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Wednesday, August 20 3:30 pm Director's Coffee Break - 2nd Floor Crossover 7:00 pm Young Physicists Career Night - 1 West Speakers: E.D. Zimmerman (U. Colorado, Boulder), Y.D. Mutaf (StonyBrook) F.A. Harfoush (Risk Group/Ritchie Capital Management) THERE WILL BE NO FERMILAB COLLOQUIUM THIS WEEK
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Wednesday, August 20 Corn chowder Shrimp stir fry over rice $4.75 Homestyle pot roast $3.75 Roasted ham and Swiss on extra thick marble rye $4.75 Pizza burger $4.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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D.C. Budget Staffers Visit Fermilab Congressional staffers Ed Puccerella of the House Budget Committee and Dave Pappone, of the Senate Budget Committee, toured Fermilab on Monday, August 18, along with the Stephen Pierson of the American Physical Society. As Budget Committee staff, Puccerella and Pappone have direct responsibility for Budget Function 250, which provides Congressional budget guidance for the work of the DOE Office of Science, including Fermilab, as well as the National Science Foundation and most funding for NASA.
The Congressional visitors took in the view from Wilson Hall's fifteenth floor and toured the Main Control Room, the DZero experiment, the Technical Division's LHC magnet production facility and Feynman Computing Center. Expert hosts welcomed them at every stop to help tell Fermilab's story. The visit to Fermilab was part of a whirlwind 72-hour tour of Office of Science Laboratories organized by the American Association of Universities. Besides Fermilab, they planned to visit Argonne National Laboratory, the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek California and SLAC. As they left Fermilab on Monday afternoon, however, their immediate plans called for Chicago-style deep-dish pizza.
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Fermilab Association of Rocketry Meets Today |
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Once a month you might spot rockets launching from a field off of
Eola Road at Fermilab. Even though building a rocket may require
some engineering and physics skills, these rockets are not part of
a new experiment at Fermilab. The rockets belong to the twenty
members of the Fermilab Association of
Rocketry (FAR). Greg Cisko,
FAR President, helped start the club in 2000. "I was always interested in rockets as a boy, but I couldn't afford to do it properly," Cisko said. "I wanted to start the club at Fermilab because there aren't really any quality launch sites in the area." The members currently
meet once a month to launch rockets and to work on projects, such
as an eight-foot tall and four-inch diameter rocket. The club also
has regular rocket launches on the first Saturday of every month,
weather permitting. "We launch all kinds of rockets," said Dennis
McAuliff, FAR Vice-President. "Anybody with a current Fermilab ID and members of their immediate family can join the club, and
we would love to have a lot more members, especially kids
because they have a lot of fun launching rockets." The next
monthly club meeting is on Wednesday, August 20 at 5:00 p.m.
at the launch site located on the southeast corner of Eola and
Batavia Road. If the weather does not cooperate, the meeting will
be in the piano room in the Users' Center.
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From the New York Times, August 19, 2003 Up Close and Personal With Mars By John Noble Wilford
Astronomers are spreading the word that the orbits of Mars and Earth are drawing unusually close together. No, the two planets are not about to collide. But they are about to move closer than they have been at any time in almost 60,000 years, back when Neanderthals still had Europe to themselves and anatomically modern Homo sapiens remained mostly in Africa.
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Machines Explore Odd Behaviors of Ubiquitous Plasmas By Margaret Wertheim Ninety-nine percent of the visible stuff in our universe is in the form of plasma, ionized gas that is also known as the fourth state of matter.
Flames are plasmas. Lightning is a plasma. Auroras are caused by plasmas, and every fluorescent tube is filled with the stuff. Earth is cocooned in a halo of plasma, called the ionosphere. Stars are balls of super-hot plasma and nebulae are clouds of it.
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Ozone Alert Wednesday August 20th has been declared an Ozone Action Day. Please avoid unnecessary driving. Please postpone to the extent possible those activities that may add to the ozone, such as mowing, structural painting and deferrable auto/truck usage. Avoid vehicle idling and refueling.
Career Night for Graduate Students and Postdocs
Fermilab Singers
Fermilab Arts Series
Bible Exploration for Lunch
International Folk Dancing
NALWO Coffee Hour |
