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Thursday, August 7 2:30 pm Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II Speaker: A. Falkowski, University of Warsaw Title: 4D Techniques of Calculating Loop Corrections in Higher Dimensions 3:30 pm Director's Coffee Break - 2nd Floor Crossover THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR TODAY
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Thursday, August 7 Old fashioned tomato soup Italian sausage sandwich w/peppers and onions $3.75 Herb crusted chicken breast $3.50 Shaved ham & cheese $4.75 Monte Cristo $4.75 Turkey club salad $3.75 Sushi Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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Art exhibit with science inspiration |
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Eric Heller, professor of chemistry and physics at Harvard, communicates his research through graphic images drawn on the computer. An exhibit of his work, "Mode," is on display in the Art Gallery on the Wilson Hall second floor crossover through Oct. 30.
Heller will also offer the Colloquium presentation on Wed., Sept. 3, at 4 pm in 1 West. In "Art Inspired by Science," Heller will describe his view of nature repeating itself in the invisible quantum world of fundamental particles. For example, in the flow of electrons in quantum dots he sees a branching bush, or perhaps a cluster of kelp when viewed from a different angle.
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"Too Much Caffeine," a two-hour musical comedy by former Fermilab physicist
Steve Delchamps, is running from Aug. 1 to 17 at the First Street Playhouse in
Batavia. Delchamps left the lab in 1996 to pursue a PhD in English.
"Caffeine" explores the careers, struggles and romantic aspirations of high
school teachers.
"Artistic work is collaborative, and working at Fermilab taught me how to work in a collaboration. Working on my play is like working on a small experiment," said Delchamps, who invites Fermilab friends and colleagues to come see what "old Steve" is up to. Tickets are at $10 each. For reservations call 630-406-6367. |
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On 8/5/03, Space.com reported on results obtained by SDSS: Shadow of Mystery Force Seen in New Study Whereas gravity attracts, dark energy repels. Theorists have no clue what's behind this antigravity, but they say it fuels an increased pace by which all galaxies in the universe recede from one another. The end result, as best as they can figure, is a lonely universe in which folks in one galaxy can no longer see or hear from the folks in other galaxies because they're moving away at the speed of light. "In recent years we are finding that most of the stuff in our universe is abnormal in that it is gravitationally repulsive rather than gravitationally attractive," said Albert Stebbins of Fermilab. read more |
Avoid parking and lunch crunch
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More than 700 scientists will attend the Lepton-Photon Symposium at Fermilab. Although the first session won't begin until Monday, Aug. 11, at 8:30 a.m., lab employees will soon begin to see some changes.
"On Friday, tents will start going up around Ramsey Auditorium and at the far west parking lot, which will close this lot to employees," said Elaine Phillips, head for Support Services. "There will be trucks blocking parking spots at various locations. Overflow parking exists at the Lederman Center and in a temporary lot at A-1 in the Main Ring." Conference participants will break for lunch every day at 12:45 p.m., and lab employees are encouraged to eat before then. On Monday, the cafeteria will close at 1:00 p.m. to prepare for the conference reception. |
On Tuesday, Aug. 5, at about 8 am the Feynman Computing Center suffered a power outage. This was due to the failure of one of FCC's Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) systems during the regular first-Tuesday-of-the-month generator testing exercise. Most systems were up and running again by noon. The Computing Division regrets the interruption. The reason for the UPS failure is under investigation. The test, in which the building load is moved to generator power for a brief interval and then back, is required by the generator manufacturer for maintenance. |
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- The Tevatron suffered quenches, closure, orbit, and quadrupole troubles - A Feynman Computer Center power outage caused network problems - Operations established two stores during the last forty-eight hours. They delivered approximately twenty-three hours and twenty-one minutes of luminosity to the experiments. View the current accelerator update View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts |
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Power Outages: --Thursday, August 7: 8:30 am to 12:30 pm, NEB (NL8) --Friday, August 8: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, NS4 Service building, NW9, NWA, NE9 (NL6)
Special movie screening
Upcoming Training Courses
Science and SciFi Authors wanted |
On Friday, 8/15, at 2:00 p.m., Ramsey Auditorium, French film-maker Michel Andrieu will introduce and show his documentary "The Ultimate Particle - A Road Movie of Particle Physics." The 60-min. film contains lots of footage shot at Fermilab in May 2002.
