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Wednesday, May 18 11:00 a.m. Fermilab ILC R&D Meeting, 1 West Speaker: C. Milstene Title: Light Stops and Dark Matter at the ILC THERE WILL BE NO PROTON DRIVER GENERAL MEETING THIS WEEK 11:30 a.m. Employee Health & Fitness Day Walk Run or Bike around the Ring 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Fermilab Colloquium - 1 West Speaker: A. Höcker, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire Title: B Physics, CP Violation and the CKM Fit
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Wednesday, May 18 Portabello Harvest Grain Soup Santa Fe Chicken Quesadilla $4.75 Garlic Herb Roasted Pork $3.75 Jambalaya $3.75 Roast Beef on Ciabatta w/ Red Pepper Mayo $4.75 Meatlover's Pizza $2.75 Pesto Shrimp Linguini with Leeks & Tomatoes $4.75 The Wilson Hall Cafe now accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express at Cash Register #1.
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ILC Accelerator R&D Aims:
Cut Risk, Aid Bid to Host This article is the second of a three-part series on the EPP 2010 meeting at Fermilab. Thursday: Director-designate Pier Oddone's vision of the future of Fermilab. | ||
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Fermilab Associate Director for Accelerators Steve Holmes posed the big questions immediately about accelerator R&D for the proposed International Linear Collider. "Is this thing going to work?" Holmes said, introducing his talk on Monday to the EPP 2010 panel. "And what is it going to take to get us there?" The R&D program includes significant US presence with all major subsystems of the machine, Holmes said, which is needed to mount a credible bid to host the ILC. The Fermilab ILC effort focuses on leadership in superconducting radiofrequency (SC RF) technology, establishing lab-based facilities for fabricating and testing as part of a US-based capability in high-gradient technology. The Fermilab goal, Holmes said, "is to provide the US with the
Holmes told the panel that, driven by the physics goals, the luminosity goals for the ILC are very aggressive and offer significant risk, but the goal of the accelerator R&D program is to reduce that risk. He added that the energy of the beam is not the greatest risk to ILC.
The difficulty, Holmes explained in tracing the path of the beam, is that while luminosity is directly proportional to beam power, it is inversely proportional to the vertical size of the beam. The beam densities produced at the injection system must be preserved in the Linac, then maintained in the collisions at the Interaction Region. Holmes described a "huge effort to get the vertical beam size down."
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Fermilab Computing Division Combats Sober Virus | |
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The large number of recent SPAM messages in German has been traced
to the Sober virus,
which uses an infected address book to send email of
a political nature. The Fermilab Email Administrators are working
on properly tagging these messages as SPAM.
Employees can always report a message as SPAM by using the new Spam Reporting Tool. The Fermilab CD/CSS/CSI Email Team recently made this new tool available to help combat spam. It allows the Fermilab user community to report mis-classified spam emails and uses that information to "train" the spam filtering machines.
A form is now available for reporting spam email that was not tagged as
spam, as well as non-spam email that was erroneously tagged as spam. The
reported emails are fed back to the postmaster, who will then review
them and process them into the Bayesian Filtering module on the spam
tagging machines. Reporting a single email will not necessarily change the way the same
email may be tagged in the future, but should correct most mistakes that
affect a large number of users.
Since the activation of the Bayesian Filtering module, Fermilab's Computing
Division has seen an
almost 10% increase in the amount of spam being tagged.
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From The Hindu Business Line May 15, 2005 Computers of the grid, unite! by D. Murali Grid computing promises to do the unimaginable. Hold your breath. WRITING in Chicago Sun-Times (www.suntimes.com) on May 2, Science Reporter Jim Ritter declares that Fermilab, `the world's most powerful subatomic particle accelerator', has 250 trillion reasons to outsource data. To know `how', read on. Read more
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The Director's Corner is running on Wednesday this week because of
the EPP 2010 meeting, which took place on Monday and Tuesday. Good Morning!
I thought that Monday was a very good day for Fermilab and for particle physics in the U.S. The speakers, who were primarily from the Fermilab staff and user community, did an outstanding job of articulating the opportunities for discoveries in particle physics and of describing the experiments and accelerators needed to realize those opportunities.
For those of you who were not there, I particularly recommend to you
Pier Oddone's talk, "A Vision for Fermilab." The transparencies will
be posted online.
In addition, the streaming video will be available at Visual Media
Service's archive.
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Register Now for the 2005 Users' Meeting, June 8-9 | |
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If you want to learn about Fermilab's future, hear about recent developments
with the International Linear Collider, catch up on the latest news from
Washington and the EPP2010 panel, and enjoy a Festa Italiana all within the
span of 48-hours, register now
for the 2005 Users' Meeting.
This year's meeting will be on June 8 and 9 at Fermilab. Registration is free, and all users and employees are invited to attend. Robin Staffin, Barry Barish and Joe Dehmer will be just a few of this year's featured speakers. The 2005 Tollestrup Prize and the 2005 URA Thesis Award will also be presented. Mike Witherell and Pier Oddone will both be featured speakers, giving Fermilab's users a chance to bid farewell to one and welcome the other. "This is an exciting transitional time for the lab as we are welcoming the new director and planning our future," said Ken Bloom, who is organizing this year's meeting. "The Users' Meeting is a great opportunity for our user community to learn about and discuss both the present and future program."
A tentative agenda and other information about the 2005 Users' Meeting
is
available online.
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Employee Health & Fitness Day Today Employee Health & Fitness Day will be on May 18 from 11:30-1:30 on Ring Road beginning at A1. Walk, run, rollerblade, or bike your way around the ring. This year's theme is "Laughter is the Best Medicine." A table will be set up at A1 where participants may sign-in, pick up their game ticket, and a bottle of water. Stations will be set up around the ring where you will find games to play, prizes to win and cheers of encouragement. At the end stop off at the prize table and pick a ticket to see if you are a winner. The rain date will be May 19. more information
International Folk Dancing
Third Thursday Lunchtime Cleanup Tomorrow
Families Wanted: Chicago Science Festival Fun for All |
