Fermilab Today Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010 Subscribe | Contact Us | Archive | Classifieds | Guidelines | Help Search Director's Corner Navigation Milestone Retirements Below is a listing of upcoming retirements. Please note the individual's last day at the lab and any associated retirement event. Fermilab Today will post the dates of additional retirement events as we become aware of them. Larry Allen, AD, last day: Monday, Dec. 13. Bill Bardeen, PPD, last day: Friday, Dec. 10. Fermilab Director Pier Oddone Somebody could get rich translating our Kevin Cahill, AD, last day: Thursday, Dec. 9. adventures at Fermilab into a fast-paced video James Crisp, AD, last day: Friday, Dec. 10. game called LAB. We have all the elements: a Retirement event: Thursday, Dec. 9, 11:45 a. cast of creative and colorful personalities, the m., Riverview Banquets, 1117 N. Washington possibility of great discoveries, a semi-infinite Ave., Batavia. Contact Lisa, x3674. set of rules to live by, multiple institutions ranging from our national and international Ed Crumpley, FESS, last day: Tuesday, Dec. partners to the DOE, Office of Management 14. and Budget and Congress all trying to help us. We have a set of diverse activities in our site Robert Flora, AD, last day, Friday, Dec. 10. comparable to those of a small city. And Retirement event: Thursday, Dec. 9, 11:45 a. besides all these, we have a great sense of m., Riverview Banquets, 1117 N. Washington suspense that comes both from the surprises Ave., Batavia. Contact Lisa, x3674. that science serves us and from the dragons that jump out at us from the most unexpected Jeanmarie Guyer, PPD, last day: Monday, places. Getting to the brass ring before "game Dec. 13. Retirement event: Friday, Dec. 10, 5 p. Calendar over" is quite a challenge. While this might m. at the User's Center. Contact: sweber@fnal. make for an exciting video game, though, it gov. probably does not make for optimal Have a safe day! management of a scientific enterprise. James Jablonski, TD, last day: Monday, Wednesday, Dec. 8 Dec. 13. Retirement event: Friday, Dec. 10, at Last week one of those dragons jumped into 1:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. in T157 (directly behind ICB). our path. On Dec. 2 the National Science Special Seminar - One West Board's Committee on Program and Plans Speaker: Amanda Petersen, Alan Jonckheere, PPD, last day: Friday, voted not to recommend the proposed DUSEL Fermilab Dec. 10. bridge funding award. The award funds the Title: Visa Extensions - An DUSEL team that is creating the Preliminary Junior Jones, TD, last day: Monday, Dec. Overview Design Report and working in South Dakota 13. 3:30 p.m. maintaining safe access and carrying on DIRECTOR'S COFFEE Anthony Kanyok, FESS, last day: Tuesday, operations in the existing facility. The bridge BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over Dec. 14. funding is necessary to keep the UC Berkeley 4 p.m. and South Dakota teams at work until a formal Fermilab Colloquium - One Brian Kramper, AD, last day: Tuesday, Dec. decision on DUSEL by the National Science West 14. Board takes place. The present action by the Speaker: Taekjip Ha, CPP is very narrow and makes no statement University of Illinois Kathi Luedemann, WDRS, last day: Friday, about the merits of the science to be carried Title: Revisiting the Double Dec. 10. Retirement event: Friday, Dec. 10 out at DUSEL. Nevertheless, it could have a Helix from 2:30-3:30 p.m., WH 15 south crossover. devastating effect on the project if the issue of bridge funding is not resolved in a relatively file:///U|/wwwdocs/pub/v5_0/today/archive_2010/today10-12-08.html (1 of 4)12/8/2010 9:46:11 AM Fermilab Today Thursday, Dec. 9 Bob Mau, AD, last day: Tuesday, Dec. 14. short time. 2 p.m. Computing Techniques Peter Mazur, TD, last day: Tuesday, Dec. 14. In a message to the DUSEL team, Graham Seminar - FCC1 Fleming, the Vice Chancellor for Research at Joel Misek, AD, last day: Thursday, Dec. 9. the UC Berkeley campus stated: “At this point, Speaker: Steve Timm, all of the major top‐level stakeholders are Fermilab Merle Olson, FESS, last day: Tuesday, Dec. actively and personally engaged in finding Title: The FermiCloud Project: 14. ways to maintain the momentum that has Pilot Service Deployment and been established.” Certainly on my trip earlier Future Plans Phillip Pfund, TD, last day: Friday, Dec. 10. this week to D.C. to present Fermilab’s long- 2:30 p.m. range plans to DOE I witnessed the strong Theoretical Physics Seminar - Stanley Pruss, AD, last day: Friday, Dec. 10. efforts that some of these stakeholders are Curia II James Schwartz, AD, last day: Monday, making to address the issue and participated Speaker: Leandro Almeida, Dec. 13. in discussions to devise possible solutions. CEA-Saclay We hope their efforts will quickly resolve the Title: Jet Hunting with Earl Shaffer, TD, last day: Monday, Dec. 13. huge uncertainty now plaguing our colleagues Templates and partners in South Dakota and Berkeley— 3:30 p.m. Vladimir Sirotenko, PPD, last day: Friday, and our own scientific game plan. DIRECTOR'S COFFEE Dec. 10. Milestone BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over THERE WILL BE NO Jeannelle Smith, WDRS. Retirement event: Death ACCELERATOR PHYSICS Friday, Dec. 10 from 2:30-3:30 p.m., WH 15 Fermilab scientist Muzaffer Atac, ID 269 died AND TECHNOLOGY south crossover. Dec. 7. A memorial service will take place at SEMINAR THIS WEEK 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11, in the sanctuary Raymond Stefanski, PPD, last day: Friday, of The Unitarian Universalist Society of Dec. 10. Click here for NALCAL, Geneva, 110 S. 2nd St., Geneva, IL. A a weekly calendar with Alan Wehmann, AD, last day: Tuesday, Dec. reception will follow. Fermilab Today will links to additional 14. include additional information on Atac's life information. and work in a future issue. Roy Wickenberg, AD, last day: Friday, Dec. Special Announcement Upcoming conferences 10. Full-day NEPA training course Jacqueline Wilson, PPD, Tuesday, Dec. offered to employees Dec. 9 Campaigns 14. Retirement event: Monday, Dec. 13 at Fermilab offers all employees who wish to Take Five 11:30 a.m., Portillo's 531 N. Randall Road, learn more about the National Environmental Batavia. RSVP and contact: Jamie Grado, Policy Act and its implementation a Weather x6618. comprehensive, full-day training course from 8 Partly Sunny a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 9, in One 20°/11° Paul Wise, ES&H, last day: Monday, Dec. 13. West. The course will provide critical, high- level information that is necessary to John Yoh, PPD, last day: Friday, Dec. 10. Extended Forecast implement the NEPA process correctly, Weather at Fermilab Feature effectively and efficiently. No pre-registration is CMS observes new clues about required. More information and an hour-by- Current Security Status hour schedule of the training session is Secon Level 3 early universe available in the ES&H database. Wilson Hall Cafe Special Announcement Wednesday, Dec. 8 Education Office to hold annual - Breakfast: English muffin holiday sale Dec. 8-9 sandwich Prepare for the winter - *Beef barley soup holidays with Fermilab - Gyros gear. From 10:30 a.m. to - *Caribbean grilled salmon 2 p.m. on Dec. 8 and 9, - Stuffed peppers stock up on winter - Beef and cheddar panini clothing, science toys and - Assorted sliced pizza more at the Education - Grilled chicken bowtie w/ This heavy-ion collision inside the CMS detector Office's Super Science tomato cream illustrates the jet-quenching phenomenon, an Stocking Stuffer Sale. The imbalance in energy between two jets that provides Education Office is *carb restricted alternative insight into the conditions of the universe at its birth. holding the sale next to file:///U|/wwwdocs/pub/v5_0/today/archive_2010/today10-12-08.html (2 of 4)12/8/2010 9:46:12 AM Fermilab Today Wilson Hall Cafe Menu This week the first heavy-ion run at CERN’s Fermilab Director One West. All major credit Large Hadron Collider concluded, giving the Pier Oddone wears cards are accepted. one of the Fermilab Chez Leon CMS experiment the perfect holiday gift: new silk ties available at Wednesday, Dec. 8 clues about the conditions of matter in the very first moments of the universe. the Education Lunch Office. - Swordfish w/ lemon butter The CMS collaboration, together with the Safety Update sauce ALICE and ATLAS experiments, presented ES&H weekly report, Dec. 7 - Spinach risotto their first heavy-ion results from this run in a - Lemon Napoleon seminar held at CERN last week on Dec. 2. 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