First dsy of school
We are back at it.
SubMIT Team Revamps Storage: From Gluster to Ceph
The SubMIT project team has recently undertaken a significant project by migrating from a Gluster-based to a Ceph-based file system. This move marks a critical step in ensuring that the SubMIt system can handle the increasing demands of research and…
Congratulations Joseph
As summer comes to an end, last Friday we said goodbye to Joseph Sorel, an undergraduate summer student who joined us from Washington University in St. Louis. Joseph worked with the SUEP team on the WH channel, focusing his efforts…
Catching up in August?
When the summer turns really hot and it is late July in Geneva there is usually a notable slow down. August is coming and everybody knows this is the time when people take their vacation, they go to the seaside…
Congratulations Dr. Yang
On August 14, 2024 at 10am the Kolker room was well populated by experimental and theoretical physicists mostly. Tianyu Yang’s thesis was on the agenda for today and it was a wonderful presentation which also served as his thesis defense.…
Maximizing the Physics Potential of the CMS Detector
In 2017, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) achieved a groundbreaking milestone in instantaneous luminosity, delivering data at twice the rate it was originally designed for. This presented a new challenge for the CMS detector: efficiently selecting and retaining significant events…
Disappearing ‘Anomalies’ at ICHEP 2024
The most important particle physics conference this year, ICHEP 2024 in Prague, was coined the conference of ‘Disappearing Anomalies’ by one of me esteemed colleagues when I asked him on the last day what he found most remarkable about this…
US CMS All Hands Meeting in Madison, WI
The Annual High Throughput Computing workshop took place in Madison, Wisconsin from July 8 till July 12. The conference itself had a session which provided the US CMS Computing and Software organization an opportunity to hold its annual all hands…
MIT heads to Boston (LHCP 2024)
The Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP) is one of the largest conferences for high energy physics, hosted every year , focusing on results from CERN experiments. This yearly conference just had its 12th edition hosted here in Boston. Hundreds of…
The 2024 Users Meeting at FNAL
Today I was invited to speak about the status of the FCC-ee case in terms of physics and detectors at the 2024 Users Meeting at Fermilab. The Annual Users Meeting is a Fermilab tradition—it was meeting number 57—where the status…