BaBar Collaboration Meeting to Begin Tomorrow

Viola Sordini and Ian Nugent in the BaBar control room. (Click on image for larger version.)

by Kelen Tuttle

Tomorrow marks the start of a busy week for BaBar with the opening session of this year's winter collaboration meeting. From Tuesday through Saturday, about 300 BaBarians will meet at SLAC for several days of intensive review, discussion, and planning.

"This is normally a time for BaBar collaborators to review the 'Winter Harvest' of physics results that will soon be presented at conferences," said BaBar spokesman Hassan Jawahery. "We will spend the week discussing the status of the detector after the completion of the LST upgrade last fall, start of Run 6 and preparing for upcoming conferences."

The week will be filled from dawn to dusk with plenary sessions covering topics of broad interest to collaborators, parallel sessions to allow detailed review and discussion of everything from hardware operations to physics working groups, and additional meetings related to the actual management and organization of the collaboration itself.

Educational Outreach

"Rising Above the Gathering Storm," released by the National Academy of Sciences in Fall 2005, poignantly describes the challenges the U.S. faces for economic prosperity and national security in a fast-paced economy. Key recommendations are to "vastly improve K-12 science and math education" and "to strengthen the nation's commitment to long-term basic research." To address these concerns, the SLAC Education Task Force committee, led by Mike Woods, assessed our current educational outreach programs. The Education Task Force Report contains specific recommendations to engage SLAC scientists with students and teachers to improve K-14 science education.

The Education Task Force strongly recommended creating an Office of Education within the Communications Department. I am pleased to announce the recent hiring of Susan Schultz to lead this new office as the SLAC Education Officer. Susan completed a PhD in Science Education at Stanford in 1999 and has extensive experience in conducting teacher professional development workshops, designing curriculum, teaching strategies to promote student learning, and evaluating science programs. She will be supporting and strengthening SLAC’s existing educational programs, implementing many of the committee’s recommendations, and collaborating with the newly formed Stanford K-12 Initiative.

The primary goal of the K-12 Initiative is to form interdisciplinary collaborations that bring the university's deep knowledge in many disciplines together with the School of Education's knowledge about teaching and schools to undertake programs to improve K-12 education. Read more...

Public Lecture to Focus on Renewable Energy

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As dependence on foreign oil increases and concerns about global climate change rise, the need to develop sustainable energy technologies is becoming increasingly significant. Worldwide energy consumption is expected to double by the year 2050, as will carbon emissions. Indisputable scientific evidence indicates significant and extensive changes in the global climate have already occurred due to carbon emissions, and will become even more extreme in coming years. The impacts of climate change and the resulting atmospheric warming will result in environmental, economic, socioeconomic, and geopolitical issues.

In tomorrow's public lecture, "Hydrogen: Fueling the Future," Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory's Jennifer Leisch will discuss how we can offset the projected increase in fossil energy with renewable energy production. She will focus specifically on hydrogen as an option for energy storage and transport, and will highlight recent research at SLAC in hydrogen production, fuel cell catalysis and hydrogen storage.

The lecture takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 27, in the Panofsky Auditorium. All are welcome to attend. Learn more...

Safety Firsts

by John Cornuelle

One of my children, to whom I would provide unwanted basketball advice, would say, "I'll run hard when it's important." My response of course was that you had to run hard all the time, since you could never tell in advance when it would be critical. Do any of you fall into this same trap with respect to safety?

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February 27: (4:15 p.m.) Campus Colloquium: Is a Quantum Phase Transition Underlying High-temperature Superconductivity?
February 28: (12:00 p.m.) WIS Seminar "Kid's Day @ SLAC: The Movie"

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BaBar Collaboration Meeting to Begin Tomorrow Viola Sordini and Ian Nugent in the BaBar control room. (Click on image for larger version.) by Kelen Tuttle Tomorrow marks the start of a busy week for BaBar with the opening session of this year's winter collaboration meeting. From Tuesday through Saturday, about 300 BaBarians will meet at SLAC for several days of intensive review, discussion, and planning. "This is normally a time for BaBar collaborators to review the 'Winter Harvest' of physics results that will soon be presented at conferences," said BaBar spokesman Hassan Jawahery. "We will spend the week discussing the status of the detector after the completion of the LST upgrade last fall, start of Run 6 and preparing for upcoming conferences." The week will be filled from dawn to dusk with plenary sessions covering topics of broad interest to collaborators, parallel sessions to allow detailed review and discussion of everything from hardware operations to physics working groups, and additional meetings related to the actual management and organization of the collaboration itself.

Educational Outreach "Rising Above the Gathering Storm," released by the National Academy of Sciences in Fall 2005, poignantly describes the challenges the U.S. faces for economic prosperity and national security in a fast-paced economy. Key recommendations are to "vastly improve K-12 science and math education" and "to strengthen the nation's commitment to long-term basic research." To address these concerns, the SLAC Education Task Force committee, led by Mike Woods, assessed our current educational outreach programs. The Education Task Force Report contains specific recommendations to engage SLAC scientists with students and teachers to improve K-14 science education. The Education Task Force strongly recommended creating an Office of Education within the Communications Department. I am pleased to announce the recent hiring of Susan Schultz to lead this new office as the SLAC Education Officer. Susan completed a PhD in Science Education at Stanford in 1999 and has extensive experience in conducting teacher professional development workshops, designing curriculum, teaching strategies to promote student learning, and evaluating science programs. She will be supporting and strengthening SLAC’s existing educational programs, implementing many of the committee’s recommendations, and collaborating with the newly formed Stanford K-12 Initiative. The primary goal of the K-12 Initiative is to form interdisciplinary collaborations that bring the university's deep knowledge in many disciplines together with the School of Education's knowledge about teaching and schools to undertake programs to improve K-12 education. Read more...	Public Lecture to Focus on Renewable Energy Image courtesy of SLAC InfoMedia As dependence on foreign oil increases and concerns about global climate change rise, the need to develop sustainable energy technologies is becoming increasingly significant. Worldwide energy consumption is expected to double by the year 2050, as will carbon emissions. Indisputable scientific evidence indicates significant and extensive changes in the global climate have already occurred due to carbon emissions, and will become even more extreme in coming years. The impacts of climate change and the resulting atmospheric warming will result in environmental, economic, socioeconomic, and geopolitical issues. In tomorrow's public lecture, "Hydrogen: Fueling the Future," Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory's Jennifer Leisch will discuss how we can offset the projected increase in fossil energy with renewable energy production. She will focus specifically on hydrogen as an option for energy storage and transport, and will highlight recent research at SLAC in hydrogen production, fuel cell catalysis and hydrogen storage. The lecture takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 27, in the Panofsky Auditorium. All are welcome to attend. Learn more... Safety Firsts by John Cornuelle One of my children, to whom I would provide unwanted basketball advice, would say, "I'll run hard when it's important." My response of course was that you had to run hard all the time, since you could never tell in advance when it would be critical. Do any of you fall into this same trap with respect to safety?	Events (see all \| submit) February 26: (4:15 p.m.) Colloquium: High Performance Neural Prostheses February 27: (12:30 p.m.) Experimental Seminar: Beyond the Horizons: A quest for New Physics February 27: (4:15 p.m.) Campus Colloquium: Is a Quantum Phase Transition Underlying High-temperature Superconductivity? February 28: (12:00 p.m.) WIS Seminar "Kid's Day @ SLAC: The Movie" Access (see all) Building 40 construction Alpine Gate & PEP Ring Road closed Gates 17 & 30 open 24-7 Research Yard bisected Announcements (see all \| submit) Lab Announcements New Publication: ESH Manual, Chapter 26, Stormwater New Information Tools from Purchasing Community Bulletin Board WorkLife Office: Living Well at 50 and Beyond News(see all \| submit) A Magnetic Surprise Science New Technique Opens Door to Tabletop X-ray Laser EurekAlert
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