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03/01/07

BNL job bank

The commentary by Marc Sher on “The two-body opportunity” (Dec 2006) highlights both the problem of finding suitable positions for dual-career couples in physics and the advantages of hiring them together. Indeed, his comments are true for couples in any scientific discipline.

03/01/07

Fermilab fleece

I thought it might amuse you to know that I’ve spotted a Fermilab full-zippered fleece in the Concord Monitor.

03/01/07

Physics bliss

It was very nice reading the article on couples in physics in the January/February issue of symmetry. Satyajit Behari and I are also physicists happily married to physics, and have been working together at Fermilab since 2000.

03/01/07

Marvelous engineering

The article on Fermi’s magnet (symmetry, Dec 2006) included the quote, “When it became superconducting, it was ugly and took weeks and weeks to come online.”

03/01/07

Accelerator at the fair

Science fair season is here, so we at symmetry were not surprised when 12-year-old Austin Ellsworth of Spring, Texas, called with a few questions about his science fair project.

03/01/07

Expert “hackers” challenge students

Tim Rupp and Joe Klemencic, two of Fermilab’s computer security wizards, posed as the bad guys to offer a challenge in the Indiana state-wide college cyber defense competition held at Indiana Tech.

03/01/07

“Soup, salad, or Higgs?”

A snowstorm hit the Chicago area on February 13, before the start of the DOE/NSF agency review at Fermilab of the US ATLAS and US CMS collaborations, the US contributions to two of the Large Hadron Collider experiments.

03/01/07

Star Wars lands at Fermilab

Fermilab physicist Darren Crawford shares a birthdate, May 25, with the first Star Wars movie release. Now he is making his own mark on the fabled sci-fi fantasy series.

03/01/07

Name of fame

Counting the number of citations of a particular paper is one way to measure its impact and importance. But it is by no means the only gauge.

An illustration representing dark matter
03/01/07

Dark matter

Dark matter seems to be abundant in the universe but has yet to be directly detected.

03/01/07

Jennifer Ouellette: Beginner's mind

Several years ago I earned my black belt in jujitsu. Before tying the belt around my waist, the grand master had me don my old white belt, which designates a beginner. He then instructed me to look into a mirror and reflect on what it had been like to walk onto the dojo mat for the first time.

03/01/07

Traveling detector

For million-dollar components that travel thousands of miles to become part of a particle detector, the most perilous part of the trip might be airport security.

03/01/07

Universal accord

Take one part unidentified goop. Add three parts mysterious energy. Throw in a dash of ordinary atoms. Mix. Compress. Explode. Let expand for 13.7 billion years.

03/01/07

Toward an international linear collider

Higgs Boson. Dark Matter. Dark Energy. Extra Dimensions. These are all buzz words that will make the heart of any particle physics enthusiast flutter.

03/01/07

Barry Barish: The ILC’s reference design

After extensive international collaboration and planning, the International Linear Collider has reached a milestone with its Reference Design Report. The reference design provides the first detailed technical snapshot of the next-generation machine.