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PDF Version for Printing Fermilab Today Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008 Subscribe | Contact Fermilab Today | Archive | Classifieds Search Calendar Feature Director's Corner Tuesday, Oct. 14 Fermilab scientists, Heat and light 3:30 p.m. collaborators win APS prizes DIRECTOR'S COFFEE Last Sunday I was BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over The American Physical fortunate to attend a THERE WILL BE NO Society has bestowed symposium on The ACCELERATOR PHYSICS some of the physics Nuclear Future in which AND TECHNOLOGY community’s most the recipients of the SEMINAR TODAY prestigious awards on Rumford Prize of the American Academy of 4 p.m. Fermilab scientists and Budker Seminar - One North collaborators. The awards Arts and Sciences discussed the nearly Speaker: Daniel McCarron, are given for outstanding scientific, education intractable issues Illinois Institute of Technology and public service achievements. associated with the Pier Oddone Title: Intensity-Dependent This year, the APS awarded the 2009 W.K.H. control of nuclear weapons as we move Beam Dynamics Studies in the Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle towards an era in which nuclear energy and FNAL Booster Physics to CDF collaborators Luciano Ristori technology will be far more prevalent Wednesday, Oct. 15 and Aldo Menzione; the 2009 Edward A. throughout the world. I say “fortunate” 3:30 p.m. Bouchet Award to DZero physicist Gaston R. because it was an occasion to celebrate a DIRECTOR'S COFFEE Gutierrez; and the 2009 J. J. Sakurai Prize for distinguished scientist and four statesmen who BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over Theoretical Particle Physics to theoretical have contributed greatly to arms control. 4 p.m. physicists Keith Ellis, Davison Sopes and John The Rumford Prize is one of the oldest Fermilab Colloquium - One Collins. Also, Brookhaven National Laboratory scientific prizes in the United States. The prize West scientist Saoshi Ozaki was awarded the Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the recognizes contributions to the fields of “heat Speaker: Robert Garisto, and light,” broadly interpreted. In this case, it Physical Review Letters Physics of Particle Accelerators. The prize is named after Fermilab’s founding director. extended to the control of the greatest source Title: Half a Century of of heat and light created by humans and Physical Review Letters “It is wonderful that Fermilab staff and capable of destroying them. The endowment was founded by a bequest to the Academy Click here for NALCAL, collaborators are being honored by these great awards,” said Fermilab Director Pier from Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, in a weekly calendar with Oddone. 1796. The prize is awarded only every few links to additional years. information. The award recipients, their contributions and Weather prizes are described in separate stories This year’s award recognized five remarkable available via the links below. Americans who have made contributions to Mostly cloudy arms control throughout the turbulent era from 67°/51° W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental the cold war through the transition to a multi- Particle Physics - Luciano Ristori and Aldo polar world. Sid Drell, Henry Kissinger, Sam Extended Forecast Menzione Nunn, William Perry and George P. Schultz, Weather at Fermilab each in his own sphere, have worked and Current Security Edward A. Bouchet Award -- Gaston R. continue to work towards the control and Status Gutierrez elimination of nuclear weapons. They are now working together, making a sharp call to all of Secon Level 3 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle us to pay attention, get our heads out of the Physics - Keith Ellis, Davison Sopes and John sand and contribute to the huge international Wilson Hall Cafe Collins effort necessary to control and someday eliminate nuclear weapons. The danger today Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the of a rogue state or group acquiring and using Physics of Particle Accelerators - Satoshi a nuclear weapon, perhaps one that would be Ozaki used on a world metropolis and that would not carry a return address, has a way of focusing In the News the mind. What is remarkable is that these leaders have file:///U|/wwwdocs/pub/v5_0/today/archive_2008/today08-10-14.html (1 of 4)10/14/2008 10:08:47 AM Fermilab Today Tuesday, Oct. 14 Pima County officials hope come together with a joint call and a roadmap, - Golden broccoli & cheese flawed ballot is one of a kind first in January of 2007 and more recently in - Southern style fish sandwich January of 2008 that has found support in a - Coconut crusted tilapia From Tuscon Citizen, Oct. 11, 2008 broad community of scientists, policymakers - Smart cuisine: spaghetti w/ and the public. This is a very hopeful sign that turkey meat sauce Officials in the Pima County Recorder's Office progress in this area, now at a standstill, can - La Grande sandwich are hoping the early ballot mailed to voter Roy be once again a central concern for all of us, - Assorted slice pizza Thatcher for the Nov. 4 general election is one and especially our elected representatives. - Chicken fajitas of a kind. We, the members of the science and technology community, should not be just Thatcher called the Tucson Citizen on Friday Wilson Hall Cafe Menu bystanders in this endeavor. This to report that only one side of his early ballot Chez Leon distinguished group emphasized that those of contained print. us with technical skills are needed to help the Wednesday, Oct. 15 "It's completely blank on the back side," said government agencies in the vast international Lunch Thatcher, a 69-year-old retired Fermi National effort that will be necessary to progress toward - Beef bourguignon Accelerator Laboratory engineer. "The thing a world secure from nuclear weapons. - Parsley buttered egg noodles that struck me is how easy it would be for - Apple walnut cake w/cream someone to just fill out the front side, turn it Accelerator Update chantilly over, and think 'I'm done,' " Thatcher said. Oct. 10-13 Thursday, Oct. 16 The other side of the ballot lists the - Two stores provided 12.5 hours of luminosity Dinner propositions and retention vote on Pima - Shutdown ends and startup begins - Roasted red pepper & County Superior Court judges. Pima County - Pelletron problems continue portabella mushroom Salad Registrar of Voters Chris Roads said Friday - Lithium Lens trip - Surf & turf that Thatcher's call to the office is the only one - Potato cups staffers have received with such a problem. Read the Current Accelerator Update - Brussels sprouts Read the Early Bird Report - Lemon Napoleons "I would imagine it is just this one," Roads said. View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts Chez Leon Menu "We have over 190,000 in the mail. If there Announcements Call x4598 to make your were additional problems, we would have reservation. heard about it," he said. Have a safe day! Archives Read more Diversity Fair Oct. 17 Fermilab's Diversity Council and the Planning Fermilab Today In the News Group for Multicultural Events subcommittee hosts the inaugural Diversity Fair from 11 a.m. Fuzziness on the road to to 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17. More than a dozen Result of the Week cultural exhibits and international foods will be physics' grand unification theory on display and for sampling in the Wilson Hall From EurekaAlert, Oct. 6, 2008 atrium. Cultural performances, including Safety Tip of the Week traditional dance and song, will occur in the University of Oregon theoretical physicists lunchroom and Ramsey Auditorium. To learn ILC NewsLine suggest a layer of particles may exist and more about the Diversity Council, visit the block a merger. Web site. Leave it to hypothesized gravity to weigh down Info Photos wanted for labwide party what physicists have thought for 30 years. If At the labwide party on Oct. 17, a slideshow theoretical physicists, led by the University of on the video screen in the atrium will show Fermilab Today Oregon's Stephen Hsu, are right, the idea that images of people at Fermilab. We are looking is online at: nature's forces merge under grand unification for additional photos of you and your www.fnal.gov/today/ has grown fuzzy. colleagues here at work--in your office or work area, at a department picnic, during lunch in Send comments and At issue are grand unified theories that first suggestions to: the cafeteria, etc. Please e-mail your jpeg files appeared in the 1970s. They have suggested to [email protected] by Friday, Oct. 10. [email protected] that, at short distances or high-energy scales, Depending on the number of photos we will electromagnetic forces, strong forces, which receive, we might not be able to include every bind quarks in protons and neutrons, and photo in the slideshow. weak forces, which drive nuclear decay, will coalesce into a single unified field. Indications "The Atom Smashers", panel of this idea could appear at the Large Hadron file:///U|/wwwdocs/pub/v5_0/today/archive_2008/today08-10-14.html (2 of 4)10/14/2008 10:08:47 AM Fermilab Today Collider (LHC). discussion at Fermilab Fermilab will show the 78-minute directors' cut Hsu and colleagues applied advanced of the PBS documentary "The Atom computations to qualities that might exist in Smashers," which looks at the race for quantum gravity in distance-shortened, high- discovery between Fermilab and CERN. The energy interactions. Working with Hsu on the event includes a panel discussion with project, to be described in the journal Physical scientists featured in the film, including Nobel Review Letters, were UO doctoral student Laureate Leon Lederman. Saturday, October David Reeb and Xavier Calmet, a former 18, at 7 p.m., in Fermilab's Ramsey postdoc in the UO's Institute of Theoretical Auditorium. Tickets are $5.
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