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Monday, September 29 2:30 pm Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar - Curia II Speaker: H. Hoekstra, U. of Toronto Title: The Hunt for the Equation of State of the Universe 3:30 pm Director's Coffee Break - 2nd Flr X-Over THERE WILL BE NO ALL EXPERIMENTERS' MEETING THIS WEEK
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Monday, September 29 French Moroccan Tomato Lentil Soup Honey Baked Ham $4.75 Baked Ziti with Mozzarella $3.50 Italian Hero $4.75 Swiss Mushroom Burger $4.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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SLAC Engineers Help Fermilab During the Shutdown Last week, Cris Banuelos and Michael Rogers, both survey engineers at SLAC, arrived at Fermilab to help with Tevatron alignment projects. Before Banuelos and Rogers arrived, Bob Bernstein, Group Leader, Alignment and Metrology, wrote the following letter to Jonathan Dorfan, Director of SLAC. Dear Dr. Dorfan, We in the Fermilab Alignment group want to thank SLAC in advance for sending us two of your surveyors to help out during the Fermilab shutdown. We are performing a precision survey of the entire Tevatron and our resources are stretched quite thin. Robert Ruland's group is sending us two trained surveyors for two weeks who have specific training in the device used for the TeV measurements. Their help will alleviate a significant shortage of trained personnel during that time. SLAC is also shipping us a precision distance measuring device, solving an equipment problem as well. The SLAC alignment group has helped us many times in the past but this is a significant, and to my knowledge unprecedented, loan of expertise and resources. I want to thank Robert and his group for their help, and thank Marc Ross as well for his role as a catalyst.
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September 24 - September 26 Shutdown progress report: - Identification of "rolled magnets" throughout the Tevatron is 95% complete. - Installation of TeV Net, the new surveying network, is 45% complete. - Insertion of shims in 106 Tevatron magnets is 68% complete. - Installation of 3 new collimators in the Booster is complete. Turn-on of Booster is scheduled for October 18. View the current accelerator update View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts |
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From The University of Chicago Chronicle, September 25, 2003 University welcomes 10 new faculty members By Catherine Gianaro, William Harms, Seth Sanders and Steve Koppes
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Linux Press Release, September 24, 2003
In addition, together with business intelligence software provider SAS and
other partners, IBM introduced new Grid-based product offerings that address
the unique, compute-intensive needs of the banking and financial markets
industry.
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Painted ladies, monarchs and fritillaries - oh my! | ||
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A large number of butterflies have been
fluttering around Fermilab's site lately. Tom Peterson, ELM committee butterfly
monitor, reports that he spotted large numbers of
Painted Ladies and Monarchs in the area this year. "Painted Ladies are
known for having occasional population booms, and late summer this year
is one of those times," Peterson said. "This also seems to be a boom year
for the Monarch population. At Nelson Lake Marsh, where I count butterflies,
I saw more Monarchs this year than in any year since I began monitoring there
in 1998." Peterson expects to see fewer Painted Ladies on site after the first
frost because they do not survive the cold Chicago winters.
In other butterfly news, Doug Taron, the Curator of Biology at Chicago's
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, reports that the reintroduction of the
Silver-bordered Fritillary to the Fermilab prairie has failed.
Last October, Taron released 40
Silver-bordered Fritillary caterpillars into the fields to the east
of the Fermilab Village, hoping that they would spawn a new colony of
the rare species in the prairie.
(FermiNews, November 1, 2002)
The combination of the cold winter and lack of snow, which acts as a blanket
for hibernating caterpillars, may have been one of the reasons why this
first attempt did not work. Taron hopes to try again next year.
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Budker Seminar The next Budker Seminar is tomorrow, Tuesday, September 30 from 6-9 p.m. in the Users' Center's Music Room. The featured speaker is Ludovic Nicolasm and the title of his talk is "Accelerator Radiation Background and Beam Halo Studies." Pizza, beer & soft drinks will be served.
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Fermilab Creative Writer's Club
Scottish Country Dancing
Upcoming Training and Development Classes
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