SMP Fall 2026 Schedule

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