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04/01/07

Small cogs drive a big machine

University scientists are the backbone of particle physics; like cogs in a complex machine, they deliver expertise, funding, and equipment exactly where needed. At Vanderbilt, they’re developing ways to handle a flood of data from the Large Hadron Collider.

04/01/07

A quest for balance in Canada

Canadian subatomic physics has a lot going for it: sparkling new hardware, an influx of bright young minds, and key roles in international projects. But only by doubling its operating budget can it live up to that potential, a new report suggests.

04/01/07

Masters of improv

World-class detective Angus MacGyver of the hit 1980s television show MacGyver could jury-rig almost anything with duct tape and a pocket knife.

04/01/07

Nigel Lockyer: TRIUMF in Canada

Canada, affectionately known to Americans as the "Great White North," boasts the world's largest reserve of fresh water and the biggest oil reserves outside the Middle East.

04/01/07

Symmetry evolves

Spring is in the air, and we at symmetry feel change all around us–not only in the content of the magazine, but in the contributors who come and go as they move careers and lives, including a constant flow of interns who provide us with so much hard work and vitality.

Logbook of March 2007
03/01/07

Neutrino invention

Wolfgang Pauli postulated the existence of a neutral, light-weight particle that could save the fundamental law of the conservation of energy.

Photo of spectrometer moving through Karls
03/01/07

KATRIN’s odyssey

People went to great lengths, traveling almost 9000 kilometers over more than 60 days, to deliver an essential, 200-ton component of the KATRIN neutrino experiment.

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.