Corey Gray is a member of the Siksika Nation. In this public lecture, he presents a behind-the-scenes look at what it’s been like working at a land-based gravitational wave detector since 1998. Gray shares a “Top 3” list of his favorite detections, as well as the experience of a son having the opportunity to recruit his mother to work with him because of language—the language of spacetime and the Blackfoot people.
Eric Prebys gives a talk as part of the Undergraduate Lecture Series in the Ramsey Auditorium on June 19, 2015.
Other Skies: An Exoplanetary Festival takes place on Sunday, March 20, from 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. CDT. Other Skies is a groundbreaking online festival interweaves musical performances, visual art, and talks from scientists working at the cutting edge of exoplanet research — whose work directly inspired the art on display. Over the course of the day, a diverse interdisciplinary panel will present a broad picture of our exoplanetary horizons and their ramifications for our shared humanity. Fermilab scientist emeritus Mike Albrow…
The Office of Partnerships and Technology Transfer is sponsoring a virtual lecture series in entrepreneurship and commercialization, The Fermilab Innovation Lecture Series. All Fermilab personnel, users, students, and guest researchers are invited to participate in this series. The next installment of the series will take place on Feb. 2 from 3-4 p.m. CST via Zoom. Register here for “Sandia’s Integrated Partnerships Organization and Innovation Ecosystem” The coronavirus pandemic is a “top of mind” issue for all of us. Scientists and…
Fermilab guest composer David Ibbett composes electrosymphonic music, a fusion of classical and electronic styles. He visited Fermilab in January 2020 to learn more about neutrino research at the lab and started working on his first neutrino-inspired compositions. In this lecture, he presents the results of his work, with a guest appearance by neutrino scientist Bonnie Fleming.
Fermilab scientist Erik Ramberg gives a talk on June 23, 2015, as part of the Undergraduate Lecture Series.
What do researchers with the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, hosted by Fermilab, hope to discover? Here’s a hint: DUNE’s science goals have to do with exploding stars, going beyond the Standard Model, and explaining why, exactly, anything exists at all. In this video of an online event hosted by the Sanford Underground Research Facility, DUNE researchers unpack the three major science goals of the experiment.
“What is the practical application of your research?” This question is frequently asked of particle physicists. In this talk, Fermilab scientist Jennifer Raaf presents a few practical medical applications that have been enabled by fundamental scientific research undertaken by Fermilab employees. In particular, the talk focuses on a novel ventilator called the Mechanical Ventilator Milano, which was developed for the treatment of COVID-19 patients.
Sean Carroll of Caltech will give a colloquium talk, titled “From Quantum Mechanics to Space-time,” on Wednesday at 4 p.m. Summary: Nine decades in, the foundations of quantum mechanics remain mysterious. Meanwhile, modern physicists puzzle over how to reconcile quantum mechanics with gravity. Carroll suggests that these problems are related and that a promising strategy suggests itself: rather than “quantizing gravity,” we should look for gravity within quantum mechanics. This approach has interesting consequences for how we think about the…
2020 Nobel Prize winner Andrea Ghez will give the University of Chicago’s fourth Maria Goeppert-Mayer lecture, titled “The Monster at the Heart of our Galaxy,” on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 3:30 p.m. U.S. Central time. Watch a live stream of the lecture: https://physics.uchicago.edu/events/event/1584/