The Next Frontier of Fundamental Physics
There is a rare occasion to hear a public talk of Director-General of CERN, professor Mark Thompson, in the University of Helsinki Think Corner on Tuesday 9.6. at 17:00. Please see University of Helsinki...
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HIP Detector Laboratory upgrade – cleaner, colder, and better controlled measurements
The HIP Detector Laboratory has recently gone through a major upgrade of its clean rooms and laboratory spaces. The work brings long needed improvements to a facility that supports detector development for projects such...
Code of the Universe exhibition touring Finland sets the stage for FCC Week 2026 in Helsinki
These are not only questions for physicists working at CERN. They are questions that belong to everyone. This spring and summer, they will be brought into public space in Finland through Code of the...
AlN-on-Si for quantum emitters and sensors (AQUES) – Engineering specific defect formations
The AQUES (AlN-on-Si for Quantum Emitters and Sensors) project commenced at the start of 2025 as a part of the Technology Programme. The main aim is to engineer specific point defects with single photon emission...
Should we use generative AI in scientific research?
Over the last few years, generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become mainstream, with the public release of ChatGPT in 2022 launching us into an AI boom. Such large language model based AI chatbots are...
Particle Physics Days 2025 in Hyytiälä
The annual Particle Physics Days, organised by the Particle Physics Division of the Finnish Physical Society, were held from 13-14 November at the University of Helsinki’s Hyytiälä Forest Station. It was the second year...
Possibilities of AI for Research and Teaching – Case Study of Media Production
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming how research and teaching are conducted across scientific institutions. At the Helsinki Institute of Physics, we have explored its possibilities both in academic work and creative projects. This...
Preparing for LISA with the Cosmology Data Centre
Cosmology has historically been driven by theoretical modelling, while observations of the cosmos have been limited by the available technology. Thanks to incredible advances in technology over the last decades, we are now in...
Physicists on Skis: Nordic Minds Meet in Norwegian Mountains
What better way to start the year than by spending a week skiing in the Norwegian mountains? Well, how about skiing in the Norwegian mountains while discussing particle physics? This was the spirit of...
Particle Physics Days 2024 in Lammi
The Finnish Physical Society (FPS) was founded in 1947 to promote research and public knowledge in physics and support integrity of physicists in Finland. The history of the FPS was summarized in connection with...
The Applied Curiosity of LUT’s Physics Department
Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT) is known for its slogan – Land of the Curious, and it lives up to it, LUT is a pioneering engineering university in Finland, bringing together the fields of...
HIP Summer traditions
Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP has two traditional communal ways of welcoming summer – a grill party for the HIP CERN summer trainees at CERN and a summer trip for the HIP community in...
COSINUS – Getting ready to search for dark matter
In an earlier blog post (in Finnish) I introduced the basics of dark matter and the direct detection experiments that are looking for signals of the dark matter particles scattering off ordinary atoms in...
The Kilpisjärvi Effect: How Wonders of Nature and Time Spent Together Are Accelerating CMS Physics in Helsinki
On Sunday evening of March 4th, 15 members of the HIP CMS Programme set off on a train towards Kolari, with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station as their destination. Nestled in the northernmost part of...
The HIP new dCache disk storage
Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) participates in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments ALICE, CMS and TOTEM. HIP collaborates with CSC – IT Center for Science on providing Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) resources....
