FCC Mid Term report hits the News
On February 2, 2024 CERN concluded the midterm review of the FCC. The work is progressing at the required pace to be completed by the end of 2025 as planned. The document of over 700 pages found strong support by…
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SubMIT Workshop on Basic Computing Services in the Physics Department
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…
URA — Council of Presidents Annual Meeting & Policy Forum
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…
Chronicle of a VIP visit
On January 10-12 our MIT Physics department head, Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty embarked on a special journey to CERN. MIT is making a notable impact at CERN through projects like AMS, Isolde, LHCb, CMS, and theory research. It was a privilege…
How is generative AI transforming education and research?
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…
Updated LHC Schedule, up to 2041
The CERN director, Fabiola Gianotti, goes through her usual New Years address and presents accomplishments of the last year and the plans for the coming year(s). An amazing talk as every year because there is a lot going on at…
Is there a revolution in AI/ML in STEM research and education?
YES; and if you have not heard it yet, the release of ChatGPT 3.5 has pushed the AI/ML revolution into high gear and it has arrived for real in research and education… To take stock of what is going on…
SUEPs – Searching for the Hidden Valley
We are happy to announce the public release of the first dedicated search for soft unclustered energy patterns (SUEPs) at the LHC. The search uses the 13 TeV pp collision data collected by the CMS detector in 2016-2018. This effort…
¡Adéu, Martí!
After 8 months of hard work, coffee, and tacos, Martí leaves the PPC having submitted his Master’s Thesis: a huge congratulations! A visiting student from ETH Zurich, Martí worked alongside our very own Mariarosaria and Kyungseop to study rare Higgs…
The P5 Report preserves the ‘Muon Shot’
The long awaited P5 report is out! … and, speaking for myself here, it is not exactly what I imagined, but it is a formidable piece of work, which is bold and cautious at the same time. In big strokes…