SMP Fall 2026 Schedule

The Lederman Science Center will be closed on Monday, September 7th for the lab holiday. We will resume our normal hours on Tuesday, September 8th.

All lectures begin promptly at 9:00 a.m. We recommend that you be in your seat by 8:50 a.m. 

The lectures are two hours long, with a 10-minute break. 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.

Preliminary schedule of Fall 2026 lectures and tours; please note that schedule is subject to change. 

  Date  Lecture Topic  SpeakerTour or panel topic
September 12Introduction to FermilabJoshua Barrow, University of MinnesotaDriving Tour/WH/SiDet
September 19Quantum MechanicsMax Fieg, FermilabDriving Tour/WH/SiDet
September 26RelativityPatrick Fox, FermilabDriving Tour/WH/SiDet
*October 3Off-site at University of Chicago: Accelerators and muonsKevin Lynch, Fermilab and Karie Badgley, FermilabSSSF
October 10The Standard Model of Particle Physics / LHC PhysicsMike Wagman and Christina Wang, FermilabCMS Virtual Tour
October 17Energy Flows on Planet EarthBryan Ramson, FermilabPrairie activities
*October 24Off-site at Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: Quantum Sensing & NetworkingRyan Linehan and Andrew Cameron, FermilabPanel
October 31Quantum ComputingGabe Perdue, FermilabQuantum computing Jupyter notebook
November 7NeutrinosGray Putnam, FermilabMINERvA masterclass
*November 14Off-site at Northwestern University: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and/or CosmologyTBANorthwestern lab tours
November 21Physics and SocietyNorbert Holtkamp, FermilabGraduation