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LOCATION:2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
SUMMARY:What life is like for a physicist in Congress\, Physics Depart
 ment Colloquium\, Bill Foster\, U.S. Congressman Representing the 14th
  District of Illinois
DESCRIPTION:Bill Foster is a High-Energy particle physicist\, Madison 
 native and UW Physics graduate recently elected to replace former Spea
 ker of the House Dennis Hastert in a hotly-contested special election 
 for the U.S. Congress. Bill is the son of UW Law School Prof. George W
 illiam (Bill) Foster\, a civil rights lawyer and early activist in the
  Dane County Democratic Party. While a student at the UW\, Bill and hi
 s younger brother Fred founded Electronic Theatre Controls\, Inc.\, no
 w the world's largest stage lighting company with headquarters in Midd
 leton. Returning to physics grad school at Harvard\, Bill's Ph.D thesi
 s experiment was the IMB Proton Decay detector and was the co-recipien
 t of the Rossi Prize for the discovery the neutrino burst from superno
 va SN1987A. Bill's career in High-Energy Physics included 22 years at 
 Fermilab\, where he helped build the CDF experiment that discovered th
 e top quark\, built high-speed integrated circuits\, 100kA superconduc
 ting magnets\, and particle beam damper circuits. Bill was the co-inve
 ntor and magnet designer of the Fermilab Recycler Antiproton Storage R
 ing\, a 3.3 km antiproton storage ring used to increase the luminosity
  of the Fermilab Tevatron.<br>
\nIn 2006\, Bill tragically succumbed t
 o the familial recessive gene for adult-onset political activism. He w
 ill describe his experiences as a physicist running for office\, servi
 ng in the U.S. Congress\, and as a member of the Financial Services Co
 mmittee.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=1186
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