Join Fermilab Director Pier Oddone, Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman, and other leading scientists in a celebration of Einstein, the World Year of Physics 2005, and exciting physics happening now.


Agenda

All sessions in Ramsey Auditorium

8:00–9:00 Registration & continental breakfast
Ramsey Auditorium foyer
 
Session I
9:00–10:45
Chair: Roger Dixon (Fermilab, Saturday Morning Physics)
Marge Bardeen (Fermilab)—Welcome
John Rigden (Washington University in St. Louis) on 1905: Einstein's Year - Talk via Streaming Video
Alex Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley) on Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe - Talk via Streaming Video
 
10:45–11:15 Refreshments and discussion with Fermilab scientists
Wilson Hall atrium
 
Session II
11:15–1:00
Chair: Peter Garbincius (Fermilab, Ask a Scientist)
Leon Lederman (IMSA) on Einstein and Me - Talk via Streaming Video
Niki Saoulidou (Fermilab) on Neutrinos: Past, Present, and Future - Talk via Streaming Video
Sean Carroll (University of Chicago) on The Warpings of Spacetime - Talk via Streaming Video
 
1:00–1:30 Refreshments and discussion with Fermilab scientists
Wilson Hall atrium
 
Session III
1:30–3:15
Chair: Randy Ruchti (National Science Foundation, QuarkNet)
Randy Hulet (Rice University) on Bose-Einstein Condensation of Very Cold Atoms - Talk via Streaming Video
Chris Quigg (Fermilab) on the Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics - Talk via Streaming Video
Pier Oddone (Fermilab) on the Future of Fermilab - Talk via Streaming Video

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