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Tuesday, August 9 3:30 p.m. Director's Coffee Break - 2nd Flr X-Over Note: There will be no accelerator physics and technology seminar today
Wednesday, August 10 |
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Tuesday, August 9 Chicken & Rice Soup Mushroom Swiss Burger $4.85 Baked Meatloaf with Roasted Tomato Demi-Glace $3.75 Parmesan Baked Fish $3.75 Peppered Beef $4.75 Ham & Pastrami Calzones $3.00 South of the Border Burritos $4.85 The Wilson Hall Cafe now accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express at Cash Register #1. |
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Wednesday, August 10 Lunch Thai Beef & Vegetable Salad Banana Bourbon Cake w/Cream Anglais
Thursday, August 11
Chez Leon Menu |
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Physicists Prepare for Snowmass Conference | ||
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Nothing less than an approaching revolution in the understanding of the most basic physical laws governing the universe will bring some 600 physicists and engineers to an intensive two-week workshop in Snowmass, Colorado, August 14-27. At the "2005 International Linear Collider Physics and Detectors Workshop and the Second ILC Accelerator Workshop," scientists from Asia, Europe and North America will collaborate on the science and technology of a proposed next-generation particle accelerator. The International Linear Collider would have the potential to address such fundamental scientific issues as the origin of mass, the nature of dark matter and dark energy, the existence of extra dimensions, and the joining of nature's disparate forces into a single unified force.
The global particle physics community has proposed to design and build a new particle accelerator, the International Linear Collider, as a means to address key unanswered questions about the universe. The proposed ILC and the Large Hadron Collider, an accelerator now under construction at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland, would create particle collisions at Tera-electron-volt energies, beyond the reach of today's accelerators. Working in concert with the LHC, experiments at the ILC would allow physicists to explore a region of ultrahigh energies where they expect to observe phenomena that will answer many of their most profound questions.
At Snowmass, physicists will work on issues, from the cost of civil construction to the design of accelerating structures and particle detectors, that must be resolved in order to determine whether and when the proposed ILC could become a reality.
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CPS Teachers Learn About Prairie Plants | ||
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At the end of July, a group of fourth-grade public school teachers from one of Chicago's most underserved neighborhoods came to Fermilab to take part in a training program developed by Chicago's Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and the University of Illinois at Chicago. The Nature Museum has helped Chicago Public School teachers improve science education for the last 15 years. It now is expanding its program by adding university laboratories and professors to the mix.
Miquel Gonzalez-Meler, assistant professor of Biological Sciences at UIC, helped to organize the trip to Fermilab. "The idea is to motivate teachers by helping them understand current environmental problems and solutions through participation," said Gonzalez-Meler, who currently is conducting studies at Fermilab's National Environmental Research Park to investigate the role of prairie plants in reducing atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases. "They'll see how ecological restoration can maximize air and water quality services that natural ecosystems provide." As part of a graduate-level course, the teachers visited the Fermilab prairie to learn about the ecosystem first hand. Fermilab docents Mary Jo Murphy and Susan Sheehan taught the teachers a hands-on unit on monitoring the diversity of plants in a specified area. The teachers can repeat the unit with their students, going to a grassy area, a park, or returning to the Fermilab prairie.
On August 3, Chicago Public Radio reported on the Fermilab outing in its program 848. The 13-minute audio report is available online (RealPlayer required).
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From The Daily Herald, August 8, 2005 Fermilab's new director focused on future course By Rupa Shenoy In his first public event, Fermilab's new director, Pier Oddone, answered questions on Sunday about the lab's future.
Oddone, who took office July 1, spoke to about 100 people at the monthly Ask-a-Scientist program at the Batavia facility. Oddone, who was born in Peru, came to the lab in part to oversee the changes it will have to go through in the next decade.
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Working Together | ||
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In order to address how we organize ourselves to exploit the Tevatron program through 2009, I have established a task force with members from the CDF and DZero collaborations and from the laboratory's Particle Physics and Computing Divisions. Joel Butler of PPD will chair the task force.
I am confident that the task force will propose recommendations and actions that will demonstrate our commitment to seeing Run II through to its full potential. I have already heard many ideas and have suggested a few myself on what steps might be taken to address this issue. I am also confident that the funding agencies, both domestic and international, as well as the CMS and ATLAS collaborations will contribute to find an optimal solution. If all parties roll up their sleeves and contribute to this effort the solution will be far easier than if the burden falls entirely on a single entity. Ask not what the other party can do for you but what YOU can do to make sure we have a party to celebrate reaching 8 fb-1 and the discovery of something big!
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August 5 - August 8 - During this 72 hour period operations established two stores that combined with an existing store provided approximately 66 hours and 46 minutes of luminosity to the experiments - Massive Booster RF problems
Read the Current Accelerator Update |
| Yesterday's article "LPC Will Hold Workshop to Discuss First Years of LHC" misstated the workshop's date. The LPC Workshop will occur on Thursday, August 11. Fermilab Today regrets the error. |
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Weight Watchers at Work Program Lose weight while you work! Join us for a free Open House Meeting at noon on Tuesday, August 9, 2005 in WH 15 NW. For more information please contact Bernie Dugan, x3591.
Power Outages
Wilson Hall Interior Window Washing
Fermi Singers Perform
Air Pollution Action Day
Tour of Victorian Mansion
SciTech Exhibit |
