November 2025 Newsletter

Dear DPF members,  

Dear DPF members,

Please find below the monthly DPF newsletter for November 2025. This newsletter will be archived on the DPF website. If you would like an announcement included in the December 2025 newsletter, please contact the DPF Secretary/Treasurer. Please keep requests to 300 words and submit them by the 10th of the month for consideration.

DPF is the primary community organization for particle physicists in the United States.  You can directly support our activities by making a donation at this link (log in with your APS credentials).

Best wishes,

Ken Bloom, DPF Secretary/Treasurer, kenbloom@unl.edu

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DPF/DPB Input to European Strategy for Particle Physics Update

André de Gouvêa, Hitoshi Murayama, Mark Palmer and Heidi Schellman prepared a document for the European Strategy update that describes recent planning processes in the US.  We received 13 comments from the community which greatly improved the document.  You can find the submitted document here.

Thanks to everyone who contributed.

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DPF Election Results

Thank you to all who participated in the recently concluded DPF election; this year’s turnout was 22.75%. We are grateful to all the candidates and we thank the Nominating Committee for selecting an outstanding slate of candidates.

Congratulations to these new DPF Executive Committee members whose terms will start January 1, 2026:

• Vice Chair: Kate Scholberg (Duke University)

• Divisional Councilor: Robert Bernstein (Fermilab)

• Executive Committee Members-at-Large: Amanda J. Weinstein (Iowa State University), Gary Shiu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Early Career Member: Pouya Asadi (UC Santa Cruz)

• Graduate Student Member: Monica Leys (University of Pittsburgh)

We thank these Executive Committee members whose terms will be ending at the end of 2025 for all of their efforts: André de Gouvêa (Past Chair), Vaia Papadimitriou, Mark Messier (Members at Large), Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Early Career Member), Olivia Bitter (Student Member), and Tulika Bose (Past Secretary/Treasurer).

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2026 DPF Prize and Award winners

We congratulate DPF members who won 2026 APS prizes and awards, both society-wide and at the unit level:

Julius Edgar Lilienfield Prize
Hitoshi Murayama, University of California, Berkeley; Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

For contributions to theoretical and experimental particle physics, as well as inspirational public outreach and effective science advocacy.

W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
Joel Butler, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

For wide-ranging scientific, technical, and strategic contributions to particle physics, particularly exceptional leadership in fixed target quark flavor experiments at Fermilab and collider physics at the Large Hadron Collider.

J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
John F. Donoghue, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

For original and lasting contributions to the development of effective field theories, including work on gravity as an effective quantum field theory, and important contributions to chiral perturbation theory.

Meenakshi Narain Mentoring Award
Kevin P. Lannon, University of Notre Dame

For mentoring and leadership in reforming graduate admissions by championing evaluation criteria that value perseverance, resilience, and drive alongside academic rigor, thereby broadening access while upholding excellence.

Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics
Elena Pinetti, Flatiron Institute (Simons Foundation)

For original ideas and innovative research in the study of particle dark matter, compact astrophysical objects, high energy astrophysical sources, and cosmic radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum.

Feshbach Prize Theoretical Nuclear Physics
Martin J. Savage, University of Washington

For pioneering contributions to computational quantum chromodynamics for nuclear physics, especially through large-scale lattice quantum chromodynamics simulations, and for exploring applications of quantum computing.

Dannie Heineman Prize
Charles B. Thorn III, University of Florida

For fundamental contributions to elementary particle physics, primarily the theory of strong interactions and the development of string theory.

Congratulations to all, and apologies to any DPF members we might have missed!

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Next DPF Virtual Community Meeting: December 18-19

An agenda and registration information for the next DPF Community Meeting can be found at https://indico.global/event/15767/.  The meeting will be held on Zoom, and attendees must register by midnight ET on December 16 to participate.  We look forward to having you join us.

Heidi Schellman (schellmh@oregonstate.edu)

Sally Seidel (seidel@unm.edu)

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Update on Theory Postdoc Accord

The theoretical high energy physics community has operated under a common postdoc acceptance deadline since 2007. Recent challenges to this consensus led the APS DPF Executive Committee to form an ad hoc panel in 2024 to re-examine the issue of a common deadline for theory postdoc offers. The panel (chaired by Csaba Csaki alongside Vijay Balasubramanian, Alejandra Castro, Nathaniel Craig, Mariangela Lisanti, Hirosi Ooguri, and Shufang Su) conducted an extensive survey last fall yielding more than 800 responses from 6 continents. The results were presented at a town hall meeting in October 2024, followed by an extended comment period on the committee's report before it was submitted to the DPF Executive Committee for approval. The report’s recommendation of a January 31 deadline has been adopted by more than 150 research groups throughout the world. Details of the new consensus accord can be found at https://www.classe.cornell.edu/research/theory/january-31-high-energy-theory-postdoc-accord

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Save the Date: DPF26

The 2026 edition of the APS Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) meeting will be held at Fermilab on July 20-24, 2026.  More information to come!

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Symposium in honor of Joel Butler, November 21, 2025

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a symposium, celebrating four decades of particle physics at Fermilab and CERN to which Fermilab Distinguished Scientist and former CMS Spokesperson Joel Butler has made significant contributions. The symposium will take place on Friday, November 21, 2025 and will be held from 9 am to 5 pm US CDT with an optional no-host dinner to follow. 

For  more details and to register for the event, please visit: https://indico.fnal.gov/e/joelbutler 

If  you have any questions, please contact me at boj@fnal.gov. 

Sincerely,

Bo Jayatilaka on behalf of the symposium organizing committee: 

Pushpa Bhat
Lothar Bauerdick
Harry Cheung
Peter Garbincius
Jim Hirschauer
Bo Jayatilaka
Patty McBride
Isobel Ojalvo
Margaret Votava

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Flavoured Circular Collider Workshop (Flavours@FCC)

Dear colleagues,

Please be informed of the launch of the 'Flavoured Circular Collider Workshop' (aka `Flavours@FCC'), which is an extended programme of study to improve our understanding of the flavour-physics potential of the FCC.  As a joint endeavour between experimentalists and theorists, the Workshop will investigate the physics reach of both established and new methods, as well as the interplay between flavour observables and the other physics sectors of the FCC programme.  A particular focus will be to understand the requirements on the emerging detector concepts for FCC-ee.

The Workshop will begin with a three day kick-off event at CERN on Nov 19-21.  Follow-up (in-person and zoom) events are foreseen for 2026 and 2027, with intermediate zoom meetings.  More information can be found on the webpage https://indico.cern.ch/event/1588013/, including information on the various Working Groups and mailing lists.

The Workshop is open to all members of the HEP community, including those with no prior involvement in FCC activities.  We are keen to attract both senior scientists and early-career researchers.

Best wishes,

Gino Isidori (gino.isidori@uzh.ch)
Stephane Monteil (monteil@in2p3.fr)
Guy Wilkinson (guy.wilkinson@cern.ch)
Zoltan Ligeti (ligeti@berkeley.edu)

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Second Annual Neutrinos from Home Conference December 2-5, 2025

Dear Colleagues,

We are very happy to announce Neutrinos from Home 2025, which will be held from 2–5 December.

Neutrinos from Home is an online physics conference built around interesting and engaging discussion. Talks are pre-recorded and released in advance, so conference time is devoted entirely to live and asynchronous discussions, including themed sessions proposed by participants. You can take part at your own pace and join from wherever you feel at home.

The conference will bring together theorists and experimentalists in the high energy, cosmology and astrophysics communities from around the world to discuss the current state of neutrino physics. Confirmed speakers are listed on the website. 

Registration is now open: https://neutrinos.discussingresearch.com/registration/. Abstracts submitted by 4 November at 23:59 UTC will receive equal consideration.

Note that participation is encouraged by all members of the community, including students and early career scientists.

We look forward to seeing many of you at Neutrinos From Home 2025!



Cheers,

Olivia Meredith Bitter, Adriano Cherchiglia, Shaun Hotchkiss, Gabriele Montefalcone, Justin Mueller and Matthijs van der Wild (Neutrinos from Home organizers)

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