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Five Argonne employees and one retiree will receive University of Chicago Distinguished Performance Awards at a ceremony at Argonne-East Thursday, July 12.
The ceremony will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Argonne-East's Building 213 Cafeteria.
The awards recognize achievements or leadership by employees engaged in scientific and technical activities. Awardees receive a certificate, a medal and a check for $3,000.
Honorees will include:
Paul A. Benioff (PHY-retired), who will receive
a special Distinguished Performance Award for his
pioneering work which first proved that quantum computing
was a theoretical possibility. Following his work, it
was established that this path offered the opportunity
to overcome present limitations in computing and
communications. His initial proof led to the present
worldwide scientific effort to develop an operating quantum computer.
Andrzej Joachimiak (BIO), for scientific
leadership that has placed him in a position of world
leadership in the field of structural genomics and helped
develop Argonne's Structural Biology Center into the
foremost facility for solving the structure of novel proteins.
In addition, Joachimiak has made significant
contributions to the understanding of the structure and function
of proteins, especially the action of
transcriptional regulators and molecular chaperones, which
regulate many cellular activities.
Harold McFarlane (ENT-AW), for outstanding
and sustained contributions to many Engineering
Research programs and initiatives during his 28-year career.
McFarlane has a long record of technical accomplishments and is well-known in the international community for his ability to develop and employ innovative analytical techniques, coupled with a full understanding of the fundamental analytic techniques required in core design.
McFarlane led the preparation of environmental assessments for treatment of EBR-II spent fuel; work that was vitally important to the future of Argonne's programs in Engineering Research.
Jorge Moré (MCS) for his outstanding
technical contributions and leadership in the field of
numerical optimization. His work has provided a
fundamental understanding of algorithm behavior and resulted
in state-of-the-art practical implementations that
reduce the number of calculations computers must perform
to achieve the desired results. Moré has also been at
the forefront of computer science research in this area,
leading the incorporation of automatic
differentiation tools and parallel computing technology into
optimization software. His most highly regarded software
projects are MINPACK, a collection now considered
standard benchmarks, and NEOS, which enables users to
solve optimization problems over the Internet.
Emil Trakhtenberg and Isaac Vasserman (both
XFD) for their internationally recognized work on
insertion devices and vacuum chambers for insertion devices
at the Advanced Photon Source (APS). Insertion devices
are magnets that provide the primary sources of X-rays
at the APS. Innovative instrumentation developed
by Trakhtenberg and Vasserman had a major impact on APS
performance and laid the foundation for the next generation of
synchrotron radiation sources.
Argonne Director Hermann Grunder will deliver a "State of the Laboratory" report to all employees at 10 a.m., Thursday, June 28, in the Building 402 Conference Center.
The presentation will be broadcast simultaneously to Argonne-East's Building 203 Auditorium and Building 223, Room B002.
Director's Award winners for 1999 and 2000 will be announced at the presentation.
Continuous shuttle service will be provided from the East Area, Building 900, the 300 area and Buildings 200, 201, 202, 203, 205, 208, 212, 222 and 223.
All employees whose work schedules permit are invited to attend.
William H. Press, deputy laboratory director at Los Alamos National Laboratory, will speak on "What is an Accurate Simulation" at a Director's Special Colloquium Wednesday, June 20.
(The day given in last week's Argonne News was incorrect.)
Press's talk will begin at 3 p.m. in the Building 402 Conference Center.
Press is deputy laboratory director for science, technology and programs at Los Alamos. He also serves as principal deputy to Los Alamos Director John Browne.
All employees whose schedules permit are invited to attend.
A free shuttle bus is now in operation between Argonne and the University of Chicago, part of a broader effort to promote a deeper partnership and sense of community between the laboratory and the university.
Ridership was increasing over the first few days of the pilot program, which began June 11. About a dozen riders took the morning run on the shuttle's second day of operation.
The pilot program will end Sept. 21.
At Argonne the bus stops at the front entrance of buildings 221, 223, 202, 212, 205 (east entrance) 401 Plaza and 360. At the University of Chicago, the bus stops at the southwest corner of East 57th Street and Ellis Avenue under the sky bridge connecting Kersten Physics Teaching Center with the Research Institutes. The full schedule is online.
Visitors need pass
All visitors to the laboratory must have appropriate review and approval before entering.
For information about site access by a foreign national, call the Foreign Visit and Assignment Office at ext. 2-1142. For information regarding obtaining site access for a U. S. citizen, call ext. 2-5755. More information is also available on the Shuttle web page.
On Sunday, June 24, Argonne Park will be jamming to the sounds of the first "Rock In Argonne" (RIA) fest. The all-day, open-mike music fest will begin at noon and last until 9 p.m.
"It's going to be great," said Alex Deriy (PHY), one of the fest's organizers. "At least three bands are going to be there. We encourage all the music lovers at Argonne to come and have a good time. People can chill out and listen to some physicists jam."
The names of the bands already scheduled to perform will remain a surprise, Deriy said. In fact, some of the names don't event exist yet. "Some bands will be born at the fest," he added. The invited bands will perform 5 to 10-song sets, Deriy said. The stage will then be open for others to jam all day long.
There is no particular music format, all styles are welcome. Argonne employees are encouraged to bring their instruments and bandmates and perform as many songs as they like. A P.A. system, microphones and the drums will be provided by the organizers.
This first RIA-festival is organized by music enthusiasts from the ATLAS accelerator operations group. They will also provide gas grills for those who want to barbecue.
Beer will be available for purchase from Marriott.
For more information, contact Eric Lindert and Alex Deriy at ext. 2-4115 or eric.lindert @physics.org. and alexderiy@ yahoo.com .
Speaker Charlie Morecraft will visit Argonne-East Thursday, June 21 for a series of talks in the Building 402 Auditorium.
His talk, "Safety, Everyone's Responsibility," emphasizes the need for following safety procedures and taking responsibility for personal safety.
Morecraft was severely burned in an industrial accident and suffered years of agonizing pain. Since then he has worked to motivate workers and management to turn a possible adversarial relationship into a unified team effort to establish a safe work environment.
Morecraft's presentation will be held from 8:45-10:15 a.m. and repeated from 2:15-3:45 p.m. All Argonne, DOE and contractor employees whose schedules permit are invited to attend.
Registration is requested, but not required. To register, contact a Training Management System representative and register for EQO105, "Safety Awareness."
Copies of Morecraft's videos, "Remember Charlie" and "Office Safety: It's Not Just About You," are available from Eddi Langenberg (ESH-SME) at ext. 2-4903.
Social Security representative George Cutwright will be available to assist Argonne-East employees Wednesday, July 18, at Human Resources in Building 201.
From 8 a.m. to noon, Cutwright will:
Enroll employees in Social Security
Take applications for new Social Security
cards, including original cards for newborns, corrected
cards due to marriage and replacement cards
Help with earnings posting problems
Answer general questions about Social Security.
To schedule a meeting, call Fran Perri (HR) at ext. 2-2989.
The interactive lecture, "Men's Health Issues 2001" has been rescheduled to noon, Wednesday, June 20, due to the director's special colloquium that afternoon.
The lecture by Laurence Levine, director of urological research and professor of urology at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, will be held in Argonne-East's Building 203 Auditorium.
Prostate screening will be offered the same day, beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the Medical Department in Building 201.
The screening, which costs $45, includes a physical prostate exam by a urologist and PSA (prostate specific antigen) blood test
Individual results will be returned to the Medical Department and can be picked up there.
To make an appointment, call Lynn Valentini (HR) at ext. 2-2813. The assessment is sponsored by Argonne's Preventive Health and Wellness Program and is open to all Argonne and DOE employees.
