Bardeen is best known for his work on anomalies in quantum field theory, which play a fundamental role in shaping the structure of the Standard Model and the subtle interactions of mesons. He has advanced our understanding of the origin of mass and was an early founder of QCD, our theory of the strong force, which holds quarks together in the proton and neutron, and is mediated by gluons. After holding research positions at SUNY-Stonybrook and Princeton University, and teaching physics at Stanford University, Bardeen came to Fermilab in 1975 on the invitation of Ben Lee. He served as head of the Theoretical Physics department from 1985 to 1992, spent a year at the SSC, and then returned to Fermilab's Theory Group when the project was canceled.

Bardeen was awarded the J.J. Sakurai Prize of the American Physical Society in 1996 for his work on anomalies and perturbative quantum Chromodynamics, the theory of the strong force. In 1984, he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society and in 1999 he was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

The Bardeen Symposium will run in One West all day on Friday and Saturday, and the talks are open to the Fermilab community. On Friday, a 3:40 p.m. session with Bardeen's brother, cosmologist Jim Bardeen, and particle theorist Andrzej Buras, will replace the usual Joint Experimental Theoretical Physics Seminar.
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"Current networks are a black box, you put bits of data in with a destination in mind, and hope they come out quickly on the other end," said physicist Shawn McKee from the University of Michigan. "The network makes no guarantees, and there's no way to negotiate with it. We're looking into how to make the network a managed component of grids, like computing and storage resources are now."
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LEAD, S.D.- South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds pledged Tuesday to begin a statewide campaign to win support for his plan to spend $35.6 million to convert the closed Homestake gold mine in Lead into an underground science laboratory.

"Today is the first step in the sales pitch to the rest of South Dakota to confirm how special this opportunity is," Rounds told a crowd of more than 100 people gathered at Gold Run Park in Lead.

The state Legislature already has committed $15.7 million to the Homestake lab proposal, including a $10 million federal grant engineered by Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., three years ago. Now, Rounds will ask for another $19.9 million, probably in a special legislative session sometime in October.

The governor called the underground lab proposal "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our young people to benefit from a national laboratory within our borders."

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