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Location of Fermilab

Fermilab is located about 40 miles west of the Chicago loop, immediately east of the City of Batavia, north of Butterfield Road (Route 56) and south of Fabyan Parkway on Kirk Road.  Public transportation to the Laboratory is not available. See the location of Fermilab and get directions to Fermilab in Google maps.  The GPS coordinates… More »

Dr. McCrory’s slides may be seen in two forms: Full PowerPoint slides, with animations and all that Succinct PDF version The photos from this session can be found here. Return to Fall 2017 schedule.

We take pictures during the lectures from time to time If you have pictures that you would like to share, please post them to Instagram or Twitter with the hash-tag, #FermilabSMP.  Or, you can email them to us and we can post them here. Here is an index of where you can see them. Pointers to… More »

  This represents the lecturers for the 2017-18 school year of SMP.  Visit this page to see the 2018-19 school year. ​For the 2018 school year, we will be adding a lecture on Symmetry (Javier Duarte) and a lecture on Quantum Mechanics (Dan Hooper). Pedro Machado will be giving the “Intro” lecture and Tim Meyer… More »

Dr. Pedro Machado, Fermilab Theoretical Physicist Dr. Machado is an associate scientist at Fermilab. He was born and raised in Brazil. He did his undergraduate work at Universidade Federal do Ceará (2007). He received his Ph.D. from University of São Paulo. Machado is a theoretical physicist working primarily in neutrino physics, and also in Higgs… More »

We recorded two of the lectures this spring.  Click on the links below to see them. Eric Prebys, Accelerators.  Part 1, Part 2 Brian Chase and Erk Ramberg, Energy and Climate.