Colloquium – Archive
Fermilab Colloquium Calendar 2016-2017
Lectures begin at 4:00 p.m. in 1 West
Appropriate for physicists Appropriate for all lab staff and members of the public
| Date | Speaker/Institute | Title | Host | Abstract | Video | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 Oct 2016 | Simon P. Worden Breakthrough Prize Foundation |
The Breakthrough Initiatives: The Search for Life in the Universe | V. Scarpine | Abstract | Video | |
| 12 Oct 2016 | ||||||
| 19 Oct 2016 | Michael Benedikt CERN |
Future Circular Colliders at CERN | D. Denisov/P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | |
| 26 Oct 2016 | George Crabtree Argonne |
Storage at the Threshold: Li-ion Batteries and Beyond | P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | |
| 02 Nov 2016 | Erik Hemsing SLAC |
Beam By Design – Customized X-rays from Free Electron Lasers | Thangaraj/Bhat | Abstract | Video | |
| 09 Nov 2016 | John Matthews University of Utah – High Energy Astrophysics Institute |
Studying Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays with the Telescope Array | R Tesarek | Abstract | Video | |
| 16 Nov 2016 | ||||||
| 23 Nov 2016 | No colloquium | |||||
| 30 Nov 2016 | Neelima Sehgal Stonybrook |
Measuring Gravitational Lensing of the CMB to Probe Neutrino Properties, Dark Energy, and Primordial Gravitational Waves | D. Hooper | Abstract | Video | |
| 07 Dec 2016 | Ellen Sandor Art^n @Fermilab |
Neutrinos in a New Light | P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | |
| 14 Dec 2016 | Jac Nicoloff Colorado State University |
Radiobiological foundations of carbon ion radiotherapy: current perspectives and future challenges | V. Scarpine | Abstract | Video | |
| 21 Dec 2016 | No colloquium | |||||
| 28 Dec 2016 | No colloquium | |||||
| 04 Jan 2017 | No colloquium | |||||
| 11 Jan 2017 | Dan Green Fermilab |
Fermilab and the Foundations of the Standard Model | P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | |
| 12 Jan 2017 | Allstate | Private sector careers for physicists; Data Science at Allstate-Research beyone the Laboratory | K. Matera/P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | |
| 18 Jan 2017 | Stuart Henderson Argonne |
Advanced Photon Source Upgrade Project: The World’s Leading Hard X-ray Light Source | P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | |
| 25 Jan 2017 | Gino Segre/Bettina Hoerlin University of Pennsylvania |
Enrico Fermi: the Pope of Physics | P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | |
| 01 Feb 2017 | Ray Jayawardhana York University, Canada |
Characterizing Exoplanets: From Hot Jupiters to Super-Earths | P. Bhat | Abstract | ||
| 08 Feb 2017 | Swapan Chattopadhyay Fermilab |
Quantum Sensors for Fundamental and Information Science: What has it got to do with Fermilab? | T. Sen | Abstract | Videos | |
| 15 Feb 2017 | Sam Posen Fermilab |
State-of-the-Art Superconducting RF Technology for Accelerators | A. Grassellino | Abstract | Videos | |
| 22 Feb 2017 | No colloquium | |||||
| 01 Mar 2017 | Francis Halzen University of Wisconsin at Madison |
IceCube: Cosmic Neutrinos and More | M. Albrow | Abstract | Videos | |
| 08 Mar 2017 | John Peoples Fermilab |
History of Fermilab Accelerators and the Tevatron Complex | P. Bhat | Abstract | Videos | |
| 15 Mar 2017 | No colloquium | |||||
| 22 Mar 2017 | Sarah Keller University of Washington |
How simple membranes give insights into the first protocells on Earth and 2D critical phenomena | D. Hooper | Abstract | Videos | |
| 29 Mar 2017 | Rocky Kolb and Michael Turner University of Chicago |
How Fermilab changed the course of cosmology | C. Stoughton | Abstract | Videos | |
| 05 Apr 2017 | Alyson Brooks Rutgers University |
Re-Examining the Astrophysical Constraints on the Dark Matter Model | D. Hooper | Abstract | Videos | |
| 12 Apr 2017 | Peter Littlewood University of Chicago |
Physics of Sustainability | P. Bhat | Abstract | Videos | |
| 19 Apr 2017 | Professor Riccardo Lattanzi NYU School of Medicine |
Novel Tools for Rational Design and Assessment of Radiofrequency Coils for Magnetic Resonsance Imaging | A. Grassellino | Abstract | Videos | |
| 26 Apr 2017 | Robert Garisto Physical Review Letters |
Secrets of PRL | D. Denisov | Abstract | Videos | |
| 03 May 2017 | Giorgio Bellettini INFN/Fermilab |
The CDF Experiment and the Italians | P. Bhat | Abstract | Videos | |
| 09 May 2017 | Reza Zadeh Matroid and Stanford |
Scaling Computer Vision in the Cloud | P. Bhat | Abstract | Videos | |
| 10 May 2017 | Sergei Nagaitsev Fermilab |
Fermilab and Accelerator Science | P. Bhat | Abstract | Videos | |
| 17 May 2017 | Richard Kron University of Chicago & Fermilab |
What Can We Learn from Starlight in Galaxies? | C. Stoughton | Abstract | Video | |
| 24 May 2017 | Paul Grannis Stony Brook University |
The DZero Experiment: its history and physics accomplishments | P. Bhat | Abstract | Video | |
| 31 May 2017 | Jeffrey A Appel Fermilab |
Discovery of the Upsilon and Bottom Quark-a personal reminiscence 40 years later | M. Albrow, P. Bhat | Abstract | Videos | |
| 07 Jun 2017 | No colloquium | 50th Anniversary Symposium | ||||
| 14 Jun 2017 | No colloquium | |||||
| 21 Jun 2017 | Carlos Escobar Fermilab |
Latin-American participation in the Fermilab Experimental Program: origins and future prospects | A. Para | Abstract | Videos | |
| 28 Jun 2017 | Dr. Tanju Sofu Argonne |
A Roadmap for Nuclear Energy Technology | P. Bhat | Abstract | Videos | |
| 05 Jul 2017 | Laura Greene Florida State University |
Correlated Electrons, the Dark Engergy of Condensed Matter Physics | D. Lincoln | Abstract | Videos | |
| 12 Jul 2017 | Stephen Meredith University of Chicago |
The Dynamics of β-Amyloid Aggregation | C. Stoughton | Abstract | Videos | |
| 19 Jul 2017 | Rainer Weiss MIT |
Observation of the merger of binary black holes: The opening of gravitational wave astronomy | C. Stoughton | Abstract | Videos | |
| 26 Jul 2017 | No colloquium | |||||
| 02 Aug 2017 | DPF Meeting – No Colloquium | |||||
| 09 Aug 2017 | Masanori Mishina Fermilab |
Early days of CDF and the Japanese Contribution | A. Para | Abstract | Videos | |
| 16 Aug 2017 | John Martinis Google & UC Santa Barbara |
Quantum supremacy: checking a quantum computer with a classical supercomputer | P. Bhat, A. Romanenko | Abstract | Videos | |
| 23 Aug 2017 | Federico Capasso Harvard |
Metasurfaces: from the generalized Snell’s law to flat optics | M. Albrow | Abstract | Videos | |
| 24 Aug 2017 | Robert McDermott University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Measurement and Control of Superconducting Qubits Using Single Flux Quantum Digital Logic | A. Romanenko, P. Bhat | Abstract | Videos | |
| 30 Aug 2017 | No colloquium | |||||
| 06 Sep 2017 | Victor Yarba Fermilab |
45 years of collaboration between Fermilab and USSR/Russian scientists | D. Denisov | Abstract | Videos | |
| 13 Sep 2017 | Paul Lopata | Superconducting Quantum Computing Experiments: Trends and Challenges | B. Holzman/P. Bhat | Abstract | Videos | |
| 20 Sep 2017 | Hugh Montgomery | Jefferson Lab: Nuclear Physics Laboratory | P. Bhat | Abstract | Videos | |
| 27 Sep 2017 | Maury Tigner Cornell University |
Robert R. Wilson; from Frontier Wyoming to Weston Illinois | M. Albrow | Abstract | Videos | |
| 04 Oct 2017 | Michelangelo Mangano CERN |
Physics at the next energy frontier: a 100 TeV pp collider | D. Denisov | Abstract | Videos | |
| 11 Oct 2017 | ||||||
| 18 Oct 2017 | Frank Taylor MIT |
How to photograph birds | R. Tesarek | Abstract | Videos | |
| 25 Oct 2017 | John Mather NASA |
James Webb Space Telescope | P. Bhat | Abstract | Videos | |
| 01 Nov 2017 | Robbert Dijkgraaf Director, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ |
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge | P. Bhat | Abstract | Videos | |
| 03 Nov 2017 | Pauline Gagnon CERN |
The tragic destiny of Mileva Maric Einstein | P. Bhat | Abstract | Videos | |
| 08 Nov 2017 | Eliezer Ravinovici Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel |
SESAME-opening a source of light in the Middle East | C. Quigg | Abstract | Videos | |
| 15 Nov 2017 | No colloquium | |||||
| 22 Nov 2017 | No Colloquium | |||||
| 29 Nov 2017 | Bradley (Lee) Roberts Boston University |
The allure of Ultra-sensitive Experiments: A Tale of Two Leptons | P. Bhat | Abstract | Videos | |
| 06 Dec 2017 | Daniel Lidar | Quantum Computing | P. Bhat | Abstract | Videos | |
| 13 Dec 2017 | David N. Schwartz | How Fermi Became Fermi | C. Quigg | Abstract | Videos | |
| 20 Dec 2017 | No Colloquium | |||||
| 27 Dec 2017 | No Colloquium |