{"id":203,"date":"2005-06-09T11:27:51","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T15:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=203"},"modified":"2005-06-09T11:27:51","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T15:27:51","slug":"future-of-fermilab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Future of Fermilab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nature this week has an editorial about Fermilab entitled <A href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v435\/n7043\/full\/435713a.html\">All or Nothing at Fermilab<\/A> associated with a news article <A href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v435\/n7043\/full\/435728a.html\">Fermilab: High-risk physics<\/A>.  The article and editorial are about the fundamental problem facing Fermilab:  in a few years the high energy frontier will move to the LHC at CERN, with many physicists leaving Fermilab.  The future of the lab remains up in the air, as the only viable plan for a new high-energy accelerator is the ILC project, and this would require massive new funding which is still quite uncertain.  While SLAC has diversified into X-ray physics, Fermilab remains committed to operating at the highest energies.  Many people worry that if the ILC is not funded or delayed for many years, Fermilab will be in a difficult position, and a prime target for budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p>This week the lab is hosting the annual &#8220;User&#8217;s Meeting&#8221;.  <A href=\"http:\/\/www.fnal.gov\/orgs\/fermilab_users_org\/users_mtg\/2005\/program_umtg.html\">Presentations<\/A> about current and future activities at Fermilab are available on-line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature this week has an editorial about Fermilab entitled All or Nothing at Fermilab associated with a news article Fermilab: High-risk physics. The article and editorial are about the fundamental problem facing Fermilab: in a few years the high energy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=203\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}