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Friday, September 9 3:30 p.m. Director's Coffee Break - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Joint Experimental Theoretical Physics Seminar - 1 West Speaker: M. D'Onofrio, University of Geneva Title: B-Jet Production Cross Section at CDF
Monday, September 12
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Friday, September 9 - New England Clam Chowder - Western BBQ Burger - Swedish Meatballs - Bistro Chicken and Provlone Panini - Assorted Personal Size Pizzas - Carved Top Round of Beef The Wilson Hall Cafe now accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express at Cash Register #1. |
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Wednesday, September 14 Lunch - Chili Crusted Pork Loin - Apple Salsa - Roasted Sweet Potatoes - Apple Walnut Cake
Thursday, September 15
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| Lessons from ITER CERN DG shares cost-evaluation experience, thoughts on future accelerators. |
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CERN Director General Robert Aymar discussed lessons from his experience in costing the ITER project with members of Global Group 5, Cost and Engineering, at the recent Snowmass ILC Workshop. Aymar led the international team that developed a detailed engineering design for ITER including a cost estimate. As an international scientific project, ITER addressed many of the issues that now confront the proposed International Linear Collider. "For ITER, we derived the value, not the cost," Aymar said. The team defined an invented currency, the ITER Unit of Account. They then developed some 100 work packages required to build the project and designed the detailed processes for manufacturing with industries from the international partners, thus determining the amount of materials, labor and other elements for each work package. They then valued all of them in a consistent manner throughout the project, expressed in IUA. ITER partner nations could then get "credit" for their share of in-kind contributions in terms of the IUA for the work packages they undertook. The ITER partner nations could "rebuild" the cost of the work packages in their home currencies.
"Two partners contributing in-kind the same component, with the same value in IUA will probably end up with very different costs in their own currencies, compared through exchange rates, because there is no world market for such components," Aymar said. He also advised scientists to keep in mind that government and diplomatic timescales are very different from scientific timescales.
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From Nature News, Published online on September 7, 2005 Brian Foster, European regional director, International Linear Collider's Global Design Effort, Oxford, UK Physicist takes on large collider project. Believing in things of a size most people can't imagine is part of a physicist's everyday life. In his work towards the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC), Brian Foster has gone from subatomic quarks and leptons to the largest linear collider ever built.
For Foster, this is the biggest step in a career that has seen him building new equipment to take discovery further and influencing the direction of physics by advising the UK government. The ILC will be about 40 kilometres long, able to smash electrons together at 500 billion electronvolts in its search for new dimensions of space and forces of nature, and is likely to cost several billion dollars.
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Affirmative procurement: It's a mouthful, but the idea is simple. Purchase products made from recycled or recovered materials in order to cut down on waste and help the environment. We try to do as much of it as we can here at Fermilab, and Joe Collins, Fermilab's Procurement Manager, keeps track of it all. Collins' job is to promote the program, report our accomplishments to DOE and see how we measure up against Federal Recycling Standards. "We've been doing pretty well here," said Collins. "But we could do better."
Collins described a few innovative ways that the Lab has managed to purchase recycled materials: including a contractual requirement to include fly ash in all concrete mixtures, the acquisition of re-tread tires, and purchasing cribbing manufactured from recycled plastic. According to Collins, even the carpets at Fermilab contain recovered materials. Procurement's Bob Johnson described some innovations that might help janitorial services cut-down on waste: "Currently, we are testing a bio-based window cleaner," he said.
While Collins and Johnson's efforts are sure to pay off, it is important for each employee at Fermilab to help out. "After all the Affirmative Procurement Program is part of the Lab's overall Environmental Policy," said Collins. "Keep an open mind as you develop requirement for purchased items. If a product made from recycled materials is available, strongly consider using it."
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World Year of Physics Picnic It's the World Year of Physics and we are making a special effort to visit school children and tell them about the fun of physics. Visiting is fun too! If you would like to help, please join us at a picnic today, 12:00 - 1:00 at the Users Center. You only need to bring your enthusiasm, we will provide the rest. Even if you did not sign up, you are welcome. If you cannot come but would like to visit schools, please tell Nancy Lanning at lanning@fnal.gov.
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