Fermilab Today Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Subscribe | Contact Fermilab Today | Archive | Classifieds Search Furlough Information Feature Director's Corner New furlough information, Code crackers wanted! Updates including an up-to-date Q&A As you know, we have section, appears on the suffered some delays in furlough Web pages regularly. implementing the work force restructuring plan. Layoff Information The plan we submitted to the Department of Energy New information on Fermilab at the end of April was layoffs, including an up-to-date based on an involuntary Q&A section, appears on the layoff arrived at after a layoff Web pages. thorough study to match functions, skills and Pier Oddone Calendar performance to the needs of the laboratory. Upon review of the plan, the Department Tuesday, May 20 asked that we consider implementing a 11 a.m. targeted voluntary separation program that Research Techniques Seminar would precede the involuntary layoff. We are - Curia II currently analyzing how we would implement A little more than a year ago, the Fermilab Speaker: B. McMorran, such a plan while maintaining our goal to Office of Communication received a curious University of Arizona retain the staff with the skills needed to deliver letter in code. It sat in our files essentially Title: Matter Wave on the present program and to move forward untouched as none of us are master Interferometry with Poorly with our future programs. We do not know cryptologists. However, recently we decided to Collimated Beams precisely how long this process will take. I will ask symmetry readers for help in deciphering 3:30 p.m. have an all-hands meeting later in the week to the text. (See the symmetry breaking story DIRECTOR'S COFFEE answer questions. I regret very much this here.) We hadn't expected that readers of BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over extended period of uncertainty that weighs on slashdot.org would also take a keen interest. 4 p.m. everyone at the laboratory. Accelerator Physics and Tens of thousands of people have looked at the code and made much progress toward the Technology Seminar - One On the political front, the supplemental solution. But, we need Fermilab inside appropriations bill for FY2008 is currently West knowledge to complete the deciphering. under consideration. The House approved a Speakers: V. Kamerdzhiev, R. bill last week that did not include any spending Thurman-Keup, M. Wendt, So far we know that the first and last sections for science. The Senate Appropriations Fermilab read "FRANK SHOEMAKER WOULD CALL Committee markup included $1.2B for science Title: Impressions from the THIS NOISE" and "EMPLOYEE NUMBER of which $100M is for the Office of Science Beam Instrumentation BASSE SIXTEEN." Shoemaker has had a role and $45M for High Energy Physics. The two Workshop (BIW08) in various Fermilab projects including the bills must be reconciled before submission to BooNE collaboration. Wednesday, May 21 the President. The President has stated flatly 3:30 p.m. We suspect the middle section identifies the that he will veto any bill close to the present DIRECTOR'S COFFEE author of the letter (who is possibly reading form of either the House or Senate bills. In the BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over this now). Do you have any light to shed on meantime, there is no action so far in marking 4 p.m. this? Can you help us understand the rest of up the FY2009 President's Budget Request. Fermilab Colloquium - One the text? E-mail any information to In the midst of these difficult times, the West [email protected] or post laboratory's professionalism and drive is Speaker: A. Filippenko, comments on symmetry breaking. astounding. Last week the laboratory broke University of California, three records: Berkeley Photo of the Day Title: Evidence from Type 1a ● A new weekly integrated luminosity record Supernovae for an of 58.2 inverse picobarns Accelerating Universe and ● A new record antiproton hourly production Dark Energy rate of 26.17 mA/hr ● A new record of delivered protons-on-target file:///U|/wwwdocs/pub/v5_0/today/archive_2008/today08-05-20.html (1 of 3)5/20/2008 11:35:07 AM Fermilab Today Click here for NALCAL, Bicycle commuters celebrate to NuMI of 7.09 x 1018 a weekly calendar with links National Bike to Work Day to additional information. Nothing will help us more as we develop our Weather future than our proven ability to deliver. 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You may elect a based on their work seems almost as fanciful. cash distribution from TIAA and CREF Fermilab Today Yet last October, the American TV network Retirement Annuities. Withdrawals from the CBS premiered "The Big Bang Theory," and TIAA Traditional Retirement Annuity about 9 million people now watch it each accumulations are only possible using a Result of the Week week--enough for CBS to quickly renew the Transfer Payout Annuity (TPA). If the show for another year. The Washington Post's accumulation is less than $10,000, it would be provided in one lump sum. The Summary Plan Safety Tip of the Week critic Tom Shales calls it "the funniest new sitcom of the season." Apparently, it isn't just Description for the Retirement Plan is posted quarks that can be strange and charming. on the Benefits Web site for your review. ILC NewsLine Centering on two male physics postdocs and Women can provide feedback on work the blonde bombshell who moves in next door, environment May 28 "The Big Bang Theory" follows the sitcom Calling all female staff, users and student and formula of placing quirky, exaggerated senior scientists. Fermilab Deputy Director file:///U|/wwwdocs/pub/v5_0/today/archive_2008/today08-05-20.html (2 of 3)5/20/2008 11:35:07 AM Fermilab Today Info characters in situations both odd and Young-Kee Kim would like to hear about your mundane. But where the show breaks the work environment at Fermilab. Please join her Fermilab Today mold is that most of those characters and for a lunchtime meeting from noon-1 p.m. on is online at: situations revolve around science, highly May 28. The meetings will take place in the www.fnal.gov/today/ accurate science for the most part, thanks to small dining room in the southwest corner of experimental particle physicist David Saltzberg the atrium in Wilson Hall. Please bring your Send comments and of the University of California, Los Angeles lunch. To arrange a private meeting with suggestions to: (UCLA), who's been with the show from the Young-Kee Kim, please contact Marilyn Smith [email protected] initial episode. From making sure lab via e-mail. equipment looks suitably haphazard to supplying the equations displayed on the New computer programming course show, Saltzberg's presence is regularly felt on "Function Objects: Using Generalized the set; he even has a director's chair with his Functions in Modern C++," the final course in name on it. "I can't overestimate his value to the current series of "Selected Topics in what we do," says Bill Prady, who along with Computer Programming," will take place Chuck Lorre created the show.