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| G.P. Yeh Helps to Realize Okinawa Physics Institute | ||
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| From the event display that enabled researchers to see the very first collisions at CDF, to the earliest top quark data, to Fermilab's leadership in large scale computing using Linux, G.P. Yeh has made many contributions during his twenty years at Fermilab. Lately he has been talking about a project of a different dimension.
When Japan's Minister of Science and Technology Policy, Koji Omi, announced in 2001 a plan to create the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), the Minister appointed Yeh as a Special Advisor for the project. Yeh had already been bringing graduate students from Okinawa to do research at Fermilab. "The main goal of OIST is to establish one of the best graduate universities in the world," Yeh says. "This project has incredible, strong support from the leaders of Japan, the scientific community worldwide, and every one of the 1.3 million people of Okinawa." Fourteen Nobel Laureates, including Jerry Friedman and Leon Lederman, have been supporting the project as well.
Since then, the Japanese government has annually increased the project's budget, and in 2003, the Okinawa government donated 700 acres of land. Organizers published the master plan for the school in January 2006, and construction is scheduled to begin this spring. The university plans to have 300 professors, 500 graduate students, and 900 postdoctoral researchers. "They say on Okinawa, 'This is a once in a hundred years chance for us. Please succeed,'" Yeh says.
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| What's Happening at CMS? | ||
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| Visas a Problem for International Collaboration? |
| A recent article in Nature described a changing relationship between the US and Indian scientific communities as the United States makes it increasingly difficult for foreign scientists to gain work visas. In the February 23 article, Indian science secretary Valangiman Ramamurthi warned that visa problems could threaten chances for US-international collaborations, and specifically mentioned the International Linear Collider Project. The article states: "He [Ramamurthi] claims that India's interest in the International Linear Collider project 'has come down tenfold because our team could not attend a workshop in the United States due to visa problems'." For full text, click here. |
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MSNBC Online, February 23, 2006: Odd cosmic blast puzzles astronomers WASHINGTON - A new kind of cosmic explosion has been spotted in Earth’s celestial neighborhood, and amateur astronomers in the Northern Hemisphere might be able to see it next week, scientists reported Thursday. The blast seemed a lot like a gamma-ray burst, the most distant and powerful type of explosion known to astronomers. But when scientists first detected it with NASA’s Swift satellite on Feb. 18, the explosion was about 25 times closer and lasted 100 times longer than a typical gamma-ray burst. |
| ES&H Crossword | ||
Coming up with the correct answers requires a working knowledge of the lab's ES&H programs, though a reasonable grasp on common sense will help. For those of you who regularly read Fermilab Today, most of the content for this puzzle was taken from previous safety tips in this column. Good luck and have fun. |
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February 22 - 24 - Two stores provided 3 hours and 15 minutes of luminosity. - TeV store 4666 quenched. - TeV cryo system warm up begins early. - Recycler and Main Injector conduct boomerang tests. - Twelve-week shutdown begins 2/27/06. Read the Current Accelerator Update |
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