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Life at FermilabDebbie Harris
With the help ofBorys Jurkiw, Marilyn Smith,
Jean Guyer, Patti Hedrick, Beth Witherell
Visual Media Services
Witherell Symposium July 14, 2005
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Why am I giving this talk?
• Certainly there are many at the lab who know Mike better than I do– Hugh Montgomery– Marilyn Smith – Your name here…
• I’ve been assigned this year to translate what it means to do physics to the general public (see “Quantum Diaries”)
• Today I am supposed to translate what it means to have a life at Fermilab to the general symposium-goer
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Current Systematic Biases(not necessarily in order of importance)
• Experimentalist• Fermilab Employee, not User• Management Responsibilities• Married• Part of a two-career couple• Parent of a young child (2, actually)
Note: Biases are uncorrected in this talk…but Mike has the same biases
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What I will not cover
• There are many programs out there that comprise “Life at Fermilab”, many of which Mike and I both missed…
Ultimate Frisbee LeagueTable Tennis League
Go ClubRocket Club
Yoga, ScubaTai Chi, Pilates
Women’s Self DefenseCountry Line Dance
New recreation programs over past 6 years:
Public Lectures, Fine Art Series, International Movie Night
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Stages of an Experiment
• Mission Need and Funding Profile• Project Baseline• R&D • Collaboration Building • Construction (not covered here)• Calibration/Commissioning• Safety Concerns• Running• Decommissioning• Publications
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Mission Need and Funding Profile
• 1998: Mike and Beth Witherell decide to adopt a child• Early 1999: Mike is offered job as director• March 1999: Mike introduced to the Fermilab community
in a press conference• Starts his speech “I am
really excited about this new job”
• Thanks Northern Illinois University for their agreement to take on the Thoreau Edition so that Beth could continue her work as Editor-in-Chief March 1999
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Project is Baselined• July 1, 1999: Mike’s first day as director• November 1999: Mike and Beth get referral from
Viet Nam(schedule delay due to external politics)
• January 2000: Mike and Beth bring Lily home to Fermilab– 6800 open acres of
land in your back yard…– Children’s Center at Fermilab
Feb. 2000
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R&D Phase and Collaboration Building
• Witherell started his first year by trying to learn more about Fermilab scientists
• Dinners at Chez Leon with groupsof roughly 20 people: this must have been about 20 nights of research!
May 2001
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Focused R&D Phase
• In 2000 Mike decided to talk to women staff scientists at the Lab
• At thattime the numbers seemed a bit low…
Data courtesy Borys Jurkiw
In Mike’s tenure, all fractionshave increased…a little…
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Where are the women engineers?
• From Howard Georgi, October 20, 2004 colloquium: fractions of women in physics and engineering are comparable, retention rate comparable…
Source: Society of Women Engineers, NSF and Census Data
PhD’s Granted
Fra
ctio
n of
Wom
en (
%)
I leave this as an exercise for the new director…
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Calibration and Commissioning• Lily learns to sit up, crawl, and walk, and talk on
site, (most likely) at Fermilab Children’s Center
8/2000
6/2001, 5:17PM
5/2002
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Level 2 ManagersWBS Coordinator Years Task
1.1 Pam Lee 12 Transition Region
1.2 Cindy Kane,
Janet Jelonek
16,
5
Waste Management,
Humor Retention
1.3 Mary Robbins 11 Hazard Mitigation
1.4 Sue Hardy 20 Acoustics
1.5 Patty Hedrick
Mary Simmons
25,
12
Methodology
Not all managers
shown here….
Pam
Sue and Mary SMary R Janet and Cindy
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Evening and Owl Shifts• The collaboration expanded over the years to
include more than Mike and Beth and the Children’s Center:
Primary Shifter:Agnieszka AndrzejczykOn-Call List:Nathalie and Jay WitherellBuilding Manager:Kathy Uhrich (not shown)
11/20005/2003
3/2005
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First Measurement: Value of a good party
• Inspired by Lily, Mike soon learns the important effects of a good party: best when applied often
8/1/2001 (MCR)5/3/2002 (MiniBooNE)6/8/2002 (Leon’s 80th bday)11/21/2003 (Labwide)3/4/2005 (NUMI labwide)6/1/2005 (Day Care 25th)6/24/2005 (fb-1 toast)Holiday parties
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Safety Concerns• Coincident with Lily’s learning to
walk, in 2000-1 we saw – Wilson Hall Safety Construction– Baby-proofing the director’s house
• Safety takes a front seat
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DASTOW 1998
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DASTOW 1999
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DASTOW 2000
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DASTOW 2001
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DASTOW 2002
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DASTOW 2003
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DASTOW 2004
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DASTOW 2005
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DASTOW Photo Participation
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2001
20022003
2004
Asymptotic Freedom
As measured in Mike-Lily Distance in DASTOW photo
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Decommissioning
• Children’s Center GraduationJune 2005
• Today’s festivities
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Signs that Mike is not the only one doing this experiment…
• Day Care Enrollment—at any one time enrollment is about 50 children, there is always a waiting list
• Summer Camp Enrollment—35 slots this year, always with a waiting list of 8 to 15!
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Publications
• Mike will return to UCSB, as Vice Chancellor of Research
• Lilly will start at Montessori – Comment from teachers there:
progressed through 1st grade reading level (thanks to Children’s Center kindergarten program)
• Beth has moved the Thoreau Edition (all 11,000 pounds—gained 1000 pounds!) back to UCSBremains Editor-in-Chief(see www.thoreau.niu.edu )
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Thank you Mike and Beth, for showing us…
• You can raise a child and be director of a Lab at the same time– Need good child care!
• You can find good jobs when you’re part of a 2-carreer couple– Need institutions in the area who understand the problem!
• You can admit all this in public• Fermilab should be an example to the rest of the
world on these issues– Not there yet, but you brought these issues to the front page