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Short news items of interest to the RHIC AGS community. This week: FY08 budgets, Intel semifinalists, and the coffee shop.

FY08 Budget News
Steve Vigdor, Brookhaven's Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics, gave an update on the FY08 budget to the UEC "Open Forum" on January 11, 2008 which you can see here, and to the BNL Physics Department "All Hands" meeting on January 24, 2008 which can be seen here.

Mike Lubell
Mike Lubell, the Director of Public Affairs for the American Physical Society, came to Brookhaven for the last UEC Open Forum on January 11, 2008, and discussed his personal view of what happened in the budget in FY2008 for science in general and BNL/RHIC in particular. An interesting discussion followed the presentation regarding what needs to be done, what could be done, and when. Those who missed the opportunity to be there in person, can watch see the transparencies here.

Raymond Orbach's View of the FY08 Budget
Raymond Orbach, the Undersecretary of Science at the DOE, was interview by Science magazine about the FY08 budget. Read the interview here.

Intel Science Talent Search Semifinalists
There were three semifinalists in the 2008 Intel Science Talent Search associated with RHIC and AGS users. Two of them were advised by Roy Lacey of the Chemistry Department at the University of Stony Brook:

  • Patryk Marek Dziudziel, Kings Park High School, Kings Park, NY, "Determination of the spatial and temporal extent of high energy density nuclear matter produced in relativistic Au+Au collisions at RHIC"
  • Michael Gartner, Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, NY, "Observation of a Sonic Boom in the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) produced in Au+Au collisions at RHIC"

And one by Helio Takai of the Brookhaven Physics Department (more about Helio's educational work was featured the January 15, 2008 RHIC News):

  • Isaac Degani, Wellington C. Mepham High Scool, Bellmore, NY, "Pattern Recognition Applied to Signals Reflected by Atmospheric Ionization and Airborne Bodies from Forward Scattering Radar"

Isaac Degani (right) and Bill Leacock, his physics teacher, by the antenna used for the detection of meteors, airplanes and lightning.

P5 at Brookhaven
The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel, or P5, will be meeting at Brookhaven March 6-8, 2008. This panel is charged by HEPAP with developing a Long Range Plan for Particle Physics in the U.S. for the coming decade. Information about the panel is here.

Coffee Shop Open
A coffee shop, which is open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., offering Starbucks coffee is now open in Building 400, near the RHIC/AGS Users Center.

Opening of the coffee shop in Building 400.