Fermilab is pleased to announce a special colloquium on Wednesday, April 24, at 10 a.m. in One West. The colloquium speaker, KEK Director General Masanori Yamauchi, will provide an update on the ILC, its benefit to the international particle physics community and potential future plans. We encourage all Fermilab scientists, engineers, technicians, support staff and users to take this valuable opportunity to learn more about the ILC.
Did you miss Nobel laureate Barry Barish’s colloquium “Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves”? Or would you like to see it again? View the videorecording, now available online.
The discovery of gravitational waves, predicted by Einstein in 1916, is now enabling important tests of the theory of general relativity, as well as beginning multimessenger astronomy: the combined observations of astrophysical phenomena using electromagnetic radiation, gravitational waves and neutrinos. Barish will explore plans and prospects for gravitational-wave science.
The colloquium talk with Gerald Gabrielse originally scheduled for Jan. 30 is canceled due to predicted inclement weather that day. It has been rescheduled for February 27.
Do you have suggestions for speakers or topics? As the incoming chair of the Colloquium Committee, I want to make the seminars relevant to you, and so I’d like to hear from you.
We end this year’s 50th anniversary Colloquium series with a talk from one biographer of the lab’s namesake, Enrico Fermi.
The University of Chicago is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, CP-1. On November 30 at 4pm, Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin, co-authors of The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age, will discuss Fermi’s personal life and his scientific contributions and illustrate how he was shaped by history and how he, in turn, shaped history. This event will be at the University of Chicago, in KTPC. For more information…
Dijkgraaf, director of the Institute for Advanced Study, explains how Flexner’s defense of the value of “the unobstructed pursuit of useless knowledge” may be even more relevant today than it was in the early 20th century.
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.
We all owe so much to our founding director, Robert Wilson. Arguing that a National Accelerator should not be on the East or West coasts, he brought it here in the Midwest.