It's done. Proud to be part of this team for so many years and having worked with a large number of talented people. Now we are on to new features, there's a lot of work to be done. arxiv.org/abs/2512.16645

Looks like the accelerator ops @cern.bsky.social are getting festive!

Very happy to be part of one of the successful doc.funds projects, which will enable us to study novel concepts and methods for some of the most intriguing phenomena in the Universe.

Cool. Gemini seems to run in the future and can predict decisive outcomes of important meetings (today is the 28th of November 2025 -- unless me and my laptop are subject to a time translation).

Austria has also put in an amendment to the primary document, and we have also been waiting for additional information and discussions to identify a sensible plan B if FCC is not feasible -- at the provision that we need to have a broad approach and other endeavours should not be deprioritized.

Night train back to Austria is horribly delayed, but warm and cosy ... best place to prepare lectures, work on proposals, ... let's see when we depart Nürnberg (train shunters should have arrived just now to merge it with the one from Amsterdam)

It is always thrilling to come back to a place where one has spent quite some years of a life, even just for a day. Moin, Hamburg, and hello DESY.

Official things on a Friday afternoon ... today the inauguration of the @mbi-oeaw.bsky.social

Indeed an important summary of the inputs to the strategy. The national inputs can still be updated, and we will hold further discussions and spark initiatives in Austria on the 3rd of November.

On the way to visit Thomas Becher and his group ay Bern, to discuss about evolution and resumption in colour space and how the QCD and SCET approaches might relate.

Thanks a lot everyone for contributing to the programme, this has been a great success @agbuckley.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @jonbutterworth.bsky.social and many others

MIAPbP was a great success, but quite exhausting after four weeks. To relax I'm now on to one of my favorite little getaways with some colleagues from Uni Wien ... guess how we travel back after visiting Bratislava 😉

I'm traveling a lot by train these days. And dining cars are really nice especially in the evenings and mornings. Love to work, think, and yes: have dinner there. The most beautiful ones of OeBB have essentially been phased out for modern "Bistros", good on average, but mostly dysfunctional.

Breaking: It has stopped raining in Munich.

First week of our workshop on event generators at colliders and beyond colliders at MIAPbP is well underway. Today we have Rainer Fries talking about hadronization in heavy ion collisions with Jetscape.

As fresh, traditional, and good as it can possibly get ... thanks bellsfishshop.co.uk for still being an undebatable reference when it comes to Fish & Chips. Let alone all science and what not here at Durham, this was worth the trip alone 😉

Coming back for a visit after way too long ... looking forward to a good week of discussions on leveraging Quantum Computing paradigms (possibly)

Venice event brings future of #ParticlePhysics into focus Discussions this week at the Open Symposium of the European Strategy for Particle Physics demonstrate strong progress towards ensuring that CERN remains a world leader in collider physics and technology. Read more: home.cern/news/press-r...

Finally, interesting discussions start to take place at #ESPP open symposium. It's crucial to highlight the importance of understanding and predicting complex final states at colliders, including hadronization, and to also roll out this programme to electroweak final states.

Starting into the parallel sessions at #ESPP open symposium.

This account is now active. For the next couple of days, we'll post recent #CMSPaper and #CMSPAS from the last couple of months. Afterwards, it will post the latest results from @cmsexperiment.bsky.social just like x.com/cmspapers and mastodon.social/@cmspapers.

Week two was a success, as well. We had many interesting discussions about super leading logarithms, evolution in full colour, hidden regions and the restoration of factorisation.

Departing Mainz ... weather just went lovely from loads of rain.

We had a very successful first week at the MITP programme at @unimainz.bsky.social on factorization and evolution in full colour. Few talks, many discussions and new connections. Thanks for providing such a great environment.

We are starting to dissect the cluster hadronization model from a new point of view: arxiv.org/abs/2505.14542 is first in a series of work to come.

Tomorrow: a pint of science in Graz, about particle physics and more pintofscience.at/event/atoms-...

We have new results from amplitude evolution: arxiv.org/abs/2505.13183 This is a quantum mechanical event generator which can predict interference contributions and more.

I am starting into the FCC week in my hometown of Vienna. I'm representing @uni-graz.at in the collaboration board, and I'm also part of the Scientific Program Comittee. Looking forward to many discussions around the European Strategy Update as the coordinator of the Austrian input to the strategy.

A very successful first day of our little workshop on fragmentation and hadronization, organized with @axelmaas.bsky.social , kindly hosted by @hephy.bsky.social at Vienna. We will continue to discuss scattering on the lattice tomorrow, which I'm very excited about.

First time in Budapest today. Giving a seminar on colour evolution and new perspectives for hadronization. But mainly, I'm here to continue building a network for the CVolver project.

... and just hours after we have submitted the Austrian input to the Strategy Update. Thanks to all those who have supported me in guiding the process and assembling the document. We look forward to continuing discussions and an informed decision on the next flagship collider.

IPPOG Masterclass on particle physics running today at @uni-graz.at . We are welcoming high school students to have a peek into particle physics and analyzing data from the @atlasexperiment.bsky.social .

Beautiful day to travel to Milano for giving a seminar on colour evolution and the challenges for hadronization models.

👋 Finde dein Wunschstudium, entdecke den Campus und fühl dich ins Studienleben ein! Wir zeigen dir die Universität Graz und alles, was sie bietet. Komm zum Tag der offenen Tür am 24. April: 🔗 openhouse.uni-graz.at/de/ 🤝 Zusammen mit Kunstuniversität Graz & TU Graz #weworkfortomorrow

What a week. Actually, maybe two or three even -- loads of unexpected things happening, now back on a long train ride to Vienna, for those hoping of a sign of live: let me have a good night's sleep and some catching up with backlog. I'll be back for good then.

Birdtracks conference ahead. Lots of beautiful diagrams! Register now, free of charge. Don't miss it! indico.global/event/11678/

Stunning.

I am offering a 3 months MCnet short-term studentship focusing on colour evolution and hadronization. More details on the scheme can be found here www.montecarlonet.org/opportunities/ . Please direct applications to me by email or spread the news.

I'm very pleased to be at this year's FAKT meeting of the Austrian particle physics community. We will discuss the update of the European Strategy with interesting input from Georg Weiglein and Manfred Krammer.

Day four of a full and admittedly very busy week at ITP and TTP of @kit.edu -- I don't like the term "Alma mater", but it's good to "come home" every now and then ...

Interestingly, the methods we start to employ for the operator constructions are best explained and analyzed using the birdrtrack formalism. Wanna know more? Join this year's birdtrack meeting indico.global/event/11678/

... and though the deadline has passed, please message me should you stil be interested in linking event generators for different applications at and beyond colliders: www.munich-iapbp.de/activities/a...

Interested in the most recent developments of colour evolution equations, non-global logarithms and all that? We are organizing a programme at the Mainz Institute of Theoretical Physics: indico.mitp.uni-mainz.de/event/401/ Sign up soon!

Just after the yearly shutdown I organized an excursion to CERN with the students from my collider phenomenology lecture -- a great experience. Hope they become succesful particle physicists. Some pictures and more here: physik.uni-graz.at/de/neuigkeit...

Finally I moved from the one-letter platform (almost) ... let's see about this.