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 Spring 2025 lectures and tours; please note that schedule is subject to change.
Date | Lecture topic | Speaker | Tour or panel topic |
February 1st | Intro to Fermilab | Don Lincoln, Fermilab | Driving Tour / Wilson Hall / SQMS / SiDet |
February 8th | Quantum Mechanics | Patrick Fox, Fermilab | Driving Tour / Wilson Hall / SQMS / SiDet |
* February 15th | Off-site at Griffin MSI Chicago: Relativity | Gordan Krnjaic, Fermilab/UChicago | Museum exploration |
February 22nd | The Standard Model of Particle Physics/LHC Physics | Irene Dutta, Fermilab | CMS Virtual Tour |
* March 1st | Off-site at Northwestern University: Cosmology and Dark Matter | Nate Saffold, Fermilab | NU physics facilities |
March 8th | Quantum Computing | Gabe Perdue, Fermilab | Driving Tour / Wilson Hall / SQMS / SiDet |
March 15th | How We Make and How We Detect Particles | Jason St John, Dylan Temples, and Ryan Linehan, Fermilab | Path to becoming a scientist panel |
March 22nd | Muon g-2 / Mu2e | David Kessler, Kevin Lynch, Fermilab | Muon Panel |
* March 29th *Adjusted time 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. | Off-site at Garfield Park Conservatory: Energy and Climate | Bryan Ramson, Fermilab | Climate Panel |
* April 5th | Off-site at University of Chicago: The Ghostly Neutrino | Maria Martinez-Casales, Fermilab | Everyday life of a scientist panel |
April 12th | Physics and Society | Lia Merminga, Fermilab | Graduation |