Supercollider 1

Author : Michael McAshan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461308416

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Supercollider 1 by Michael McAshan Pdf

IISSC '89 was a tremendous success. A total of 635 people attended this educational forum which was dedicated to further the understanding of the design, construction and operation of the Superconducting Supercollider (SSC). A total of 110 presentations and addresses were given. The topics discussed covered .all aspects of the SSC including: Magnet Technology Cryogenics Conventional Facilities Technical Systems Detectors Related Accelerator Technology Superconducting Wire/Cable ApproXimately 38% of the presentations addressed superconducting magnet technology, 16% were devoted to detector technology, 10% addressed superconducting wire/ cable, and the balance was equally split between the remaining topics. A special award was presented to Professor M. Tigner for his meritorious contribution to the Superconducting Supercollider (SSC). The award was presented on behalf of the IISSC Board of Directors. Keynote speakers included: Gerald 'Bachy, CERN Joe Barton, Representative from Texas, 6th Disctrict Ed Bingler, Exec. Director, Texas National Research Laboratory Commission James Decker, Deputy Director, Office of Energy Research, (DOE) Helen Edwards, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory M. G. D. Gilchriese, SSC Central Design Group Robert Hunter, Director, Office of Energy Research, (DOE) Leon Lederman, Director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Roy Schwitters, Director, SSC Laboratory Alvin Trivelpiece, Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Gus Voss, DESY Highlights of the symposium included two panel sessions. The first panel discussed the growing role of industry in accelerator technology. The second panel addressed the congressional perspective on SSe. Industrial Panel Congressional Panel J. R. Faulkner, Varian-Continental Joe Barton (R), Texas, 6th Dist.

Author : Michael McAshan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461537281

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Supercollider 2 by Michael McAshan Pdf

The Second International Industrialization Symposium on the Supercollider, IISSC, was held in Miami Beach Florida on March 14-16, 1990. It was an even bigger and more successful meeting than our ftrst in New Orleans in 1989. There were 691 attendees and 75 exhibitors. The enthusiasm shown by both the speakers and the audience was exhilarating for all attendees. The symposium again brought together the physicists and engineers designing the machine, the industrial organizations supporting the design and construction, the education community, and the governmental groups responsible for the funding and management of the SSC project. We believe it is this unique rnix which makes this particular meeting so valuable. The theme of this symposium was "The SSC-Americas Research Partnership" and the varied presentations throughout the meeting high-lighted that theme. The keynote speakers were: Dr. Roy Schwitters, Director of the SSC Mr. Paul F. Orefftce, Chairman of the Board of Dow Chemical Company Honorable W. Hinson Moore, Deputy Secretary of Energy Mr. Morton Meyerson, Chairman of the Texas National Research Laboratory Commission Honorable Robert A. Roe Congressman from New Jersey and Chairman, House Science and Technology Committee Honorable Tom Bevel, Representative from Alabama, Chairman House Energy and Water Development Appropriation Subcommittee In addition there was a discussion of issues by a panel of four Congressmen: Honorable Jim Chapman, Representative from Texas Honorable Vic Fazio, Representative from California Honorable James A. Hayes, Representative from Louisiana Honorable Carl D.

Author : Scott Wilson,David Cottle,Nick Collins
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262232692

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The SuperCollider Book by Scott Wilson,David Cottle,Nick Collins Pdf

The essential reference to SuperCollider, a powerful, flexible, open-source, cross-platform audio programming language. SuperCollider is one of the most important domain-specific audio programming languages, with potential applications that include real-time interaction, installations, electroacoustic pieces, generative music, and audiovisuals. The SuperCollider Book is the essential reference to this powerful and flexible language, offering students and professionals a collection of tutorials, essays, and projects. With contributions from top academics, artists, and technologists that cover topics at levels from the introductory to the specialized, it will be a valuable sourcebook both for beginners and for advanced users. SuperCollider, first developed by James McCartney, is an accessible blend of Smalltalk, C, and further ideas from a number of programming languages. Free, open-source, cross-platform, and with a diverse and supportive developer community, it is often the first programming language sound artists and computer musicians learn. The SuperCollider Book is the long-awaited guide to the design, syntax, and use of the SuperCollider language. The first chapters offer an introduction to the basics, including a friendly tutorial for absolute beginners, providing the reader with skills that can serve as a foundation for further learning. Later chapters cover more advanced topics and particular topics in computer music, including programming, sonification, spatialization, microsound, GUIs, machine listening, alternative tunings, and non-real-time synthesis; practical applications and philosophical insights from the composer's and artist's perspectives; and "under the hood,” developer's-eye views of SuperCollider's inner workings. A Web site accompanying the book offers code, links to the application itself and its source code, and a variety of third-party extras, extensions, libraries, and examples.

Author : John Nonte
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Superconducting Super Collider
ISBN : UOM:39015025281638

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Supercollider 3 by John Nonte Pdf

The March 1991 conference had as its theme Getting Down to Business; the Superconducting Supercollider project is underway moving from the planning stage to construction, to development and procurement of equipment, and to resolution of technical issues involved in areas such as theory, controls,

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Environmental impact statements
ISBN : CHI:32157290

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Superconducting Super Collider by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Riordan,Lilian Hoddeson,Arienne W. Kolb
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226305837

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Tunnel Visions by Michael Riordan,Lilian Hoddeson,Arienne W. Kolb Pdf

“A detailed and engaging account of the development of the superconducting supercollider, one of the largest scientific undertakings in the United States.” —Journal of American History Starting in the 1950s, US physicists dominated the search for elementary particles; aided by the association of this research with national security, they held this position for decades. In an effort to maintain their hegemony and track down the elusive Higgs boson, they convinced President Reagan and Congress to support construction of the multibillion-dollar Superconducting Super Collider project in Texas—the largest basic-science project ever attempted. But after the Cold War ended and the estimated SSC cost surpassed ten billion dollars, Congress terminated the project in October 1993. Drawing on extensive archival research, contemporaneous press accounts, and over one hundred interviews with scientists, engineers, government officials, and others involved, Tunnel Visions tells the riveting story of the aborted SSC project. The authors examine the complex, interrelated causes for its demise, including problems of large-project management, continuing cost overruns, and lack of foreign contributions. In doing so, they ask whether Big Science has become too large and expensive, including whether academic scientists and their government overseers can effectively manage such an enormous undertaking. “Focusing on the scientific, technical, and political conflicts that led to delays, ever rising costs, and eventually the SSC’s cancelation by Congress, Tunnel Visions is a true techno-thriller.” —Burton Richter, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics “Most good science stories are tales of discovery and success, but failure can be just as riveting. Here two historians and an archivist describe the greatest particle physics experiment that never was.” —Scientific American

Author : John Nonte
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015029731141

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Supercollider 4 by John Nonte Pdf

Proceedings of the Fourth International Industrial Symposium on the Supercollider, March 1992, Atlanta, Georgia. Attendees totaled 840, of whom 235 represented businesses and companies potential or actual vendors. Papers deal with such parts as magnets (four sessions) and magnet fabrication, detecto

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Superconducting Super Collider
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062179440

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Superconducting Super Collider by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Power resources
ISBN : MINN:30000006336741

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Energy Research Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556029735800

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Superconducting Super Collider Site Selection by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Office of Management and Budget
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Budget
ISBN : MINN:31951D00271321A

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Mid-session Review by United States. Office of Management and Budget Pdf

Author : Peter Kittel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1973 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461303732

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Advances in Cryogenic Engineering by Peter Kittel Pdf

The Hyatt Regency Hotel, Columbus, Ohio was the venue for the 1995 Cryogenic Engineering Conference. The meeting was held jointly with the International Cryogenic Materials Conference. Jim Peeples, of CVI, Inc., was conference chairman. Columbus is the home of the Battelle Memorial Institute, a pioneer in cryogenic materials development; the home of CVI, Inc., and Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc., two leading manufacturers of cryogenic equipment; and it is the home of Ohio State University, where research on liquid helium has long been conducted. The program consisted of 315 CEC papers, nearly the same number as for CEC-91. This was the second largest number of papers ever submitted to the CEC. Of these, 252 papers are published here, in Volume 41 of Advances in Cryogenic Engineering. Once again the volume is published in two books. This volume includes a number of photographs taken during the awards lunch on July 20, 1995. Photographs have often been taken during the conferences, but they have never been used. The pictures are of the awardees, the conference chairs, and the organizers. They are distributed through out the books on pages that would otherwise have been blank. The pictures can be found on the following pages: 28, 232, 334, 536, 640, 826, 990, 1032, 1202, 1462,1682,1888, and 1994.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Government publications
ISBN : PSU:000018287615

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Department of Energy's Superconducting Super Collider Project by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Nuclear physics
ISBN : UOM:39015016926860

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Superconducting Super Collider by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Pdf

Author : Paul Seidel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1334 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783527412099

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Applied Superconductivity by Paul Seidel Pdf

This wide-ranging presentation of applied superconductivity, from fundamentals and materials right up to the details of many applications, is an essential reference for physicists and engineers in academic research as well as in industry. Readers looking for a comprehensive overview on basic effects related to superconductivity and superconducting materials will expand their knowledge and understanding of both low and high Tc superconductors with respect to their application. Technology, preparation and characterization are covered for bulk, single crystals, thins fi lms as well as electronic devices, wires and tapes. The main benefit of this work lies in its broad coverage of significant applications in magnets, power engineering, electronics, sensors and quantum metrology. The reader will find information on superconducting magnets for diverse applications like particle physics, fusion research, medicine, and biomagnetism as well as materials processing. SQUIDs and their usage in medicine or geophysics are thoroughly covered, as are superconducting radiation and particle detectors, aspects on superconductor digital electronics, leading readers to quantum computing and new devices.