The director of the Dark Energy Survey is now heading one of the most scientifically diverse divisions at Fermilab.
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From NBC News, May 8, 2018: DUNE co-spokesperson Ed Blucher and Fermilab Director Nigel Lockyer are quoted in NBC’s overview of neutrino physics and DUNE.
From University of Chicago, May 8, 2018: A number of breakthroughs have made it possible for scientists to encode and manipulate information in quantum systems. Scientists at UChicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering,which formed a hub with Fermilab and Argonne called the Chicago Quantum Exchange, are fleshing out the fundamental rules of controlling such systems.
The UK physicist will co-lead the experiment for the next two years.
From Chicago Tribune, May 8, 2018: This one-minute video of the Fermilab bison shows them grazing and relaxing in the pasture.
Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics aims to encourage more women and gender minorities to pursue careers in physics and improve diversity in the field.
Fermilab’s Folk Music Club sponsored the first Fermilab barn dance on May 13, 1978. Forty years later, the Fermilab Barn Dance is still going strong.
Fermilab is providing technology and expertise for the SuperCDMS SNOLAB project, which will expand the hunt for dark matter to particles with properties not visible to any other experiment.
From WBBM Newsradio, May 2, 2018: Roads and Grounds’s Dave Shemanske appears in this 44-second segment on the Fermilab bison herd.
From Suburban Chronicle, May 3, 2018: Bison herdsman Cleo Garcia is quoted in this article on the newest addition to the bison herd at Fermilab.