Fermilab hosted a workshop dedicated to muon collider physics and detectors on Dec. 14-16, 2022. Another workshop at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics followed later this spring.
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At its summer meeting this August, the International Committee for Future Accelerators accepted the proposal by its Linear Collider Board and approved the formation of the International Development Team with a mandate to make preparations for the International Linear Collider Pre-Lab in Japan, by the end of 2021. The Pre-Lab, a precursor to the ILC Laboratory, is expected to be launched at the end of the mandate of the International Development Team and after securing the approval from the Japanese government for the ILC project.
Twenty five years ago, in March 1995, the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Fermilab Tevatron, announced the discovery of the top quark. Join the virtual celebration of the discovery’s 25th anniversary on Wednesday, Aug. 12, at the Top Quark Silver Jubilee.
Harvard physicist and author Lisa Randall is visiting Fermilab and will give a colloquium on Monday, March 2, at 11 a.m. in One West. Come and hear her new ideas about dark matter in her talk titled “Darkly Charged Dark Matter.”
For Reham Aly from Egypt, now a graduate student on CMS at the University of Bari, Italy, this was the first visit to the United States and Fermilab. She had been invited to come to work at the Fermilab LHC Physics Center for two months. Another student, Angela Taliercio, an Italian working on her Ph.D. at the University of Louvain, Belgium, had visited the LPC in 2018. The rewarding experience she had, she says, made her want to come back. Reham and Angela spent staggered two-month periods at Fermilab, from October to December 2019.
Come and hear McDonald talk about how deep underground experiments help address fundamental questions about neutrino properties and search for dark matter, which makes up 26% of our universe.
Robert Knapp of Evergreen State College will give a colloquium titled “The Greening of Buildings.” The building sector is a key locus for promoting sustainability since it accounts for more than 40% of energy use in the U.S. and a similar proportion in greenhouse gas emissions. The colloquium will outline technical and organizational moves needed for progress, address technical and social prospects and limits for sustainable energy as it pertains to buildings, and provide specific inventions that would make a difference.
Nature magazine published a column in 2015 titled, “Physicists, your planet needs you.” It was a call from prominent climatologists to physicists to help solve some of nature’s mysteries that are crucial to modeling the climate. Our Colloquium speaker this Wednesday, John Bradley Marston of Brown University, will speak about the fascinating connection he has unraveled between aspects of broken symmetry, condensed matter physics and climate science.
We end this year’s 50th anniversary Colloquium series with a talk from one biographer of the lab’s namesake, Enrico Fermi.
The James Webb Space Telescope will launch in one year and will be the most powerful space telescope ever built, opening new territories of astronomy.