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Tuesday, May 16 11:00 a.m. Academic Lecture Series - Curia II Speaker: D. Green, Fermilab Title: High-pt Hadron Collider Physics - Course 8 (3rd Lecture) 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr Crossover THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR TODAY
Wednesday, May 17 Click here for links to descriptions of each event. |
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Tuesday, May 16 -Chicken and Rice Soup -Cowboy Burger -Baked Meatloaf with Gravy -Parmesan Baked Fish -Peppered Beef -Ham and Pastrami Calzones -South of the Border Burritos w/Chips & Queso The Wilson Hall Cafe accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express. |
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| LHC@FNAL Operations Center comes to Wilson Hall | ||
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This summer, the first floor of Wilson Hall will have a new tenant. Wedged between the cafeteria and the Public Affairs Office, in the area that currently houses One East and the Quantum Universe exhibit, will be the LHC@FNAL Remote Operations Center. The new center will allow Fermilab physicists to monitor the accelerator and help operate the CMS detector at the LHC, and communicate with CERN operators 4,000 miles away. "One East will be pretty much preserved as it is so we can use it for video conferences between Fermilab and CERN," said LHC@FNAL task force member Erik Gottschalk. "And the area where the Quantum Universe exhibit is now will become the operations center."
Consoles in the operations center will form a semi-circle facing the prairie, with glass walls on the east and west sides. A large part of the north wall will be knocked out for a massive window between the consoles and the conference room. "That way, if something interesting happens in the operations center during a meeting, it can be discussed in the conference in real time," said Gottschalk. The new center will combine futuristic elements, like a glass projection panel, with more traditional elements, like basic, reliable computers akin to those used at CERN. "We are keeping the monitors simple," said Gottschalk, adding that any individual monitor can be projected onto the wall (or glass) with the push of a button. Fermilab may also help CERN develop customized software that will allow for various levels of control from a distance. Read-only versions of the software could be used at the Fermilab center, where physicists plan to monitor the accelerator and communicate with LHC operators. "The final decision on how the interaction works, and how much involvement Fermilab operators will have is still up for discussion," said Gottschalk.
Construction of the LHC Center is slated for June, with commissioning and operations planned for Spring 2007. More information can be found here.
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| Health and Fitness Day 2006: "Making Fitness Fun" | ||
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| Tomorrow, May 17, Fermilab and Wellness Works will join thousands of organizations across the country to celebrate National Employee Health & Fitness Day--the largest worksite health and fitness observance in the U.S.
Tomorrow's event is from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Ring Road. Participants may sign in, pick up a game ticket and grab a bottle of water at A1, then walk, run, rollerblade, or bike around the ring. Stations along the way will provide fitness activities, prizes and cheers of encouragement. At the end, stop off at the prize table to see if you have a winning ticket.
Come join the fun tomorrow; the division or section with the largest percentage of participation will win the traveling trophy (last year's winner was Lab Services). Rain date will be May 18.
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Daily Press News May 13, 2006: Particles not particularly useful: Jefferson Lab physicists find a 'strange quark' does less than earlier research indicated. NEWPORT NEWS -- Nuclear physicists learned during recent testing at Jefferson Lab in Newport News that a puzzling subatomic particle contributes little to the electric and magnetic fields that hold atoms together. The subatomic particles are strange quarks, which quickly appear and disappear inside of protons. Protons are an integral part of atoms - the basic units of matter.
"Whether it totally changes how we look at the proton is not clear," said Kent Paschke, a physicist involved in the research. "But it has changed the footing."
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| Reviews | ||
Thinking about today's column, it was impossible not
Jokes aside, we often discuss the need to rationalize and simplify the multiple reviews that we are subjected to, especially those reviews that we impose on ourselves. There is no review that I have attended, however, that has not imparted valuable comments and useful information to benefit our programs. As important as receiving this information is, there is another function these committees perform that is almost as beneficial and should lead us to welcome as many reviews as possible. Review committee members who are our peers learn about our programs in detail and carry word back to the particle physics community on how the laboratory is approaching its programs and how well it is carrying them out. To the extent that we take these reviews seriously, communicate clearly and coherently the strength of our programs and address fully the issues that arise from these reviews, the review committee members become effective interpreters of Fermilab programs and our ambassadors to the particle physics community. As described in the EP2010 report, Fermilab will have the central role in supporting the particle physics community in the future. These reviews are one mechanism by which, both formally and informally, we insure that the community knows our strengths and the cost effectiveness and quality of our programs. |
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Batavia Road entrance to close for cars and bicycles, beginning today
Fermilab Association of Rocketry
Health and Fitness Day, May 17
2006 Users' Meeting at Fermilab, May 31- June 1
Professional Development
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