November 1, 2023 was the day that our own Nergis Mavalvala, our Dean came to CERN for the first time. Bolek the director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science had invited her and she accepted, curious as we learned during…
The Year End Technical Stop or for the LHC experts YETS is in effect as of today (October 30, 2023). The year has finished with an exciting Heavy Ion run which started slow but eventually picked up the pace and…
Run 2 results attracted significant interest in heavy flavor physics at the LHC. The highlights of these findings include a 3-sigma discrepancy in the decay rate of the B meson into charm mesons with either a muon or a tau,…
Problem set number 7 in Classical Mechanics at MIT included one problem which required the use of our A2rchi installation. With over 600 students asking questions and doing so of course only the evening on which the problem set was…
The message is out we are committed to host the 2nd Annual US FCC workshop here at MIT. Come and enjoy! The message Dear Colleagues, We hope you will join us for the 2nd annual US FCC Workshop at MIT…
The LHC program for this year will be concluded with one month of Heavy Ion (PbPb) collisions. It enables us to study the properties of matter in extreme conditions (a trillion times denser than the core of the sun) and…
The main event of my visit to CERN, Offline Software and Computing Week (indico), concluded with many useful discussions regarding the present and future of CompOps and in particular the Production and Reprocessing team (P&R), one of the teams under…
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…
