Come to Fermilab on Saturday mornings to learn about physics Fermilab SMP is a program for area high school students.
We offer a series of nine lectures per session, and three sessions per year. The sessions begin, typically, in early October, early January 2, and mid March.
07/23/2018
What are you doing this summer? One option, that I hope you know about, is QuarkNet. Here, a group of QuarkNet students poses for me during a tour of the DZero detector at Fermilab. SMP students also get to tour DZero - it is rather awesome.
We are finalizing the schedule and the logistics for the coming Fall session of SMP.
The application period starts on August 1st.
Stay tuned here for more updates.
05/12/2018
Today was Graduation Day for Fermilab Saturday Morning Physics. Fermilab director Nigel Lockyer, right there in the middle, handed out the graduation certificates..
04/21/2018
Leo Aliaga pontificating about Neutrinos
03/11/2018
The Spring session of Fermilab SMP begins - students sign in. See all the photos at http://saturdaymorningphysics.fnal.gov/professor-dan-hooper-introduction-to-science-march-10-2018/
03/05/2018
Congratulations to all the new physics experts who graduated from SMP on Saturday, March 3, 2018! Check out pictures of these fine women and men, here. http://saturdaymorningphysics.fnal.gov/presentation-of-graduation-certificates-march-3-2018/
03/04/2018
Congratulations to all the new physics experts who graduated from SMP on Saturday, March 3, 2018! Check out pictures of these fine men and women, here. http://saturdaymorningphysics.fnal.gov/presentation-of-graduation-certificates-march-3-2018/
GRADUATION! This Saturday. What a great group of Science enthusiasts we had this term!
02/17/2018
Erik Ramberg begins his talk about energy. Notice that he is splitting an atom on the screen.
02/14/2018
Check out the photos from Saturday's lecture by Dr. Leo Aliaga.
http://saturdaymorningphysics.fnal.gov/leo-aliaga-neutrinos-february-10-2018/
Winter Storm Warning for Friday February 9, 2018
Thursday Feb 8, 2018, 4:00 PM
The forecast is for the storm to be over by 9PM on Friday Feb 9. But if Lab Management decides to close the lab because of the weather, we will have to cancel or postpone class.
So, for now, we will go ahead with the neutrino lecture by Leo Aliaga on Saturday Feb 10 at 9:00 AM. If this changes, we will send an email message to the address under which you registered, we will update the SMP home page (https://smp.fnal.gov) and we will post a new message here on Facebook.
So stay tuned!
02/03/2018
Here we go! Professor Ge**er starts with the Greek philosopher Democritus and the concept of "atoms".