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Friday, March 17 -Green Pea -Blackened Fish Filet Sandwich -Chicken and Dumplings -Irish Lamb Stew -Eggplant Parmesan Panini -Pizza Supreme -Corned Beef Brisket |
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Who will run the hadron collider experiments of the future? What can they do to prepare for such a monumental task and what can they expect to find? You will find some of the future leaders preparing this summer at the 2006 Hadron Collider Physics Summer School, to be held at Fermilab August 9-18. The school is the first in a joint CERN-Fermilab series. It is aimed at advanced graduate students and recent PhDs. The school organizers recently announced the lineup of lecturers.
Organizers designed the program to cover both theoretical and experimental subjects, with an eye on LHC physics in particular. "I think we should be as open-minded as possible to what the discovery likelihood of the LHC will be,"
Dan Green, program manager of the U.S. CMS collaboration, agrees. "When you're running the upgrades here [at the Tevatron], you're pushing the envelope to
The application deadline for the 2006 Hadron Collider Physics Summer School is April 8. If you would like to apply, visit the HCP Summer School Website.
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| GDE Boards Deliver Updates in Bangalore | ||
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Peter Garbincius, chair of the GDE Design and Cost Board,
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NASA Press Release,
March 16, 2006:
Ringside Seat to the Universe's First Split Second You don't get much closer to the big bang than this.
Scientists peering back to the oldest light in the universe have evidence to support the concept of inflation, which poses that the universe expanded many trillion times its size faster than a snap of the fingers at the outset of the big bang.
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| The Moths of Fermilab
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Moth species outnumber butterfly species in the Order Lepidoptera by 10 to 1 according to some estimates, yet butterflies seem far more common. It may be because moths fly mostly at night, or because many of the specimens are so small, that the abundant moth population goes unnoticed. But cryogenics engineer and ELM committee chair Tom Peterson has noticed them.
Peterson created The Moths of Fermilab Web page last month, after photographing moths onsite for a couple years. He also presented "Not Butterflies! - A look at some of the common, conspicuous, or day-flying moths and how they differ from butterflies" at a recent workshop for the Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network, of which he is a member. "In a lot of ways, moths are more interesting than butterflies because of their diversity. There are a tremendous variety of sizes and life habits," says Peterson.
On the new Web page, Peterson highlights some of the larger, more colorful, and day-flying moths around the lab. There are moths that look like bumblebees or hummingbirds and others that mimic wasps. The usual way to distinguish a moth from a butterfly is to examine the antennae and body--butterflies have slender, clubbed antennae and slender bodies while moths often have "furry" or "stringy" antennae and furry bodies--although there are always exceptions, according to Peterson. Moths also tend to hold their wings open horizontally while at rest, while butterflies are more apt to hold theirs closed, or partly closed.
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Retirement Party for Ross Doyle Ross Doyle, Fermilab employee since 1972, is retiring from his job in the Accelerator Division. There will be a reitrement party for Ross (aka "The Red") on Friday, March 24 at Riverview banquets in Batavia. $15 includes the buffet, beverages and a portion of Ross's gift. If you would like to attend, please contact Ruth Becker by Monday, March 20. You can reach her at x4736.
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