The most important particle physics conference this year, ICHEP 2024 in Prague, was coined the conference of ‘Disappearing Anomalies’ by one of me esteemed colleagues when I asked him on the last day what he found most remarkable about this…
The Annual High Throughput Computing workshop took place in Madison, Wisconsin from July 8 till July 12. The conference itself had a session which provided the US CMS Computing and Software organization an opportunity to hold its annual all hands…
Today I was invited to speak about the status of the FCC-ee case in terms of physics and detectors at the 2024 Users Meeting at Fermilab. The Annual Users Meeting is a Fermilab tradition—it was meeting number 57—where the status…
USCMS meetings are held yearly in the US rotating in some semi random way between the different US institutions that are involved in the CMS experiment. The most important factor is of course the willingness of the local group or…
About 450 people participated in this years FCC Week, where the full FCC project is reviewed in many sessions and even more presentations. The majority of them in parallel. The scene was set in the old St. Francis Hotel in…
The Mitchell Conference is hosted every year at Texas A&M, with the stated goal of bringing together experimentalists working on different frontiers and pheno/theory folks to discuss recent developments on dark matter, standard model, and neutrino physics. This goal seems…
The lively conference boasted nearly 600 participants between graduate students, postdocs, and professors, which filled the hallways and classrooms (and dorms) of the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University now emptied of undergraduates who were off for summer break.…
The SM@LHC conference, held May 7-10, 2024 in Rome, dealt with the latest developments and future prospects in standard model phenomenology at the LHC, with emphasis on the most interesting and topical aspects at the interface between theory and experiment.…
It is an old tradition at MIT that departments, laboratories and centers (DLCs) are reviewed on a regular basis by an outside committee. The advantages of such a review are immediately obvious. External people help to break out of the…
For three days, much of the U.S. and international community met in a rainy Cambridge to discuss the plans of the Future Circular Collider and the future of the field. This was the second U.S. annual FCC workshop, and the…
