Spring 2023

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

Schedule of Spring 2023 online lectures and virtual tours

Date Lecture Topic Speaker, Affiliation Virtual Tour
28 Jan 2023 Introduction To Fermilab Cristina Mantilla Suarez, Fermilab Driving tour
4 Feb 2023 Quantum Mechanics Patrick Fox, Fermilab Wilson Hall and Linear Accelerator Gallery
11 Feb 2023 Relativity Gordan Krnjaic, Fermilab Grid Computing Center virtual tour
18 Feb 2023 The Standard Model of Particle Physics/LHC Physics Jennet Dickinson and
Grace E. Cummings, Fermilab
CMS virtual tour
25 Feb 2023 How We Make and Detect Particles Cindy Joe and Evan Niner, Fermilab Main Injector virtual tour
4 Mar 2023 Quantum Computing Gabriel Perdue, Fermilab Physicist panel
11 Mar 2023 Energy and Climate Bryan Ramson, Fermilab Extended Q&A
18 Mar 2023 Cosmology Aleksandra Ciprijanovic, Fermilab Muon g−2 virtual tour
25 Mar 2023 Muon g-2 Hogan Nguyễn, Fermilab NREL panel
1 Apr 2023 The Ghostly Neutrino Bruce Howard, Fermilab Silicon Detector Facility virtual tour
8 Apr 2023 From Project Director to Lab Director Lia Merminga, Fermilab Graduation

All lectures begin promptly at 9 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 a.m., with everything wrapping up at around noon.