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Fri., March 30 First European Masterclass Test Beam Encounters: ECal 8:30 a.m. extends reach of teachers meets HCal Presentations to the Physics Advisory Committee - Curia II When scientists take their detector prototypes Agenda to a test beam they enter a parallel world. 3:30 p.m. Many basic needs are DIRECTOR'S COFFEE put on hold - the need for BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over sunlight, regular meals or 4:00 p.m. eight hours of sleep, for Joint Experimental-Theoretical example. What counts is Physics Seminar - 1 West the beam time: you have Speaker: K. Terashi, three days, weeks or Rockefeller University months to test your Title: Diffraction and Exclusive equipment, and you have High school teachers got a crash course in collider Production at CDF: Towards to make the best of it physics at Fermilab last weekend, during the first Exclusive Higgs at LHC ~ because you might not European Masterclass as part of the QuarkNet get another chance. A Colourful team in program. Mon., April 2 team from Japan and the beam: Asian ECal makes 2:30 p.m. Korea have just reached A group of high school teachers from five measurements in the halfway point of their Particle Astrophysics Seminar states and Puerto Rico participated in the first the test beam at - Curia II European Masterclass at Fermilab last time in the DESY test DESY Speaker: S. Perez, Fermilab weekend. Coordinated with the European beam, calibrating, Title: Warped DGP: Self Outreach Group, the class checking and recording data with their acceleration, Ghosts and Other was offered as part of the QuarkNet program electromagnetic calorimeter prototype. Beasts at Fermilab. QuarkNet is an educational The team from Asia brought three different 3:30 p.m. program funded by NSF and the DOE Office components with them that they are testing DIRECTOR'S COFFEE of Science designed to support science consecutively in all possible configurations. To BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over education in high schools by establishing a record and read out their data they use the 4:00 p.m. nationwide teacher network. The goal of the readout system built in Europe for the All Experimenters' Meeting - program is to introduce teachers and students hadronic calorimeter - proof of a working Curia II to modern research in the field of particle CALICE collaboration. “It's a very good beam, Special Topics: CDF Run IIb physics under the mentorship of an active Bandwidth Upgrades; Stacktail scientist. the electronics work very well, we're meeting Equalizer old friends and we've got plenty of time - ideal The first training of QuarkNet teachers took conditions,” says Tohru Takeshita from Click here for NALCAL, place in summer 1999, featuring a workshop Shinshu University. While the analysis of the a weekly calendar with links that introduced 24 teachers to particle physics. results will only start properly when the team to additional information. The new masterclass, developed with particle of ten scientists returns to their institutes in Weather physicists in Europe, orients teachers and Japan and Korea, taking peeks at the screens students toward the upcoming experiments at in the control room they think it's looking pretty the at CERN. good so far. Light Rain 49°/31° "In a sense, it is like a violin master class, in Read more Extended Forecast which violinists all work with an expert to learn --Barbara Warmbein Weather at Fermilab something," said Hector Mendez, a CMS physicist from the University of Puerto Rico at Readers Write Current Security Status Mayaguez who arranged the class with the help of Ken Cecire, a member of the QuarkNet Secon Level 3 staff. The masterclasses around the world give students and teachers access to data created Wilson Hall Cafe by the now dismantled Large Electron- Positron collider. Cecire said it also provides a great network for teachers. "It helps them

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Friday, March 30 figure out what kind of pedagogy works," he - Old Fashioned Ham & Bean said. - Philly Style Chicken - Braised Pork Chops Dan Karmgard, a professor at Notre Dame - Baked Fish over Rice and also a CMS member, gave a talk on - Roasted Veggie & Provolone Sunday morning that helped the group Panini prepare to analyze physics data. The group then spent Sunday afternoon analyzing and Wilson Hall Cafe Menu interpreting signals in collider physics data. On Chez Leon Monday morning, the teachers compared their results via videoconference with other Wednesday, April 4 teachers from concurrent masterclasses in Lunch Germany, Italy, Slovakia and the Czech - Ropa Viejas (Flank Steak Republic. Shredded) Dear FT: - Sweet Plantain Mash Gilberto Sanchez and Luis Torres-Rosa Over the last few months I have taken a keen - Coconut Cake w/Lime Filling traveled from Puerto Rico to attend the interest in the falcon that has been hanging conference. For Sanchez, the conference out on the east side of Wilson Hall. I guess Thursday, April 5 marked his first visit to Fermilab. "I've only they have been watching me too, because this Dinner seen pictures before," he said, "but here, the morning the falcon introduced itself as it sat on - Stuffed Multicolored Peppers science is alive." - Pork Medallions w/Cider ledge outside my office. I took this picture as Sauce Mendez was impressed that the small group of the falcon sat and watched me drink my joe - Greens w/Cannellini Beans teachers "reaches more than 1000 high school this morning. - Almond Butter Cake students who will benefit from their teachers' --Harry Ferguson III Chez Leon Menu knowledge of particle physics in the classroom." Torres-Rosa added that although Call x4598 to make your Fermilab bird expert Peter Kasper the analysis they completed was difficult, it reservation. responds: opened his eyes to the learning potential of Archives physics data: "Physics particles have We were able to identify this bird from the completely changed my mind, in a good way." Midwest Peregrine Society's database by Fermilab Today using the colors of the bands on her left leg. --Christine Buckley This peregrine falcon is a one-year-old female called Neomi Jo. She hatched on March 16, Special Announcement Result of the Week 2006 in Bedford, Trimble County, KY. Her parents nested on a smokestack at the 2007 Tollestrup Award for Louisville Gas and Electric Company plant. Safety Tip of the Week Outstanding Postdoctoral She was banded one month after hatching Research and started flying a week later. I hope we can ILC NewsLine get more information about her mate. Universities Research Association Inc. (URA) will reward outstanding work conducted by a Announcements Info postdoctoral researcher at Fermilab or in collaboration with Fermilab scientists. Alvin Utility Outage - Maintenance Notification Fermilab Today is online at: Tollestrup will present the award during the Fermilab will experience a utility outage in www.fnal.gov/today/ 2007 Annual Users' Meeting. All Ph.D. drinking water over the next few days. The researchers in non-permanent positions at process of sectionalizing the domestic water Send comments and Fermilab or URA member institutions who are system to locate leaks began yesterday and suggestions to: within six years of the receipt of their Ph.D. as will last through Monday, April 2. Areas may [email protected] of the nomination deadline are eligible. experience a short-term loss of domestic water. Only the main site domestic water Candidates should nominate themselves for system will be affected. Questions and the Tollestrup Award. The award is for a concerns should be directed to Steve Shirley particular research project conducted during at X3007 or Greg Gilbert at X6835. the nominee's postdoctoral years, demonstrating the nominee's own scientific EAP office closures insight and creativity. A committee appointed The on-site Employee Assistance Program by the Fermilab Director, Pier Oddone, will office will be closed on Friday, March 30. As make the selection of the most outstanding always, EAP is available 24 hours a day, work. The recipient will be notified by May 31, seven days a week by calling 1-800-843-1327 2007. file:///U|/website/pub/v5_0/today/staging_fri_new.html (2 of 3)4/2/2007 11:41:34 AM Fermilab Today

or by visiting the EAP website. Find more All nomination material should submitted via e- information here. mail by Monday, April 30, 2007. The Next Fermi Kyuki-Do Martial Arts Class Learn more begins on April 9 Kyuki-Do combines the strikes of Taekwon- In the News Do, the throwing and grappling techniques of Judo and Jujitsu, the joint locks of Hapki-Do, Innovations Report and the practice of Kobudo (traditional March 29, 2007: weapons) into one art. Classes are held on Monday and Wednesday from 5 - 6 p.m. at the PPARC announces £30m for physics Grid Recreation Facility in the Village. Teacher Bruce Worthel will focus on a practical self- The GridPP project is building a computing defense that can be used by women or men. Grid to analyse data from the Large Hadron You will learn kicks, blocks, hand techniques, Collider (LHC), a new particle accelerator near throws, pins, self-defense, and forms that will Geneva, which will be turned on later this teach you balance, power, and grace. Register year. The funding announced this week will through the Recreation Office; classes cost allow GridPP to continue into its third phase, $45 per 6-week session. You must be a running until 2011, covering the period when member of the recreation facility to join. the LHC starts taking data. English country dancing Professor Keith Mason, CEO of PPARC said English country dancing will meet at 2 p.m. “The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the this Sunday, April 1, at Kuhn Barn. world’s largest physics experiment, recreating Newcomers are most welcome and you don't conditions last seen just after the Big Bang in need to come with a partner. The group will order to better understand our Universe. The continue meeting the first Sunday afternoon of detectors will register a deluge of data at up to the month in May and then change to a 15 Gigabytes per second – or 3 DVDs every different schedule for the summer. For more second. To store and manage this data information please contact folkdance@fnal. requires a new approach – the Grid.” gov or call 630-584-0825 or 630-840-8194.

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