First splash events recorded in CMS on last Friday (March 8, 2024) made it more than obvious that the LHC team has brought back beams into the collider. Its BeamTime as they say at CERN and thus LHC finished the…
First proton beams are in the machine for this year, 2024. It is always an exciting moment, even if we have done this for many many years already. To get a machine with 1232 dipole magnets and even more focusing…
Recently I was browsing the various news offers at MIT and realized that as a person working at MIT I have access to a number of News subscriptions, I never knew about. Here is a page where you can see…
On February 2, 2024 CERN concluded the midterm review of the FCC. The work is progressing at the required pace to be completed by the end of 2025 as planned. The document of over 700 pages found strong support by…
The URA is the University Research Association and for what our group most importantly cares about is responsible to run Fermilab. On its web sites it explains that “URA membership is comprised of more than 90 leading research-oriented universities in…
The CERN director, Fabiola Gianotti, goes through her usual New Years address and presents accomplishments of the last year and the plans for the coming year(s). An amazing talk as every year because there is a lot going on at…
YES; and if you have not heard it yet, the release of ChatGPT 3.5 has pushed the AI/ML revolution into high gear and it has arrived for real in research and education… To take stock of what is going on…
The long awaited P5 report is out! … and, speaking for myself here, it is not exactly what I imagined, but it is a formidable piece of work, which is bold and cautious at the same time. In big strokes…
The community of High Energy Physicists comes together usually every three years in form of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) and goes through a seminar on “Future Perspectives in High Energy Physics”. This year was special for a…
The NUPAX division in the Physics Department at MIT seeks to make a new junior faculty appointment. Make sure to tell people of our search. It is an open search but we will be looking very hard for a new…
