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Thursday, December 11 2:30 p.m. Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II Speaker: G. Rajesh, University of Chicago Title: String Theory and Cosmological Singularities 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar - 1 West Speaker: D. McGinnis, Fermilab Title: Status of Run II and Plans for FY04
Friday, December 12 |
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Thursday, December 11 Wild mushroom bisque Old fashioned baked macaroni and cheese $3.50 Baked citrus soy marinated salmon filet $4.75 Roasted turkey and creamy brie w/wild greens $4.75 BBQ chicken and roasted corn quesadilla on a tomato tortilla $4.75 Hand rolled Hanabi sushi Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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In Memoriam : Cathy Voit, 63, Sr. Electronics Technician and Writer
A Senior Electronics Technician for the Accelerator Division, Voit was also co-leader of the Bible Study Group at the lab, and a member of the Fermilab Writer's Club. She received a degree in Communications in 1994 at the age of 54, and had been writing a novel about an archaeologist exploring a volcano in Italy. "It was fun reading. She was very excited about it," said Bruce Worthel of Accelerator Division, former head of the writing group. "Her creativity was not an aspect as well-known" about Voit, said Teri Dykhuis of ES&H and a fellow Bible student. "But her sense of humor was her signature."
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, January 17 at the Wheaton Wesleyan Church.
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SC2003: Igniting Innovation | ||
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Fermilab and SLAC presented a joint exhibit at the 15th annual Supercomputing
Conference, Nov. 15-21 in Phoenix, Arizona, showing the role of advanced
computing technologies at the high-energy physics labs. Featured projects
included high-fidelity modeling of accelerators; GRID and data analysis
techniques for Run II, Babar, and the LHC; advanced networking; and data
storage. "The purpose is to get the message out that we do leading edge
computing in our field," said John Urish of Fermilab's Computing Division.
The Fermilab-SLAC exhibit was one of nearly 220 displays for the 8,000 conference attendees. CD's Jeff Kallenbach noted, "This is our 4th year sharing an exhibit with SLAC. Besides highlighting leading-edge computing at the HEP labs, it gives us a chance to collaborate with SLAC on a unique project."
Fermilab's Education Office demonstrated QuarkNet's use of grid computing
techniques in education, sharing data from cosmic air shower detectors
placed in high schools. "We were pleasantly surprised with the interest
generated by our small project, which seems to be the first education
project to develop a website with access to a Grid portal for high school
students," said Marge Bardeen, head of the Education Office. A group from
BTeV added a live demonstration of a real-time cluster computing fault-detection
methods. "Our visitors were surprisingly interested. That's always an upper," said
Ruth Pordes of the Computing Division.
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December 8 - December 10 - Studies and maintenance work during the Tevatron conning tower replacement View the current accelerator update View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts |
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From SciDev Net , December 10, 2003 World summit urged to make science more available GENEVA - Scientific information should be made more easily and freely available — especially to researchers and others in developing countries.
That is one of the key messages that the scientific community is sending the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which opens in Geneva, Switzerland, today (10 December).
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Search for Leptoquarks with the CDF Detector | ||||
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Following up on last week's DZero results in the search for leptoquarks, this week's results are from the other side of the Tevatron ring.
At CDF Run II, three analyses were completed by Summer 2003 to search for leptoquarks of first generation. The first analysis searched for pairs of electrons and quark jets; the second analysis searched for an electron, a neutrino and quark jets and the third analysis looked for two neutrinos ( experimentally detectable as missing energy) and quark jets.
If 1st-generation LQs exist, they must have a mass larger than 232 GeV/c2, 197 GeV/c2, 107 GeV/c2 assuming a branching fraction into a charged lepton and a jet
A fourth analysis searching for leptoquarks decaying into muons and quark jets ( second generation leptoquark) is currently underway making use of a data sample corresponding to a larger integrated luminosity. For the future CDF plans to search for leptoquarks decaying into third generation fermions and to update the current results with incresingly larger data samples. | ||||
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Recreation Adult Outing - Buffet Dinner and Theater There will be a recreation adult outing on Saturday, February 21, 2003 at the Pheasant Run Resort & Spa. A buffet dinner will be followed by the play, "The Underpants," by Carl Sternheim; Adaptation by Steve Martin; Directed by Karen Kessler. The deadline to order tickets is January 26. Call or stop by the Recreation Office x5427, x2548 to pick up a brochure and registration form. more information
Fermi Singers Perform on Friday |
