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

[Kandice Carter]

To access the full version of the JLab Weekly Briefs, visit: https://www.jlab.org/news/briefs/latest

April 17 Briefs Excerpts:

Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day Is April 25
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day is set for Thursday, April 25. JLab has no formal plans for the day. However, JLab parents/grandparents are welcome to bring their school-age children/grandkids (8-18 years of age) to work for all or any part of the day. Parents are responsible for their children while they are at the lab. For more information, see the full announcement: https://www.jlab.org/memo/take-our-daughters-and-sons-work-day-april-25

Colloquium & Public Lecture: Exploring the Proton as It Travels at the Speed of Light
In high-energy scattering processes, we study the proton as it travels at the speed of light. Due to Lorentz time dilation, the strong interaction between quarks and gluons slows down considerably, and the proton appears as a collection of non-interacting partons. In this talk, Xiangdong Ji, a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Maryland, will discuss to what extent one can use this picture to describe various properties of the proton, including its spin, and visualize the results of high-energy scattering experiments at JLab 6 and 12 GeV and other facilities worldwide. He will also discuss how to directly calculate the properties of partons using the large scale numerical simulations of QCD. The colloquium will be held in the CEBAF Center auditorium on April 23 at 4 p.m.

JLab Celebrates National Library Week: April 15-19
Visit the library during national library week and enter your name into a daily drawing to win a Starbucks gift card! Celebrate with library staff through events scheduled all week. See the full announcement: https://www.jlab.org/memo/jlab-celebrates-national-library-week-events-beginning-april-15

JLab Records and Information Management Fact of the Week
A few years ago, a Yahoo! survey found that one third of all people would rather clean their toilets than clean out their email inbox. Keeping email longer than necessary may not seem like a big deal to most people, but keeping any record longer than legally required can be a liability to the lab. Take a moment each week to clean out your inbox of transitory records mentioned at this link: http://www.jlab.org/IR/records/transitory.html

RIM Trivia Question of the Week
The term which has come to mean network abuse via junk email and junk postings to message boards most likely originated from a skit during which a group of Vikings sing the following song in a cafe: "Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam! Wonderful spam!" What is the name of the group that performed the skit? The first correct response received at kindrew at jlab.org wins a Starbucks gift card! (Winner will be notified no later than 5 p.m. Friday following publication of Weekly Briefs. Limit one gift card win per person.)Last week's answer and winner are listed in the full Briefs.

Tracking Thomas on Flickr
Harry Fanning correctly guessed the location for April 10. Honorable mentions go to Kurt Macha, Jim Follkie and Dick Owen. For this week's new mystery photo, visit Tracking Thomas's new home on the Jefferson Lab flickr site (and email Kandice Carter if you think you know where he is): http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffersonlab/8658775552/in/set-72157632948642282
A better view of his last location is also available on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffersonlab/8657669581/in/set-72157632948642282/

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