2019 Physics/Theoretical Colloquium Thursday, December 12th , 2019 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg. 001) Refreshments at 3:15pm Speaker: Dr. Thomas Glasmacher Laboratory Director and Project Director for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) “Building the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB)” Abstract: Once every decade or two, the Office of Nuclear Physics in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science has embarked on building a new accelerator-based user facility to enable nuclear scientists to make discoveries. Following construction starts for CEBAF in the 1980’s and for RHIC in the 1990’s, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) project started in 2009 with the goal to build the most powerful superconducting heavy-ion linear accelerator. Eleven years later, FRIB construction at Michigan State University is 92% complete, the helium liquefaction plant is operating at 4K and 2K, 43 of 46 cryomodules have been built and successfully tested, and first heavy-ion beams have been accelerated in the first third of the linear accelerator while the remainder is being installed, and the project is being managed to early completion in 2021. I will give an overview of the FRIB science and construction progress accomplished by a committed team delivering FRIB for a community of 1,400 scientists. Brief biography: Thomas Glasmacher came to the US as a Fulbright Scholar in 1989 and received his PhD in experimental nuclear physics from Florida State University in 1992. He went to Michigan State University as a postdoc at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. In 1995, he joined the MSU faculty in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, where he is now a University Distinguished Professor. Glasmacher is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a recipient of the Sackler price in the physical sciences, and he is a Stanford Certified Project Manager. In 2008, Glasmacher led the MSU team that prepared the proposal to win the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). He built the project team to deliver FRIB and is now the FRIB laboratory director.