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Friday, December 10 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Joint Experimental Theoretical Physics Seminar - 1 West Speaker: J. Mohr, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign Title: Studying Structure Formation and Dark Energy with Galaxy Clusters – In conjunction with the Workshop, "Fundamental Physics from Galaxy Clusters" 8:00 p.m. Fermilab Lecture Series - Auditorium The Dawn of X-Ray Astronomy Prof. Riccardo Giacconi, Johns Hopkins University Tickets: $5
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Friday, December 10 Old Fashioned Ham & Bean soup Black & Blue Cheese Burger $4.75 Chicken Wellington $3.75 Tex-Mex Lasagna $3.75 Roasted Veggie & Provolone Panini $4.75 Pizza Cacciatore $2.75 Vegetarian Stir Fry $4.75 |
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Open House Launches Fermilab's Particle Astrophysics Center | ||
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The Fermilab community converged on Wilson Hall's 15th floor on Wednesday afternoon, December 8, for an Open House to inaugurate the laboratory's new Particle Astrophysics Center. On hand to share their excitement about the new Center were Fermilab scientists from the Pierre Auger Project, the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, the Dark Energy Survey, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the Supernova Dark Energy Probe and the Theoretical Astrophysics Group. The new PAC brings them together into one organization.
"Fermilab is a pioneer in recognizing the deep connection between elementary particles and the cosmos," said University of Chicago astrophysicist Michael Turner, associate director for the Math and Physical Sciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation. "A number of exceptional astrophysics endeavors have grown up right here. Bringing them together under one roof represents a forward-looking strategic move. I wish them every success." Fermilab Director Michael Witherell introduced the Center's new director, astrophysicist Rocky Kolb. "We searched the country to find the key person to direct our new Particle Astrophysics Center," Witherell said. "We were fortunate to find the best possible candidate right here at Fermilab, and equally fortunate that Rocky has agreed to lead this exciting new venture." Following the Open House, NSF's Turner brought his unique brand of cosmological shtick to a colloquium on the great questions of cosmology. At one point an insect crawled across one of Turner's colorful signature transparencies on the connection between quarks and the cosmos. "Don't worry, it's just an experimentalist trying to understand what I'm saying," quipped Turner, a theorist. | ||
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From The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News Winners and Losers: Outcome of FY 2005 Budget Cycle The 3,000+ page omnibus appropriations bill that President Bush will sign in the next few days marks the conclusion of the FY 2005 budget cycle. This bill, and the earlier stand-alone bills for the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, fund science and technology programs of interest to the physics community. As is true of any budget cycle, there were winners and losers. Read more |
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First NuMI Beam from Main Injector | ||
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In a major milestone for the NuMI Project, on Friday, December 3 at 6:40 p.m., NuMI collaborators extracted a beam of protons from the Main Injector and centered it on a downstream particle detector for the first time. Shortly thereafter, a crowd of experimenters and employees gathered in the Main Control Room to celebrate this remarkable achievement.
Just 10 hours earlier at 9:00 a.m., more than 20 physicists and engineers had begun setup and testing of the NuMI beamline in the Main Injector. Using a low-intensity beam -- about 100 times less intense than the actual NuMI beam will be -- it took only 10 pulses to extract the beam from the Main Injector, transmit it through the NuMI beamline into the target hall and send it 700 meters further down the line.
The day began with a check-out of the critical devices essential for a successful extraction, leading to the arrival of beam at the primary transport on the first pulse. A careful process of small magnet current adjustments followed, with the beam reaching the end of the pretarget enclosure by pulse # 8. On pulse #10, the beam was centered at the beam stop more than 1 km from the Main Injector extraction point.
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35 Year Service Award Luncheon | ||
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35 Year Service Award recipients: Thomas S. Anderson, Edwin J. Arko, Winslow F. Baker, Charles L. Bartelson, Kenneth R. Bourkland, Fred H. Browning, Cutchlow F. Cahill, David C. Carey, Frank L. Cesarano, David P. Eartly, Joseph J. Gomilar, Jr., Robert W. Goodwin, Theophilus Gordon, Johnny B. Green, Charles P. Grozis, Merle Haldeman, Jr., Roger E. Hiller, Lawrence A. Jackson, Walter F. Jaskierny, Richard A. Krull, Edward J. LaVallie, Albert M. Legan, Jr., Michael A. Mascione, Howard Pfeffer, Stanley M. Pruss, Charles W. Schmidt, Richard L. Smith, Daniel Snee, Raymond Stefanski, C. Joy Thomas, Samuel J. Upton, Alan A. Wehmann, Susan Winter, George M. Zielbauer, John M. Zuk
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