The CMS Week 2026 at CERN provided an opportunity for the collaboration to review the current status of the experiment, highlight recent scientific and technical achievements, and discuss preparations for the HL-LHC era. The opening plenary brought together reports from…
Two Undergrads, One Conference, and 5,280 Feet of Physics The beautiful state of Colorado, home to mountains, skiing, South Park, and plenty of scientific energy, set the stage for this year’s APS Global Physics Summit in Denver. Our group was…
In the last week and a half, a lot of computing activity took place for the PPC. We were heavily involved in the Computing Operations Workshop (March 12-13, 2026), the Computing and Offline Week (March 16-20, 2026), and, right in…
The University of Pisa recently hosted the electroweak (EWK) physics community for a highly engaging week of presentations, discussions, hackathon sessions, and of course a little fun as well. Much of the PPC cohort was present, a nice excuse to…
The recent Large Language Model Hackathon at the LHC Physics Center (LPC) at Fermilab brought together physicists and computer scientists from across the CMS experiment to hack away at building agents for use in the Collaboration. Ideas are abundant as…
The 9th FCC Physics Workshop took place in Munich from 26–30 January 2026, hosted by the Max Planck Institute, and gathered the international FCC community for a week of intense discussions on the future of CERN’s next flagship collider. The…
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…
During the week of 22-26 September, the CMS Standard Model (SMP) gathered for a dedicated workshop to review recent results, ongoing analyses with Run-3 data, and the future directions of SM precision measurements. As MIT’s PPC plays a central role…
Arriving the evening before the conference, I wandered through the University of Wisconsin campus and was amused to find “Der Rathskeller” at the Memorial Union, a German-style beer hall right on the lakefront. As someone who grew up in Germany,…
Nowadays, physics research relies heavily on advanced computing resources to perform large-scale simulations, data processing, and complex analyses. As computing technologies evolve, physicists continuously adapt their workflows to take full advantage of the improvements. The Throughput Computing 2025 (HTC2025) conference,…
