Next week on Friday and Saturday, Fermilab will welcome the National Society of Black Physicists to the lab for the organization’s first Fall Conference.
The recent American Physical Society meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, which took place from April 16-19, was a star-studded affair as physics meetings go.
Josh Frieman, director of the Dark Energy Survey and a member of the Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Group, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences this week. He joins 212 other new inductees.
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.