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Friday, September 19 Workshop on Small-x and Diffractive Physics, September 17-20, 2003 at Fermilab. View program and information. 3:30 pm Wine & Cheese - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 pm Joint Experimental Theoretical Physics Seminar - 1 West Speaker: M. Arneodo, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara and INFN-Torino Title: Diffraction at High Energy Colliders
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Friday, September 19 Split pea soup Chef's special $3.50 Specialty Gourmet Sandwich $4.75 Three cheese Burger $4.75 Baked fish Provencal $4.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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The Buzz from FESS
A wasp's nest in the main substation house power transformer at the Fermilab
Master Substation, found by FESS staff last week in the course of preventive
maintenance. Fortunately, no one was home in the nest at the time. The
wasp's nest did no harm, but it had begun to approach the transformer's
connections.
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Out for a Byte at Feynman Computing Center
Fourth article in a series on some of Fermilab's distinctive buildings, based on ideas for sculptures by founding director Robert Wilson. |
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The three-story semi-circular concrete structure of the Feynman Computing Center
encompasses 74,000 square feet of space housing the laboratory's central
computing facilities. Robert Wilson wanted the building to look like a doughnut
cut in half, with expanses of glass to let in great amounts of sunlight-a
challenge for architect Ed Crumpley.
"Computers like it dark and cool," says Crumpley, manager of FESS-Engineers,
"but the sunlight streaming in did not allow for either." Crumpley's solution:
rectangular computer rooms strung along the dark, cool middle of the building.
"[Wilson] was probably down in the cafeteria eating doughnuts and came up with
this idea for the computing center after a few bites," says Crumpley, looking
back with amusement.
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From Nature, September 18, 2003 Science education: Spare me the lecture US research universities, with their enormous classes, have a poor reputation for teaching science. Experts agree that a shake-up is needed, but which strategies work best? Kendall Powell goes back to school. read more
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Yesterday, Fermilab Today ran a caption for this photo that understated the
important role of those engaged in the construction and operation of the
collider detectors in producing experimental results. The caption should
have highlighted the contribution of DZero collaborator Doug Chapin (right),
of Brown University, who worked on the data acquisition system that
collected the data for the analysis presented in yesterday's "Result of the
Week." Ryan Hooper (left), of University of Notre Dame, along with Greg Landsberg, of Brown
University, performed the data analysis. "Without the efforts of our
collaborators who build and operate the detector, there wouldn't be any data
to analyze," Hooper said.
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Heavy Quarkonia workshop opens Saturday
The workshop will cover all aspects of heavy quarkonium physics: production,
spectroscopy and decay; as well as the use of quarkonium states to extract
standard-model parameters and to probe for a phase transition in hadronic
matter. A Future Opportunities session will discuss new measurements, analysis
techniques, and experiments, and will identify the most-needed theoretical
calculations. The workshop program is posted online.
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