Lecture topics and tours are subject to change. The schedule will be updated accordingly.
Schedule of Fall 2022 Online Lectures and Virtual Tours
Date | Lecture Topic | Speaker, Affiliation | Virtual Tour |
24-Sep-22 | Introduction To Fermilab | Cristina Mantilla Suarez, Fermilab | Driving tour |
1-Oct-22 | Quantum Mechanics | Patrick Fox, Fermilab | Wilson Hall & Linear Accelerator Gallery |
8-Oct-22 | Relativity | Gordan Krnjaic, Fermilab | Grid Computing Center virtual tour |
15-Oct-22 | The Standard Model of Particle Physics / LHC Physics | Jennet Dickinson, Fermilab; Alexx Perloff, University of Colorado, Boulder |
Extended Q&A |
22-Oct-22 | Particle Accelerators and Particle Detectors | Cindy Joe and Evan Niner, Fermilab | Main Injector virtual tour |
29-Oct-22 | Quantum Computing | Gabriel Perdue, Fermilab | Physicist Panel |
5-Nov-22 | The Ghostly Neutrino | Bruce Howard, Fermilab | CMS virtual tour |
12-Nov-22 | Muon g−2 | Hogan Nguyen, Fermilab | Muon g-2 virtual tour |
19-Nov-22 | Cosmology | Aleksandra Ciprijanovic, Fermilab | Silicon Detector Facility virtual tour |
3-Dec-22 | Energy and Climate | Bryan Ramson, Fermilab | NREL Panel |
10-Dec-22 | Physics and Society | Bonnie Fleming, Fermilab | Graduation |
All lectures begin promptly at 9:00 AM. We recommend you join the Saturday Morning Physics Zoom meeting between 8:45 AM and 8:50 AM.
The lectures are two hours long, with a 10-minute break at about 10:00. Virtual tours and question & answer sessions start at 11:00; with everything wrapping up around 12:00 PM at the latest.