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Friday, August 15 2:00 pm The Ultimate Particle: A Road Movie of Particle Physics - Auditorium 3:30 pm Wine & Cheese - 2nd Floor Crossover THERE WILL BE NO JOINT EXPERIMENTAL THEORETICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR THIS WEEK 8:45 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Lepton-Photon Symposium - Auditorium & 1 West 8:00 p.m. Fermilab Lecture Series - Auditorium Title: Windows on the Universe: New Questions about Matter, Space and Time Speaker: Mike Witherell, Fermilab Director
Saturday, August 16
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Friday, August 15 Clam chowder Chicken picatta $4.25 Chef's special $3.50 Specialty gourmet sandwiches $4.75 The works burger $4.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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Cut the Ribbon! DZero Visitor's Area is Now Open From the sparkling yellow floor to the movie-screen slideshow on the shielding wall, the DZero visitor's area is officially open. On Thursday, August 14, DZero collaborators celebrated the completion of the new exhibit area in the DZero assembly building with a ribbon cutting ceremony. DZero spokesmen Jerry Blazey and John Womersley expressed their appreciation to DZero experimenters Greg Snow, Breese Quinn and Sherry Towers who developed the exhibit on behalf of the collaboration. "When your advisors or friends show up, use this new area to explain things to them," Womersley told his colleagues.
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The Ultimate Particle: A Road Movie of Particle Physics Today at 2:00 pm in Ramsey Auditorium 
French film-maker, Michel Andrieu, is a private investigator in a low hat
and long coat figuring out what particle physics is all about in the 60-minute
documentary, Ultimate Particle, being screened at the Ramsey Auditorium
today at 2 p.m. The documentary has Andrieu traveling from Fermilab to CERN,
from Paris to Argentina, relentlessly demystifying particle physics for the
general audience. “He has taken a look at us and shown the world what he has
seen in the world of particle physics,” said Fermilab physicist Chris Quigg,
who is featured in the documentary. Several other Fermilab employees are
featured as well, including the laboratory’s geese as Andrieu drives up to
the high rise in the opening scene. The documentary, already aired in France
and Germany, has received raving reviews.
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From the University of Chicago Chronicle August 14, 2003 Dedicated to memory of David Schramm, report assesses research opportunities where physics, astronomy intersect By Steve Koppes U. Chicago News Office
Chairing the committee that produced the report and successfully lobbying for its acceptance in Washington, D.C., was Michael Turner, the Bruce V. & Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics and the College.
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Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne visits Fermilab to learn about prairie restoration |
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Fermilab's prairie may not have kangaroos or koalas, but it does have one of the largest prairie restoration projects that Nick Williams, of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne, Australia, has ever seen. On Wednesday, August 13, Prairie reconstruction project founder, Bob Betz, shared his prairie wisdom with Williams. Marlin Bowles and Tim Bell, of Morton Arboretum, arranged the visit to Fermilab and joined Williams and Betz on the tour. Williams, who will be touring Chicago area prairies for the next week, is also visiting a number of reconstructed prairies throughout the United States to study how they are managed and restored. "I came here to learn more about how to restore prairies near urban areas and to see if it can be applied to the Australian grasslands, which are similar to the prairie land in the United States," Williams said. "The scale of Fermilab's prairie restoration project is absolutely amazing. This is a great experience for me."
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Butterfly Walk Report |
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(Photo courtesy Tom Peterson) |
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Eight people came to site 70 for the butterfly walk that Tom Peterson, Fermilab engineer and butterfly expert, hosted on Wednesday, August 13. The group observed 10 species of butterflies and also examined an intriguing small, orange, day-flying moth. The butterflies included Meadow Fritillaries, which show up in large numbers at site 70, and also many Silver-spotted Skippers, Painted Ladies, several Monarchs and Cabbage Whites. "It was a very pleasant walk in the old farm yard and a great group of people with lots of good questions and observations. I hope they enjoyed it as much as I did," said Peterson. More butterfly walks will be planned over the next month.
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Power Outage There will be a power outage on August 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the following locations: Lab A,B,C and Lab D (NL 10, NL11, NL12, NL13).
Fermilab Lecture Series
Special Noontime Recital
NALWO Coffee Hour |
