Fall 2024

Preliminary schedule of Fall 2024 lectures and tours; please note that schedule is subject to change. Lectures at Fermilab are in Wilson Hall One West unless otherwise noted.

Date Lecture Location & Topic Speaker, Affiliation Tour or Panel
28 Sept 2024 Fermilab: Introduction to Fermilab Don Lincoln, Fermilab Wilson Hall tour / Fermilab driving tour / SQMS tour
*5 Oct 2024 University of Chicago: Quantum Mechanics Patrick Fox, Fermilab South Side Science Festival
12 Oct 2024 Fermilab: Relativity Gordan Krnjaic, Fermilab / University of Chicago Wilson Hall tour / Fermilab driving tour / SiDet tour
19 Oct 2024 Wilson Hall: Quantum Computing Gabriel Perdue, Fermilab Wilson Hall tour / Fermilab driving tour / SiDet tour
*26 Oct 2024 Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: Cosmology and Dark Matter Alex Drlica-Wagner and Nate Saffold, Fermilab Dark Matter Day
2 Nov 2024 Wilson Hall: How We Make and How We Detect Particles Jason St. John, Dylan Temples, and Ryan Linehan, Fermilab Physicist career path panel
9 Nov 2024 Wilson Hall: The Standard Model of Particle Physics / LHC Physics Grace E. Cummings & TBD, Fermilab CERN virtual tour
16 Nov 2024 Wilson Hall: Muon g-2 / Mu2e David Kessler and Kevin Lynch, Fermilab Muon panel
*23 Nov 2024 Location TBD: Energy and Climate Bryan Ramson, Fermilab Climate scientist panel
30 Nov 2024 No session: Thanksgiving weekend
7 Dec 2024 Wilson Hall: The Ghostly Neutrino Maria Martinez-Casales, Fermilab AI in science panel
14 Dec 2024 Wilson Hall: Final Lecture and Graduation TBD Wilson Hall: Graduation

All lectures begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. We recommend that you join the Saturday Morning Physics Zoom meeting between 8:45–8:50 a.m.

The lectures are two hours long, with a 10-minute break. Virtual tours and Q&A sessions start at about 11:00 a.m., with everything wrapping up at around noon.

*Lectures are given off-site. Student will need to make travel arrangements or plan to attend through the Zoom meeting.