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Monday, June 21 THEORETICAL ASTROPHYSICS SEMINARS WILL RESUME IN THE FALL 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. All Experimenters' Meeting - Curia II Special Topic: Experimenter Contributions to Main Injector Improvements
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Monday, June 21 French Quarter Gumbo French Dip w/ Horseradish Cream Sauce $4.75 Pork Piccata with Lemon Caper Sauce $3.75 BBQ Roasted Quartered Chicken $3.75 Italian Panini with Provolone $4.75 Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza $2.75 Sweet n' Sour Chicken with an Egg Roll $4.75 Wilson Hall Cafe Menu Chez Leon |
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Lattice 2004 Symposium This Week
"We scheduled the plenary sessions so that each day, some talks would be of broader interest to particle physicists," said Fermilab theorist Andreas Kronfeld, co-chair of the local organizing committee. "We encourage people to come to any talks that they're interested in." As part of the symposium, Nobel Prize-winner Kenneth Wilson will discuss the origins of lattice gauge theory at this week's colloquium in Ramsey Auditorium. Flavor physics will be discussed Friday afternoon during an extended "wine-and-cheese" seminar.
The conference was organized jointly by Fermilab, Argonne National Laboratory,
and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For more information,
visit the Lattice 2004 website.
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We Need Your Stories! Fermilab Stories 2 - The Video Coming this fall, "Fermilab Stories 2 - The Video" will feature more stories about the famous and not-so-famous happenings that make Fermilab truly unique. Brought to you by the Education Office and Visual Media Services, the tales will be told by the people who have done the work and made the stories.
Do you have a yarn to tell? Call or email Fred Ullrich at x4364 today to schedule
a time to be recorded. If your segment is not used in the upcoming edition,
it will be included in a future sequel. Not sure about your story? Contacut us
anyway to find out.
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Third Thursday Lunchtime Cleanup Has Record Number
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This month's Third Thursday Lunchtime Cleanup had a record number of volunteers.
Twenty-seven
people spent their lunch hour picking up trash along B-Road, between
A-1 and Batavia Roads. "There were so many people, we had to take two
bus trips from Wilson Hall," said Bob Lootens of Roads and Grounds,
an event organizer. "The cleanups have done pretty well this past year,
but this was the best one." The next cleanups will take place on July 15
and August 19.
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June 16 - June 18 - Operations established one store during this 48 hour period. This store combined with an existing store provided approximately 23 hours and 42 minutes of luminosity to the experiments. - TeV changed separator helix voltage - Recycler stashed antiprotons - MI, Pbar, and TeV experts conducted many studies - DZero required access to repair detector
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From PhysicsWeb, June 18, 2004 New particle baffles physicists The SELEX collaboration at Fermilab in the US has discovered a new sub-atomic particle that consists of a strange quark and a charm antiquark (arXiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0406045). In addition to being the heaviest so-called heavy-light meson ever detected, the new particle also decays in ways not predicted by theory. The results will be presented at Fermilab today.
Mesons are particles that contain a quark and an antiquark held together by the strong nuclear force. There are six different "flavours" of quark -- up, down, strange, charm, bottom and top -- so it is possible to create a large number of different mesons. The new meson found by SELEX (Segmented Large X baryon Spectrometer) contains a strange quark, which is a light quark, and a charm antiquark, which is much heavier.
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The mosquitoes are back! And with them is the threat of West Nile Virus.
Kane and DuPage counties have received a combined $188,000 from the state
this year for the prevention and control of mosquitoes and analysis of
dead birds to determine the extent of the virus.
The picture above shows a mosquito trap, like several located around the Fermilab site, that capture mosquitoes for testing. So far in Illinois in 2004, there have been no human cases of WNV reported, but infected birds have been detected in 17 counties, including Kane and DuPage. DuPage County has recorded the only infected mosquito populations so far this year in Illinois. WNV infects certain wild birds, especially crows and blue jays when they are bitten by infected mosquitoes. If you see a dead crow or blue jay, you can report it to the local health department (630-682-7400 for DuPage County; 630-208-3801 for Kane County). These are the only birds that will be tested, and be aware that not all dead crows or blue jays will be picked up.
The best way to prevent WNV is to prevent the mosquitoes by:
Have a great day and let's work safely all week!
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Upcoming Classes June 21-25: LabView Intermediate I: Suc. Dev. Prac. (two sessions AM & PM) June 29-July 1: HTML Intermediate: Enhanced Layout (two half days) June 30: Excel Intro July 8, 21: Accomplishment Report Writing July 30: Excel Intermediate August 3 & 5: HTML Intro, Intro to Web Publishing (two half days) August 4 & 11: Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Prof. (two half-days) August 4, 12: Goal Setting August 5: Performance Appraisal Workshop August 10: Access Intro August 24: Word Intro August 25: Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Prof. - Forms, Security & Accessibility (one half-day) Sept. 14-16: JavaScript Programming more information
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