Tuesday, July 5, 2005

2000 Tons of Steel? No Tuesday, July 5 Problem for Fermilab Team International Committee on 12:00 p.m. Summer Lecture Series - 1 Future Accelerators (ICFA) West Speaker: R. Dixon, Fermilab Title: Relativity 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over THERE WILL BE NO ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY Peter Limon addresses his fellow Fermilab SEMINAR TODAY employees at the luncheon sponsored to thank them for their efforts. (Click on image Wednesday, July 6 for larger version.) THERE WILL BE NO FERMILAB ILC ICFA (and a few extras) in the Anatomical Theatre of the Gustavianum, the oldest R&D MEETING THIS WEEK A team of Fermilab employees spanning building in Uppsala University (Photo by Chen 3:30 p.m. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE three separate divisions gathered for Hesheng, Director of IHEP) (Click on image for larger version.) BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over lunch on Tuesday, June 28, to celebrate a This past Sunday I attended my first ICFA 4:00 p.m. Fermilab Colloquium - 1 West job well done. Paul Czarapata and Peter meeting in Uppsala, Sweden. ICFA brings Speaker: J. Turner, National Renewable Limon offered their congratulations and together the directors of the five principal Energy Laboratory thanks to a group of physicists, engineers particle physics labs (CERN, DESY, Title: The Sustainable Hydrogen and technicians for their outstanding work FNAL, KEK and SLAC) together with 11 Economy on the first phase of the High Power Test other representatives of the particle Facility project which included cleaning physics community worldwide. ICFA was out the Meson Detector Building and created in 1976 to promote international Mostly Sunny 83º/61º preparing it for the superconducting RF collaboration in the construction of major Module Test Facility (SMTF). The work accelerator facilities. The parent Extended Forecast was completed on schedule and safely, organization is the International Union of with no work-time lost due to injury. Weather at Fermilab Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). The work began in October, 2004 when The most immediate impact of ICFA for the laboratory announced its intention to us at Fermilab is that ICFA is playing and pursue the R&D for the Proton Driver and Secon Level 3 will continue to play a crucial role in the the International Linear Collider. With development of the ILC. It is the body that Northern Illinois as a proposed location of appointed the director of the ILC Global the International Linear Collider, this Design Effort, Barry Barish. ICFA also project will help establish Fermilab as a appoints and oversees the ILC Steering leader in the ILC's design. The team Committee (ILCSC) that Maury Tigner removed two very large magnets, one has led up to now. At the Uppsala over 1500 tons, hundreds of shielding meeting Albrecht Wagner, director of blocks, the remnants of a target station, DESY, was named the new chair of ICFA and numerous magnets, collimators, and Tuesday, July 5 miscellaneous devices. with a term of three years to start on Creamy Turkey Vegetable Soup January 1 2006, and Shin-ichi Kurokawa Chicken Gyros $4.85 The building was not only cleared, said was named to replace Maury Tigner as Salisbury Steaks w/ Mushroom Au Jus Czarapata, but "painted, with survey chair of the ILCSC,starting this month. $3.75 marks put in and new shield blocks Chicken Cacciatore $3.75 installed." Limon said, "This is an example The meeting ranged over many topics of Smoked Turkey Breast on Homemade of the ability of the lab to work across interest related to international Fococcia $4.85 divisional boundaries flexibly and speedily collaboration, including the planning of Philly Cheese Stromboli $3.50 to get something done. We did the job, the triennial ICFA Seminar that will take Chipotle Chili & Queso Nachos Supreme and we did the job very well." place in Daegu, Korea, September 28 $4.85 --Amelia Greene through October 1, 2005. One of the most impressive and heartening aspects of the The Wilson Hall Cafe now accepts Visa, Branlard Awarded John meeting was to see representatives of the Master Card, Discover and American Bardeen Engineering different regions of the world coming Express at Cash Register #1. Fellowship together to plan a common future. Julien Branlard begins work at Fermilab Wilson Hall Cafe Menu today as the first John Bardeen Chez Leon is now open. Call x4512 to Engineering Fellow. A recent graduate of June 27 - June 29 make your reservation. the Illinois Institute of Technology, - During this 48 hour period Operations Branlard joins the established one store that combined with Accelerator an existing store provided approximately Search the Fermilab Today Archive Division's RF 38 hours and 15 minutes of luminosity to Department. the experiments

"Julien will make an Read the Current Accelerator Update Fermilab Today is online at: outstanding Read the Early Bird Report http://www.fnal.gov/today/ addition to View the Tevatron Luminosity Charts Fermilab," said Julien Branlard is Send comments and suggestions to Ralph Pasquinelli, the first recipient [email protected] Accelerator Division of the John Bardeen From the Interactions News RF Department Engineering Fellowship Fermilab Today archive Wire, July 1, 2005 Head and the inspiration behind the BaBar finds new massive particle Fermilab Today PDF Version fellowship. "He's an articulate, talented On Thursday June 30th at the team player who will hit the ground Fermilab Result of the Week archive international Lepton-Photon symposium running with his outstanding engineering in Uppsala, Sweden, the BaBar skills." Fermilab Safety Tip of the Week archive experiment at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Linear Collider News archive Branlard began his studies in France and (SLAC) announced the discovery of a transferred to the Illinois Institute of Fermilab Today classifieds new massive particle with curious Technology in 2000. After graduating with behavior. Subscribe/Unsubscribe to Fermilab Today a Ph.D. in electrical engineering last December, he began looking for a way to The particle is produced in collisions continue his work in the United States. between electrons and their antimatter "I've always been attracted to counterparts, called positrons. For the engineering, from the moment I first moment the particle has been named started playing with LEGOs to today," Y(4260), reflecting the measured mass of Branlard said. "This position is a perfect 4260 Mega-electron volts but the opportunity to work in a field I love while unknown nature of the state. The getting the most of my time in the States." discovery is the subject of a paper

The fellowship seeks to bring to Fermilab submitted to Physical Review Letters this one or two of the most talented week. engineering Masters or PhD recipients Read more each year. The Fellows can be placed in any Division or Section where engineers are employed. Upcoming Classes July 18 - 21: Learning Perl "This fellowship program will ensure that July 19 & 20: Interpersonal Fermilab attracts additional engineers of Communication Skills Julien's caliber to support Fermilab's more information future." Pasquinelli said. More Information Children's Treasure Hunt Party - --Kelen Tuttle August 5 This two-hour event offers an introduction to the safe use of snorkeling gear and the aquatic environment. The party will be held on August 5 at the Village Pool from 9 AM - 11 AM. The cost for each child is $20.00. Children ages 5 to 12 years of age are accepted. Children must know how to swim and be comfortable in the water. Registration deadline is July 29. Maximum of 20 children accepted. Registration can be made in the Recreation Office. more information

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