The New Frontier on the Great Plains: Fermilab and the Future of Particle Physics Dr. Young-Kee Kim, Deputy Director, Fermilab October 21, 2011 @ 8 p.m. Tickets - Required but are at no charge Limit 2 per person

Particle physics is entering a rich new age of discovery. Thanks to powerful new scientific tools, deep and long-standing questions about matter, energy, space and time are closer than ever to being answered. Just as physicists in the early 20th century penetrated within the atom and discovered the quantum theory, an epochal event that created new sciences and enabled technologies that shape the modern world, this search for answers is expected to reveal something profound. As the nation’s primary particle physics user facility, Fermilab plans to provide the scientific community with powerful tools for cutting-edge experiments that offer possible discoveries at the Energy, Intensity and Cosmic Frontiers.

Young-Kee Kim is an internationally acclaimed experimental particle physicist whose research focuses on understanding the fundamental constituents of matter and the interactions between them, is a Professor of Physics in the College of the University of Chicago and the Enrico Fermil Institute. Since July 2006, she has been Deputy Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. In this role, Kim leads and manages development and implementation of the strategic plan and establishes the oversight mechanisms to ensure compliance with the plan as well as the ability to adapt to changing circumstances. The many contributions that Dr. Kim has made to management at Fermilab include, commissioning an ILC task force to increase involvement of Fermilab particle physicists in the ILC community, creating an Office Space task force to facilitate synergy between different components at the laboratory, and establishing the International Fellows at Fermilab Program to bring outstanding students, post-docs and scientists to FNAL from foreign institutions.

Prior to her role as Deputy Director of Fermilab, Kim served as Co-director for the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF Run II) collaboration, leading the integration, planning, commissioning and operations of the CDF and serving as co-spokesperson. Under her watchful eye, the CDF collaboration successfully completed two of the largest high-energy experiments ever run, representing an investment of over $300 million with the involvement of over 800 international scientists. This collaboration resulted in twice the number of peer-reviewed papers and completion of the $12M trigger and calorimetry upgrades to the CDF Run II detector on time, on budget and safely with no environmental notices of violations (NOVs). In 2005, Dr. Kim was awarded the Ho-Am Prize, Korea’s award to ‘those who have made outstanding contributions to the development of science and culture, and enhancement of the welfare of mankind.’ Dr. Kim is a prolific author, with over 300 scientific papers to her credit and a highly cited researcher, with over 15, 000 citations. In addition, she is a member of the American Physical Society and has been a recipient of an Alfred Sloan Foundation Fellowship as well as an award from the National Science Foundation’s Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Education.

Dr. Kim earned her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Rochester, and her MS and BS in Physics from Korea University.

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