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Thursday, October 9 1:00 pm Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II (NOTE TIME and LOCATION) Speaker: I. Low, Harvard University Title: TeV Symmetry and the Little Hierarchy Problem 2:00 pm Fermilab Long Range Planning Committee - 1 West Open Session: Proton Driver * Intro (R. Kephart) * Physics Opportunities (P. Meyer) * Proton Needs vs Limitations (D. Finley) * Synchrotron based PD (W. Chou) * SCRF LINAC based PD (W. Foster) * Changes to MI (S. Mishra) * Recommendations (R. Kephart) THERE WILL BE NO DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK TODAY THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR TODAY Friday, October 10 3:30 pm Director's Coffee Break - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 pm Joint Experimental Theoretical Physics Seminar - 1 West Speaker: A. de Roeck, CERN Title: The Interplay between LHC and LC 8:00 pm Fermilab International Film Society - Auditorium Tickets: Adults $4 Title: Hable con Ella (Talk to Her) |
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Thursday, October 9 Vegetable beef barley soup Roasted steamship round of beef carved to order $4.75 Linquine w/meatballs simmering in a hearty marinara sauce $3.50 Roasted turkey and pepper jack cheese w/a sundried tomato mayo on herb foccacia $4.75 Philly steak w/grilled peppers and onions topped w/melted Swiss on a French roll $4.75 Sushi Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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Members of the Fermilab Association of Rocketry
Serve as Mentors in the Team America Rocketry Challenge | ||
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On Saturday, October 4, Fermilab hosted nearly 30 rocket launches.
The Fermilab Association of Rocketry (FAR) had its monthly club
launch at the southeast corner of Eola and Batavia Roads, with strong
winds that carried parachuting vehicles far from their launch pads.
The next FAR meeting and building session will be at 5:00 p.m. on October 15
in the basement of the village barn.
FAR members are also involved in the
second annual Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC), which is sponsored by
Aerospace Industries Association and the National Association of Rocketry.
The contest invites teams of middle- and high-school students to
build two-stage model rockets from scratch and launch
two eggs to a prescribed altitude. The eggs need to land on the ground without
breaking.
FAR encourages the children of Fermilab employees to
participate, and FAR members offer to serve as mentors. Registration ends November 15.
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Fermilab Arts Series The World of Gilbert & Sullivan - Opera a la Carte 
The wit and humor of Gilbert and Sullivan come to Ramsey Auditorium
on Saturday, October 11, at 8 p.m. as Opera A La Carte performs
staged and costumed highlights of some of the most beloved operettas,
including The Mikado, H.M.S. Pinafore, Patience, The Pirates of Penzance,
and other favorites. Opera A La Carte is a first-class professional
production company specializing in Gilbert and Sullivan.
Founded in 1970 by noted British Gilbert and Sullivan scholar and
artist Richard Sheldon, this company has enjoyed a remarkable rise to
fame. Known for the authentic style of its productions, the company is
constantly winning new audiences through its nationwide tours and is
acclaimed as the foremost Gilbert and Sullivan touring repertory company
in the country.
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From Science Magazine, October 3, 2003 10 Years After the SSC: The Power of Words: The SSC in Literature by Jeffrey Mervis It may be 10 years late, but the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) has finally found a literary champion. It's Herman Wouk, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Caine Mutiny and a master of historical fiction. Still productive at 88, Wouk has made the SSC the focus of his latest novel, A Hole in Texas, due out next spring. "My longtime friend, Glenn Seaborg, used to ask me when I was going to write a novel about a scientist," recalls Wouk. "Well, A Hole in Texas is my shot at the target."
To prepare to write the book, his 12th novel, Wouk toured the SSC carcass in
Waxahachie and met with scientists at Illinois's Fermilab, home of the
world's most powerful accelerator. "For years I've thought that there is a
great story in the interface of science and politics," he says. "The SSC
seemed like a good way to tell it."
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Top Quark Production at DZero
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One of the first tests of top quark physics, performed by the DZero experiment
in Run II of the Tevatron is the
measurement of the production rate of
top quark-antiquark pairs via strong interactions that can be calculated
As we continue to accumulate more data, and improve our understanding of how to get the most out of the upgraded DØ detector, we expect to significantly improve the precision of the production rate measurement in the next months. We will also test top-quark properties such as its mass, electric charge, spin and its electroweak production mechanism. | ||||
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October 6 - October 8 - The Main Injector water system was turned on - Pictures of the Antiproton Source with new motorized quadrupole magnets - Installation of the Tevatron HLS will be finished this week View the current accelerator update View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts |
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Power Outage Monday, 10/13 There will be a site wide power outage on Monday, October 13 from 7:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. The entire site, except for the village, will lose power during this thirty minute time period. It is recommended that you shutdown your computer before leaving for the weekend.
Cruisin' the Lab |
