We say goodbye to Aimen and Ja Kobi, who worked with the PPC for the summer through the MIT Summer Research Program. Hailing from Howard University (Ja Kobi) and Smith College (Aimen), they spent the summer with us in Boston,…
François Englert, Nobel laureate “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS…
Inching towards a round number… (Benedikt, remember I promised to show you!). Saving the planet one eliminated bottle at a time. It is getting dangerously close. We cannot leave the fountain alone anymore ;-). Preparing for the big moment! The…
The recent decision on the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship, included three students from MIT, which is wonderful, but even better it includes Charlotte Myers, one of our recent excellent UROP students. Big congratulations! Not only did she participate in our…
Today, Monday 27 at 13:36 local time, I was sitting at my desk at Fermilab and the power went out. Just the emergency lights were on, and the wireless network still worked. I took it as an opportunity to take…
Last night colleagues at Fermilab invited me to a Bengali New Year celebration. If you don’t know–I cetainly did not– India’s state West Bengal (April 15) and Bangladesh (April 14) base their time on a solar system initiated during Mughal…
The end of the year 2025 marked the end of an era, which had already started the year before with the departure of Josh Bendavid (now a permanent CERN staff). Zhangqier Wang and Kenneth Long left the PPC and are…
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…
Last week one of our collaborators on the A2RCHI project came back from a visit to his home in Colombia with a special treat for the group. He brought us a package of exquisite coffee ‘Juan Valdez’ medium roast. Its…
We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of our dear colleague and friend Konstanty (Sham) Sumorok, who passed away peacefully in his sleep on October 3, 2025, at the age of 77. Born on February 19,…
