The Science Training Program for Young Italian Physicists and Engineers at Fermilab

The Italian Summer Students Program at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and other US Laboratories

Since 1984 INFN scientists performing experiments at Fermilab have been running a two month summer training program for Italian students at the lab. In 1984 the program involved only a few physics students from the Pisa group, but it was later extended to other groups and to engineering students. Since 2004 the program has been supported in part by DOE in the frame of an exchange agreement with INFN. The Fermilab training programs spanned from data analysis to design and construction of particle detectors and accelerator components, research on superconductive elements, theory of accelerators,…

Enrico Fermi: a little-known conference dating back to the early years of solid-state physics

In April 1925, Enrico Fermi was only 23 years old and he had graduated less than three years earlier. Despite his age, Fermi was invited at the University of Rome by Federigo Enriques to give several lectures on the recent advances in physics at the Italian Mathematics Seminar. Enriques was also the editor of "Periodico di Matematiche", an important Italian journal concerned primarily with secondary school math teachers. Some of the articles published by "Periodico di Matematiche" correspond to the lectures which Fermi gave during seminars and meetings of Italian mathematicians. Here we propos…

Fermilab庆祝K-12教育认证30周年

Celebrating 30 Years of K-12 Educational Programing at Fermilab

1980年，Leon Lederman与一些志愿物理学家，大约300名学生和所有物理老师一起开始了星期六早晨物理。今天，费米实验室每年在250名志愿者和50名教育工作者的帮助下提供30多个项目，为大约40，000名学生和2，500名教师提供服务。弄清楚我们为什么这么麻烦。多年来，我们已经学会了利用机会，面对挑战，为教师和学生提供有效的方案。我们为中学教师和高中学生提供研究经验。我们与教育工作者合作，设计和运行满足他们需求和兴趣的课程。受欢迎的学校课程包括课堂演示，基于经验的实地考察和高中参观。通过我们在QuarkNet和I2U2中的工作，我们在数据驱动活动以及大师班和电子实验室中向高中生提供真实的粒子物理数据。我们的专业发展活动包括教师资源中心和研讨会，教师可以像学生一样参与真实的学习体验。我们为儿童提供非正式课程，并举办活动，让儿童和成人享受科学的世界。我们的网站拥有丰富的在线资源。由美国能源部，美国国家科学基金会和费米实验室科学教育之友资助，我们的项目遍布伊利诺伊州，整个美国甚至世界各地。我们将审查项目组合，并分享志愿者和参与者的意见。