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Thursday, August 12 10:30 a.m. Academic Lecture Series - 1 West (NOTE LOCATION) Speaker: L. Lyons, Oxford University Title: Practical Statistics for Physicists: Bayes and Frequentism 2:30 p.m. Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II Speaker: S. Vempati, Universita di Padua Title: Lepton Flavour Violation in Grand Unified Theories and Its Consequences 3:30 p.m. Wine & Cheese- 2nd Flr X-Over THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR TODAY
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Thursday, August 12 Southwestern Chicken Tortilla soup Philly Style Cheese Steak $4.75 Baked Fish with Roasted Leeks and Peppers $3.75 Tomato Basil Chicken Parmesan $3.75 Classic Cuban Panini $4.75 Four Cheese Pizza $2.75 Marinated Grilled Chicken Caesar Salads $4.75 Wilson Hall Cafe Menu Chez Leon |
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Experimentalists and Theorists Converge at the Tevatron Connection | ||
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Monday and Tuesday, about 200 physicists from Fermilab and collaborating
institutions gathered in Ramsey Auditorium for the Tevatron Connection,
a series of presentations and discussions on Run II physics at the Tevatron.
Members of the CDF, DZero and MiniBooNE experiments presented new results;
theorists followed with presentations on the same topics and facilitated
discussion between presenters and the audience.
"We've never before had this kind of interaction between theorists and DZero and CDF," said Young-Kee Kim, CDF co-spokesperson and one of the conference organizers. "I've gotten a lot of good feedback from people, and I hope we have more occasions like this." CDF and DZero presented many new and updated results, including searches for supersymmetry, extra dimensions, Higgs bosons, leptoquarks and single-top production; measurements of the mass of the top quark; lifetimes, masses and decays of B mesons; and results from QCD physics. MiniBooNE, which has seen 380,000 neutrino events so far, presented results from muon neutrino data. On Monday evening, participants and their families gathered in and around Kuhn Barn for a mid-conference dinner and party. "I thought it went very well," said DZero co-spokesperson John Womersley, a member of the organizing committee. "The talks were good, but the discussions were even better." | ||
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August 9 - August 11 - During this 48-hour period Operations established one store that provided approximately 29 hours and 15 minutes of luminosity to the experiments. - Pbar stack was lost - Main Injector had power supply problems
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From Nature Magazine, August 12, 2004 Science in the movies: Hollywood or bust Last month, a handful of scientists who have toyed with the idea of writing for the movies were given a masterclass by Tinseltown's finest. Jonathan Knight joined them. In the 1997 disaster movie Volcano, whole sections of Los Angeles are demolished by lava. For advice on the film, the production crew turned to Christopher Vogler, one of Hollywood's top story consultants. "Lava actually makes a tinkling sound like glass as it cools," Vogler says, "but they wanted it to roar like a freight train. Any volcanologist who saw the movie probably thought it was a comedy." read more |
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FYI: AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News, August 10, 2004 Record Federal Support for Academic S&E Activities An NSF survey shows that federal support to universities, colleges, and nonprofit institutions for science and engineering activities reached a new peak in fiscal year 2002, with the Department of Health and Human Services providing over 50 percent of that support. According to NSF, "Federal agencies obligated a new high of $24.4 billion for academic science and engineering (S&E) activities in FY 2002." This is an increase of $1.9 billion, or more than 8 percent, over the FY 2001 level of $22.5 billion. The previous year's growth was even higher, climbing13 percent from FY 2000 to FY 2001. This information is reported in a four-page June 2004 NSF InfoBrief entitled "Federal Science and Engineering Obligations to Academic and Nonprofit Institutions Reached Record Highs in FY 2002" (NSF04-324). read more |
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CDF Probes Electroweak Forces | ||||
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Interactions between elementary particles are described by
the exchange of bosons. Within electroweak theory, these
force propagators are the W and Z bosons, and the photon.
High energy proton antiproton collisions at the Tevatron
produce these particles singly in large quantities, but they
are rarely produced in pairs. Measuring the production rate
of two of these electroweak bosons in a single event
probes the interactions between these particles, and allows
experimental tests of the Standard Model's electroweak
theory.
A group of CDF researchers has analyzed more than 200 | ||||
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Wilson Hall Power Outages Listed below are the proposed dates and times for the upcoming 'shutdown' related power outages that will affect Wilson Hall: August 28 and 29 for 8 hours starting at approximately 7:00 a.m. September 13 for half an hour starting at approximately 7:00 a.m. September 18 for 8 to 10 hours starting at approximately 7:00 a.m. September 24th for half an hour starting at approximately 7:00 a.m. For more information, contact the Wilson Hall Building Manager, Stan Boyson.
Cruisin' the Lab August 17
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Recreation Office Closed Today
CDF Posters Available in Public Affairs
Wilson Hall Interior Window Washing This Week |
