Chris Quigg

Congratulations Joel Butler,@APSphysics W.K.H. Panofsky Prizewinner in Experimental Particle Physics for exceptional leadership in heavy-flavor experiments @Fermilab and in @CMSExperiment @CERN

30% discount on press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove… until 15 April with code EVH30.

Students and young postdocs—Apply by April 1 for the Summer Session of the US Particle Accelerator School uspas.fnal.gov/programs/2026/…

A new run with Xenoscope, a 2.6 m tall, two-phase xenon time projection chamber, will start soon. Now the TPC is being reassembled and it looks almost like new

Action photo of my after-dinner talk at the Restaurant du Sénat, Paris, celebrating 60 years of the Rencontres de Moriond

Third- and fourth-year undergraduates: apply by 31 January for the DESY Summer Student Program, desy.de/f/students/202…

In the footsteps of Michael Faraday, master of the public lecture: my "Advice to a Lecturer," lss.fnal.gov/archive/2023/p… Happy Holidays!

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Congratulations to Henry Frisch on the publication of his novel treatment of classical mechanics. press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

In celebration of the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (quantum2025.org), A New Year’s Gift for Students and Teachers of Quantum Mechanics: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

Life before LaTeX …

2025 Pleasure of Reading Percival Everett, James Samantha Harvey, Orbital David Lodge, The Writing Game Han Kang, Greek Lessons Colombe Schneck, La tendresse du crawl Julian Barnes, Changing My Mind Gertude Stein, Paris France Cees Nooteboom, The Following Story

2025 Notable Reading: Public Life Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner, How Big Things Get Done Ronan Farrow, Not a Very Good Murderer Evan Osnos, To Have and Have Yacht Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, Abundance Timothy Snyder, On Freedom Jason Stanley, Erasing History

2025 Notable Science Reading Andreas Daum, Alexander von Humboldt Frank Close, Destroyer of Worlds Carllo Rovelli, Helgoland Steven Weinberg, A Life in Physics Carl Zimmer, Airborne Alec Nevala-Lee, Collisions Emily Monosson, Blight Michael Mann & Peter Hotez, Science under Siege

RIP Bill Bardeen, superb theorist and exemplary colleague.

Slides indico.cern.ch/event/1480892/… and video cds.cern.ch/record/2948480 for my keynote address, "From the November Revolution toward the Millennium: Discoveries, Insights, Tools," at the Fourth International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics

Yang's wide-ranging work combined penetrating physical intuition with mathematical virtuosity. It was a treat to think with him. At Stony Brook, his generosity was decisive for my growth as a scientist.

C. N. Yang has died at age 103. Nobel Laureate for his work on parity nonconservation with T. D. Lee, he conceived non-Abelian gauge theories (now central in our efforts to describe the fundamental interactions) with Robert Mills.

Congratulations to Pierre Fayet, winner of the 2025 Larkin Award of the William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (UMinnesota) for pioneering the supersymmetric standard model cse.umn.edu/ftpi/larkin-aw…

I hope that arxiv.org/abs/2510.06348 will be of broad interest.