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Friday, September 2 3:30 p.m. Director's Coffee Break - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Joint Experimental Theoretical Physics Seminar- 1 West Speaker: R. van Kooten, Indiana University Title: Search for Bs Oscillations: New DZero Results
Monday, September 5
Tuesday, September 6 |
Sunny 83º/52º
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Secon Level 3 |
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Friday, September 2 - Cream of Wild Mushroom - Blackened Fish Filet Sandwich - Southern Fried Chicken - Fish Mediterranean - Eggplant Parmesan Panini - Pizza Supreme - Assorted Sub Sandwiches The Wilson Hall Cafe now accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express at Cash Register #1. |
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Wednesday, September 7 Lunch - Salmon w/Ginger Scallion Mayo - Snow Peas & Carrot Salad - Poached Pears w/Vanilla Ice Cream & Chocolate Sauce
Thursday, September 8
Chez Leon Menu |
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How to Help Katrina Victims
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Many in the Fermilab community have asked how they can best help victims of Hurricane Katrina. Fermilab physicist Lee Sawyer, a Louisiana native and DZero collaborator from Lousiana Tech, writes with suggestions and news from the scene.
September 1, 2005: Thanks to the Fermilab community for wanting to help. I have spoken to some of the local relief coordinators, and at the moment the best way to help is to give money to one of the following organizations: The American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, or Catholic Charities. Yahoo has setup a site for online donations to the Red Cross. While there are foodbanks setup here, and a pressing need for clothing, toiletries, and shelter for the evacuees, the charitable organizations can handle the logistics of getting these items to people better than any of us can.
The situation in Louisiana is terrible, probably worse in fact than what you are hearing on the news. This is the worst disaster ever seen in the United States. We have thousands of people here in Ruston; they are being housed at our Civic Center, local churches, and motels. I will be helping with the 5:30 meal at our Methodist church, where about 200 families are staying. There are maybe 200 to 300 thousand evacuees throughout north Louisiana.
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| Linear Collider Forum of America Sponsors ILC Industrial Meeting at Fermilab |
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The Linear Collider Forum of America will sponsor an International Linear Collider Industrial Forum on September 21-22 at Fermilab. More than 100 scientists, engineers and industry leaders from the United States, Asia and Europe are expected to attend.
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From The Economist (print edition), September 1, 2005: Strange Behaviour: Particles that exist only fleetingly help make everyday matter magnetic
In the world of particle physics, there is no such thing as nothing. Particles of matter, and their anti-matter counterparts, are forever flitting in and out of existence. Theorists have predicted that the presence of such transient visitors has little effect on everyday life. However, a group of experimental physicists has just shown this view to be mistaken.
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| Fermilab, Caltech Begin Using UltraScience Net |
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Preparing for an onslaught of data to be processed and distributed in the upcoming years, scientists at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and at the California Institute of Technology successfully tested a new ultrafast data transfer connection developed by the Office of Science of the Department of Energy.
The new DOE UltraScience Net, which allows for the development and testing of dynamically switched fiber-optic links with speeds of up to 20 Gigabits per second, connects cities such as Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle, and Sunnyvale, CA. In a recent test, the transfer of data from a system at Fermilab to a system at Caltech achieved a rate of 7 Gigabits per second, over 15 times faster than with a comparable production Energy Science Network, and thousands of times faster than the usual high-speed Internet connections at private residences. "With the UltraScience Net, the Department of Energy is at the leading edge of high-speed and high-capacity network research for science applications in the country," said Fermilab's Matt Crawford, who led the effort of connecting Fermilab to the Chicago node of the UltraScience Net. "Fermilab is among the first users of the UltraScience Net." The UltraScience Net was developed under the leadership of scientists at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
"About two years ago, we looked at various needs for high-speed networking capabilities within the Department of Energy's science program," said ORNL's Nageswara Rao, one of the principal investigators of the UltraScience Net. "From terascale supernova simulations to visualization of genomics data to data from particle collisions, there is a demand for stable, dedicated, high-bandwidth connections to exchange data. With the UltraScience Net, research institutions can book a connection, and nobody can interfere with your circuit while you transfer data at high speed."
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International Folk Dancing Members of Fermilab's International Folk Dancers and Silk & Thistle Scottish Dancers will perform at the Fox Valley Folk Festival, this Sunday and Monday, Sept. 4 and 5, in Island Park in Geneva. There will be a teaching workshop on international dance on Sunday at 5 p.m., a mainstage performance of dances of the British Isles, with music by O'er the Border on Monday at 1 p.m., and a teaching workshop on Scottish country dances Monday at 3 p.m. There will also be barn dancing on Sunday at 6 p.m., and storytelling and folk music on several stages both days. More information is available at www.foxvalleyfolk.com, or by calling 630-897-3655, or 630-584-0825.
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Bristol Renaissance Faire,
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