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Polarized Sources Pioneer Prescott Retires
Charles Prescott (EA) is retiring on December
1, after 34 years
at SLAC leading the Lab and the world in developing and using
polarized sources of electrons in high energy physics experiments.
Prescott is probably most known for developing
the first high-intensity polarized source and heading the
groundbreaking E-122 experiment that solidified the then-disputable
electroweak theory, the foundation of today’s wildly successful
Standard Model.
He also gains recognition each summer as one of
the four directors of the SLAC Summer Institute. He will complete
his tenth year as director next summer before handing the reins over
to someone new.
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SC|05 Bandwidth Challenge
By Les Cottrell
This year’s Bandwidth Challenge was held at the
SuperComputing Conference (SC|05) November 14-17 in
Seattle. The purpose of the challenge was to showcase high-impact data
transfer among real applications.
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GEANT4 Paper is Hot,
Hot, Hot
By Richard Mount
According to Elsevier Science Direct, the GEANT4
Collaboration paper from 2003 is number five in the list of hottest
articles in Physics and Astronomy—and the only article in the top 25
that has anything to do with high energy physics. Areas of interest
range from economics to engineering and from biological to physical
sciences.
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SLAC Gala a Success
Our thanks to everyone who celebrated this momentous occasion with us!
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Feiguth Honored by DOE
By
Nina Adelman Stolar
Luda Fieguth (CEF) received the DOE Federal Energy Management
Program (FEMP) Energy Champion
award
on October 26.
The ceremony was
held
in the Forrestal Auditorium at DOE Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
“The
entire event was very
pleasant,”
Fieguth said. “We all
were
taken out to a luncheon in a
nice
restaurant on the bank of the
Potomac river.”
Two individual energy champions,
two
organizations and three small
groups
were recognized by DOE this
year
for ‘outstanding contributions
towards
energy and associated dollar
savings
at DOE facilities.’
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