The Fermilab CPC is partnering with Adler Planetarium to host its 8th annual Dark Matter Day event! This year Dark Matter Day will be held at Adler Planetarium on Wednesday, October 28th from 5PM-9PM. Videos from some past Dark Matter Day events can be found here: Fermilab Dark Matter Day 2024 Fermilab Dark Matter Day… More »
Join us for the Cosmic Physics Jamboree on October 12th from 12PM-2PM in Curia 2.
On the night of June 29, 2026 the Vera C. Rubin Observatory formally began the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. For the next 10 years, Rubin will observe the entire observable southern sky every few nights to create an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition time-lapse movie of our Universe. This long-awaited milestone is the culmination of years… More »
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) Collaboration announced the latest results combined weak lensing and galaxy clustering and incorporated four dark energy probes from a single experiment for the first time. This is the culmination of more than 20 years of work by the DES, which was proposed in 2005. Fermilab led the construction of the… More »
The Fermilab CPC is partnering with Adler Planetarium to host its 7th annual Dark Matter Day event! This year Dark Matter Day will be held at Adler Planetarium on Sunday, November 2nd from 11AM-3PM. More details can be found on Adler’s event page. Videos from some past Dark Matter Day events can be found here:… More »
A team led by the Fermilab CCD Group performed the first on-sky demonstration using Skipper CCDs on the SOAR Telescope in Chile. This demonstration helps retire perceived risks for using this technology in future cosmology experiments recommended by the P5 Report such as DESI-II and Spec-S5. This project was a collaborative effort from Fermilab, UChicago,… More »
UChicago KICP and Fermilab CPC co-hosted a Stage-5 Spectroscopic Experiment (Spec-S5) instrumentation workshop from Feb 27 – Mar 1, 2024. As part of this workshop, participants toured Fermilab and saw the new CCD packaging and testing facilities at the Integrated Engineering Research Center (IERC).
The Fermilab Cosmic Physics Center is proud to welcome five new Fermilab Cosmic Physics Center Fellows. Profs. Kyle Dawson (University of Utah), Klaus Honscheid (Ohio State University), Paul Martini (Ohio State University), Marcelle Soares-Santos (University of Michigan) – Coordinated R&D for a Stage-5 Spectroscopic Facility Dr. Fernando Chierchie (CONICET, Universidad Nacional del Sur) – Readout… More »
The Fermilab CPC is partnering with Adler Planetarium to host its 5th annual Dark Matter Day event! This year Dark Matter Day will be held at Adler Planetarium as part of the “Adler at Night” series on Wednesday, November 1st from 5PM-9PM. Adler at Night is free to Illinois residents! Find out more details in… More »
The Dark Energy Survey book is out! “The Dark Energy Survey: The Story of a Cosmological Experiment” tells the story of the DES project from original conception, the design and construction of DECam, early science results, and cosmological measurements with the first year of DES data. The book includes chapters written for a non-specialist reader… More »
