[Cuga] JLab Weekly Briefs - a message from Kandice Carter

[Kandice Carter]

To access the full version of the JLab Weekly Briefs, visit: http://wwwold.jlab.org/news/briefs/index.html

May 2 Briefs Excerpts:

Foreign Travel Order 551.1 Revisions Instated
Changes that will affect the traveler directly involve: (1) Attendance at a foreign conference: Abstract and complete written talk to be added to request for foreign travel; (2) Personal leave combined with business: Ratio is now two business days for every personal day. The calculation includes travel days; (3) A Trip Report is no longer required. A new Foreign Travel Guidance document on the Travel website should be reviewed by anyone traveling after May 31 that does not already have their approval and clearance from Travel Services: http://wwwold.jlab.org/div_dept/cfo/travel/foreign.html

JLab to Test Tornado Warning Siren Friday at 10:30 a.m.
JLab's tornado warning siren will undergo its monthly operational test at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, May 4. Depending on weather conditions at the time of the test, the siren may be heard by anyone outdoors within a 1.5-mile radius of the lab. Individuals planning to be in the Central Materials Storage Area (where the siren is located) while the test is taking place must have with them and wear two layers of hearing protection. A sign will be posted at the Central Materials Storage Area gate to notify entrants of the test. It will be removed when the test is over. More information about the siren is in this March 2012 On Target newsletter article: http://wwwold.jlab.org/news/OnTarget/Story4.html

Tornado Preparedness and Response Awareness Survey Results Posted
About 200 members of the JLab community completed the survey after the Tornado Drill held on March 20. For a snapshot of the results, lessons learned and planned improvements, click the link: http://www.jlab.org/memo/2012_tornado_preparedness.html

Today's Colloquium: From Quarks to Baseballs - The Evolution of a Physicist
Alan Nathan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will address some interesting and practical questions of baseball from a physics perspective. In this talk, he will discuss some of the ways that a physicist analyzes the game of baseball. The talk will be organized around two broad topics: The physics of the ball-bat collision and the aerodynamics of a baseball in flight. The goal is that all will enjoy this talk, whether your interest is physics, baseball, or the intersection between them. The colloquium will take place May 2 at 4 p.m. in the CEBAF Center auditorium.

RadCon Seminar: Anticipating Radiation Damage: Calculation of Relevant Quantities
Even non-biological matter can suffer serious consequences from radiation, both natural and artificial. Francesco Cerutti, Emerging Energy Technologies Section of the Engineering Department at CERN, will review the macroscopic quantities associated with different types of damage, such as absorbed dose, displacements per atom, high-energy hadron fluence, and silicon 1 MeV-equivalent neutron fluence. The calculation of these quantities will be discussed in the context of the Monte Carlo description of the radiation-matter interaction, with particular reference to the FLUKA code. The seminar will take place Friday, May 4 at 1:30 p.m. in CEBAF Center Room F113.

Tracking Thomas at JLab
Congratulations this week go to Samika Hawkins, who was the first to correctly identify the April 25 location. Honorable mentions go to Maurizio Ungaro, Paul Letta, Ron Bartek, Michelle Shinn and DeAnn Maddox. Check out the Tracking Thomas webpage for a better view of his last location and this week's new mystery photo. Check out the Tracking Thomas webpage for a better view of his last location and this week's new mystery photo and email Kandice Carter if you think you know where he is: http://wwwold.jlab.org/news/briefs/trackingthomas.html

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