A coffee treat from Colombia
Last week one of our collaborators on the A2RCHI project came back from a visit to his home in Colombia with a special treat for the group. He brought us a package of exquisite coffee ‘Juan Valdez’ medium roast. Its…
In Memory of Konstanty (Sham) Sumorok, 1948-2025
We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of our dear colleague and friend Konstanty (Sham) Sumorok, who passed away peacefully in his sleep on October 3, 2025, at the age of 77. Born on February 19,…
The PPC and Electroweak Precision Physics
During the week of 22-26 September, the CMS Standard Model (SMP) gathered for a dedicated workshop to review recent results, ongoing analyses with Run-3 data, and the future directions of SM precision measurements. As MIT’s PPC plays a central role…
Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Hamburg
Returning to Hamburg, the city where I did my PhD from 2019–2022 at DESY, felt like visiting an old friend. To my surprise, the weather was sunny, despite Hamburg’s usual reputation for rain, the workshop even included an umbrella in…
Lepton Photon 2025 in Madison
Arriving the evening before the conference, I wandered through the University of Wisconsin campus and was amused to find “Der Rathskeller” at the Memorial Union, a German-style beer hall right on the lakefront. As someone who grew up in Germany,…
Europe is backing the FCC in Daft Punk manner
After the Venice Symposium on the European Strategy for Particle Physics the European Commission under Ursula von der Leyen seems to be taking a page out of Daft Punks ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’ playbook for its proposed its budget on…
Welcome our first ever in-house masters student
We are happy to welcome Jorian Benke as our newest member of the PPC. Jorian joined July 10th and is our first ever in-house masters student. She will join David Walter on an unorthodox topic: a search for Lorentz invariance.…
To Marseille for the European Physical Society High Energy Physics meeting
The European Physical Society High Energy Physics meeting, held every two years, is one of the most important conferences in our field. The LHC experiments form a major component of the scientific program, but non-collider high-energy physics, such as dark…
Best ‘Heavy Ion’ run ever?
This summer, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) embarked on an exciting new chapter—colliding light ions (oxygen and neon) for the very first time, a topic that interestingly enough Heavy Ion physicist are very interested in. From June 29 to July 9, 2025,…
Joining the PPC from MIPT
We are excited to welcome Kirill Ivanov as a new member of the PPC. Kirill, finished his PhD at MIPT recently, joined our group on July 1st as a postdoctoral associate. He will work on the Storage Manager project where…