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Friday, November 7 10:00 p.m. Fermilab Long Range Planning Committee Open Session: Neutrinos (Part 1) - 1 West * Issues in Neutrino Physics (S. Parke) * Off-Axis Experiment (G. Feldman) * Reactor Experiment (J. Link) * Neutrino Factory (S. Geer) 1:00 p.m. Fermilab Long Range Planning Committee Open Session: Neutrinos (Part 2) - 1 West * Prospects if MiniBooNE Has a Positive Signal (B. Kayser) * Non-Oscillation Physics (K. McFarland) * Proto-Recommendations (G. Feldman) 3:00 p.m. Wine & Cheese (NOTE TIME)- 2nd Flr X-Over THERE WILL BE NO JOINT EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS SEMINAR THIS WEEK
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Friday, November 7 Clam chowder Steamed rich and meaty smoked sausage $3.50 Golden fried crab cakes $4.75 Specialty gourmet sandwich $4.75 Chicken breast w/pepperjack cheese, red peppers and grilled onions on a tomato basil roll $4.75 Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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DOE Laboratory Facility Managers Meet at Fermilab DOE Laboratory Facility Managers gathered at Fermilab yesterday for their semi-annual meeting, hosted by David Nevin and the Fermilab Facilities Engineering Services Section. Deputy Director Ken Stanfield and Associate Director Jed Brown welcomed attendees and challenged them to think innovatively in implementing the new DOE orders on Project Management and Real Property Asset Management. The Facility Managers meet regularly to share ideas, concerns and successful programs that can be adapted across the DOE Laboratory complex. |
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Introducing the New GSA Representatives | ||
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Allow us to introduce you to the newly elected representatives of the
Graduate Student Association (GSA):
Tulika Bose (Columbia University), Martin Griffiths (University of Liverpool), Lydia Lobo (Imperial College), Andrew Hamilton (University of Alberta), and David Clark (Brandeis University). The GSA mission statement outlines their goals: to enhance graduate students' education, entertainment, employment, and representation. GSA members attend UEC meetings, travel to Washington as advocates for high-energy physics, organize the New Perspectives conference, sponsor job seminars, and maintain the "fnalgrads" email list.
The new representatives place community-building at the top of their priority list, believing the life of a physics student can become stressful and isolating. The solution? More opportunities to break down walls and talk about something outside the field for Fermilab's approximately 700 students. After throwing a successful Halloween party, they now hope to throw smaller parties more often. Lobo notes that "we have lots of ideas. Now we just have to sit down and work them out."
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From Midwest Construction Magazine, November 2003 $171 million Fermilab Undertaking A 'Smashing' Project in Illinois, Minnesota by Craig Barner An experiment that will involve hundreds of physicists from 32 different universities and research institutes has resulted in a $171 million project at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill.
The experiment seeks to determine whether the neutrino, a shadowy subatomic particle, has mass, said Dixon Bogert, a physicist and deputy project manager for civil construction. Though the existence of the neutrino was postulated in the 1930s and first confirmed in the 1950s, the particle is so light that no measurement has been made of its mass.
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Talk of the Prairie Over 200 Volunteers Attend Prairie Harvest | ||
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Approximately 225 volunteers helped collect seed at the prairie harvest on Saturday, November 1, including 10 Girl Scouts from Troop 312 of the Fox Valley Council and their troop leader, Anne Lucietto of Fermilab. "The girls had a great time," said Lucietto. "The younger girls are using the event toward achieving their bronze awards." The volunteers worked mainly in the Main Ring collecting mature seeds
from nodding wild onion and wild quinine plants.
"We will wait for snow to arrive, and then we will start to clean the seed so that it can be planted in the prairie in the spring," said Martin Valenzuela of Roads and Grounds. "We are very grateful for all of the help from the volunteers. Without their help, the Fermilab Prairie Project would not be what it is today. They have really helped us come a long way."
Prairie Exhibit Now Open in Wilson Hall | ||
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If you hear crickets chirping in Wilson Hall, you have not lost your mind,
and insects have not invaded the building. The sound effect is part of
the new prairie exhibit now on display in the atrium of Wilson Hall.
The exhibit grew from a combined effort of Beth Witherell, Fermilab's Ecological Land Management (ELM) Committee, and Fermilab's Visual Media Services.
"The whole exhibit
was designed, photographed, scanned, printed and installed
completely in house," said Fred Ullrich, Head of Visual Media Services.
"Fermilab's tall grass prairie rewarded us with an exceptionally
beautiful summer and fall that helped us develop a collection
of great images." If you can't make it to the exhibit,
a prairie video
is also available to watch online."Production on the video actually began before we started working on the exhibit," said Beth Witherell, wife of Fermilab director Michael Witherell.
"As work on the video went on, it became clear that we had a collection
of wonderful images that would make a great exhibit."
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