Fermilab scientist Joe Lykken was one of six presenters at a symposium on dark-matter detection at the recent AAAS annual meeting.
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Fermilab Office of Education Head Marge Bardeen, CERN Communication Head James Gillies and Science and Technology Facilities Council CEO John Womersley talk about leveraging news of the Higgs discovery to raise public interest in science.
137 Films, which made the documentaries “The Atom Smashers” and “Fermilab: Science at Work,” had its own booth in the AAAS exhibit hall. Producer Clayton Brown (right) speaks with visitors about how to tell a science story through cinema.
Fermilab scientist Aaron Chou discusses experimental probes of quantum geometry at the AAAS conference. At the same session, Deputy Head of the Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics Dan Bauer discussed the detection of cosmic dark matter.
137 Films’ Clayton Brown (left) and Monica Long Ross (not pictured), along with the Office of Communication’s Kurt Riesselmann (right), talked about making science documentaries to a standing-room-only crowd at the AAAS conference.
Penelope Constanta, CCD, helps run the Fermilab Education Office booth at AAAS. The booth featured numerous hands-on activities for kids of all ages.
Fermilab’s Susan Dahl conducts a fun experiment with visitors to the Education Office booth.
Andre Salles explains how a particle accelerator works using an accelerator bowl, made by AD’s Todd Johnson.
From Jan. 12 through Jan. 14, representatives from the particle physics communities in the United States and the United Kingdom gathered at Fermilab to attend the “Proton Accelerators for Science and Innovation Workshop.” The goal of the workshop was to provide a solid foundation of cooperation and collaboration concerning the multiple possibilities of R&D, as well as applications, of accelerator technologies.
The directors of nine world particle physics laboratories have come to Fermilab to discuss future research projects and the evolution of the field into a model for science without international boundaries.