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Thursday, October 19
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Thursday, October 19 -Bavarian Cheese -Bratwurst with Sauerkraut Warm Potato Salad -Roasted Pork with Potato Pancake -Sauerbraten with Red Cabbage -Buffalo Chicken Wrap -Assorted Slice Pizza -Chicken Breast on Field Greens with Caesar Dressing |
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Thursday, October 19 Dinner Curried Pumpkin Soup Grilled Duck Breast with Fig Sauce Wild Rice with Pecans Brussels Sprouts with Lemon & Bacon Apple Walnut Strudel
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During the third meeting of the Linear Collider Forum of America Tuesday, industry members got a look at Fermilab's ILC facilities. Visitors toured ILC research and development areas that included the Meson Detector Building's ILC Test Area, Cryomodule Assembly Facility and Industrial Building Center. Groups saw superconducting cavities, horizontal test cryostats, clean rooms and cavity preparation areas. The LCFOA is a not-for-profit industrial forum that provides a formal network for its U.S. industry members to interact with U.S. government funded R&D efforts during the design and siting of the ILC.
Before the tour, a series of talks brought LCFOA members up to date on Fermilab's ILC activities, including a report from the Global Design Effort, perspectives from the Department of Energy and cost estimating methods. LCFOA member companies presented papers on cost estimating techniques, innovative technologies and financing options. "The meeting was a real success," said Ken Olsen, President of the LCFOA. "We got into a detailed discussion about some of the program's issues." He explained that the ILC project needs to take advantage of industrial ingenuity. "We need to work together," Olsen said. "It's an evolution. I see it happening, and it needs to continue."
The LCFOA plans to meet next in Washington D.C. in March 2007. Talks from this week's Argonne/Fermilab meeting will be available online.
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Science Daily, October 17, 2006: Space-based Instruments To Test Cornerstone Of Einstein's General Relativity At the core of ESA's LISA Pathfinder mission sit two small hearts. Each is a cube, just 5 centimeters across. Together they will allow LISA Pathfinder to lay the foundations for future space-based measurements that investigate the very core of Einstein's General Relativity. A cornerstone of relativity is the concept of a frame of reference. This is a set of bodies relative to which any motion can be measured. Without a reference frame, no motion through space can be detected. Scientists call a frame of reference 'inertial' if unperturbed objects appear in that frame, either at rest or moving at a constant velocity. For a reference frame to be perfectly inertial, the bodies that are used to mark it must be completely free of any force.
Einstein's General Relativity predicts that the gravity from celestial bodies warps our measurement of distances in such a frame. Once scientists can build an exact inertial frame of reference, they will be able to measure this warping. LISA Pathfinder will test a technique designed to measure a frame of reference much more precisely than ever before. "This will provide the foundation stone for any future mission in General Relativity, if not also in gravitation and navigation at large" says Stefano Vitale, the mission's Principal Investigator
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Building better bridges
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A team from Hungary is using grid computing to streamline the construction of concrete beams for highway bridges. Working with industry, the team has augmented a process that was traditionally done based on engineering intuition and experience-the pre-stressing of concrete beams-with a totally new tool developed specifically for the Grid.
"Most engineering algorithms have been developed as turbocharged versions of old hand-calculation methods," says Gabor Domokos from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics' Innovation and Knowledge Centre of Information Technology. "We thought, now that we have these enormous computational resources, why don't we think in a different way?"
Pre-stressed reinforced concrete beams, used primarily as the main building structure in highway bridges, can be over 30 meters long and weigh many tons. The reinforcing comes from the insertion of a steel bar inside the concrete, and it is this bar that placed under high tension, or pre-stressed, during construction.
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October 16 - 18 - Leak checking in the Tev continues - NuMI and MiniBooNE take beam
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