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…
This year in Moriond, the commonly used and often misleading name for the Winter Conferences in the French/Italian Alps, Guillelmo had his first cross section measurement of the WW process at 13.6 GeV, from Run 3 data shown. The picture…
The first CMS week of 2024 took place during the second week of February, Monday 5th to Friday 9th. It was a rather busy week with a full agenda including a large number of plenary and parallel sessions. CMS is…
Last Friday, the PPC group hosted the annual SubMIT workshop, a one-day workshop discussing the SubMIT computing cluster which supports the research computing needs of the physics department here at MIT. In the last year, the SubMIT cluster has surpassed…
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…
During our two day workshop, we heard talks on a range of topics illustrating the enormous potential of large language models in transforming the landscape of scientific research and education. We heard from Kavita Bala, the Dean of Cornell Bowers…
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…
November 1, 2023 was the day that our own Nergis Mavalvala, our Dean came to CERN for the first time. Bolek the director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science had invited her and she accepted, curious as we learned during…
The message is out we are committed to host the 2nd Annual US FCC workshop here at MIT. Come and enjoy! The message Dear Colleagues, We hope you will join us for the 2nd annual US FCC Workshop at MIT…
