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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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, 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…
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…
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…
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,…
