Farewell to Jan
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…
Aimen and Ja Kobi, MSRP ’26
We say goodbye to Aimen and Ja Kobi, who worked with the PPC for the summer through the MIT Summer Research Program. Hailing from Howard University (Ja Kobi) and Smith College (Aimen), they spent the summer with us in Boston,…
EWK Workshop – Fermilab, July 2026
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…
Visiting the University of Bonn, AI Agents Part 1
I am spending a good amount of time this summer at the University of Bonn. Bonn, the former capital of West Germany, is now just another 330k inhabitants city but has retained a wonderful flair of a capital: Major museums,…
So Long, LHC — and Thanks for All the Bosons
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…
François Englert dies at 93
François Englert, Nobel laureate “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS…
CMS Week in June 2026!
The CMS Week 2026 at CERN provided an opportunity for the collaboration to review the current status of the experiment, highlight recent scientific and technical achievements, and discuss preparations for the HL-LHC era. The opening plenary brought together reports from…
A Report from CHEP 2026 in Bangkok
The 28th Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2026) was held May 25 – 29, 2026 at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. The CHEP conference series has historically addressed computing, networking, and software challenges for the experiments which…
The European Strategy for Particle Physics is updated!
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,…
LHC completes Run 3 Proton-Proton collisions
Today, May 19, 2026, marks an important milestone in the LHC project. The proton-proton collisions for the Run 3 period, that started on July 5, 2022, have officially completed. Run 3 has been a major success not only for the…