Upcoming DPF Dissertation Award Deadlines

Nominations for the Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics and J. J. and Noriko Sakurai Dissertation Award in Theoretical Particle Physics are due on August 31, 2025 and September 1, 2025, respectively.

For the Sakurai Prize, please nominate theses submitted between September 1, 2024 and August 31, 2025.

Rules and eligibility

Nominations will be accepted for any doctoral student studying at a college or university in North America including their study-abroad programs, for dissertation research carried out in the field of experimental particle physics. The work to be considered must have been accomplished as part of the requirements for a doctoral degree. First-time nominees for the 2026 award must have defended their Ph.D. thesis no earlier than September 1, 2024, and no later than August 31, 2025.

A candidate may be renominated once for this award in the year following their original nomination. In this case a new nomination package must be submitted to the Committee, stating that the candidate had been nominated the previous year.

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APS Honors recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments of the global physics community. Guided by our core values, APS Honors encourages nominations that reflect the full range of talent, distinction, and experience in our field, and supports broad canvassing for professional achievement across diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and expertise.

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Announcement of the “Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science” Video Contest

We are writing as the editors of the journal “Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science”.  As the title indicates, we publish each year a volume of 25-page invited reviews on important topics in this area.

There is much discussion these days about how both journals and static review articles are becoming out of date in the current era of internet media.  So far, we still convince experts to write for us and these articles obtain many citations, but we ought to be looking ahead to new forms of media presentation.  For this we senior people need your help.  We will appreciate it if you tell us your suggestions, but it is better if you show us.

With this in mind, we have launched an ARNPS Video Contest.   Please make a 5-minute video explaining to your peers some point of physics within the realm of Nuclear and Particle Science.  The top three videos will be featured on our journal web page -- and there will be cash prizes!   For the rules and contest schedule, please see

https://www.annualreviews.org/page/ARNPS_VideoContest

We emphasize that (1) this contest is specifically for early-career scientists, and (2) these video are not intended for public outreach ("Physics SLAM"s) but rather for peer-to-peer scientific communication.

Good luck!  We are eager to see your presentations.  If this initiative is successful, we hope to make it an annual event.

Best wishes,

Michael Peskin (mpeskin@slac.stanford.edu)

Wick Haxton (haxton@berkeley.edu)

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32nd International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies

To be held Aug 25 – 29, 2025 at the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Monona Terrace Convention Center in the heart of Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

The LP-2025 symposium will feature a broad range of topics of interest to the particle physics, cosmology and particle astro-physics communities. Presentations will include latest experimental results from current experiments, R&D towards future facilities and theoretical developments. There will be plenary talks providing summaries of the state of the field, typically in the morning, detailed reports in the parallel talks and topical results in poster sessions.

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53rd SLAC Summer Institute: Pathways to New Physics (Zoom only)

Dear Colleagues:

The 53nd SLAC Summer Institute will take place 28 July-8 Aug 2025; the theme is “Pathways to New Physics”, and it will be Zoom only!

The Standard Model is very successful at explaining much of what we see, but many puzzles remain, and their solutions call for the existence of new physics. As the resolution to these mysteries are presently unknown, it behooves us to explore multiple trails, being guided by the new information we gain from a better understanding of the nature of Dark Matter, the properties of the Higgs boson and neutrinos, as well as the many issues related to flavor.

The Institute lectures are primarily aimed at senior graduate students and postdocs while senior researchers are also welcome. Presentation of topical results, participant projects, Q&A and poster sessions, and social events supplement the morning lectures to create an invigorating environment for all participants.

The full program and further details can be found on the SSI website:

https://indico.slac.stanford.edu/e/ssi2025

For answers to questions, please contact us at ssi@slac.stanford.edu.

We hope to see you ONLINE this summer for SSI 2025!

The SSI 2025 Program Directors,

Mark Convery, Greg Madejski, Richard Partridge, Su Dong, Charlie Young, and Tom Rizzo (chair)

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SUSY 2025 Conference

Dear Colleague,

We are very pleased to announce that the SUSY 2025 Conference--the 32nd International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions--will be hosted at the University of California, Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, California USA from Monday, August 18, 2025 until noon on Saturday, August 23, 2025.  The conference webpage is located at 

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1446820/

The aim of the SUSY conference is to review and discuss recent research related to supersymmetric theories and other approaches to physics beyond the Standard Model in all aspects, including formal theory, phenomenology, experiment, astroparticle physics and cosmology.

Registration is a two-step process that involves registration via the Indicao system followed by the payment of the registration fee and an option to choose shared on-campus housing (https://indico.cern.ch/event/1446820/page/37057-registration-forms).  An early bird registration fee of USD 400 for staff and faculty and USD 250 for students is available until June 26, 2025.  After this date an additional USD 50 will be charged.

In addition to the plenary talks, there will be three afternoons of parallel sessions.   If you are interested in presenting a parallel session talk, please submit an abstract in the Call for Abstracts section of the webpage.

Parallel session talks will be allotted 20 minutes (including questions).  The parallel session conveners are responsible for approving the abstracts submitted to their sessions.  Please consider submitting your proposed abstract early to ensure the availability of a timeslot for your talk.

If you have any questions or concerns, please send them to susy2025@ucsc.edu.  We look forward to welcoming you to Santa Cruz in August.

Best wishes,

Wolfgang Altmannshofer and Howard Haber 

co-chairs of the SUSY 2025 Conference

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Pre-SUSY Summer School

Dear Colleague,

We are very pleased to announce that the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) will be hosting the Pre-SUSY Summer School over five days from Monday, August 11, 2025 until Friday, August 15, 2025.  

Following a long-standing tradition, the Pre-SUSY School is a week of pedagogical lectures aimed at graduate students and early career postdocs that takes place one week before the 2025 Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY-2025).  The webpage for the Pre-SUSY School is located here:

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1524531/

We have assembled a group of superb lecturers who will present advanced topics in particle physics (both non-supersymmetric and supersymmetric), particle astrophysics, and cosmology (see 

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1524531/page/38120-lecturers).  

There is no registration fee to attend the Pre-SUSY school.   However, we ask all interested participants to register for the Pre-SUSY School following the instructions given at https://indico.cern.ch/event/1524531/page/38121-registration-forms.    This link also provides an option to pay for shared on-campus housing (which includes meals), which will be the most convenient option for most participants.

Participants of the Pre-SUSY School who wish to stay the following week in Santa Cruz to attend the  32nd International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY 2025)

will be offered a highly discounted rate of USD 100 to attend the main SUSY 2025 conference.  This registration fee (along with the cost to extend the on-campus housing for a second week if the participant has opted to reside on campus) would be paid using the same link for arranging on-campus housing during the Pre-SUSY School.  

Further details on the SUSY 2025 Conference can be found on the main conference webpage (https://indico.cern.ch/event/1446820/).  

If you have any questions or concerns, please send them to susy2025@ucsc.edu.  We look forward to welcoming you to Santa Cruz in August.

Best wishes,

Wolfgang Altmannshofer and Howard Haber 

co-chairs of the Pre-SUSY School 2025

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VERTEX 2025

August 25 – 29, 2025 
Knoxville, TN
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025 

Dear colleagues, 

The 33rd International Workshop on Vertex Detectors “Vertex 2025” will be held from Monday August 25 until noon Friday, August 29, 2025, in Knoxville, Tennessee, organized by the Physics Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Physics Department of the University of Tennessee (https://indico.phy.ornl.gov/event/677/).

This workshop is a forum for physicists and engineers in high energy and nuclear physics and related fields to discuss recent advances in vertex detectors. It offers a platform to share experiences and explore current and future technology developments for vertex detectors, including radiation hardness, simulation, tracking, electronics, and applications in quantum information sciences and other fields. The conference program is fully plenary and will consist of invited talks by experts in the field and individual contributions. A poster session will be organized Monday evening in the Sun Sphere. 

Participation in the workshop is open to all. Oral presentations are predominantly by invitation, while the submission of poster abstracts is open to all. For both oral presentations and posters, abstracts should be submitted on the conference webpage. The deadline for the abstract submission is June 30^th. 

We are looking forward to seeing many of you! 

Best regards,

Vertex 2025 organizers
Mathieu Benoit
Marcel Demarteau
Oskar Hartbrich
Stefan Spanier

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CPAD Workshop October 7-10, 2025 at University of Pennsylvania

Dear Instrumentation Enthusiasts,

This email serves as an announcement for the 10th annual workshop of the Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors (CPAD). The workshop will take place at the University of Pennsylvania on October 7-10, 2025.

Registration and abstract submission are now open and available via the conference website https://indico.global/event/14966/

The deadline for registration is September 5, 2025, with early bird registration available until August 22, 2025 (https://indico.global/event/14966/registrations/3525/).

Abstract submission deadline is August 8, 2025 (https://indico.global/event/14966/abstracts/). Submission for either talks or posters is encouraged. Presentations will be organized via the CPAD R&D Collaborations (RDCs, https://cpad-dpf.org/?page_id=1549). In addition to abstracts on generic, blue-sky, instrumentation R&D covered by the various RDC groups, we encourage contributions that cover work on instrumentation in existing and future experiments in high-energy physics and the synergic areas of nuclear physics.

We look forward to seeing the community in October!

Inquires about registration should be sent to cpad-2025-loc@googlegroups.com

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COSMO-25: 28th International Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology

October 13-17, 2025 | Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

The 28th International Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology (COSMO-25) brings together experts at the intersection of particle physics and cosmology. The conference features invited talks, contributed presentations, and discussions on cutting-edge topics in theoretical and observational cosmology and astroparticle physics.

Important Dates:

• July 1, 2025: Deadline for contributed talks/posters

• August 1, 2025: Early registration deadline

• September 15, 2025: Final registration deadline

Local Organizing Committee: Katelyn Breivik, Matteo Cremonesi, Rupert Croft, Tiziana Di Matteo, Valentina Dutta, Tao Han (Pitt), Tina Kahniashvili, Rachel Mandelbaum, Antonella Palmese, Riccardo Penco, Rachel Rosen

For registration and details: https://events.mcs.cmu.edu/cosmo-25/ 1

We look forward to seeing you in Pittsburgh this Fall!

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4th International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics to be held at CERN

​Following in the mold established by precursors at Fermilab and SLAC, the 4th International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics will bring together leading physicists who have worked in the field with historians, philosophers and other scholars of science who study the discipline. The focus of this symposium will be upon the important discoveries and intellectual currents of the 1980s and 1990s — a period in which Europe and especially CERN became the acknowledged center of gravity in particle physics. Theoretical, experimental and accelerator physics developments will be examined, as well as the marriage of particle physics with cosmology and astrophysics. This symposium will occur at CERN on 10-13 November 2025.

Further details and registration information can be found at  https://indico.cern.ch/event/1480892/.

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