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Friday, July 29 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Joint Experimental Theoretical Physics Seminar - 1 West Speaker: B. Petersen, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Title: Charm Physics at BaBar
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Friday, July 29 Cream of Mushroom Soup Blackened Fish Filet Sandwich $4.85 Southern Fried Chicken $3.75 Fish Mediterranean $3.75 Eggplant Parmesan Panini $4.85 Pizza Supreme $3.00 Assorted Sub Sandwiches $4.85 The Wilson Hall Cafe now accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express at Cash Register #1. |
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Lunch Wednesday, August 3 Tri-Colored Tortellini Salad Lemon Cheesecake w/Blueberry Sauce
Dinner
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Fermilab Summer Students:
Focus on Mushtari Afroz With the LHC scheduled to come online in a few years, the four experiments that plan to make their homes at the new facility are furiously preparing. Mushtari Afroz is part of that effort as a summer intern with the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) group at Fermilab. By helping to develop CMS' new silicon trackers, she has
"The CMS silicon detectors will be used for particle track reconstruction at the LHC," Afroz explained. In addition to collecting data, the detectors also produce a certain amount of electronic background noise. Currently, the background noise levels vary with each run of the detector. "I'm looking at the variations in the signals to figure out what the acceptance level of background noise should be," Afroz said. Once the acceptance level is determined, the amount of noise will remain constant, and the CMS team will be able to easily disregard it and only study the true signals from particle collisions.
Afroz is beginning her fourth and final year of undergraduate work
at the University of Toronto in the fall, and plans to pursue graduate
work in experimental particle physics. Her internship, which was
organized by Fermilab's Internships for Physics Majors (IPM) program,
has not only confirmed her love of particle physics, but has also
given her invaluable hands-on experience. "I'm starting at the
ground level of the project, and will get to see the whole project
through," said Afroz, who is one of nine students in the IPM program this summer. Afroz hopes to continue working on CMS in the future, but admits that she is so interested in particle physics that "I will be in this field even if I don't get a job."
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From the Daily Herald, July 28, 2005 Open house eases Batavians’ concerns Electrical project's cost savings, aesthetics give residents peace of mind By Gala M. Pierce Batavians walked into the city’s open house Wednesday night with concerns about the estimated $20 million cost and the appearance of the new electrical poles.
It appeared residents walked away with an understanding of the projected $8.9 million savings and how the vistas on the east side of Kirk Road would remain similar.
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Bill Barker's Long Locks
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Bill Barker of Computing Division's Core Support Services kept trying to
keep his daughters from cutting their long hair. "It looks so nice," he
used to say in vain, as both of his teenage daughters repeatedly grew
and cut off 10 to 12 inches of their hair. They donate the hair to Locks
of Love, an organization that makes wigs for children 18 and under
who suffer from long-term medical hair loss. Finally, his daughters
challenged him: "Why don't you try it?" Accepting the challenge, Bill
went from September 2003 to this June without a haircut.
In the 21 months Barker spent growing out his hair for Locks of Love, Barker was dubbed Grizzly Adams, Moses, Santa Claus and many other names by friends and colleagues. He found life under all that hair to be a greater challenge than he had bargained for. "It was too hot, too much work," he said. "My shower time in the morning is cut in half now." Although Barker's ponytail had not reached the suggested 10-inch mark by this June, he decided to donate it anyway. "I was tired of having long hair," he recalled. "So I suggested a lot of little ponytails."
Barker regards the experience with satisfaction, although he has no
plans to try it again. In addition to appreciating his daughters'
dedication, he also learned a lesson in how people perceive others.
"Some of the older members of my church were getting a little
nervous," Barker said, laughing. "How you look really changes how people
react to you."
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