On Friday October 13, 2023 at 5pm the A2rchi team has in collaboration with the 8.01 teaching team released a specially adjusted version of its large language model that has been reinforced and harnessed with all information relevant to the…
Collaboration and communication between theorists and experimentalists is a critical part of the LHC physics program. It is in this context that I was invited to the NNPDF collaboration meeting in September order to provide an experimentalist perspective through an…
The clearest sign of the summer coming to an end is when September rolls in and the school year starts again. Eventually fall officially starts, this year it was on September 23. The Fall CMS week therefore was technically not…
The Banana Lounge at MIT is legendary. Since 2018 free bananas for students on campus 24/7, with an interruption during COVID, have left a mark. It is interesting to note that the establishment of the Banana Lounge at MIT (April…
A visit to CERN is not complete without sailing on Lac Leman! We took advantage of Sunday 13th August,Tim, Bella, Ru, Casey’s last weekend at CERN. To get into the mood, a few days earlier Tim and Maria watched a…
This years conference of the European Physics Society (EPS) on High Energy Physics (HEP) took place in Hamburg. It was a wonderful showing of the present state of high energy physics. I personally had not visited the EPS in a…
The Particle Physics Collaboration (PPC) would like to extend its proudest congratulations to Sevio for completing his work with the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP)! Sevio’s work at the PPC focused on starting a brand new search at CMS for…
On the warm Friday afternoon of August 4, 2023, our group went to a movie theater and saw Christopher Nolan’s new release, Oppenheimer. As good physicists, we had to pay tribute to a film about a man who led one…
After four years of zoom only meetings we finally had our yearly All-Hands Meeting in person in Madison Wisconsin. At MIT our Tier2 computing center design is shifting from a fairly low power density hardware to high density CPU worker…
The LHC is facing a serious issue because last night at around 1am (CERN time), an electrical perturbation (likely the cause) caused several magnet to quenched and the IP8 cold compressor to trip. The Inner Triplet L8 insulation vacuum was…
