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Thursday, June 17 11:45 a.m. Lunchtime Cleanup - WH, Ground Floor, East Side 2:30 p.m. Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II Speaker: I. Scimemi, Universitat de Barcelona Title: Unveiling epsilon'/epsilon through K -> 3 Pion 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar - 1 West Speaker: K. Seiya, Fermilab Title: Slip Stacking in the Main Injector
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Thursday, June 17 Aztec Tortilla Soup Hot Italian Sub $4.75 Chicken Picata $3.75 Thai Beef $3.75 Roast Beef Cheddar on Kaiser Roll $4.75 Beef Strombolis $2.85 Marinated or Cajun Chicken Caesar Salads $4.75 Wilson Hall Cafe Menu Chez Leon |
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Two Student Experiments Win Fermilab Awards at Illinois Science Fair | ||
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Two student experiments, a mini-accelerator and magnetic shock absorbers,
earned Fermilab Special Recognition Awards at last month's Illinois State
Junior Academy Science Fair. Held May 7th and 8th at the University of Illinois,
the exposition hosted 1000 student projects selected from regional science fairs
around the state.
"IJAS has the best student scientists in Illinois," said Larry Bernett, president of the Junior Academy of Science. Exceptional projects were awarded special cash prizes, funded by 28 research institutions. Universities Research Association, Inc. and the Illinois Consortium for Accelerator Research sponsored the $100 Fermilab Awards, given to Doug Finney of Dundee Crown High School and David Erbs of Cuest Academy in Palatine, Illinois. Finney studied how an externally applied magnetic field affected the ability of fluid to resist flow through a thin tube. He proposed using this technology to build controllable shock absorbers for cars. Erbs, an 8th grader, built a mini-accelerator that used ring magnets to accelerate steel balls. With large enough magnets, the accelerator could launch objects into space.
"I really learned something from them both," said Tom Junk, a professor
at the University of Illinois and judge of the winning projects. "They
went the extra distance."
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Yesterday's article, "Fermilab Colloquium Today," stated that Nobel Laureate Douglas Osheroff was
a member on the board that investigated the Columbia space shuttle accident in 1993. The Columbia space
shuttle accident occurred in 2003. Fermilab Today regrets the error.
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June 14 - June 16 - During this 48 hour period Operations established two stores that combined with an existing store provided approximately 34 hours and 23 minutes of luminosity to the experiments. - The accelerators set a NEW LUMINOSITY RECORD with a luminosity of 78.33E30 - An Accumulator RF station (ARF1) required tunnel access to repair - A TeV quench aborted store 3574 - TeV experts help resolve a colliding beam proton problem
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From The New York Times, June 14, 2004 Pioneer Who Kept the Web Free Honored With a Technology Prize HELSINKI, Finland, June 13 - If Tim Berners-Lee had decided to patent his idea in 1989, the Internet would be a different place.
Instead, the World Wide Web became free to anyone who could make use of it. Many of the entrepreneurs and scientists who did use it became rich, among them Jeffrey P. Bezos ( Amazon.com), Jerry Yang ( Yahoo), Pierre Omidyar ( eBay) and Marc Andreessen (Netscape).
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Quest for Hidden Dimensions | ||||
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Do we really live in a three-dimensional universe, or does the universe merely
appear three-dimensional to us? This is one of the most profound physics questions
raised in the last century.
DZero physicists have studied this puzzle. By analyzing pairs of electrons and photons produced in high-energy collisions at the Tevatron, they looked for echoes from hidden dimensions of space, which would show up as unexpected patterns in the energy and direction of produced particles. DZero experimenters
This first dedicated test of this kind of model with a "small" extra dimension has set a limit on its inverse size of 1.13 TeV. While searches have not revealed hidden dimensions yet, the two most energetic events observed in these searches, while consistent with the Standard Model, are similar to what one would expect from extra dimensions. The experiment continues to acquire more data with which it will be able to extend this search with ever greater sensitivity. | ||||
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Result of the Week Archive
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Third Thursday Lunchtime Cleanup Today There will be a Lunchtime Cleanup from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today. Meet at the East Ground Floor entrance to Wilson Hall for transportation to the cleanup site. Cleaning gear is provided, and hot dogs and refreshments will be served. Contact Bob Lootens at x3303 for more information. more information
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