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Tuesday, June 20 THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR TODAY
Wednesday, June 21 |
 Chance of Showers 81º/69º
Extended Forecast |
Secon Level 3 |
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Tuesday, June 20 -Tomato Bisque -Lemon Pepper Club -Burgundy Beef Tips -Baked Fish Creole over Rice -Grilled Chicken Caesar Wrap -Supreme Pizza -Rio Grande Taco Salads |
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Wednesday, June 21 Lunch -Grilled Shrimp and Portobello Mushroom Salad -Plum Tart
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| We need your feedback on proposed bus service area | ||
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Want to take the bus from West Chicago to Fermilab and back? West Chicago is one of 13 communities in DuPage County that are exploring the possibility of introducing or expanding local bus service. The proposed service area for West Chicago includes the West Chicago Metra Station, City Hall, Fermilab and six other "landmarks" in the community, based on a market analysis in the community. The next step in implementing the DuPage Area Transit Plan is to refine the service area and to determine the appropriate types of circulator service for each community.
Your feedback is needed. Does the proposed service area meet your needs as a resident, employee or visitor in West Chicago? Are there other places that you'd like to see included in the proposed West Chicago service area? Your feedback will determine the services to be offered. In some cases, for example, a fixed-route bus service with scheduled stops might be the best solution, while in other cases, on-demand service ("dial-a-ride") with vans might be better. If you are interested in bus service to the Route 59 Metra Station, which is not part of any service area at this point, you are encouraged to submit a comment on the West Chicago service area as well, indicating your preference. Please take a few minutes to view the proposed West Chicago service area and to submit your comments via the comment form by June 30.
For information on the entire study, sponsored by the DuPage Mayors and Managers Conference, go to www.GetAroundDuPage.org. The 13 proposed service areas include Addison, Bensenville, Downers Grove, Elmhurst, Glen Ellyn, Glendale Heights, Lombard, Oak Brook, Oakbrook Terrace, Villa Park, West Chicago, Wheaton and Wood Dale. After the service area maps are refined for the 13 communities, three service areas will be selected for initial implementation of the bus service.
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| Students to rub elbows with Nobel Laureates this month | ||
For 56 years, Nobel Laureates in chemistry, physics and physiology/medicine
Anzlec and other participants will travel to Washington, D.C. for a meeting at DOE headquarters before leaving for Germany on Friday, June 23. On Saturday, the students will arrive in the historic medieval island city of Lindau, located at the common border of Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Once there, students will have talks, informal discussions, and dinnertime conversations with Nobel Laureates. You can read about each participant--as well as thier adventures in Lindau--here. |
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SLAC Today, June 19: New luminosity record for PEP II PEP-II, which collides a positron beam from one storage ring with an electron beam from the other ring, is smashing particles like never before. Over the past month, the collider consistently achieved peak luminosities well above previous norms of 1034 cm-2 s-1. Last week, the bar for collider performance was raised even higher when a new record was set for luminosity over a 24-hour period. Read More |
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New Scientist,
June 10, 2006: Quantum strings and things Physicists often talk about the beauty of equations or the elegance of theories. Dawn Meson, a San Francisco-based artist, has harnessed that aesthetic quality in a collection of paintings that depict quantum phenomena. It's an ambitious undertaking - after all, the things she paints are invisible.
"I'm not actually trying to illustrate the phenomena," says Meson. "I'm using painting to wrap my head around these complicated ideas." This painting, entitled Compactification IV, represents the curling up of unseen spatial dimensions, a fundamental aspect of string theory. The complex shapes of these dimensions determine the vibrations of strings, which, so the theory goes, give rise to the particles that comprise our world.
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| Dynamite | ||
With significant help from across the laboratory, the teams in
Science magazine and National Public Radio have captured the human interest story of the Tevatron. When analogies to sports, and above all baseball, are drawn for the Tevatron, you know you have the public's attention. It is indeed a magnificent story, one of grit, determination and smarts. Nothing would be sweeter than the reward of an astounding discovery after the vicissitudes of the last few years. The Tevatron may indeed take us to the beach of an unexplored continent, the Terascale. The LHC and later the ILC (not the Tevatron) will explore the full extent of this continent.. But it is worthwhile remembering that Columbus only got to the beach of a small island and yet his amazing voyage of discovery in 1492 is what is most remembered. |
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June 16 - 19 - Four stores provided 43 hours and 8 minutes of luminosity - Store 4781: initial average luminosity of 103.9E30 - Store 4774 aborted - 400 MeV Debuncher water skid trips reappear - MiniBooNE Horn power supply trip - Power supply LCW leak holds off Pbar
Read the Current Accelerator Update |
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Mentors available
Chicago sight-seeing
Scottish Country Dancing
Fermilab Barnstormers
Housing Assignments for Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 |
