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 2025 lectures and tours; please note that schedule is subject to change.
Date | Lecture topic | Speaker | Tour or panel topic |
September 13th | Intro to Fermilab | Josh Barrow, Fermilab | WH / Driving Tour / SQMS / SiDet |
September 20th | Quantum Mechanics | Sohitri Ghosh, Fermilab | WH / Driving Tour / SQMS / SiDet |
September 27th | Relativity | TBA | WH / Driving Tour / SQMS / SiDet |
*October 4th | Off-site at University of Chicago: How We Make and How We Detect Particles | Jason St John and Dylan T, Fermilab | South Side Science Festival |
October 11th | The Standard Model of Particle Physics / LHC Physics | Christina Wang, Fermilab | CMS Virtual Tour |
October 18th | Neutrinos | Gray Putnam, Fermilab | Neutrino panel |
October 25th | Muon physics (g-2, Mu2e, collider) | TBA | Path to becoming a scientist panel |
*November 1st | Off-site at Griffin MSI Chicago: Energy Flows on Planet Earth | Bryan Ramson, Fermilab | Climate Q&A |
November 8th | Quantum Computing | Gabe Perdue, Fermilab | Everyday life of a scientist panel |
*November 15th | Off-site at Northwestern University: Cosmology and Dark Matter | Gordan Krnjaic Fermilab | Northwestern lab Tours |
November 22nd | Physics and Society | Young-Kee Kim, Fermilab | Graduation |