SWINY EVENT
Saturday, September 23, 2000
Brookhaven National Laboratory Tour
- Brookhaven's Relativisitc Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the world's newest and largest particle accelerator for nuclear physics research, has just come online with four of the most sophisticated detectors ever built. These detectors will take "snapshots" of the thousands of particles streaming out of heavy ion collisions in an attempt to visualize and study the conditions of matter as it existed just after the Big Bang. Take a virtual tour of the RHIC at www.rhic.bnl.gov.
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanning technology measures metabolism in the brain, thereby providing images that reflect the functioning of a subject's brain. Applications include studying addiction, aging, breast cancer, drug addiction and more.
- BNL's National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) produces
some of the brightest beams of ultraviolet and x-ray light.
This light is currently being used to "see" the structures
of proteins and how they interact with other molecules
(e.g., how viruses bind to and infect cells), to study the
structural properties of materials (such as the catalysts
used to "scrub" pollutants from air in smokestacks), and
many other formerly invisible things. Seeing at the
molecular level may help scientists devise ways to affect
these interactions.
FOOD: Lunch will be available for purchase at the campus cafeteria, or you may bring your own.
TRANSPORTATION: SWINY members must make their own way to the Ronkonkama LIRR station. Tour bus departs at 9:40 a.m. (or when the 9:37 train arrives).
By train: 8:12 a.m. LIRR train from Penn Station in NYC arrives in Ronkonkama at 9:37 a.m. Return train leaves Ronkonkama at 4:42 p.m. Visit www.mta.nyc.ny.us/lirr/html/ttn/ronkonko.htm for more details.
By car: free parking is available at the Ronkonkama LIRR station. Those who drive will still need to ride the tour bus.
COST: $15 for SWINY members/ $17 non members. $10 for students. (This is to cover the tour bus rental)
RSVP: We need a minimum of 15 attendees, or the trip will be cancelled. Please respond by September 18, 2000 to Carol Ezzell at cezzell@sciam.com or Karen de Seve at kdeseve@hotmail.com.
Please note: If you sign up, you will be required to pay even if you can't attend.
- 9:40 a.m. - Tour bus departs from Ronkonkama LIRR station for Brookhaven campus.
- 10:15 a.m. to 10:20 a.m. - SWINY group arrival and welcoming remarks.
- 10:30 a.m. to 11:25 a.m. - PET presentation by Nora Volkow and Stephen Dewey in the PET building.
- 11:35 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. - Overview of NSLS and tour of facility by Erik Johnson and Bob Sweet .
- 12:35 p.m. to 1:20 p.m. - Lunch at Berkner. SWINY members can bring or buy their own lunches. Scientists are invited to join informal discussions.
- 1:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. - Introduction to RHIC at Main Control Room with Tom Kirk.
- 1:55 p.m. to 2:20 p.m. - Tour of RHIC tunnel with Tom Kirk and Yousef Makdisi.
- 2:30 p.m. to 2:55 p.m. - Tour of STAR detector/control room with Gene Van Buren and Ralph Brown.
- 3:05 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. - Tour of PHENIX detector/control room with Sam Aronson and Achim Franz.
- 3:30 p.m. - SWINY group departs BNL for Ronkonkama LIRR station.