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Friday, October 22 Beef Pepper Pot Buffalo Chicken Wings $4.75 Cajun Breaded Catfish $3.75 Spaghetti with Meat Sauce $3.75 Honey Mustard Ham & Swiss Panini $4.75 Double Stuffed Pizza $3.25 Carved Turkey $4.75 Wilson Hall Cafe Menu Chez Leon |
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Fermilab Lecture Series: Skyscrapers | ||
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Pioneering architects, many of whom worked in Chicago, experimented with art, technology and economics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and came to realize an entirely new building form: the skyscraper. Timothy N. Wittman, Adjunct Professor of Architectural History & Historic Preservation of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will explore that historic development in a talk entitled "A Confluence of Art, Science, and Economic Practicality: The Development of the Skyscraper," on Friday, October 22, 2004 in Fermilab's Ramsey Auditorium, beginning at 8 p.m. Admission is $5. Modern architecture has developed as the result of a variety of influences, including theories of art and culture and evolving technologies of many kinds. While this might be said of any art form, architecture has an additional, unique relationship that does not exist for the other visual and plastic arts: it is also real estate. Architects must balance the needs of many people who have a stake in the outcome of their work: structural engineers, city building regulators, developers, mortgage holders, and clients all want and need to achieve their goals, while, hopefully, the designers can manifest their vision of what any building can be.
For 12 years, Wittman was a preservation specialist with the Commission on
Chicago Landmarks. He was co-author of the award-winning Chicago Historic
Resources Survey, the most complete inventory of historic buildings, sites,
objects and neighborhoods ever undertaken in an American city.
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From Science News, October 16, 2004 What's Wrong with This Picture? Educating via analyses of science in movies and TV By Sid Perkins The arrival of a new ice age in a matter of weeks? Setting the Earth's core rotating with a few nuclear bombs? Fault zones that gape open to swallow people, speeding trains, and even small towns? "Get real," say earth scientists decrying the recent movies "The Day after Tomorrow" and "The Core" and the TV miniseries "10.5." For years, scientists have worried that inaccurate science on both big and small screens misinforms viewers who may not distinguish what's fiction and what's fact. However, some scientists see opportunities in even the most outlandish films and television shows. To dispel popular misconceptions about science, educators are teasing out shreds of scientific truth hidden within the fiction, and scientists are using unredeemably inaccurate scenes as ways to attract public attention to genuine scientific concepts. Read more |
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What's Up with the ILC? The nineteenth in a series of Fermilab Today stories on the International Linear Collider. The entire series is available online. ILC-Americas Workshop at SLAC | ||
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Preparations for a proposed International Linear Collider took another significant step with the ILC-Americas Workshop held Oct. 14-16 at SLAC, as collaborators from the U.S., Canada and Mexico begin exploring the technical and design issues arising from the ILC Steering Committee's endorsement of superconducting or "cold" technology. "This first meeting of ILC-Americas was very successful and well attended," said Shekhar Mishra, Head of ILC Efforts at Fermilab. "People from the previous two technologies [L-Band and X-band] came together with a true spirit of collaboration to discuss the issues, how to move forward and build the ILC on a realistic timescale." The Workshop, sponsored by the U.S. Linear Collider Steering Committee, held discussions at SLAC organized around six working groups: Overall Design, including civil construction, instrumentation and controls, and reliability; Main Linac, including system optimization, beam dynamics, and operations; Injector, including damping rings, positron source, and polarization; Beam Delivery System, including collimator, final focus, and machine-detector interface; High Gradient Cavities, including cavity design and fabrication, Cryomodule engineering and industrialization; and Communications and Outreach, including strategic communication, identifying and defining audiences, and the role of public participation. "It was great to see that SLAC accelerator physicists were completely focused on the helping solve the myriad outstanding and challenging problems we face," said Nigel Lockyer, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. "The ILC program in the US cannot survive without a full team effort, and SLAC brings so much to the table in terms of experience."
The ILC Steering Committee will hold an international workshop Nov. 13-15 at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Tsukuba, Japan.
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