wilson Hall Cafe Menu Chez Leon |
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The annual Fermilab Users' Meeting will take place on June 2 and June 3 in
Ramsey Auditorium. Approximately 300 Users are expected to attend, and all
Fermilab employees are invited to the meeting. "The Users Meeting will
address issues that affect the Fermilab community at large," said Chris
White of Illinois Institute of Technology, who organized this year's
meeting.
Among the highlights: Robin Staffin, director of the Office of High Energy Physics, will address Office of Science funding policies; Neil Calder, director of Communications at SLAC, will speak about rapid developments in communications throughout the world of particle physics; Herman Grunder, director of Argonne National Laboratory, will speak about the growing opportunity for collaboration between the two labs; Neal Lane, chair of the Fermilab Director Search Committee, will provide an update on the search. Fermilab scientists will also have the opportunity to present their research. "There will be four talks about the exciting physics being done at CDF and DZero," White said. "This year, instead of giving a technical talk, the speakers will present the significance of their results and the impact they have on particle physics." Thursday morning will be dedicated to neutrino physics. Director Mike Witherell will close out the meeting on Thursday afternoon and present his vision for the laboratory. A 30-minute question and answer session will follow.
"This is a great opportunity for users to interact with the director," White
said. "When you add up everything that we have and see the overall package,
this year's meeting could be a couple of stunning days."
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Farewell, Ed Arko On Monday, May 31, Ed Arko will retire after 35 years at Fermilab. Arko began his career at the University of Chicago, working as an accelerator operator for the 170 inch cyclotron. He joined the newly-formed National Accelerator Laboratory in 1969, developing
"They hadn't even started digging the accelerator when I started," said Arko. He worked on the installation of the original booster magnets, built many single-wire ionization chambers for Research Services, and ran the Printed Circuit Lab until it closed in 1989. He's been working for the DZero experiment since then, maintaining and upgrading its many components. When asked about memorable events during his time at the lab, Arko vividly recalled the celebration that followed the lab's very first successful accelerator operations. "Wilson Hall wasn't finished yet, but they cleaned out the basement and used it as a ballroom," Arko said. "They had champagne fountains, buffalo meat, caviar---it was a big affair."
After a long-awaited vacation in Northern Michigan, Arko will return
to the Geneva area to spend time with his wife, two sons, and three
grandsons. "I'm going to miss the lab people," said Arko. "You really
can't find a better place to work."
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Fermilab Today is
running a bonus Safety Tip this week to help wrap up Electrical Safety
Month. Have a fun and safe holiday weekend! Have a Talk with Your Workers | ||
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John Reid, an Electrical Engineer from the Accelerator Division
RF Department, is highly involved with the beam accelerating systems
for the Booster, Main Injector and Tevatron. He suggests that Electrical
Safety Month might be a good time for supervisors to have some
discussions with their employees relative to electrical safety.
The demands of keeping electrical equipment operating properly
while also handling preventative maintenance and equipment upgrades
can sometimes lead to taking good safety practices for granted.
Reid suggests a review of good work practices, LOTO procedures,
and special skills such as working with high voltage.
Such a discussion should invite comments from the workers involved.
Could the procedure be better? Can the work be accomplished
in a more safe way? Could the equipment be designed in another
way to make it more reliable and/or safer to operate or work on?
Are there any hazardous electrical situations in your work areas
that need attention by others? Are there sometimes too many bosses
involved in a work activity rather than one knowledgeable person
calling the shots? Reid emphasizes the need to plan work carefully
and not to take shortcuts to expedite the work in order
to meet pressured schedules. Addressing such things with
some good common sense could make our workplace
safer for all.
Have a great day and let's work safely all week!
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From the Christian Science Monitor, May 27, 2004 Cosmos at full throttle By Peter N. Spotts Will the universe eventually collapse in the "big crunch," expand forever in the "big loneliness," or be torn to bits in the "big rip"?
The key to answering those questions appears to lie in a mysterious
form of energy that has been cracking the cosmic whip on the
universe for the past 6 billion to 7 billion years. This "dark
energy" appears to be causing the universe to grow at an accelerated
rate rather than a rate scientists previously thought would slow forever.
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Weekly Time Sheets Due Today Weekly Time Sheets for the week ending May 30th are due in Payroll by 10:00 a.m. on Friday, May 28, 2004
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