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Thursday, August 5 10:30 a.m. Academic Lecture Series - Curia II Speaker: L. Lyons, Oxford University Title: Practical Statistics for Physicists: Parameter Determination 2:30 p.m. Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II Speaker: G. Seidl, Oklahoma State University Title: Large Neutrino Mixings in SU(5) from Deconstruction 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR TODAY
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Thursday, August 5 Tomato Florentine soup Grilled Chicken Cordon Bleu Sandwich $4.75 Chimichangas $3.75 Chicken Marsala $3.75 Maryland Crab Salad $4.75 Italian Sausage Calzones $2.75 SW Chicken Salad with Roasted Corn Salsa $4.75 Wilson Hall Cafe Menu Chez Leon |
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Haryo Sumowidagdo is a long way from home. A graduate student at Florida State University
working on the DZero experiment, Sumowidagdo grew up 9,800 miles from Batavia, IL in Jakarta,
Indonesia -- a city which, amazingly, was also called Batavia before the end of World War II.
"The flight over the Pacific is really exhausting," said Sumowidagdo, who plans to make the 36-hour trip
Long plane rides home are not uncommon among Fermilab researchers. Over half of Fermilab's 2,958 experimental collaborators hail from a country outside the U.S. Of the 1,568 foreign nationals representing 63 countries, Sumowidagdo, one other Indonesian collaborator and seven researchers from Australia face the longest trips to Chicago.
Just over 60 percent of collaborators work for 106 universities, colleges, and laboratories in the U.S. representing
37 states of the union. Over 1,100 collaborators work for 153 institutions in 31 different foreign countries.
Twenty-eight percent of collaborators are graduate students, 309 from foreign colleges and universities and
524 from U.S. institutions.
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The Best (Sub)Urban Legends About Fermilab A while back Fermilab Today asked readers to send in (sub)urban legends they had heard about Fermilab. We received many enthusiastic responses -- the best of which we compiled on a Web page. Here are a few of our favorite Fermilab myths:
Fermilab fire hydrants move around at night. They're remote controlled robots (which is why they have antennae).
The Tevatron slows down time (which is why Fermilab physicists look
as though they've been beamed here from the 1970s).
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August 2 - August 4 - During this 48 hour period Operations established one store that provided approximately 24 hours and 47 minutes of luminosity to the experiments. - Power supply trip caused partial loss of Recycler stash - MiniBooNE tests showed that ground-faulted Horn can't be run - TeV suffered quench during dry squeeze - Pbar stack lost due to over cooling - TeV vacuum problems required access - Debuncher kicker trouble halted stacking - Lightning caused many trips - Feeder 47 lost two phases
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FYI: AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News, August 3, 2004 House of Representatives Supports the World Year of Physics The field of physics and its practitioners received commendation on Capitol Hill before Congress left town for August. In recognition that next year has been designated the World Year of Physics by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, on July 7 the House of Representatives passed a resolution in support of physics and physics education. "This resolution encourages the American public to take note of the physics used every day and encourages them to learn more about it," said its sponsor, Rep. Vern Ehlers (R-MI). "I hope that the American people will observe the World Year of Physics by supporting physics education and research. I encourage physicists and educators to engage the public, especially the children, in physics to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers." read more |
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DZero: Without a Trace - SUSY | ||||||
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Particle physicists are convinced that there is more to nature than they have been able to
elucidate and astronomers tell us that we have yet to identify most of the constituents of the
universe. One hypothesis that could solve these problems is Supersymmetry (referred to as SUSY).
If they exist, the reason why we have not yet detected SUSY particles is that they are simply too
Tevatron experiments are scouring their data looking for evidence that squarks and gluinos exist.
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New Books in the Fermilab Library New books in the Fermilab Library for the week of August 3 are now on display in the Library near the front desk. An online list of the of new books is now available. New books may be reserved by using the online Library catalog or by calling the library at x3401, or by filling out the reserve card in the book.
International Folk Dancing
Fermilab Fox Bend Golf Outing
Naperville Municipal Band to Premiere New Musical Composition
Wilson Hall Exterior Window Washing This Week |
