The Data Analysis School for members of the CMS experiment ‘CMSDAS’ is held yearly and this year, 2026, was no exception. The school was held at Fermilab’s LHC Physics Center and provided intensive hands-on training for new researchers on CMS…
We are still on the great cosmic scavenger hunt for dark matter, and the CMS experiment at CERN has been trying some delightfully weird detective work. Rather than only hunting for a single shiny new particle, we’re now also looking…
As usual, when the year comes to an end–bye bye 2025–we remember the good things from the year that just past, and hope for an even better New Year! CMS Sends out a greetings card to all groups to celebrate…
Not only did the LHC finish for the year, actually it was on December 10 already, they also finished with a little Christmas tree in the ‘Comments’ window. In that spirit: Thank you everybody for a very productive year and…
Private donors—including major foundations and prominent tech entrepreneurs—have pledged one billion dollars toward CERN’s proposed Future Circular Collider (FCC), marking the first major private investment in a flagship CERN machine. The FCC, would be the 90.7-km long circular successor to…
The recommendations for the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics—discussed at the ESG closed meeting at the Monte Verità in Ascona, December 1-5, 2025—were just handed to CERN during the 225th meeting of its council. These recommendations outline…
The recent decision on Rhodes Scholars, one of the most prestigious scholarships around, included four students from MIT, which is wonderful, but even better it includes Sofia Lara, one of the inaugural generation of FCC-ee students participating in our undergraduate…
On November 4th at 22:10 the last 2025 proton-proton run of the LHC came to a close. As can be seen on the picture below, the LHC in the first third of the data taking fell a little behind the…
Joel Butler is a former CMS Spokesperson (2016-18), but for us much more importantly, he is a PhD out of our own PPC (PhD MIT, 1969-1975, Advisor: Lawrence Rosenson), and he has been awarded with the APS 2026 Panofsky Prize…
Her life as a physicist started officially with her Laurea (2000) in Padova, Italy from where she moved directly to Purdue for her PhD (2006). Anadi is a Senior Scientist at Fermilab and held various notable appointments at Fermilab, TRIUMF,…
