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.
Preliminary schedule of Fall 2024 lectures and tours; please note that schedule is subject to change.
Date | Lecture topic | Speaker | Tour or panel topic |
September 28th | Introduction to Fermilab Science | Don Lincoln, Fermilab | Wilson Hall tour / Fermilab driving tour / SQMS tour |
* October 5th | Off-site at University of Chicago: Quantum Mechanics | Patrick Fox, Fermilab | South Side Science Festival |
October 12th | Relativity | Josh Foster, Fermilab | Wilson Hall tour / Fermilab driving tour / SiDet tour |
October 19th | Quantum Computing | Gabriel Perdue, Fermilab | Wilson Hall tour / Fermilab driving tour / SiDet tour |
* October 26th | Off-site at MSI Chicago: Cosmology and Dark Matter | Alex Drlica-Wagner and Nate Saffold, Fermilab | Dark Matter Day |
November 2nd | How We Make and Detect Particles | Jason St. John, Dylan Temples, and Ryan Linehan, Fermilab | Path to becoming a scientist |
November 9th | The Standard Model of Particle Physics / LHC Physics | Grace E. Cummings, Fermilab | CMS Virtual Tour |
November 16th | Muon g-2 & Mu2e | David Kessler and Kevin Lynch, Fermilab | Muon panel |
* November 23rd | Off-site at Garfield Park Conservatory: Energy & Climate | Bryan Ramson, Fermilab | Garfield Park Conservatory: Climate scientist panel |
November 30th | No session: Thanksgiving weekend | ||
December 7th | The Ghostly Neutrino | Maria Martinez Casales, Fermilab | Everyday life panel |
December 14th | Physics and Society | Lia Merminga, Fermilab | Graduation |