Fermilab 50th Anniversary

Wildflowers bloom outside of the Transfer Gallery, near Ramsey Auditorium.

Scaffolding stairs down to the future detector.

Among the offerings from the hot-beverage vending machine in the Wilson Hall atrium is CHI tea. I have to believe it's a pun.

Rainbow from IARC in the evening

The projection screen inside the ROC East was removed this morning, making the view a lot nicer.

One of the many reasons working at Fermilab is amazing!

Marco Bonati works in the Lab A cleanroom with bits and pieces for the DESI detector testing.

Not easy to stay dry on this rainy day.

Pat Riehecky explains yum repositories.

Today's Summer Lecture Series speaker, Marc Weinberg, right, engages in a postlecture discussion of the Higgs boson with three summer interns at Fermilab. The interns are Marlene Ortega, Katie Chennault and Bernadette Haig.

Meet Callie Surber! Callie has been at Fermilab since May 2017 and works with the Particle Physics Administrative Support Group in the Particle Physics Division office.

Erica Snider, Gianluca Petrillo, Hans Wenzel, Jason Stock

CMS pixels prototype FCP 130 ASIC has initial testing performed by Lou DalMonte of the Particle Physics Division Electrical Engineering Department in FCP 130 test lab, Wilson Hall, 14th floor.

This heron is a little camera shy.

John E. Anderson III helped conduct a test on a 12-inch bellows installed in the Tevatron to see if the bellows can be reused elsewhere.

Wilson Hall

It's like Bob Ross painted the sky above Wilson Hall - so many happy little clouds!

Marc Paterno of the Computing Division still working hard at the end of a long day.

The clematis is the BEG south courtyard is in full and glorious bloom.

Maral Alyari of the Particle Physics Division Compact Muon Solenoid Department and Petar Kesic with the Summer TRAC Teacher program discuss the “Big Pink Foam” located in the Lab C cleanroom, which is being used for testing the HGCal cassette tubings for CMS phase 2 upgrade. #MobileMonday

Cherry picking of data: Bad. Cherry picking of, well, cherries: Delicious! Elliott McCrory and the photographer have had a bumper crop of cherries at the Fermilab garden this year.

Bird goes airborne from the back of one of the Fermilab bison.

Fermilab attracts many visitors, especially when the weather is beautiful.

Jose Sepulveda contemplates the age of this rock.

Anne Mary Teichert talks about Angela Gonzales'"Lasting Mark" at Fermilab.

In this picture Bert Gonzalez is performing an inspection of the first 2S thermal mockup he assembled and mounted into a cooling frame for the CMS upgrade.

Inside view of the colorful Lab A dome.

John Anderson reminds the folks in the Accelerator Division about our common-sense safety procedures in preparation for the coming shutdown period.

Taking a walk on Road B at lunchtime.

Bert Gonzalez from the Particle Physics Division Detector Development and Operation Department and R&D Assembly Department works in the Lab D cleanroom at SiDet. He is assembling a precision silicon plane. This is work for others.

It looks like those thick dark clouds will touch the Bubble Chamber.

Erica Snider standing, workshop attendees

A cloudy, Midwestern sky over the bison field.

Marlene Ortega is a Summer student working for Daniel Bowring. She is working at SiDet in Lab B doing some testing on different materials.

A dickcissel sitting on a branch waiting for his true love to show up.

Feeding swallows

The art work of Angela Gonzales

The 2017 Fermilab Fishing Derby!

Clouds over Wilson Hall

Looking down from the 15th floor on Saturday, June 17, 2017, all that is left from the celebration is the DOTS.

A redwing blackbird eats seeds from roadside grasses.

Lori Haseltine from the Workforce Development and Resources Section, Education Office, assists Anatoly Ronzhin in purchasing some Fermilab T-shirts for family members.

Chalk dust from old equations buffs a Fermilab chalkboard like a pale rouge.

Debbie takes a short break.

Ice cream in the atrium for the 50th anniversary employee celebration.

Zoltan waits patiently for the Fermilab photo to be taken.

Jamie Santucci helps operate the dunk tank event while a dunker gets ready to pitch.

Nice throw!

Talent abounds during the afterparty.

When the party is over but you're not ready to go home yet...

People smile and wave their hands as they are photographed by Reidar Hahn, who is at the top of the high-rise. Excitement all around.

As the excitement builds, people get ready for Reidar to take the Fermilab's 50th birthday group picture.

People in the horseshoe wait for the 50th anniversary group picture.

People in the horseshoe waiting for the 50th anniversary group picture.

Anne Heavey winds up for the dunk!

The unfolding of a dunking at the 50th anniversary employee celebration.

Terry Hart contemplates perhaps how he might complete a perfect game.

A large fraction of Fermilab's employees gather in front of Wilson Hall for a group shot. The group that organized this photograph was Harry Ferguson, Lauren Biron, Kimberly Pearce, Kathrine Cipriano, Robert J. O'Sullivan, Kelly Dombrowski, Luz Jaquez, Marilyn Franck and Rosette A Mace.

Delicious ice cream toppings were served on the ever popular round table in the cafeteria.

Visitor-scientist Teppei Katori enjoys his bowl of ice cream.

Taking selfies while waiting for group picture!

Employees line up to get their T-shirts for the 50th anniversary photo.

A beautiful sunset caps an enjoyable day celebrating Fermilab's 50th anniversary.

Stephany Unruh dares the next person in line to dunk her.

Happy 50th birthday Fermilab!!

From left: Stacey Lindeman and Mari Mendez chill out during the June 15 afterparty.

Spentz gets dunked, and Heath is up next!

The Black, Red, White and Blue anniversary soccer tournament teams are friendly rivals.

The Black Team emerged victorious from the anniversary tournament. Look at those cool t-shirts!

It's Nur Nuruzzaman versus Sergey Los and Vladimir Shiltsev (background).

A bison overlooks a happy trio.

Dave and Julie Vander Meulen have fun at the selfie booth.

Leah screams with excitement as people get in their places for the Fermilab 50th birthday group shot.

Sergey Los, left, and Vladimir Shiltsev high-five each other. They've just won a badminton battle.

Karl Williams has a great time at the ice cream social in the atrium.

Dixon enjoys a beverage at the after-party in the Fermilab Village for Fermilab's 50th.

Roger and Marilyn enjoy looking at the artwork in the Fermilab Art Gallery during the Fermilab 50th celebration.

Rob Roser gets ready for the next pitch.

Party-goers perform a circle dance on the lawn.

A giddy Rick Tesarek waits in the cool atrium before going out into the hot weather for the Fermilab group photo.

A bean-bag-toss player collects the bags for the next round.

Jose De la O reminds Mark Bollinger of his participation in the dunk tank.

The colorful sign reminds us that today is a party day!

Reidar Hahn is up on the roof, prepping to take the 50th anniversary picture of the gathered employees.

Reidar invites all to come be part of the Fermilab 50th birthday celebration picture.

Looks like Nigel is trying to hurry Jose along ... andale pues - hurry up Jose!

Ray says hey!!

Reidar Hahn and Lauren Biron excitedly prepare for the festivities!

Piggyback rides at the 50th anniversary employee celebration.

Director Nigel Lockyer takes a picture of the crowd.

Mark Bollinger's excitement gets the better of him as he photobombs the pic taken by lab Director Nigel Lockyer.

Felix Yu knows that, while battle each other on the court, we wish each other peace off the court.

Paul Gentry recently retired from the lab, but he couldn't miss the party.

You can never have enough Fermilab t-shirts.

Ming-Jen Yang of the Accelerator Division's Main Injector Department enjoys a moment at the Fermilab 50th birthday party in the atrium.

I take a picture of Mark and Mark takes a picture of me. Happy 50th Fermilab!

Anadi and Marco of the CMS Department relax for a bit and enjoy the festivities.

John Hatfield puts more hot dogs on the grill for the Fermilab 50th after-party in the Village.

Time for the Fermilab photo. Look up everyone!

Anne Heavey looks though a solar telescope at the sun. This device was provided by Greg Cisko for everyone to see during the Fermilab 50th birthday party. It was set up south of Ramsey Auditorium.

Daughter sees something to the right, mother to the left.

The smiles say it all: Lisa and Kurt Riesselmann and Valerie Higgins, in the background enjoy the afterparty.

Linda Valerio and her kids enjoy the warm evening sun.

Lidija Kokoska and Charley Hess smile for the camera.

There ought to be more dancing in the world, as there was on June 15. In the foreground, Nicola McConkey partners with Doug Jensen in a folk dance. In the background are Elizabeth Keppel and Vijay Iyer.

Here's the individual who organized the June 15 shindigs and shebangs: Lauren Biron.

Lauren uses a megaphone to direct the people in the Fermilab blue t-shirts to stand in on the dots in the center ... it was no easy task ... HA.

Sergey Koshelev and Alexey Kochemirovskiy loved showing the photographer how much fun they are having celebrating Fermilab's 50th birthday!

Fermilab fellowship and friendship forever.

Katie Yurkewicz takes a cell-phone picture of Kent Collins, Randy Ortgiesen, Joe Pygott and Karen Kosky at the Fermilab 50th birthday party in Wilson Hall.

Jose welcomes you to the Fermilab festivities.

John Myer, general counsel, is the first dunkee of the evening.

Cooling off after the Fermilab photo in the atrium along with hundreds of Fermilab folks.

Jimmy Mac jams out.

Jesus Orduna holds is happy son tight.

Jim Ranson seems to flick the bean bag away.

It's all the rage.

Ice cream, good for the soul.

This Fermilab firefighter waits to put his fire out with the delicious ice cream provided after the photo.

50th anniversary ice cream social

This photograph was taken on the first floor of Wilson Hall when the ice cream social was in full swing.

This is a shot of Nick Gurley getting ready for a shot.

Horst says hello Fermilab, and happy birthday!

Dan Hooper's lecture in the Undergraduate Lecture Series was filled with folks ready to run out to join the big group photo in front of Wilson Hall. Notice all the "Fermilab 50" t-shirts.

Sylvia Gonzalez snaps a picture of Reidar looking down from the very top of the Wilson Hall building with her cell phone.

How much fun is it to play badminton outside? Jenny Teng and Nur Nuruzzaman know the joy.

Hema Ramamoorthi enjoys a cool dip in the water on Fermilab's 50th birthday.

Patrick Fox's son enjoys the view from atop his dad's shoulders.

Harvey can't get enough of those toppings.

The Drug Sniffing Dogs playing at the 50th anniversary celebration!

Clearly the Telecom Department is having too much fun!

Hanging with the firemen!

Patrick Fox is ready to go snorkeling in the tank.

Marco Mambelli was among the participants in the go-as-slow-as-you-can bike race held during the June 15 afterparty — a harder-than-it-sounds competition from a more-brilliant-than-mine mind.

Mary Convery relishes being a dunkee.

Getting lined up for the 50th photo.

Hello Georgia!

Taking in the party.

Friends enjoy refreshments at the Frontier Pub for during the afterparty. From left: Martina Martinello, Mattia Checchin, Kavin Ammigan, Cory Crowley, Paolo Berrutti, Giuseppe Gallo

From left: Clécio De Bom from Centro Brasileiro Des Pesquisas Fisicas; Sheila Amaral, postdoc; Gabriela Lima, who works in the Fermilab daycare; Guilherme Lima, a Fermilab scientist and husband to Gabriela; Louise Lima is Gabriela and Guilherme's daughter; and Márcia Lima is Guilherme's sister, who is visiting. All are having a wonderful time celebrating Fermilab's 50th birthday.

Sunshine, food, good company, grass — all the elements of an enjoyable picnic.

Fire Department Logo and Patch

Front row: Moe, Larry and Curly. Back row: Carrie Farver, Margaret LeKander and Anita Menz-Cwiklik.

Other folks enjoy playing Fermilab trivia in the Curia II conference room.

Folks flock for Fermilab T's.

Fermilab is 50!

The people get a good laugh when they hear Jose De la O remind Mark Bollinger of his dunk tank turn.

Happy 50th birthday Fermilab, and may you have many more!

Many hands prepare to make this 50th birthday celebration one of the best days ever!

The Summer Internships in Science and Technology, SIST, interns enjoy their ice cream at the Fermilab 50th birthday party.

Rich Andrews of the Accelerator Division has a pleasant conversation in the atrium.

A fancy floral fan keeps St. Charles resident and NIU student Ashli Fain stylishly cool.

The eye in the sky belongs to Reidar Hahn.

Just enjoying the ice cream provided after the group photo.

Hm. I'll sign up to throw a ball 4:40, 5:10 and 6:20 p.m.

"I'm not duowning!" says Duane Newhart, who couldn't appear happier to be the final dunkee of the evening.

Duane Newhart tries to fend off would-be dunkers at the 50th anniversary employee celebration.

Drug Sniffing Dogs is the evening's headliner.

It's nice to talk outside over drinks. From left: Leonard Ristori, Carlo Santini, Giorgio Ambrosio

Everyone's sporting cool specs, including Karie Badgley, left, and Leah Poffenberger.

Kirstyn Carlson, a summer co-op student with the Particle Physics Division Mechanical Department, is soldering RTDs on a thermal mockup of CMS 2S module. She is in the Lab C cleanroom at SiDet.

From left: Theorists Kiel Howe, Zhen Liu, Gordan Krnjaic and Patrick Fox raise their cups to the esteemed Chris Quigg, who, a good sport himself, wishes them no ill will though a dunking is imminent.

The cheering section for Nur Nuruzzaman witness a fantastic throw.

A balloon escaped during the after party.

Birthday festivities begin.

Josh Norris' bean bag is coming at you!

John Myer is at bat.

Kurt Krempetz is retired from Fermilab, but he came out for the barnstormer demo.

The Fermilab 50th celebration included some games. Here are some folks playing the bag toss game.

Jim Jenkins, 2017 artist-in-residence, gives a presentation to employees.

Anne Mary Teichert and Valerie Higgins give art gallery talk "A Lasting Mark" to employees.

Mercedes Scott, Andrew Federowicz, Gary Van Zandbergen and Rhonda Merchut of FESS Engineering.

The Fermilab 50th birthday group photo has been taken. Time to break it up.

A gathering of a small group of friends is just as cheering as that of a crowd of hundreds. From left: Franco di Ciocchis, Donato Passarelli, Silvia Zorzetti

People look at the Angela Gonzales artwork.

... horseshoes! So let's play!

The calm before the storm of the 50th anniversary employee celebration.

Hosted by MINERvA's own Minerba Betancourt! Featuring Steve Hahn and Debbie Harris!

Andrew Lathrop installed an inexpensive camera in a smaller nitrogen dewar to test the performance of a pump located inside the liquid-nitrogen Dewar. He can then monitor it on his laptop. Cool stuff!

Fermilab pool on a stormy afternoon

View from the parking lot at the end of the day ...

The blue of Fermilab's 50th Birthday banners complements the dark, natural brown of the building's historic walnut ceiling.

The Particle Physics Financial Group handle the everyday number crunching for the division and are very good at it. From left: Dale Knapp for Mu2e, Kimberly Veugeler for PPDO, Colleen Yoshikawa, Head, Jenny Teng for CMS, and Kate Rogers for PPD & Kronos. Not pictured are Corrine Vendetta, deputy head, and Kyoko Kunori for Japan.

Every year, the MINERvA neutrino experiment holds a three-day workshop for new students joining the experiment to learn about our physics goals, software framework and analysis techniques! We have a great group this year with lectures for both new and experienced students!

Summer interns attend the lecture by Harrison Prosper of Florida State in Ramsey Auditorium. This lecture was titled "Introduction to particle physics." From left: Keven Ewart, Makayla Trask, Elizabeth Ewart, Celeste Keith, Olivia Barron.

Good morning Maria Martinez!

Ms. Chelydra serpentina digs a hole in preparation for egg laying.

A beautiful warm day looking out from Wilson Hall.

There are spools of colorful wire for general electrical use in Lab D at SiDet. #MobileMonday

Turtle near Wilson Hall

What is missing from this image?

The sun sets over a pasture.

Spring planting

Mr. Freeze Jerry Zimmerman brandishes a zip-closure bag of liquid nitrogen on the stage of Ramsey Auditorium at DASTOW 2017.

Drug Sniffing Dogs roll out some '60s music!

A storm is headed for the muon campus.

Engineering Physicist Jerry Zimmerman from the Particle Physics Division, Detector Development & Operations Deptartment, AKA, Mr. Freeze, entertains and WOWs the audience with a cryogenic show at the DASTOW, or Daughters and Sons to Work Day.

Derek "DJ" Piec Jr., son of Derek Piec of the Fermialb Fire Department, participates in DASTOW activities.

The Mechanical Support Department set up a 3-D printer for DASTOW to print small trinkets for the children visiting the laboratory that day.

I've driven in the Wilson Road entrance every morning for most of my life, and this view never gets old, especially on a beautiful day like this.

Mandy Rominsky gives a talk titled "The physics of particle detectors" in Curia II. The audience is the summer interns at Fermilab.

Postdoc Si Xie from Caltech holds the LGAD silicon sensor that is used for the CMS precision timing detector, while Jing Zhang, a visitor from Caltech, looks over the photo she took.

The Proton Pagoda reflects a beautiful summer sky.

On my way to a meeting, I saw these geese marching on Booster Road between the Main Ring and the new Muon Campus.

Sponsored by the Department of Energy Office of Science, CCI provides 10-week summer technical training experiences for community college students. Students work with scientists or engineers on technologies or instrumentation projects related to Fermilab's research program. The six CCI participants for 2017 are Olivia Barron, Kevin Bardan, Will Brickner, David Shi, Derek Wenzel and Aly Kaplan.

Archivist Valerie Higgins stands next to the Enrico Fermi exhibit in Wilson Hall.

These two retired gentlemen, Robert Trendler, left, and Merle Haldeman, both formerly of the Particle Physics Division, enjoy the 50th Anniversary Symposium held today in the Ramsey Auditorium.

Twisted - Old - full of holes - but still standing ... Hey that sounds like me!

These are two of the pumps for the MS2 low-conductivity water system.

The initial session of the annual Undergraduate Lecture Series featured Associate Director Joe Lykken with a talk titled "Introduction to Fermilab." At the end of the talk, Lykken sat down at the edge of the stage of Ramsey Auditorium and talked with the students.

Designer Jim Schellpfeffer of the Particle Physics Division Detector Development and Operations Department works with the new CNC router, or computer numerical control router, that's located in the Meson Assembly building. This monster machine is used for making parts for many Fermilab experiments.

What a wonderful evening to honor the memory of Angela Gonzales, her artwork and the lasting mark she left at Fermilab.

MINERvA students' synchronized dress code for presentations. It was not planned. From left: Alex Ramirez, Maya Wospakrik and Roger Galindo. Christian Nguyen is photobombing.

Cory Rude (left) from the University of Iowa and Orgho Neogi, who attends Cornell College but works at the University of Iowa, are undergrads working at Fermilab with the DUNE Experiment.

Ghost of Wilson Hall on 13th floor

Shiny new electronics control a fast laser pulse used to punch a hole in the stream of Linac beam.

Spending Saturday night with the moon and Jupiter. Pictured: Jose Sepulveda, moon and Jupiter.

Wayne Shaddix catches a nice-sized large mouth bass in Swan Lake.

Denton Morris and Kyle Hazelwood test out Swan Lake in preparation for the Fishing Derby on Saturday, June 17.

The intense look of this beautiful bird

Fermilab docents keep cool in the shade while waiting for their students.

This nice looking Fermilab lpgo was constructed of scrap stainless steel and was designed by Cary Kendziora of the Particle Physics Division's Mechanical Department, built by Bill Miner of the Neutrino Division's Technical Support Department, and welded together by Dan Watkins of the Technical Division about 15 years ago. This logo can be found on the outside of the Proton Assembly Building, aka PAB.

Jamieson Olsen methodically tests the Pulsar IIa prototype boards located on the 14th floor in Wilson Hall.

Some photomultiplier tubes from past experiments.

Greg Saewert and Daniil Frolov work on the front end of the PIP-II accelerator, called PIP2IT.

At the Fermilab Garden, two rows of ground cherry.

Weekly art stakeholders meeting. Attendees are Adam Lyon, Paul Russo, Chris Green, Kyle Knopfel, Marc Paterno and Rob Kutschke standing.