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Monday, September 15 2:30 pm Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar - Curia II Speaker: U.-L. Pen, University of Toronto Title: W0 from Skewness in Weak Lensing 3:30 pm Director's Coffee Break - 2nd Floor Crossover THERE WILL BE NO ALL EXPERIMENTERS' MEETING THIS WEEK
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Monday, September 15 Black eyed pea soup St. Louis Style Ribs $4.75 Chef's Choice $3.50 Roast Turkey and Cheese Sandwich $4.75 The Western Burger $4.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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Series on Future 'Physics Landscape'
Opens Sept. 16 at 3 p.m. in One West The Physics Landscape Committee begins a series of talks on Tuesday, Sept. 16, from 3-5 p.m. in One West, with the Fermilab community invited to presentations by Stephen Parke, Ulrich Nierste and Marcela Carena.
The Physics Landscape committee, a subcommittee of the lab's Long Range Planning Committee, is attempting to envision the science of elementary particle physics as it evolves into the next decade, and to identify targets of opportunity for the Fermilab HEP program. The presentations represent starting points for discussion. Cosmology and Astrophysics will be among the topics in future meetings, with the schedule of talks and receptions posted on the LRPC Web site.
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From UC Berkeley News, September 10, 2003 Physicist Frank Crawford, who worked on bubble chambers, supernovas and adaptive optics, has died at 79 By Robert Sanders, Media Relations |
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BERKELEY – Frank Stevens Crawford Jr., a consummate physicist who was as intrigued by the physics of hot chocolate as by the workings of atom smashers and supernovas, died July 28 at the age of 79.
Crawford, a professor emeritus of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), had suffered from Parkinson's disease for more than 10 years, and died of respiratory failure related to the disease at a board and care home in San Rafael, Calif.
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From The Shorthorn, September 10, 2003 Discovering Dark Matter By Kateryna Ivanova, The Shorthorn staff Stars on the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy are not behaving as they should.
According to the laws of physics, the stars toward the center of a galaxy should rotate much faster than those near its outside should. Astronomical observations, however, contradict that theory — the stars on the border of the Milky Way galaxy spin much faster than scientists once predicted.
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Fermilab Architecture in Form and Function Fermilab Today offers an examination of some of Fermilab's distinctive buildings, based on ideas for sculptures by founding director Robert Wilson. "And the architects made the function of the building fit the sculpture idea," says Ed Crumpley, manager of FESS-Engineering and architect of the Feynman Computing Center, featured in an upcoming installment.
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The laboratory's headquarters and signature building, Wilson Hall suggests
the cross-section of a quadrupole magnet when viewed in combination with
its inverted image in the Reflecting Pond.
The design also offers a distinctive response to the natural forces of wind and temperature change. The crossover floors join the independent 16-story towers, offering flexibility to the structure. However, replacing abrasive surfaces in the corner sliding joints represented a major element of the building's recent $18-million refurbishment. "The really amazing thing about the building is that it is crude and rough in its finish," says Crumpley. The building also has an internal quirk. Wilson preferred open stairways so he could have an open view when he ran up and down for exercise.
Next: Meson Laboratory
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September 10 - September 12 The first week of the shutdown is over. Among other things, work was done on Lambertson liners, Collimator and Conning tower. View the current accelerator update View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts |
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Time to patch MS Windows again! More Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities have been discovered, very similar to the one recently patched on so many machines here. If you are still a Windows user, have your system(s) attended to by your Windows support staff promptly - this is expected to be every bit as serious as the previous vulnerability. Be sure not to overlook seldom-used Windows installations on spare systems, disused laptops or dual-boot machines!
Upcoming Training and Development Classes
Scottish Country Dancing
Ultimate Particle: A Road Movie of Particle Physics
Open Enrollment for the Medical and Dental Insurance Plans
Fermilab Recreation Facility - Fiscal 2004 Membership Year
Interior Window Cleaning Schedule for Wilson Hall |
