The Pine Street gate at the Batavia site will be closed to outbound traffic beginning Tuesday, Sept. 2. Members of the public will still be able to enter Fermilab through the Pine Street gate but must exit via the Batavia Road gate. The closure to outbound traffic is expected to be in effect until Sept.10. Fermilab’s Batavia site is open to the public. View details on hours, activities and site access requirements.
The Fermilab colloquium introduces a wide range of scientific and science-related topics presented by notable speakers from across the country and around the world.
The colloquium is open to the public. Talks are held at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday afternoons in One West in Wilson Hall (WH1W). To enter the site you will need a REAL ID-compliant identification.
Upcoming colloquia
An integral part of Fermilab’s academic culture, “orange” colloquium talks are aimed at a broad scientific and technical audience, while “green” talks are of general interest to everyone.
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Oct. 8, 2025, 3:30 pm US/Central
Join us for a conversation between biographer Alec Nevala-Lee (author of Collisions: A Physicist's Journey From Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs) and theoretical physicist Chris Quigg as they explore the legacy of Luis W. Alvarez, the visionary Nobel laureate who revolutionized experimental physics with the hydrogen bubble chamber. From his collaboration with Ernest Lawrence at the Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley to his later innovations in high-energy physics, Alvarez played a central role in ushering the field into its modern age, developing techniques that enabled the discovery of numerous new particles and pioneering the analysis of scientific data on an industrial scale—an achievement that left him deeply conflicted about the role of individual genius in the world of "big science" that he and his colleagues had made.