(Too) early Christmas outing and instead brewery dinner

Preview of the 3sat Film "Elementarteilchen - Wie sie unsere Welt durchdringen":

https://www.3sat.de/wissen/wissenschaftsdoku/231109-sendung-elementarteilchen-wie-sie-unsere-welt-durchdringen-wido-100.html

(3sat Mediathek, Wissen Hoch 2, broadcasted on 9 November 2023, 20:15 Uhr)

featuring many CMS-DESY-Exotics group members

and panel discussion "Teilchenphysik - hä? Hochkomplexes für das breite TV-Publikum" recorded on DESY YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9vINjmyP88

Strong performance of the group during the EPS-HEP Conference in Hamburg!

https://www.eps-hep2023.eu/

... and at the Art Meets Science Exhibition "High Energy" as part of the EPS-HEP 2023 conference

https://artmeetsscience.desy.de/7_high_energy/

Congratulations to Jonas for winning a CMS Award on BRIL!!

Congratulations to Alexander for being awarded with a Level-2 Top Quark Physics Analysis Group convenership!!

Cheers from the DPG!

Congratulations to Kelvin for his Master in
"Effects of model parameter variations for the bbH→Za→llχχ process in the performance of multivariate classifiers"!

Congratulations to John-Erik for his Bachelor in
"Elektrische Vermessung und Finite-Elemente-Simulation von Si-Dioden für BCM1F am CMS-Detektor"!

Christmas outing of the EXO Group - whoever was still/already there...

Congratulations to Danyer for being awarded with the Third Generation SUSY Searches Level-3 Convenership, which is a subgroup of the CMS SUSY Group! It is starting on October 01, 2022.

Welcome to Samuel Baxter for starting a DESY Fellowship with our group on a search for Colorons!

Welcome to Jörn Bach for starting his PhD position as DASHH graduate student. He will work on Heavy Higgs searches and Neural Networks with negative event weights.

Congratulations Dr. Samuel Baxter!!

Goodbye to Afiq who got a CERN Fellowship position

Farewell dinner for Afiq and to welcome dinner for Giacomo Boldrini

Welcome Giacomo - who will be Erasmum Traineeship student for 3 months in the Exotics Group!

Congratulations to Danyer for being awarded with the MET+X Level-3 Convenership, which is a subgroup of the CMS EXO Group! It is starting on March 01, 2022.

Congratulations to Jonas for being awarded with the BCM1F technical and operations Coordinator Level-3 position starting on February 01, 2022!

Teaching Evaluation at the University of Hamburg for WiSe 21/22

Congratulations to Afiq of being awarded with a Senior Research Fellowship at CERN!

Christmas outing of parts of the EXO Group - in person! Only for those not in quarantine...

Welcome to Laurids Jeppe for starting his PhD position in the Cluster of Excellence "Quantum Universe"! He will work on Heavy Higgs / Dark Matter searches.

Welcome to Kelvin de Light for starting a master project on Dark Matter / Heavy Higgs searches!

Congratulations to Afiq for winning the "Best Paper Award" of the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe of Universität Hamburg in cooperation with DESY for the paper

The CMS collaboration, “Search for heavy Higgs bosons decaying to a top quark pair in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV”, JHEP 04 (2020) 171.

"The paper describes a novel search for an exotic heavy scalar or pseudo-scalar particle decaying into a top-antitop quark pair. Dr. Anuar developed and applied beyond state-of-the-art and highly sensitive methods and provided new insights through his interpretation of the data."

Congratulations to Charlotte for having submitted her bachelor thesis and giving her bachelor seminar on "Search for Pseudoscalar Dark Matter Mediators in Signatures with 2 b-Quarks, a Leptonically Decaying Z-Boson and Missing Transverse Energy"!!!

Our first group outing after Corona - where some of us met for the first time(!) - took place Corona conform at the Hofbräuhaus in Hamburg!

Congratulations to Lina for having submitted her bachelor thesis and giving her bachelor seminar on "Study of Interferences Between Resonant Heavy-Higgs-Boson Production and Top-Antitop-Quark Production in the Standard Model"!!!

Congratulations to Afiq Anuar for being appointed as convenor of the MSSM group within the LHC Higgs Working Group!

Congratulations to Laurids Jeppe for being awarded with a PhD position in the Cluster of Excellence "Quantum Universe"! He accepted and will work on a Heavy Higgs / Dark Matter search starting in October.

Congratulations to Christian for winning a teaching prize with UHH in SoSe 2020!

Congratulations to Christian for winning a teaching prize with UHH in WiSe 2019/20!

Welcome Gilson Correia Silva as new DESY Fellow working on Dark Matter/Heavy Higgs searches!

Instead of a Christmas outing we had more some kind of an "inning" this year - but still fun!!

Welcome André Zimermmane Castro Santos as new PhD working on EFT searches!

Welcome Danyer Pérez Adán as new Quantum Universe postdoctoral fellow working on Dark Matter and EFT searches!

Congratulations to Karim for having submitted his bachelor thesis on "Application of machine learning in the kinematic reconstruction of tt events"!!!

Congratulations to Jonas Rübenach for winning the CMS Deutschland Photo Contest 2020 (1st place)! It was announced during the FSP CMS Workshop 2020, September 23-25, 2020 (online).

Having fun at the CMS Outing this year! We spent a nice day together in the closeby Volkspark, playing minigolf and disc golf.

Welcome Lina Meyer as new bachelor student working on heavy Higgs --> ttbar searches!

Welcome Charlotte Tappeser as new bachelor student working on Dark Matter searches with b-jets and leptons!

Congratulations to Afiq Anuar for being appointed as Contact Person for combinations of the "LHC Top Working Group“ for tt spin correlations

Welcome Karim Ritter von Merkl as new bachelor student working on Machine Learning in the kinematic reconstruction of top quark pair events!

Congratulations to Alexander Grohsjean for being appointed to Coordinating CMS Effective Field Theory (EFT) forum!

Enjoying Standard (red) and Exotic (white) Glühwein...

Afiq graduated on measurements of the ttbar spin correlation and top quark polarisation, a search for heavy Higgs bosons decaying in top quark pairs and searches for Effective Field Theory couplings in ttbar events. He also did important electron trigger studies. Many congratulations to a Summa Cum Laude!

Congratulations to Alexander Grohsjean for being re-elected as LPC Distinguished Researcher!
https://lpc.fnal.gov/fellows/2020/Alexander_Grohsjean.shtml

Congratulations to Afiq Anuar for being appointed as EGM (Electron-Gamma) Reconstruction Convener!

Congratulations to Alexander Grohsjean for being appointed as Level-2 Generator Convener!
https://www.fsp-cms.de/meldungen/personen/

Congratulations to Alexander Grohsjean for the CMS achievement award "For pioneering the implementation of new MC generators and productions at CMS, for the work on event generator validation, and for providing tools and continued support to the operations of MC contacts."!
https://cms.cern/content/achievement-awards-2018

Congratulations to Christian Schwanenberger for the 3rd Prize in the Teaching Evaluation "Kursvorlesungen" for Physik-2, Elektrodynamik und Optik, WiSe 2018/19