This blog contains the opening speech in the FCC week in Helsinki in June 2026 by prof. Paula Eerola, President of the Research Council of Finland Distinguished Director-General,Excellencies,Ladies and gentlemen, It is a great...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
