Date: Tue Mar 23 2004 - 06:36:22 EST
FYI ---------------------------------------------------------------- Flemming Videbaek Physics Department Brookhaven National Laboratory e-mail: videbaek@bnl.gov phone: 631-344-4106 ----- Original Message ----- From: Kin Yip To: Yip, Kin Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 12:00 AM Subject: SPY news update: Time meeting on Mar. 23 ... next week's "sex change" ====== Scheduling Physicist -YIP (ie. SPY) news channel ======== ************************************************************ (1) As usual, the next Time meeting is next Tuesday (Mar. 23, 2004) at 13:30 in the Snyder Seminar Room. ************************************************************ (2) Schedule this week : Mar. 22 Monday 20:00 --- Tuesday 08:00 Beam Expt. Mar. 24 Wed. 08:00 Machine Development for the lower energy run until it's good enough for physics. This could happen on Thursday or so. These days, due to Wolfram and other machine physicists' better-than- expected performance in FY2004, people now have expected them and the machine to perform better than whatever the expectation that Wolfram et. al. tells us. They can have only themselves to "blame" :-) :-) ************************************************************ (3) 3 day RHIC shutdown, Apr. 5-7 again : The 3 day (I didn't say 3 nights, did I ?) shutdown is to end at 18:00 on Apr. 7 (Wed. evening) for most people EXCEPT the Jet Target group (under the leadership of Y. Makdisi). When can we start to run the RHIC again depends on when the Jet Target group allows us to do so. You know, if Wolfram says that he needs 3 days, we NOW all have had enough calibration data and expect him to need only ~2 days or less, right ? But for Yousef, hmm ... at least I didn't have data to calibrate and so it's hard to say !! Ha Ha Ha .... ************************************************************ (4) Away notice : Next week's "sex change" : I'll be away from Mar. 27 and Apr. 4 (inclusive) as I'll be going to the Moriond conference (somewhere in the Alps) to give a talk for 2 expts. at Fermilab ---- you shouldn't judge my loyalty :-) Angelika will be the Scheduling Physicist in my absence --- that is what I mean by "sex change" ! I have asked some senior people. As far as people can recollect, Angelika may be the ONLY woman scheduling physicist ?!! Let me know if this isn't true. Maybe, we should nominate more women to take this position :-) :-) Who are you thinking ??? ************************************************************ (5) The Midnight rule for NSRL : It seems, so far, for NSRL (NASA), even we scheduled the experiments to finish at 8 pm or as early as 5 pm, NSRL has gone into midnight every single day since we started last Monday. Tonight is NOT an exception unfortunately and it may be even later than previous nights ! The uniformity of the carbon beams again seems to be worse than other ions such as iron and silicon. This doesn't help. ====== ======= ====== ======= ====== ======= ====== ======= This SPY news channel solicits YOUR input of any sorts. You'll be paid back with loads of gratefulness :-) Let me know if you want to get out of this private email mailing list. SPY's webpage : http://www.c-ad.bnl.gov/kinyip/SchedPhys/ ================================================================= Disclaimer: Whatever is being said here is not always 100% accurate though I try my best to avoid being 100% inaccurate :-) _______________________________________________ Brahms-l mailing list Brahms-l@lists.bnl.gov http://lists.bnl.gov/mailman/listinfo/brahms-l
