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| Challenge for Spokespeople: Bloom Where You're Planted | ||
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"A spokesperson's main job is to make sure our program blooms," says Young-Kee Kim, co-spokesperson for CDF with Rob Roser. Behind the flowery metaphor hides a long, often daunting, laundry list of responsibilities. Spokespeople are responsible for the proper collection, storage, retrieval, and analysis of data; for the proper and safe running and maintenance of equipment; for assigning individuals to various tasks; and for presenting their experiment to colleagues in the scientific community beyond their project.
"One of our main jobs is to put the right person in the right place to do the job. How do we put a person's skills to a task to maximize their strengths? That is our responsibility," says Kim. While spokespeople do delegate many of the tasks, when it comes to a properly running experiment, the buck will always stop with the spokesperson. "It's all-consuming. There's always some new challenge that needs attention and effort," says Jerry Blazey, DZero co-spokesperson with Terry Wyatt. "Of course, it's also very rewarding because you're working with so many very talented people." Blazey cites "confronting the consequences of Zebra Mussels" as one of the most memorable challenges from his time as a spokesperson. Everyone from DZero, he promises, will understand.
Each experiment has its own bylaws regarding spokesperson terms, the nomination and voting process, and the timing of all these events. Several experimental collaborations at Fermilab are conducting spokesperson elections now, each in its own stage of progress, depending on individual bylaws. Here is a list of the current spokesperson status for Fermilab experiments.
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NALWO Folkdance Potluck |
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Folk dancing has been a part of NALWO for 18 years, offering an opportunity for the lab community and the surrounding community to get acquainted while learning dances from around the world.
Now there’s a chance for that acquaintance to get renewed and furthered at a
NALWO folkdance potluck on
Saturday, February 25 at
6:00 p.m. in the
Kuhn Barn.
NALWO will provide beverages (non-alcoholic). Please bring food to share (ethnic specialties especially encouraged!!) and some comfortable shoes for dancing.
After dinner (at around 7 p.m.) the Folk and Scottish Dancers will show samples of what they do every week, and get everyone dancing some easy dances. All ages are welcome. It is not necessary to bring a dance partner, and there will be some dances appropriate for children. Please bring quiet activities to occupy younger children who may not want or be able to join the dancing.
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House Committee on Science, January 31, 2006: SCIENCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS APPLAUD PRESIDENT’S RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INITIATIVES WASHINGTON, January 31, 2006 – Leaders of the House Science Committee released the following statements tonight in response to the science policy initiatives in the President’s State of the Union address: Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) said, “The President is doing exactly the right thing in focusing on science, math and engineering research and education. The nation needs new investments and new approaches in research and education if we are to remain competitive and prosperous. I applaud the President for seizing the initiative, even in this time of budget stringency, to propose a significant and meaningful competitiveness agenda. This initiative should be embraced by the nation’s business and academic leaders, who have been calling for just this sort of effort to protect our economic future. I look forward to working with the President and my colleagues in Congress to move forward with the President’s proposals as their details emerge over the next several weeks.” |
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First Antineutrino Event
Recorded at MiniBooNE
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Since the discovery of neutrinos in 1953, physicists have invested much time and energy into understanding these supposedly-neutral particles: their masses, flavors, oscillations, role in symmetries, and possible connection to dark matter. MiniBooNE has been part of this endeavor, in its efforts to study neutrino mass and search for a fourth neutrino by analyzing neutrino oscillations. When MiniBooNE detected its first neutrino event in 2002, it became the only experiment to search the entire oscillation signal range covered by the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) experiments at Los Alamos.
The newest experiment at MiniBooNE, E944, has begun to study antineutrino oscillations--muon antineutrinos to electron antineutrinos--and will now test the LSND oscillation signals for those as well. "It took about two weeks to reverse the polarity of the eleven horn power supplies," said Richard Van de Water, co-spokesperson for MiniBooNE. "Everything else remains the same." The new experiment at MiniBooNE recorded its first antineutrino event at 9:47:09 a.m. on Thursday, January 19. Van de Water laments that they will get fewer statistics in the antineutrino search compared to the neutrino search because the flux and cross sections are lower by a factor of two each. On the other hand, the search for antineutrinos using an 8 GeV beam brings the hope of new discoveries.
"For example, if you violate CPT, there's nothing that says it has to be true for neutrinos. It can be violated and you might not see it in neutrinos, but you might see it in antineutrinos," said Van de Water. "Nobody has looked at these energies for antineutrinos: it's new territory."
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Andrea Silvestrelli, Basso-Baritone The Cultural Association of Italians at Fermilab presents Andrea Silvestrelli, basso-baritone, and Teresa Cullen, soprano, in recital with Eric Weimer, piano, on Wednesday, February 8, at 8 p.m. in the Ramsey Auditorium. Tickets are $15; for more information call 630-840-ARTS (2787).
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