Autumn is here, the temperatures are dropping, and it seems like a good time to look back at our summer students … before we completely forget just how hot this summer was. Especially in an office with no air conditioning. This…
The man who talked CMS into turning the luminosity down Most postdocs leave behind a folder of plots. Jan Eysermans leaves behind a dataset. Jan joined the PPC on April 1, 2021 and has moved on August 1, 2026 to…
The Electroweak (EKW) Precision Workshop was held at Fermilab, July 6-10, 2026. Convening experimentalists and theorists interested in these problems from all collaborations and around the world, the week-long workshop sought to define the strategy for the future of precision…
Geneva / Cambridge, MA — Summer 2026 The Particle Physics Collaboration celebrates a golden era of CMS physics, as the world’s greatest collider powers down for Long Shutdown 3 On 29 June 2026, at 6:00 in the morning, CERN switched…
When prompted parley at MIT gave me this funny version of the official update the European Strategy for Particle Physics News. If you prefer the snappy version it came out pretty good. After more than two years of intense deliberation,…
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…
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…
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 Violation of Fundamental Symmetries with B Mesons (VFSB) workshop was held at Fermilab from December 15–19, 2025, and has successfully concluded. The workshop brought together the flavor physics community to share recent experimental and theoretical progress and to discuss…
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…
