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What life is like as a Scientist in Congress

What life is like as a Scientist in Congress. Bill Foster U.S. Congressman (Ret.) Illinois14th District. Introduction. Bill Foster U.S. Congressman (Ret.) Illinois14th District. OUTLINE. Bill’s Trajectory: Businessman Physicist ?? Politician ?? Financial Services – Plots & Data

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What life is like as a Scientist in Congress

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  1. What life is like as a Scientist in Congress Bill Foster U.S. Congressman (Ret.) Illinois14th District

  2. Introduction Bill Foster U.S. Congressman (Ret.) Illinois14th District

  3. OUTLINE • Bill’s Trajectory: • Businessman • Physicist • ?? Politician ?? • Financial Services – Plots & Data • Applied Physics: A PID feedback controller for stabilizing Real Estate Housing Bubbles (Talk at AEI)

  4. Bill Foster’s Timeline • Businessman: ETC Inc (1974…~1980) • Physicist: (1979-2005) • IMB Proton Decay Detector (~1980-1984) • Fermilab (1984-2005) • HEP Experiments: CDF & SDC • Accelerators • Politician (2006 - ) • Why would you possibly do such a thing? • Learning to Campaign • A day in the life of a U.S. Congressman

  5. Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.~1974 -1980

  6. Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.Today • 500 Employees in Middleton, WI

  7. IMB Detector 1979 – 1984 (…1987A) • Bill’s PhD Thesis (under Prof. Larry Sulak) • No Proton Decay, but saw SN1987A neutrinos

  8. IMB Proton Decay Experiment "Did anyone read on the front page of the Times that matter is decaying? Am I the only one who saw that? The universe is gradually breaking down. There's not going to be anything left. I'm not talking about my stupid little films here. Eventually there's not going to be any Beethoven or Shakespeare or ..." Woody AllenStardust Memories (1980)

  9. Fermilab’sAcceleratorsPast,Present,and Future Dr. G. William Foster November 8, 2002

  10. Bill at Fermilab 1984 - 2006

  11. Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF)1984 - 2005

  12. CDF Central Tracking ChamberElectronics High Pt Track Processor

  13. “Damn Fast”Event Display Program CDF

  14. High Pt Track Processor • Hand-wired(Wire-wrapped) FastBus Boards • Finds all of the High-Pt Tracks before the next crossing • Essential for Top Quark discovery

  15. e-u top Quark Search & Discovery

  16. QIE Integrated Circuit (invented for Superconducting Super Collider) • Deadtimeless Charge Integrator and Floating-Point Digitizer • Still in use today for LHC experiments

  17. Particle Accelerators 1994-2006

  18. Antiproton Recycler Ring FermilabMain Injector

  19. 8 GeV Transfer Line (1996)Fermilab Booster Main Injector Permanent Magnets

  20. Very Large Hadron Collider (VLHC) 100kA Superconducting Transmission Line Magnet

  21. Beam Damper Circuits for Main Injector

  22. 8 GeV Linac / Proton Driver / Project X

  23. The Familial Recessive Gene for Adult-Onset Political Activism • Bill Got Married, • Raised a Family, • Had a reasonably interesting career in Physics. So: why go into politics?

  24. Bill’s Mother and Father Jeanette Raymond and George William Foster Met on Capitol Hill ~1950 Bill’s Mom worked for Sen. Paul Douglas (D-IL)

  25. 2005 – Bill’s Youngest Child (Christine) Heads off to College

  26. Patrick Murphy 2006 Campaign

  27. Bill Started the 110th Congress as an Intern in the Office of Rep. Patrick Murphy • He ended it as a sitting Congressman

  28. Gerrymandering and the IL-14th IL-14th

  29. Illinois 14th Congressional District

  30. The Campaign Staff

  31. Bill’s Favorite Parade Tie

  32. County Fairs

  33. Churches

  34. FARMERS

  35. Photo Shoot

  36. March 8, 2008

  37. Swearing-In Ceremony – March 11, 2008

  38. 2008: An Interesting Year to be a Politician From Illinois Denver Convention 2008

  39. CongressionalBall - 2008

  40. What Life as a Congressman is Really Like • Scheduled 12 Hours each day • Read myself to sleep each night with a ¾” stack of papers… • Live in a Crummy Efficiency Apartment in DC • After last votes on Friday, come back home each weekend (where I get scheduled up by the staff in the District Office…)

  41. Life in Washington

  42. Efficiency Apartment2 blocks from Capitol

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