Matt LeBlanc
@boostamos.bsky.social
Particle physics at @brownphysics.bsky.social🧪
Member of @cmsexperiment.bsky.social at @cern.bsky.social 🔬
I measure particle jets! 🎉 https://leblanc.physics.brown.edu/
Member of @cmsexperiment.bsky.social at @cern.bsky.social 🔬
I measure particle jets! 🎉 https://leblanc.physics.brown.edu/
Congratulations to the class of 2025! 🎓🎉@brownphysics.bsky.social
May 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Congratulations to the class of 2025! 🎓🎉@brownphysics.bsky.social
A beautiful @cmsexperiment.bsky.social event to kick off 2025 data taking at the @cern.bsky.social LHC!
We have the first high-energy collisions with stable beams in 2025!
The LHC has started back up to continue Run 3 after the winter break - and the first collisions at 13.6 TeV have just happened! Here is a beautiful event display showing some of these first collisions.
@cern.bsky.social
The LHC has started back up to continue Run 3 after the winter break - and the first collisions at 13.6 TeV have just happened! Here is a beautiful event display showing some of these first collisions.
@cern.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
A beautiful @cmsexperiment.bsky.social event to kick off 2025 data taking at the @cern.bsky.social LHC!
Tomorrow's lecture in my class is about pitfalls to avoid when designing figures -- quite a fun topic to prepare! 🧪
April 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Tomorrow's lecture in my class is about pitfalls to avoid when designing figures -- quite a fun topic to prepare! 🧪
Honoured to learn that I -- alongside >13k of my close colleagues from @cern.bsky.social's @atlasexperiment.bsky.social, @cmsexperiment.bsky.social, @lhcb.bsky.social and ALICE Experiment -- was awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics! Congrats all!
breakthroughprize.org/News/91
breakthroughprize.org/News/91
Breakthrough Prize – Breakthrough Prize Announces 2025 Laureates in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics, and Mathematics
breakthroughprize.org
April 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Honoured to learn that I -- alongside >13k of my close colleagues from @cern.bsky.social's @atlasexperiment.bsky.social, @cmsexperiment.bsky.social, @lhcb.bsky.social and ALICE Experiment -- was awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics! Congrats all!
breakthroughprize.org/News/91
breakthroughprize.org/News/91
Do you want to learn more about the @cmsexperiment.bsky.social at @cern.bsky.social? Join the virtual visit starting in ~20 minutes on youtube to get a live tour of the detector cavern and have your science questions answered! 🧪🔬→ www.youtube.com/@CMSExperiment
Get your science questions answered LIVE! 🛑🎥
💬Ask your question in the comments below and tune in tomorrow at 14:30PM CET to our VIRTUAL VISIT inside the cavern! ➡️ www.youtube.com/@CMSExperiment
💬Ask your question in the comments below and tune in tomorrow at 14:30PM CET to our VIRTUAL VISIT inside the cavern! ➡️ www.youtube.com/@CMSExperiment
March 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Do you want to learn more about the @cmsexperiment.bsky.social at @cern.bsky.social? Join the virtual visit starting in ~20 minutes on youtube to get a live tour of the detector cavern and have your science questions answered! 🧪🔬→ www.youtube.com/@CMSExperiment
… and today, another @ippog.bsky.social masterclass! With six high school classes, we discussed proton structure, jets, and how AI intersects with particle physics. It was a treat to moderate the VC with one of @atlasexperiment.bsky.social’s most ‘heavy metal’ physicists, Martin Rybar!🧪🔬
March 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
… and today, another @ippog.bsky.social masterclass! With six high school classes, we discussed proton structure, jets, and how AI intersects with particle physics. It was a treat to moderate the VC with one of @atlasexperiment.bsky.social’s most ‘heavy metal’ physicists, Martin Rybar!🧪🔬
I was happy to host an @ippog.bsky.social particle physics masterclass VC today! High school students from Poland & Greece compared LHC data analyses, and asked about life working at @cern.bsky.social. 🧪🔬
We discussed positive impacts of HEP on society, incl. medical technologies like PET scans!
We discussed positive impacts of HEP on society, incl. medical technologies like PET scans!
March 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I was happy to host an @ippog.bsky.social particle physics masterclass VC today! High school students from Poland & Greece compared LHC data analyses, and asked about life working at @cern.bsky.social. 🧪🔬
We discussed positive impacts of HEP on society, incl. medical technologies like PET scans!
We discussed positive impacts of HEP on society, incl. medical technologies like PET scans!
Reposted by Matt LeBlanc
A most wonderful letter 🧪
Looked too perfect to be true, so I checked the source (einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol8-trans/34) - it is true! Originally in German.
Additional historical context by @mariapopova.bsky.social here: www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/19/e...
Looked too perfect to be true, so I checked the source (einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol8-trans/34) - it is true! Originally in German.
Additional historical context by @mariapopova.bsky.social here: www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/19/e...
einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
March 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
A most wonderful letter 🧪
Looked too perfect to be true, so I checked the source (einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol8-trans/34) - it is true! Originally in German.
Additional historical context by @mariapopova.bsky.social here: www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/19/e...
Looked too perfect to be true, so I checked the source (einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol8-trans/34) - it is true! Originally in German.
Additional historical context by @mariapopova.bsky.social here: www.themarginalian.org/2016/04/19/e...
I once again want to plug one of the 'simple tool' websites I use the most when prepping #physics talks and lectures: www.unicodeit.net, made by @svenkreiss.bsky.social and Kyle Cramner.
I don't even know how to open the equation editor on my computer, and I hope that I never will! 🧪
I don't even know how to open the equation editor on my computer, and I hope that I never will! 🧪
March 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I once again want to plug one of the 'simple tool' websites I use the most when prepping #physics talks and lectures: www.unicodeit.net, made by @svenkreiss.bsky.social and Kyle Cramner.
I don't even know how to open the equation editor on my computer, and I hope that I never will! 🧪
I don't even know how to open the equation editor on my computer, and I hope that I never will! 🧪
I took advantage of the holiday weekend to get some lecture prep done, and clearly made the most of it. 🧪
February 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I took advantage of the holiday weekend to get some lecture prep done, and clearly made the most of it. 🧪
I always enjoy learning about the efforts to photograph large-scale experiments like Dune -- not only was this was a great read, but the photos are amazing! Like a sci-fi movie, only real! 🧪📸
Documenting the work of building the world’s largest neutrino experiment presents photographers with a unique set of challenges. www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/phot... 🧪 #physics #photography
Photographing DUNE
Documenting the work of building the world’s largest neutrino experiment presents photographers with a unique set of challenges.
www.symmetrymagazine.org
February 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I always enjoy learning about the efforts to photograph large-scale experiments like Dune -- not only was this was a great read, but the photos are amazing! Like a sci-fi movie, only real! 🧪📸
Getting ready to teach some Modern Physics this term … 🧪
January 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Getting ready to teach some Modern Physics this term … 🧪
Nova Scotian sunrise 🌅🦞🇨🇦
December 30, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Nova Scotian sunrise 🌅🦞🇨🇦
me: "my father was a fisherman; now I teach people about fission!"
my physics class:
my physics class:
a woman is standing in front of a crowd of people and says boo ! boo !
ALT: a woman is standing in front of a crowd of people and says boo ! boo !
media.tenor.com
December 11, 2024 at 1:36 PM
me: "my father was a fisherman; now I teach people about fission!"
my physics class:
my physics class:
The original @cern.bsky.social x Lego collab? 🧪
From the cover of the July-August 1975 CERN Courier:
"[...] a 3D representation of the data from a recent search for charmed particles."
From the cover of the July-August 1975 CERN Courier:
"[...] a 3D representation of the data from a recent search for charmed particles."
April 23, 2024 at 5:23 PM
The original @cern.bsky.social x Lego collab? 🧪
From the cover of the July-August 1975 CERN Courier:
"[...] a 3D representation of the data from a recent search for charmed particles."
From the cover of the July-August 1975 CERN Courier:
"[...] a 3D representation of the data from a recent search for charmed particles."
Getting ready for the kick-off event for CERN’s 70th anniversary this year, a set of discussions about art & science. You can follow along online here! www.youtube.com/live/JNPnrfQ...
January 30, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Getting ready for the kick-off event for CERN’s 70th anniversary this year, a set of discussions about art & science. You can follow along online here! www.youtube.com/live/JNPnrfQ...
Today is my first day as research faculty at Brown! Getting settled in, need to next bring in some books and plants … 📚
January 8, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Today is my first day as research faculty at Brown! Getting settled in, need to next bring in some books and plants … 📚
I had a great time at DESY this week learning about the bleeding-edge of AI in particle physics at #ML4Jets2023! Many thanks to the organisers @GregorKasieczka, @freyablekman, & all for their hospitality! 🔬🎉🤖🧪
November 10, 2023 at 2:04 PM
I had a great time at DESY this week learning about the bleeding-edge of AI in particle physics at #ML4Jets2023! Many thanks to the organisers @GregorKasieczka, @freyablekman, & all for their hospitality! 🔬🎉🤖🧪
Reposted by Matt LeBlanc
The ATLAS Experiment always takes particle physics into uncharted territories — Hi Bluesky! 👋
August 17, 2023 at 11:41 AM
The ATLAS Experiment always takes particle physics into uncharted territories — Hi Bluesky! 👋
Saturday morning hike in Zermatt ... ⛰
August 19, 2023 at 2:20 PM
Saturday morning hike in Zermatt ... ⛰
Complex particle jets at the LHC lend themselves to AI algorithms 🤖, which can distill lots of info into accurate decisions.
This week, @ATLASexperiment presented 4 new results about jet tagging w/ AI at #BOOST23! 🎉
You can learn more here:
https://atlas.cern/Updates/Briefing/Boosting-Jets-AI 🧪
This week, @ATLASexperiment presented 4 new results about jet tagging w/ AI at #BOOST23! 🎉
You can learn more here:
https://atlas.cern/Updates/Briefing/Boosting-Jets-AI 🧪
Machine learning is revolutionising our understanding of particle “jets”
What happens when – instead of recording a single particle track or energy deposit in your detector – you see a complex collection of many particles, with many tracks, that leaves a large amount o...
atlas.cern
August 3, 2023 at 10:34 PM
Complex particle jets at the LHC lend themselves to AI algorithms 🤖, which can distill lots of info into accurate decisions.
This week, @ATLASexperiment presented 4 new results about jet tagging w/ AI at #BOOST23! 🎉
You can learn more here:
https://atlas.cern/Updates/Briefing/Boosting-Jets-AI 🧪
This week, @ATLASexperiment presented 4 new results about jet tagging w/ AI at #BOOST23! 🎉
You can learn more here:
https://atlas.cern/Updates/Briefing/Boosting-Jets-AI 🧪
Getting high-quality signals w/o noise from pile-up is one of the biggest experimental challenges at the #LHC. We're improving @ATLASexperiment reconstruction in #Run3 w/ timing information⏰ and #AI🤖, presented this week at #BOOST23! learn more: https://atlas.cern/Updates/Briefing/Signal-Noise 🧪
August 2, 2023 at 4:07 PM
Getting high-quality signals w/o noise from pile-up is one of the biggest experimental challenges at the #LHC. We're improving @ATLASexperiment reconstruction in #Run3 w/ timing information⏰ and #AI🤖, presented this week at #BOOST23! learn more: https://atlas.cern/Updates/Briefing/Signal-Noise 🧪
#BOOST23 is happening this week! I'm at @BerkeleyLab talking about jets, substructure, QCD, AI/ML & more with experts from theory & experiment! @ATLASexperiment is showing many new, jetty results 🎉 -- you can find them summarized here!
atlas.cern/Updates/News/Sum... 🧪
atlas.cern/Updates/News/Sum... 🧪
Summary of new ATLAS results from BOOST 2023
The 15th International Workshop on Boosted Object Phenomenology, Reconstruction, Measurements, and Searches at Colliders (BOOST 2023) kicks off today in Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, California (USA...
atlas.cern
August 1, 2023 at 2:03 PM
#BOOST23 is happening this week! I'm at @BerkeleyLab talking about jets, substructure, QCD, AI/ML & more with experts from theory & experiment! @ATLASexperiment is showing many new, jetty results 🎉 -- you can find them summarized here!
atlas.cern/Updates/News/Sum... 🧪
atlas.cern/Updates/News/Sum... 🧪
Arrival in California 🌴🌺🌁
July 31, 2023 at 3:52 AM
Arrival in California 🌴🌺🌁