Spring 2022

Lecture topics and tours are subject to change. The schedule will be updated accordingly.

Schedule of Spring 2022 Online Lectures and Virtual Tours

Date Lecture Topic Speaker, Affiliation Virtual Tour
22-Jan-22 Introduction To Fermilab Pedro Machado, Fermilab Driving tour
29-Jan-22 Relativity Gordan Krnjaic, Fermilab Wilson Hall
5-Feb-22 Quantum Mechanics Patrick Fox, Fermilab Linac
12-Feb-22 The Standard Model of Particle Physics/LHC Physics Karri DiPetrillo, Fermilab
Alexx Perloff, University of Colorado, Boulder
Extended Q&A
19-Feb-22 Particle Accelerators and Particle Detectors Cindy Joe and Evan Niner, Fermilab Main Injector virtual tour
26-Feb-22 Quantum Computing

Colab Notebook

Gabriel Perdue, Fermilab Physicist Panel
5-March-22 The Ghostly Neutrino Bruce Howard, Fermilab ProtoDUNE virtual tour
12-March-22 Muon g-2 Saskia Charity, Fermilab Muon g-2 tour
19-March-22 Energy and Climate Bryan Ramson, Fermilab Engineering Panel
26-March-22 Astrophysics and Cosmology Aleksandra Ciprijanovic, Fermilab CMS virtual tour
2-April-22 Physics and Society Joseph Lykken, Deputy Director of Research, 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.