Monday, November 29, 2004

Atrium Exhibit Shows Role Monday, November 29 of IT in Physics SAFER 2:30 p.m. Particle Astrophysics Seminar - Even the best of us make mistakes. Curia II Studies show that human beings make 5- Speaker: N. Gnedin, University of 7 mistakes an hour. Sometimes these Colorado mistakes are trivial and have little effect Title: Simulating Reionization: Yesterday, on what we are doing. At other times the Today, and Tomorrow consequences are more significant. 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE For example, over BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 77% of the 4:00 p.m. All Experimenters' Meeting - occurrences in DOE's John Urish setting up the sculpture Collision Curia II Occurrence Reporting Event (Click on image for larger version.) Processing System Straight back from its successful Tuesday, November 30 (ORPS) cite personnel 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE participation in the SC2004 error as a causal factor. Additionally, BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over supercomputing trade fair in Pittsburgh, mistakes can occur because the 4:00 p.m. Accelerator Physics and the joint Fermilab/SLAC Computing the organization behind the employee has Technology Seminar - 1 West Quantum Universe exhibit is now on view created a situation that allows it to Speaker: P. Bauer, Fermilab in the Wilson Hall atrium. The exhibit happen. Title: Materials Research for shows how progress in information Superconducting RF Cavities at Fermilab technology is now indispensable to At Fermilab, we rely heavily on job particle physics research. planning and hazard analysis to identify and address ES&H hazards. By Monday, November 29 Computing the Quantum Universe is a six- approaching human performance as a Potato Au Gratin sided enclosure, with posters on the outer potential hazard in the workplace, Monte Cristo $4.75 walls, and flat-panel screens with mistakes can be avoided. Application of Savory Roasted Chicken Quarters $3.75 animated graphics in the center. The the SAFER method during job planning Lasagna Bolognaise $3.75 outer layer explains the nine great open and pre-job briefings can be helpful in this Chicken Ranch Wrapper $4.75 questions of particle physics -- as outlined area: Sausage Alfredo Pizza $2.75 in the Quantum Universe report, whose Szechuan Style Pork Lo Mein $4.75 graphics themes are also recalled -- and ● Summarize critical steps - What showcases the Fermilab and SLAC are the critical phases of the task? Wilson Hall Cafe Menu experiments that address those What parts of the task must Chez Leon questions. absolutely go right?

● Anticipate errors - How can we The center section has 24 screens, each make a mistake at each point? presenting a different facet of the Are there time pressures, unclear computing and networking efforts done by roles & responsibilities, imprecise the two labs and the collaborations they communications, interruptions, take part in. Among the featured projects personality conflicts, stresses, and themes, Lambda Station (a new assumptions, or complacency? Fermilab networking initiative), large- Chance Snow 40º/29º ● Foresee consequences - What is scale lattice QCD simulations, and a the worst thing that can go wrong Extended Forecast simulation of the Fermilab Booster beam. if a mistake is made at each Also prominent is Grid computing, which point? has now become a major theme at events Weather at Fermilab ● Evaluate defenses - What can we such as SC2004, and multidisciplinary do to prevent the mistake? Assure DOE SciDAC projects. sufficient schedule, have workers repeat back instructions, keep Secon Level 3 San Francisco artist Rob Newell's track of stop/start points, promote Collision Event, a glass-and-fiber-optic questioning attitudes, and have sculpture intermittently lit by blue light, others monitor activities.

Search the Fermilab Today Archive crowns the booth with a psychedelic ● Review operating experience - touch. How has this been done in the past? What mistakes were made? A Computing Division team led by John How can we avoid them? Urish and Jeff Kallenbach worked with Fermilab Today is online at: SLAC to create the exhibit, and together http://www.fnal.gov/today/ Have a great day and let's work safely with Penelope Constanta and Ian Fisk, all week! Send comments and suggestions to they put in long hours last week setting it Safety Tip of the Week Archive [email protected] up in Wilson Hall. "It was a nice diversion," said Kallenbach, "and it's nice Fermilab Today archive to do stuff with SLAC." symmetry Email Notification Fermilab Today PDF Version Hard copies of the new issue of symmetry will be distributed later this week. To Fermilab Result of the Week archive receive an email notification with the table Fermilab Safety Tip of the Week archive of contents and links to online versions of all stories, please sign up. Linear Collider News archive Christmas Schooner, December 4 Fermilab Today classifieds The Fermilab Arts Series presents "The Subscribe/Unsubscribe to Fermilab Today Christmas Schooner," performed by the Robert Bacher, president of Universities Bailiwick Theater. Saturday, December 4, Research Association in the 1970s, passed 2004, at 8 p.m. in the Ramsey away on November 18. He was 99. After the Auditorium. Tickets - $20 ($10 for ages 18 war, Dr. Bacher served on the United States and under). For reservations call x2787. Atomic Energy Commission, and he became a professor of physics at Caltech in 1949. "He The Dawn of X-ray Astronomy, was certainly distinguished and right up with December 10 Rabi and Ramsey as a distinguished servant The Fermilab Lecture Series presents of the Government," said Fermilab physicist "The Dawn of X-ray Astronomy," Dick Carrigan. presented by 2002 Nobel Prize winner Riccardo Giacconi. Friday, December 10, 2004, at 8 p.m. in the Ramsey Auditorium. Tickets are $5. For reservations call x2787. From the New York Times, November 22, 2004 Wilson Hall Super Science Stocking Robert Bacher, Manhattan Project Stuffer Sale Physicist, Dies at 99 The Wilson Hall Super Science Stocking By Jeremy Pearce Stuffer Sale will be outside One West on Dr. Robert F. Bacher, a nuclear physicist December 1 and 2 from 10:00 am to 1:00 and one of the leaders of the Manhattan pm. Fermilab apparel, coffee mugs, Project, died on Thursday at a retirement keychains, science kits and more. home in Montecito, Calif. He was 99.

Holiday Book Fair His death was announced by the Holiday Book Fair Fermilab's Recreation California Institute of Technology, where Office will sponsor its "Holiday" Book Fair, he had been a professor and provost. hosted by Books are Fun, in the Atrium Read more on Monday, November 29 from 10:00 AM until 6:00 PM and on Tuesday, November From the Fermilab History 30 from 7:00 AM until 3:00 PM. The Book and Archives Project Fair will accept cash, personal check, Robert Bacher, former president of MasterCard, Visa, American Express and Universities Research Association, was Discover card. A portion of the proceeds chairman of the lab's May 11, 1974 from the Book Fair subsidizes some of dedication program that changed the Recreation Office's Programs. laboratory's name from National Accelerator Laboratory to Fermi National 2005 Charitable Giving Campaign Accelerator Laboratory. Bacher met Fermilab employees have the opportunity Enrico Fermi in 1933 and 1936 at to contribute annually by payroll summer lectures for which Fermi traveled deduction to one, two or three IRS to the U.S. from Italy. Bacher recalled: "I approved charities of their choice. To remember catching up with [Fermi] as he participate, a contribution of at least started to swim across a lake at Ann $52.00 on an annual basis for one charity Arbor, to tell him that it was 1.5 miles or $78.00 for two or more can be pledged. across that lake, but Fermi kept on If you would like to participate in the swimming and went the whole distance. Charitable Giving Campaign in 2005, He was a great competitor and loved to employees must complete and return an win." enrollment form to payroll by December 1, read more 2004. For more information, contact Fermilab's Equal Opportunity Office at x3591, x4633 or x3415.

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