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Tuesday, April 19 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar - 1 West Speaker: S. Striganov, Fermilab Title: MARS Physical Model Developments and Accelerator and Detector Applications
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Tuesday, April 19 Chicken & Rice Soup Mushroom Swiss Burger $4.75 Baked Meatloaf with a Roasted Tomato Demi-Glace $3.75 Parmesan Baked Fish $3.75 Southwestern Turkey Wrap $4.75 Ham & Pastrami Calzones $3.25 South of the Border Burritos with Chips & Queso $4.75 The Wilson Hall Cafe now accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express at Cash Register #1.
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Compton Award to Lederman
At APS Meeting in Tampa Leon Lederman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 and Director of Fermilab from 1978 to 1989, received the Karl T. Compton Award yesterday at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society in Tampa, Florida. The Compton Award is presented quadrennially by the American Institute of Physics to a physicist who has not only made a significant research contribution but has also demonstrated distinguished statesmanship. The award, symbolized by a bronze medal, carries with it a $10,000 prize.
Twenty-five years ago Lederman started the Saturday Morning Physics program,
teaching high school students the principles of physics related to Fermilab
research. Lederman then co-founded the Illinois Math and Science Academy.
Two seniors from IMSA recently went to the Intel Science Talent Search
finals in Washington, D.C., with Timothy Credo finishing second place and
receiving a $75,000 scholarship. "I read the newspapers in the morning and
things can look pretty gloomy," said Lederman. "Then I go to IMSA and work
with the kids, and my optimism is restored."
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CD's Judith Nicholls Bids
Farewell to Friends at Lab |
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Judith Nicholls, who offered invaluable user and program support in CD,
retired last Friday, April 15 after more than 30 years of service at Fermilab.
She has been with CD since in 1973 when she moved to Chicago after working
on computers at Harvard University. The Kansas City, Missouri native has
a Ph. D. in high energy physics from Brandeis University and an undergrad
degree from Boston University. Her favorite projects at the lab were
the beginning of the Internet in 1992 and writing the Unix User's
Guide that was part of the VMS Migration Project. "It was brand-new
and exciting to be involved with the Internet so early," she said.
"Fermilab and SLAC had the first two web pages in the US." She loved
her work, but "will definitely miss the people here the most."
And the people will miss her. "She has been remarkable as an advocate for the computer users here and made a big difference to so many people," said CD'S Joy Hathaway.
Nicholls and her husband, retired RF engineer Gil Nicholls, will
travel the world and help others do the same through their travel
agency business. Friends of Nicholls are having a farewell reception
in her honor today, April 19, at 3:00 p.m. in the Wilson Hall Art
Gallery on the 2nd floor cross-over. Please stop by for cake and
punch to reminisce with Nicholls about her work and life at Fermilab.
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From MSNBC, April 17, 2005 Just how far could Einstein get today? Society might work against his kind of genius By Joseph B. Verrengia Will there ever be another Einstein? This is the undercurrent of conversation at Einstein memorial meetings throughout the year. A new Einstein will emerge, scientists say. But it may take a long time. After all, more than 200 years separated Einstein from his nearest rival, Isaac Newton.
Many physicists say the next Einstein hasn't been born yet, or is a baby now. That's because the quest for a unified theory that would account for all the forces of nature has pushed current mathematics to its limits. New math must be created before the problem can be solved.
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Recently several divisions of the American Physical Society published a report on the future of neutrino physics called "The Neutrino Matrix." In it they gave a vision of the future projects needed to make dramatic progress in understanding neutrinos. As part of that vision, the Neutrino Matrix recommends a comprehensive U.S. program to complete our understanding of neutrino mixing, including "a timely accelerator experiments with comparable sin2 2theta13 sensitivity (0.01) and sensitivity to the mass hierarchy through matter effects." The proposed experiment that meets that need is NOvA, which would use neutrinos from the NuMI beamline. At its recent meeting, the Fermilab Physics Advisory Committee gave a strong recommendation for stage 1 approval of NOvA.
As Robin Staffin discussed when he visited Fermilab recently, the DOE
and NSF are charging a neutrino Science Assessment Group (NuSAG)
to advise the Office of High Energy Physics on how best to turn
the vision described in the Neutrino Matrix into a concrete plan.
As the next step in the process, NuSAG will evaluate the science case
for NOvA and other neutrino experiments later this year.
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April 15 - April 17 - During this 72-hour period operations established one store that provided approximately 25 hours and 41 minutes of luminosity to the experiments - A shorted P2 transfer line quadrupole halts stacking - Magnet replacement completed Sunday morning
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Fermilab Art Gallery The exhibit "My Artistic Side - An Employee Art Show" is now on display in the Fermilab Art Gallery. An artist reception will be held on April 20 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The Fermilab Singers will also perform. more information
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