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GLAST Management Visits
Italy
By Lowell Klaisner
 SLAC Director
Jonathan Dorfan and GLAST/LAT Project Manager Lowell Klaisner visited
INFN in Pisa, Italy in July. They met with the team working on the GLAST
Silicon Tracker in the morning and toured their facilities. Dorfan met
with the BABAR
collaborators in the afternoon and then visited the facility where INFN
is building the silicon vertex detector for CMS at CERN. They also
met with Rino Castaldi, Director of INFN-PISA, and expressed their
appreciation for this support and for the importance of the
collaboration between INFN-Pisa and SLAC. INFN is an important
collaborator on the GLAST project and to preparations for doing science
with the instrument. The Tracker is a modular design of 16
individual towers, each with 19 layers of silicon.
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Galayda to Head New LCLS Division
By Shawne Neeper
To build the world’s
fastest and shortest-wavelength x-ray laser, SLAC created a new Linac
Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Division and named John Galayda as its
Associate Director. Galayda brings nearly three decades of hands-on
experience with accelerator-based light sources to this project to
create the first-ever linac x-ray laser.
After three years of
planning the LCLS facility in collaboration with scientists at UCLA and
Los Alamos, Livermore, Argonne and Brookhaven National Labs, Galayda
will oversee the construction phase, guiding the laser’s growth from the
drawing board into a new national user facility, similar in operation to
SSRL.
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Some
Assembly Required
By
Shawne Neeper
 As
the summer winds down,
BaBar
scientists are wrapping up a record-making year and
enjoying some well-earned down time. Operations ceased in PEP IR-2
(Bldg. 620) on July 31. But for engineer Jim Krebs (REG) and his team,
the work has just begun.
Through August and September, Krebs is leading a two-shifts-per-day
engineering effort for the
BaBar
detector upgrade. To reach
BaBar’s
top and bottom sextants, Krebs’ team will move a mountain of concrete,
design and fabricate many new lifting fixtures, and assemble a monster
lifting platform.
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CITRIX: A
Simple Way to Access Your Work Computer from Home
By Matt Howard
Have you ever wanted to work at home?
CITRIX is your answer. It is essentially having direct access to your
work computer at home. Anyone with a SLAC userid/computer acocunt can
use this extremely convenient way to access your computer desktop from
home. All you need is a computer (Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP, Unix, Linux,
or Mac) with an internet connection.
CITRIX is a simple way to access your
desktop, your drives and even your printers at work, all from home—or
from any computer in the world with internet access—using a web browser
with all the settings on your work computer.
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