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Thursday, July 24 2:30 pm Theoretical Physics Seminar - Curia II Speaker: S. Nandi, Oklahoma State University Title: Unity of Elementary Particles and Forces in Higher Dimensions 3:30 pm Director's Coffee Break - 2nd Floor Crossover
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Thursday, July 24 Garden Vegetable Soup Chicken Chimichanga w/rice and beans $4.75 Fried catfish $3.75 Muffaletta sandwich $4.75 Grilled turkey reuben $4.75 Sushi Eurest Dining Center Weekly Menu Chez Leon |
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Luminosity review: Much accomplished, much to do
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FYI: AIP Bulletin of Science Policy NewsSenate Appropriators Call for Increased Funding of DOE Physical Science Senate Report 108-105 accompanying the FY 2004 Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill gave considerable attention to the decline in the federal investment in physical sciences facilities and research. The decline in student enrollment in the physical sciences was described. "These trends must be reversed," Senate appropriators state. The full text of this section of the committee's report follows. read more
From Nature July 24, 2003 Appropriations subcommittees in the House of Representatives have voted to give two major research agencies — the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Office of Science at the Department of Energy (DOE) — increases of about 6.5% next year, taking their budgets to $5.6 billion and $3.5 billion, respectively. On 18 July, the full House endorsed the DOE increase.
Bush had proposed a rise of 3.2% for the NSF, which funds most non-biomedical university grants in the United States, and 1.4% for the DOE's science office, which supports most physics research.
Physics poised for sizeable gains in energy department's wish-list |
By Steve Krstulovich With the final payment for new chillers acquired in 1998, Fermilab's Central Utility Building (CUB) has completed a 10-year upgrade effort by the Facilities Engineering Services Section providing nearly $1 million in annual energy cost savings while increasing capacity by 15 percent. The projects, using creative funding methods through the Department of Energy's former In-House Energy Management, and more recently through the Utilities Incentive Program partnerships with ComEd and Nicor, were implemented with minimal interruption to accelerator operations, capitalizing on close cooperation between FESS and Beams Division. The upgrade effort began in 1994, when CUB systems reached the effective end of their projected 25-year economic lifetime. The upgrades have greatly increased CUB's reliability for Run II, while avoiding costly repairs, reducing maintenance, and eliminating ozone-depleting CFC emissions-at the same time, providing reductions in energy, water, and chemical treatment costs which were used to pay for the improvements. |
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Ramsey Auditorium Safety Improvement Project Complete |
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| With the Directorate's full support for a safety overhaul, Ramsey Auditorium is now equipped with a new backstage staircase and sturdy catwalk offering access to lighting and other stage infrastructure. For more than 20 years, volunteers of the Auditorium Arts and Lecture Committee have climbed tall ladders, at times hoisting heavy equipment, to install and adjust lights for each performance. "We have been very fortunate over the years because nobody ever got hurt, but it was very difficult to do things that way," said committee chair Ray Yarema. "Now we don't have to move any ladders, and the lights can be reached by standing on a very secure catwalk." Yarema added that committee members are happy with the results. |
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July 21-July 23 - The integrated luminosity for last week was 5106.9 nb-1 - Cryo experts installed new software that should halt the valve excursion problems - There were two stores established during this time period. They delivered luminosity to the experiments for thirty-five hours and one minute. View the current accelerator update View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts |
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