Schedule of spring 2024 lectures and tours; please note that schedule is subject to change.
Date | Lecture Topic | Speaker, Affiliation | Tour |
27 Jan 2024 | Wilson Hall: Introduction to Fermilab Science | Cristina Mantilla Suarez, Fermilab | Fermilab driving tour; virtual driving tour |
3 Feb 2024 | Wilson Hall: Relativity | Gordon Krnjaic, Fermilab | Fermilab SiDet/SQMS/WH tour: WH/Linac virtual video tour |
10 Feb 2024 | Wilson Hall: Quantum Mechanics | Patrick Fox, Fermilab | Fermilab SiDet/SQMS/WH tour: Main Injector virtual video tour |
17 Feb 2024 | Wilson Hall: Quantum Computing | Gabriel Perdue, Fermilab | Fermilab SiDet/SQMS/WH tour: no virtual tour |
24 Feb 2024 | Wilson Hall: Muon g-2 | Mete Yucel, Fermilab | Wilson Hall: Muon scientist panel |
2 March 2024 | Wilson Hall: How We Make and Detect Particles | Evan Niner, Fermilab | Wilson Hall: Physicist career path panel |
9 March 2024 | Wilson Hall: The Standard Model of Particle Physics/LHC Physics | Jennet Dickinson and Grace E. Cummings, Fermilab |
Wilson Hall: CERN virtual tour |
16 March 2024 | University of Chicago: The Ghostly Neutrino | Maria Martinez-Casales, Fermilab | University of Chicago: no tour |
23 March 2024 | MSI Chicago: Energy and Climate | Bryan Ramson, Fermilab | Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago: Climate scientist panel |
6 April 2024 | Wilson Hall: Astrophysics and Cosmology in the AI Era | Aleksandra Ciprijanovic, Fermilab | Wilson Hall: “Everyday Life in Science” panel |
13 April 2024 | Wilson Hall: Director’s Lecture and Graduation | Lia Merminga, Fermilab | Wilson Hall: 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.