As summer comes to an end, last Friday we said goodbye to Joseph Sorel, an undergraduate summer student who joined us from Washington University in St. Louis. Joseph worked with the SUEP team on the WH channel, focusing his efforts…
Summer at CERN is special with the PPC. We usually have a flock of undergraduate students going to CERN to perform research with our group. The students are mostly funded through the MISTI and the IROP (international UROP) programs and…
In PPC’s recent uninterrupted series of visiting students, Yusuf Seday has been another unique, productive, and pleasant visitor. Hailing from Turkey, he joined KIT (no spelling mistake) and our dear colleague Markus Klute sent him over for a 3 month…
Visiting student from KIT, Yusuf Seday, impressed us and the crowd with his elaborate improvisations on the guitar and loop at the MIT Battle of the Bands event this weekend. His passion and deep ability for music were apparent to…
After 8 months of hard work, coffee, and tacos, Martí leaves the PPC having submitted his Master’s Thesis: a huge congratulations! A visiting student from ETH Zurich, Martí worked alongside our very own Mariarosaria and Kyungseop to study rare Higgs…
Ludovico, mostly referred to as Ludo, arrived in Cambridge on June 1, 2023 and worked on his master thesis, in which he searched for dark photons in the low mass range from 1 to 10 GeV. This analysis uses our…
The Banana Lounge at MIT is legendary. Since 2018 free bananas for students on campus 24/7, with an interruption during COVID, have left a mark. It is interesting to note that the establishment of the Banana Lounge at MIT (April…
A visit to CERN is not complete without sailing on Lac Leman! We took advantage of Sunday 13th August,Tim, Bella, Ru, Casey’s last weekend at CERN. To get into the mood, a few days earlier Tim and Maria watched a…
On the warm Friday afternoon of August 4, 2023, our group went to a movie theater and saw Christopher Nolan’s new release, Oppenheimer. As good physicists, we had to pay tribute to a film about a man who led one…
Late Friday afternoons are rarely known for being very efficient at work but they can be used as a time for preparations for the weekend and for group fun. The PPC traditionally goes for a short round of drinks on…
