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Wednesday, October 20 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 Fettucini Carbonara with Ham & Mushrooms $4.75 Wilson Hall Cafe Menu Chez Leon |
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Last Chance for Flu Shots | ||
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In case you missed it, Fermilab's single flu shot clinic was scheduled
for Tuesday, 10/19/2004. If you are an active full-time regular employee,
term employee or temporary employee AND you meet at least one high risk flu
criteria, you may still be able to get a free flu shot. High risk criteria
include age (at least 65 years), chronic medical conditions, pregnancy, or ability
to transmit flu to high risk individuals. Pregnant workers and those with
neurological diseases will need to present a note from their personal physicians
stating that it is OK to receive a flu shot.
Contact the Medical Department at extension 3232 to check on availability and
scheduling. Vaccinations will be administered in the Medical Office located
at the northwest corner of Wilson Hall on the ground floor level. Office
hours are 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. The lab's flu shot program will end at noon on
10/21/2004.
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Fermilab's Contributions to SETI@home Rank Third
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Some screensavers use a computer's idle time to make computations that are
useful for science. A research organization can break up certain heavy-duty
computation tasks into pieces that can be processed by the screensaver
software on a volunteer's computer, a method known as distributed computing.
At Fermilab, use of SETI@home, perhaps the best-known distributed computing project, has ranked third among the world's governmental agencies for several years, and a Fermilab group received a certificate last month for its contributions. SETI@home, which started six years ago at the University of California, Berkeley, is part of a worldwide Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Made popular in the 1997 sci-fi movie "Contact" with Jodie Foster, SETI is the effort to find signs of intelligence in the huge mess of noisy radio signals coming from outer space. SETI@home takes data coming from the 305-meter telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico - the largest in the world - and breaks it up into small chunks. The SETI@home screensaver periodically connects to the organization's server to download a chunk of data and upload the results of the previous round of calculation. The "Fermilab - Friends of SETI@Home Team" is a group of users associated with Fermilab, whose unofficial motto is "Fermilab - Where we smash atoms, so you don't have to." The group got started in 1999 when the Computing Division needed some serious number-crunching software to test a new computing farm. "We needed something that would make the CPUs stay very busy all the time. At the same time, we wanted to do something productive," said team founder Ken Schumacher. The SETI@home software was also chosen because of its ability to pause calculations and restart them later, he said.
Schumacher believes that distributed computing software that has science purposes
and does not interfere with the laboratory's tasks constitutes "acceptable use"
under the Fermilab Policy of Computing. For more information, or for joining
the team, see their home page.
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From the New York Times, October 19, 2004 From a Physicist and New Nobel Winner, Some Food for Thought By Dennis Overbye GOLETA, Calif. - Fresh from a new Nobel Prize, with a smile as wide as the Pacific Ocean only a Frisbee throw away, Dr. David Gross stood with a microphone on a stage at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics here. Read more |
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White House Exhibit on Display in the Wilson Hall Atrium | ||
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In the weeks leading up to Election Day, an exhibit in the Wilson Hall atrium
celebrates the recognition Fermilab has earned from the White House throughout
the lab's 37 years of history.
Curated by Adrienne Kolb and Nadya Shemyakina of the History and Archives Project, the exhibit includes photographs, documents, and mementos of awards given to Fermilab scientists. "It's nice to know how presidents recognized physicists' achievements on these rare occasions," Kolb said. The beginning of the exhibit also coincided with an official Archives Week for the Chicago area proclaimed last week by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Kolb said. Featured objects recall the presentations of the 1973 National Medal of Science to Robert Wilson by President Richard Nixon, the 1989 National Medal of Technology to Helen Edwards, Richard Lundy, Rich Orr and Alvin Tollestrup by President George H. W. Bush, and the 1992 Enrico Fermi Award to Leon Lederman by President Bill Clinton. Tollestrup's medal, together with an original program of the White House ceremony and personal photographs, were loaned by the Tollestrups, while Lederman's Fermi Award was loaned by Lederman. Other documents on display - including several photographs of the Fermilab scientists meeting Presidents Lyndon Johnson, Nixon and Clinton, come from the Wilson and Lederman historical collections in the Fermilab Archives, Kolb said.
After the exhibit ends Nov. 5, the loaned objects will be returned to their
owners, but a permanent on-line version will remain available on the History
and Archives home page.
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October 11 - October 15 Tevatron - The Crystal collimator has been installed Linac - Linac began sending beam to its dump. Booster - Booster expects to be up and running beam by 10/20/04. Antiproton Source - The septum magnet has been pulse tested at full current Main Injector/Recycler - The overall shutdown work is about 80% complete MiniBooNE - The old horn has been moved to TSB NuMI - The kicker is pulsing Read the Current Accelerator Update |
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1900 Productions Presents "Copenhagen" at Elmhurst College 1900 Productions presents "Copenhagen" by Michael Frayn at Elmhurst College, running October 8 through November 14. Performances are Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m., Sunday at 2:00 p.m. at the Accelerator Art Space, 200 W. Park Ave. Elmhurst, IL. Tickets purchased by Fermilab employees are $10.00 for all performances (regular price is $20.00). Reservations can be made by calling the 1900 Productions box office at 630-251-7525. more information
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