We are honored to have Sekazi Mtingwa deliver a colloquium on “The Road Towards an African Light Source” on Wednesday, May 10, at 4 p.m. in WH1W. Mtingwa joined Fermilab in 1980, studying quantum field theory as a postdoctoral researcher. Soon, he began working with James D. “BJ” Bjorken on itrabeam scattering. For this work, they shared the 2017 Robert R. Wilson Price for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators. Adding to his many honors, Mtingwa was recently awarded…
Colloquium
We do not have a colloquium scheduled for today, so it is a good time for you to catch up on recordings of past colloquia. Videos are made available a week or two after recording. Please follow the “Past colloquia archive” link on the colloquium web page. There you will find videos of colloquia dating back to 2015. The most recent videos available include Charlie Atkinson on “The Engineering and Commissioning of the James Webb Space Telescope,” along with other…
Every seat was filled for Wednesday’s colloquium on the engineering and commissioning of the James Webb Space Telescope.
We welcome the general public to join Fermilab employees and users to the Colloquium at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 1. Charlie Atkinson, chief engineer of the James Webb Space Telescope, will explain how the telescope was designed, built, tested and sent to beyond the moon. To attend, we ask the general public to register here: https://indico.fnal.gov/event/58329/registrations/3655/. Please note that registration closes at noon on Monday, Feb. 27. Volunteers needed We also will need badged employees to help host these visitors. Please email…
Please join us for two extreme colloquia. Today, Feb. 22, Sam Zeller will explain the innovative technology we will use to launch intriguing neutrinos across the country. The worldwide collaboration DUNE will measure them deep underground (and close to home) to unravel physics at the tiniest scales while explaining why there is (thankfully) a tiny bit more matter than anti-matter in the early Universe. For more information, visit https://events.fnal.gov/colloquium/events/event/open-121/. On Wednesday, March 1, we welcome the chief engineer for the…
MINERvA is announcing the results of a precision nucleon measurement on Wednesday, Feb. 1. The colloquium will be delivered by Tejin Cai. While a student at the University of Rochester, Cai’s thesis work with advisor Kevin McFarland laid the foundations for the publication in Nature from the MINERvA collaboration. Deborah Harris, MINERvA co-spokesperson, describes the result: “This measurement involves antineutrinos scattering off free protons to produce neutrons. This is a new technique that hasn’t been done before: in the past…
At this week’s Colloquium, Fermilab Chief Engineer Mayling Wong-Squires will talk about how the robotics initiative of the Accelerator Directorate is working toward ways that robots will helps us run accelerators at Fermilab. Robots can enhance personnel safety while also increasing efficiency of accelerator operations. It takes many different skills to envision and build these machines. She will talk about how people from different parts of the lab and local universities work together to create new solutions. This colloquium will include a demonstration…
The Colloquium scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 18 has been postponed.
Angela Olinto will give the Colloquium, “Space Observatories for the Highest Energy Cosmic Particles: POEMMA & EUSO-SPB,” at 4 p.m., Jan. 11.
On Wednesday, Dec. 14, Fermilab Distinguished Scientist Vladimir Shiltsev will discuss prospects for accelerators in the future at the next Colloquium. Here he answers some questions about accelerators and his career.