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Tuesday, May 31 11:00 a.m. Computing Techniques Seminar - FCC1 Speaker: M. Lamanna, CERN Title: Status of LCG Project Distributed Analysis Activity - ARDA 12:00 p.m. Summer Lecture Series - 1 West Speaker: M. Syphers, Fermilab Title: How Accelerators Work 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR TODAY
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Tuesday, May 31 Golden Broccoli & Cheese Soup Hickory Smoked BBQ Pork $4.85 Breaded Veal with Mushroom Cream Sauce $3.75 Spaghetti with Meat Balls $3.75 Toasted Almond Chicken Salad $4.85 Supreme Baked Pizza $3.00 Chicken Tostadas $4.85 The Wilson Hall Cafe now accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express at Cash Register #1.
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Kuchler Focuses on Safety
As New Head of FESS On Friday, May 20, Vic Kuchler was named as the new head of the Facilities Engineering Services Section (FESS). He replaces the long time head of FESS Dave Nevin, who retired on May 13. Kuchler does not plan to make any major changes, but will meet with each Division and Section head in the coming weeks to see what FESS can do to make things run more smoothly.
FESS services touch every part of the laboratory and are directly related to the fulfillment of Fermilab's mission. But FESS's primary commitment is to the Fermilab customer. "We want to provide the very best customer service for all of the functions that FESS provides," said Kuchler. Beyond serving his Fermilab customers, Kuchler is also working to find a suitable location for the International Linear Collider in northeast Illinois. "We have a very competent team in FESS that is working to understand the geologic feasibility of the area," Kuchler said. "I look forward to this challenge."
Kuchler has served as Deputy FESS Director since the Department was created in
1991 and has been the acting Director since Nevin retired. Kuchler first came
to the lab in 1975 and has been here permanently since 1977.
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A New Look for SLAC | ||
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On May 12, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center launched a new
Web site
that highlights the lab's varied scientific initiatives and helps
surface important information for
staff, scientific users, the community and the general public.
"A key goal of the new Web site is to communicate the excitement and energy surrounding the science we do at the Lab," said Katherine Bellevin of the SLAC Communications Group. "This meant creating new content and imagery, as well as organizing existing pages around the various audiences that use the Web site. This first phase is just the beginning of a Lab-wide effort to integrate and organize our Web site content." The new site also incorporates updated versions for many of the public information and visitors pages. Additional content and pages will be created and existing content will be folded into the new site in the coming months.
"Communicating to the scientific and general public what we are doing at
SLAC and why we are doing it is essential," said Director Jonathan Dorfan.
"The public thirsts for scientific knowledge. They also fund what we do,
so we owe it to them to explain what we do in terms they can readily
understand."
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From Science Magazine, May 27, 2005 2006 Budget: Physics Research Gets a Boost and a Warning From Its Funders Charles Seife A spending committee of the U.S. House of Representatives has restored many of the cuts proposed by President George W. Bush to the Department of Energy's (DOE's) 2006 science budget, including those in its high-energy and nuclear physics programs. But that ray of sunshine was quickly clouded over by an agency request for scientists to evaluate the consequences of shutting down yet another key accelerator. Read more |
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From CBC News, May 24, 2005 Rare white bison born in B.C. FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – A buffalo rancher near Fort St. John in northeastern B.C. is bracing for scores of visitors following the recent birth of a rare white calf.
It's only been a few days since the birth was announced, but rancher Karen Blatz says people are already dropping by to take a look.
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Good Morning!
The status and physics prospects for Run II were rated highly both in the recent program review and in the Tevatron operations review held two months ago. The impressive physics results shown to the Program Review were based on integrated luminosity of about 0.3-0.4 fb-1 delivered to each experiment. This represents about a 5% sample of the data sample that will be available by the end of Run II. On Wednesday last week, Robin Staffin talked here about the new charge for the HEPAP subpanel P5. He is asking P5 to look at what time the significant resources now invested in the operations of the Tevatron and PEP-II would have a greater impact if they were redirected to new opportunities.
The current plan for Run II, developed two years ago, calls for the end of operations at the end of FY 2009. The accelerator performance has followed the design plan over the last two years, and the detectors are running more efficiently than ever. The most exciting physics opportunities anywhere in particle physics right now are at the Tevatron. All of these facts will make a very strong case to P5 that Run II should continue on the current plan.
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May 25 - May 27 - During this 48 hour period Operations established two store that provided approximately 43 hours and 45 minutes of luminosity - Many necessary repairs were done during this 48 hour period.
Read the Current Accelerator Update |
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Upcoming Classes June 22 - 23: Microsoft Project 2003 July 18 - 21: Learning Perl July 19 & 20: Interpersonal Communication Skills more information
Children's Center 25th Anniversary Reunion and Ice Cream Social
Budker Seminar Series
Accelerated C++ Short Course
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