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Wednesday, April 20 11:00 a.m. Fermilab ILC R&D Meeting - (NOTE LOCATION) One North Speaker: L. Emery, Argonne National Laboratory Title: Lattice Design Work for ILC Damping Ring by FNAL/APS Collaboration 11:00 a.m. Computing Techniques Seminar - FCC1W Speaker: J. Shiers, CERN Title: The LCG Service Challenges and Service Ramp-Up 12:00 p.m. Special Lunchtime Video Presentation - 1 West Title: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony Part 2 : E = mc2 2:00 p.m. Proton Driver General Meeting - 1 West Speaker: B. Lundberg, Fermilab Title: NuMI Facility With a 2 MW Beam Speaker: I. Kourbanis, Fermilab Title: Main Injector Upgrades 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 p.m. Fermilab Colloquium - 1 West Speaker: N. Boccara, University of Illinois, Chicago Title: Highway Car Traffic as a Complex System: The Physicist's Point of View
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Wednesday, April 20 Portabello Harvest Grain Soup Santa Fe Chicken Quesadillia $4.75 Garlic Herb Roasted Pork $3.75 Jambalaya $3.75 Roast Beef on Ciabatta w/ Red Pepper Mayo $4.75 Meatlover's Pizza $2.75 Pesto Shrimp Linguini wiht Leeks & Tomatoes $4.75 The Wilson Hall Cafe now accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express at Cash Register #1.
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Thirty-Three Fermilab Employees Receive Employee Performance Recognition Awards | ||
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On April 14, thirty-three employees received Employee Performance Recognition Awards. Following a luncheon at Chez Leon, Fermilab Director Michael Witherell handed out the awards. "These awards recognize the fact that people do things that make a big difference," Witherell said. "These are the people who make the lab run."
The incoming Fermilab director, Pier Oddone, also attended the luncheon. With slightly less than two and a half months left to Witherell's term as the current Fermilab director, he concluded the ceremony with some parting remarks. "This will be the last time I will have the opportunity to hand out these awards," he said. "Fermilab's greatest legacy is the quality and the commitment of the people who work here. Thank you very much for everything you have done."
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Fermilab Art Gallery Hosts Artist Reception Tonight | ||
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The Fermilab Art Gallery will host an artist reception tonight on the 2nd floor crossover
from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. for "My Artistic Side - an Employee Art Show 2005."
From photographs of buffalo to turtle purses to a functioning fountain,
this year's exhibit showcases 37 talented employees.
"The arts not only make for a more stimulating and creative work environment, but they have a direct and positive impact on the employees," writes Fermilab Art Gallery Curator Georgia Schwender on the show's Web site. "By participating in 'My Artistic Side-an Employee Art Show,' we recognize the creativity of the employees."
The Employee Art Show will be on display until May 31. All employees and users
are invited to attend the artist reception tonight, which will also feature a
performance by the Fermilab Singers. You may be impressed with
how creative your co-workers can be.
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Department of Energy Press Release, April 19, 2005 Energy Department Awards Contract to the University of California to Manage and Operate Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory WASHINGTON, DC -- The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a new five-year contract to the University of California to manage and operate its Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). The award is the result of the first competition of the management and operating (M&O) contract for the laboratory since its inception. The value of the new five-year contract is an estimated $2.3 billion. Berkeley Lab's $469 million annual budget is funded by the department's Office of Science, other DOE programs, as well as other government agencies and private industry.
"Because of its outstanding work, including 10 Nobel Prizes won by its scientists, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory has helped ensure U.S. scientific leadership for more than 60 years," Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman said. "This contract award will allow LBNL and its outstanding researchers and staff to seamlessly continue their work as they set new standards of scientific excellence."
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From MSNBC, April 18, 2005 Women explore the frontiers of physics Einstein’s intellectual heiresses add to his legacy By Alan Boyle Around the world, the 21st-century successors to Albert Einstein are delving into the mysteries surrounding ghostly neutrinos, rolled-up dimensions and clouds of super-cooled gas that can freeze a light beam in its tracks. And plenty of those successors are women.
Their work on the frontiers of physics runs counter to the claim that women might be innately less suited for math and science — a hypothesis that was most recently, and provocatively, raised by Harvard President Lawrence Summers in January. Time magazine framed the issue in the form of a question: "Who Says a Woman Can't Be Einstein?"
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CDMS Sets Best Limits In Dark Matter Search | ||
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Scientists of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS-II) presented new data
at the American Physical Society meeting in Tampa on Sunday, April 17,
peering with greater sensitivity than ever before into the suspected realm
of the Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). The sighting of WIMPs
could answer the double-mystery of dark matter on the cosmic scale of
astrophysics, and of supersymmetry on the subatomic scale of particle physics.
The results were presented in an invited talk by Richard Schnee of Case
Western Reserve University, followed by a sequence of contributed talks by
CDMS graduate students Michael Attisha of Brown University, Walter
Ogburn of Stanford University, Angela Reisetter
of the University of
Minnesota, and Raymond Bunker of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The accompanying mass versus cross-section plot shows the results (black curve) from 2004 with the first six-detector tower [PRL 93, 211301 (2004) and astro-ph/0405033]. Those limits were then the best in the world by a factor of four over EDELWEISS (brown curve) and ZEPLIN (green curve). The combined 2004 and new preliminary 2005 result from CDMSII (blue curve) represents an additional factor of 2.5 improved sensitivity, with two towers containing twelve detectors. This result is a full factor of ten better than EDELWEISS and ZEPLIN, meaning that, while no signal has been seen, CDMSII is exploring virgin territory for dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles. The lightest supersymmetric particle is an excellent candidate in many models, as shown by the colored regions in the plot background, and the new CDMSII results exclude many SUSY models as well as the signal claimed by DAMA (red closed region). CDMSII is part of the newly-organized Particle Astrophysics Center at Fermilab. A paper describing the scientific results will soon be submitted to Physical Review Letters. | ||
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Lunchtime Video Today Today's lunchtime video will be, "Einstein's Unfinished Symphony - Part 2: E=mc2. The video will be shown in One West at noon. All welcome. Eating lunch permitted.
Spring Hatha Yoga Classes
Earth Day is this Friday
Fermilab Association of Rocketry
International Folk Dancing
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