Professor Menary and the Physics at Fermilab

Hello Everyone! I hope you have all been able to adjust back to the school life once again. Our first speaker this semester will be none other than Professor Menary! With our Trip to Fermilab fast approaching, now is the perfect time to learn all about what we are going to be able to see on our trip. The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory located in the western suburbs of Chicago has been the home to numerous discoveries including, among other things, the bottom and top quarks and the tau neutrino. The lab exemplifies the great physicist it was named after (a man that his colleague Gilberto Bernardini described as "a physicist with a capital F!") in that at Fermilab a wide range of fundamental physics is explored using a huge variety of different techniques. Professor Menary will describe some of the research areas presently being investigated at Fermilab such as precision muon physics, neutrino physics, and dark matter and dark energy searches. Please Join us next Monday, January 27 at 4:30 pm in Room 317 Petrie. As always food and drinks will be served to those who have valid memberships. And don't worry if you haven't bought yours already, as you can purchase one at this meeting for only $5!