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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.
Tours are given after each lecture starting at 11am and last for about 40 minutes. Scientific and technical staff of Fermilab will be the tour-guides. After the lecture the SMP coordinator will show maps indicating how to go to the different sites, and will introduce the tour-guides to the students. The coordinator will make sure… More »
Fermilab Director Nigel Lockyer hands out the SMP graduation certificates to each of the qualified students. Congratulations to all! Click on the image to get the full 10.1 MP resolution image. You are free to use these images for any non-commercial purpose.* * If you want to use an image for a commercial purpose, please… More »
From the Fermilab Archives, here is the memo from Leon Lederman establishing the first session of Saturday Morning Physics in 1980. And here is the first schedule. The lecturers are a “who’s who” of scientists at Fermilab in those early days.
We believe that this is the schedule that former director Leon Lederman published for the first SMP. This session was likely held at Fermilab in the Fall of 1980.