Lecture topics and tours are subject to change. The schedule will be updated accordingly.
Tentative Schedule of Winter 2021 Online Lectures held via Zoom
Date | Lecture Topic | Speaker, Affiliation | Virtual Tour |
23-Jan-21 | Introduction To Fermilab Lecture slides |
Pedro Machado, Fermilab | Virtual tour of Fermilab Site |
30-Jan-21 | Relativity | Dan Hooper, Fermilab | Meet and Greet with the SMP Team |
6-Feb-21 | Quantum Mechanics | Patrick Fox, Fermilab | Grid Computing Center Virtual Tour |
13-Feb-21 | The Standard Model of Particle Physics Lecture Slides |
Allison Reinsvold Hall, Fermilab | Physicist Panel |
20-Feb-21 | Particle Accelerators and Particle Detectors Particle Detectors Slides |
Cindy Joe, Fermilab and Evan Niner, Fermilab | SRF and Magnets Virtual Tour |
27-Feb-21 | Quantum Computing Colab Notebook |
Gabe Perdue, Fermilab | Computing Panel |
6-March-21 | The Ghostly Neutrino | Karl Warburton, Iowa State University | Extended Question and Answer |
13-March-21 | LHC Physics | Karri DiPetrillo, Alexx Perloff, Christian Herwig, Fermilab | CMS Virtual Visit |
20-March-21 | Galactic Astrophysics and Cosmology | Noah Kurinsky, Fermilab | SiDet Virtual Tour |
27-March-21 | Energy and Climate | Bryan Ramson, Fermilab | Engineering Panel |
3-April-21 | Physics and Society | Joe Lykken, Deputy Director of 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.