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Friday, August 1 3:30 pm Wine & Cheese - 2nd Floor Crossover 4:00 pm Joint Experimental Theoretical Physics Seminar - 1 West Speaker: A. Stebbins, Fermilab Title: Correlating WMAP & SDSS or The Top Ten Reasons to Study Dark Energy
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Friday, August 1 Clam chowder Country fried steak $4.75 Chef's choice $3.50 Gourmet sandwich of the day $4.75 Catfish poboy $4.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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"Extreme Computing: The Data Grid and the Future of Distributed Computing"
Free Public Lecture, Thursday, August 14, 7:30 p.m., Ramsey Auditorium, Fermilab |
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Batavia, Ill.-There is a revolution ahead in the way people everywhere use computer technology to solve the most complex computational problems. The vision for the rapidly developing international Data Grid is to put the power of the world's computing capacity at the fingertips of everyone with a laptop computer.
On Thursday, August 14, at 7:30 p.m., the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, will sponsor a free public lecture, "Extreme Computing: The Data Grid and the Future of Distributed Computing," by six internationally known pioneers of emerging Grid technology.
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From the Daily Herald July 31, 2003 Fermilab tour to answer universal questions By Jennifer Wig Daily Herald Staff Writer For those of you who are curious about what a particle is and where it came from, Fermilab has a tour for you.
The free tour will take place at 1 p.m. Sunday at the laboratory off Kirk Road in Batavia and includes a visit to the monitor and control room. At the end, visitors will stop at the viewing area on top of Wilson Hall, which looks out over the 6,800-acre site.
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FYI: AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News
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Mike Becker and Mark Schiltz |
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Pre-Service Teacher Studies Mosquitoes at Fermilab Thanks to Pre-Service Teacher Christie Brayer, there are now at least 500 fewer mosquitoes at Fermilab. As part of the DOE's Pre-Service Teacher program, Brayer recently completed her summer research project to collect and test Fermilab mosquitoes for the West Nile Virus. Out of the 500 mosquitoes that Brayer tested, none of them had the virus. Brayer used a fermented solution of grass clippings in stagnant water as bait to create the desired environment that would attract the Culex mosquito, the most common type of mosquito to contract the West Nile Virus. The bait was placed in a Gravid trap, a battery-operated contraption that uses a fan to suck the mosquitoes through a tube and into a net.
Mike Becker and Mark Schiltz, both of Roads & Grounds, recently met with Brayer
to learn more about her project. "Late summer is typically the prime West Nile
season, but mosquitoes have not been a problem yet this year and fewer bird deaths
have been reported," Becker said. "We are interested in Christie's project in
case the virus becomes a local health risk."
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Power Outage August 1 - 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for the NS2 Service Building, including NW2-4 (NL2, NL2A)
Wilson Hall Power Outage
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