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Friday, Jan. 30, 2009 Calendar Feature From ISGTW Friday, Jan. 30 ANL, Fermilab and UChicago Beauty to unlock the mystery of 3:30 p.m. come together for fifth meeting asymmetry DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over In an ongoing effort to keep Illinois a science 4:00 p.m. powerhouse, Fermilab, Argonne and Joint Experimental-Theoretical University of Chicago scientists continue to Physics Seminar - One West look for future collaborative opportunities. Speaker: Michel Davier, LAL, More than 70 scientists from the three Orsay institutions will meet Monday at Argonne for + - → Title: BaBar Results on e e the fifth joint meeting organized to to share π+ π- and the Muon g-2 ideas about future projects and institutions' Prediction strategic plans. Monday, Feb. 2 The meetings, started in 2006 by Fermilab and 2:30 p.m. Argonne, initially focused on accelerator R&D. Particle Astrophysics Seminar While this is still a large focus of the - Curia II collaboration, particularly in regards to Project Speaker: Leanne Duffy, Los X, a series of research grants provided by the Alamos National Laboratory University of Chicago has led to joint projects Title: Phase-Space Structure in other research areas as well. of the Milky Way's Dark Halo The LHCb electomagnetic calorimeter, a device to 3:30 p.m. Proposals for joint projects include the detect electrons, their antiparticles (called DIRECTOR'S COFFEE production of better superconducting cavities, positrons) and photons, particles of light. This BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over detector R&D, work on the LHC experiments immense array will collect immense amounts of 4 p.m. and phenomenology, improvement of data, requiring immense amounts of computing All Experimenters' Meeting - education and training of accelerator power and data storage. Image courtesy of LHCb. Curia II physicists, and work on Fermilab-hosted Particles and their companion antiparticles Special Topic: Preparing for neutrino projects such as NOvA and the differ only in the sign of their electric charge the E-906/Drell-Yan Experiment beamline to DUSEL. Scientists will also discuss an MOU for collaborative work on (positive or negative), and in other respects Click here for NALCAL, Project X. behave identically in most situations. Physicists were therefore stunned in 1964 to a weekly calendar with links discover that some antiparticles behave to additional information. "The focus has really been broadened," said differently from their particles. Weather Young-Kee Kim, Fermilab's deputy director. "I'm excited about the potential joint efforts that can be jump started by this meeting." An experiment at CERN called LHCb, for Partly cloudy "Large Hadron Collider beauty" (where 17°/6° Milestone "beauty", also known as "bottom", is the second heaviest of the six known quarks), will Extended Forecast Congratulations to Tuition study this difference in behavior, referred to as Weather at Fermilab "asymmetry." The scientists expect to process Assistance Program graduates 700 Terabytes of data a year at several Current Security Status Enabling Grids for E-scienceE (EGEE) sites. In preparation, they’ve recently been running Secon Level 3 10-20 thousand simulation jobs a day on the grid. The yearly processing power required for Wilson Hall Cafe the simulations is equivalent to roughly 3,600 Dell Precision T7400 processors running continuously. Once data starts flowing, they'll need to add 50% more computing power. Universe out of balance Scientists refer to the identical, or symmetric, behavior of particles and antiparticles as Friday, Jan. 30 Charge Parity (CP) symmetry. The - New England clam chowder unexpected asymmetry that violates it is - Arizona jalapeno burger known as "CP violation". This asymmetry - Citrus lime grilled chicken helps explain why the current Universe seems - Iron city kielbasa almost entirely made of particles with virtually - Tampa bay touchdown club no antiparticles. Although the standard model - Assorted sliced pizza of particle physics does provide a source of - Cobb salad CP violation—in weak interactions, for Wilson Hall Cafe Menu example, nuclear decay—it is not enough to explain the huge imbalance. Chez Leon Read more Wednesday, Feb. 4 Lunch Announcements - Grilled pork loin with braised A group of Fermilab employees can check red cabbage and wild another thing off their to-do list: earning a Latest Announcements mushrooms degree. - Baked stuffed apples Nominations Requested for Job Profiles Each year, Fermilab employees earn degrees Thursday, Feb. 5 ranging from a bachelor's to a Ph.D. by taking Discount Tickets: Disney On Ice Presents Dinner advantage of the laboratory's Tuition Worlds of Fantasy - Closed Assistance Program. Discount Tickets to Smucker's Stars On Chez Leon Menu A group of the most recent graduates is Ice Call x3524 to make your pictured above: Front row: AD's Tom Kubicki, reservation. bachelor's in information technology from Discount Tickets: World's Toughest Archives Illinois Institute of Technology, Dec. 2008; Rodeo Presents Toughest Cowboy AD's Roshanda Spillers-Nolin, B.S. in information systems technologies from SIU at Fermilab Today C2ST presents Bioterrorism, Pandemics, Carbondale, May 2007; TD's Tug Arkan, & Vaccines Jan. 27 master's in engineering management from Result of the Week Northwestern University, June 2008; AD's Second Annual Mentor Round Up Alexander Martinez, master's in mechanical engineering from Illinois Institute of English Country Dancing, Feb. 1 Safety Tip of the Week Technology, Dec. 2007. Back row: BS's Lori Limberg, master's in Have a safe day! ILC NewsLine information systems management from Keller Graduate School of Management and DeVry Intermediate / Advanced Python University, April 2008; WDRS's Spencer Programming - Jan. 27 - 29 Info Pasero, master's in educational research and evaluation from Northern Illinois University, NALWO Brown Bag Lunch Jan. 27 - Fermilab Today is online at: May 2008; CD's Anil Kumar, MBA in business "Women as Classic: From BC to AD" www.fnal.gov/today/ administration from Northern Illinois University, May 2008; CD's Robert Kennedy, MBA & ACU bill pay demonstration Jan. 29 Send comments and graduate certificate in project management suggestions to: from Keller Graduate School of Management Recreation Office Meeting Jan. 30 [email protected] and DeVry University, Oct. 2007; CD's Anzar Afaq, master's in information technology and Outlook 2007 New Features classes management from DeVry University, Feb. scheduled Feb. 3 and 26 2008. Conflict Management & Negotiation Skills Not pictured: AD's Trevor Butler, master's in class offered Feb.3 electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Dec. 2007. PowerPoint 2007: New Features class Special Announcement offered Feb. 3 Facilitating Meetings That Work class offered Feb. 4 URA Thesis competition Word 2007: New Features class offered accepting admissions Feb. 4 Fermilab and the Universities Research Excel 2007: New Features class offered Association invite submissions for the twelfth Feb. 4 annual URA Thesis award competition. Interpersonal Communication Skills class The award recognizes the most outstanding being offered Feb. 5 thesis related to work conducted at Fermilab or in collaboration with Fermilab scientists. Bulgarian Dance Workshop, Feb. 12 The thesis must be completed in the 2008 calendar year. Nominations must be submitted Changes to the Family and Medical Leave to Steve Brice ([email protected]) by March 1 Act and should include at least two letters supporting the merits of the thesis you are Changes in U.S. admission procedure nominating. At least one letter should be from a member of the thesis committee of the Ph.D.- granting institution. Additional Activities The Thesis Awards Committee will select the winning thesis. Each thesis will be judged on clarity of presentation, originality and physics Submit an announcement content. To qualify, the thesis must have been submitted as partial fulfillment of the Ph.D. requirements in the 2008 calendar year, be written in English, and submitted in the electronic form to the Fermilab Publications Office in accordance with Fermilab policy. For more details, consult the URA Thesis Award web site. .