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Wednesday, July 28 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Fermilab Colloquium - 1 West Speaker: M. Shochet, University of Chicago Title: The Top Quark: Past, Present, and Future
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Wednesday, July 28 French Onion Soup Texas Style Meatloaf Sandwich $4.75 Grilled Chicken with Black Bean & Corn Salsa $3.75 Kielbasa & Sauerkraut $3.75 Three Cheese & Tomato Panini $4.75 Sausage & Pepperoni Combo $2.75 Fettucine Carbonara with Ham & Mushrooms $4.75 Wilson Hall Cafe Menu Chez Leon |
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What's Up with the Linear Collider? The fifth in a series of Fermilab Today stories on the International Linear Collider. The entire series is available online. International Funding Agencies Meet to Consider ILC Plans | ||
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Representatives of scientific funding agencies in Europe, Japan and North
America met in London July 26 and 27 to discuss the proposed International
Linear Collider.
It's the third meeting in a year for what the group terms "an informal body" to discuss potential mechanisms for funding and operating a linear collider as a project with global participation from its inception. Such a project will require new forms of agreement and cooperation among science funding agencies of many nations. At their last meeting, held on April 6, the funding representatives said
Notes from the July 26-27 meeting will be made available after review by the
funding agency representatives. Notes from the previous two meetings, as
well as a list of participating funding agencies, are available online.
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FYI: AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News, July 26, 2004 Perspective: House FY 2005 NSF Budget Bill Last week's approval by the House Appropriations Committee of the FY 2005 VA, HUD and Independent Agencies Appropriations Bill is only the second time in about the last decade when a cut was recommended in the budget for the National Science Foundation. Under this bill, the foundation's budget would be reduced by 2% or $111 million in the next fiscal year. read more |
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From BBC News, July 23, 2004 Getting back into the groove Queen Victoria, Abraham Lincoln, Florence Nightingale and other characters from history may soon be able to speak again, as scientists perfect techniques to recover the sound from recordings that are far too delicate to be played.
In the corner of a California university laboratory, two men are battling against time to perfect a machine that will read old recordings - using special microscopes to scan the grooves - and software that can convert those shapes into sound. Their work could bring history to life.
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From Alabama to Timbuktu, Fermilab's Travel
Office Will Get You There | ||
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Last year, Fermilab's travel office booked 4200 flights -- more than twice as
many airplane tickets as there are lab employees. That's a lot of frequent
flier miles.
"Video conferences are convenient for scientists, but they can't substitute for face-to-face discourse," said Visual Media Services' manager Fred Ullrich, who also supervises the Travel Office. "We help physicists travel to and from their home countries, attend physics conferences, and visit other laboratories." In addition to booking flights for employees and users, the Travel Office, with the help of contractor Omega Travel, reserves some 2100 hotel rooms and 2200 rental cars per year. It also maintains a website where employees can research flight costs and, as a new addition, link to important information about CERN. "The link will help you find your way around CERN, especially if it's your first trip over," Ullrich said. The Travel Office is staffed by Nancy Penson and Omega Travel Consultant Dan Ditchman. "We receive about 25 emails a day, and between 10 and 15 walk-ins when we're busy," Penson said. "Employees tell us when and where they want to go, and we search for the cheapest, most convenient flights and accommodations." While employees can't purchase vacation tickets through the Travel Office, they can pay for their spouses or children to accompany them on business trips.
"Traveling is complicated," Ullrich said. "You have to search out a plane
ticket online, reserve a hotel room, and find a form of transportation.
We make this a lot easier for Fermilab employees, and surveys show that
they appreciate it."
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Unix Users Meeting Today There will be a Unix Users Meeting today from 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Curia II. Items on the agenda include: - Imap update - Al - LTS update - Connie Freebies at end of meeting
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