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, 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 | Lia Merminga, Fermilab | 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.