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Our EPT-hub concluded the year 2023 by hosting the «Afternoon of Science and Teaching» event in collaboration with the MaP Doctoral School.

With more than 100 registered participants, our group, together with colleagues from ETH Zurich, the University of Tokyo and the University of Zurich, organized a multidisciplinary two-day symposium at ETH Hönggerberg.

For his poster and poster presentation, our Bachelor student collaborator Sergey Ermakov was awarded one of three SPS «best poster prize» at the Joint Annual Meeting 2023 of the Swiss Physical Society and the Austrian Physical Societ during 4–8 September 2023 in Basel.

Our former PhD student Dr. Narongrit Ritjoho (ETH Diss 26579, 2020) today is a Lecturer at the Suranaree University of Technology in Thailand. He just organized a summer school there on fundamental neutron and muon physics, July 10-14, 2023.

The second EPT summer camp, organized by members of our group, took place on 4–7 June at Mattli Antoniushous in Morschach.

Members of our group took part in the SOLA-Stafette 2023, the largest university sports event in Switzerland.

The spring program «Das Universum» of «ETH Treffpunkt Science City» featured talks about particle physics and astrophysics.

Klaus Kirch received PSI's 2022 Diversity Award. The award ceremony was held during the PSI Director's New Year's Employee Information on January 17, 2023.

IMPACT was recommended by the ETH Board to be included in the Swiss Roadmap for Research Infrastructures 2023. We aim at the realization of IMPACT at PSI starting from 2025 with High Intensity Muons Beams for operation in 2028 and an isotope production facility operating in 2030.

Vira Bondar is fascinated by the fundamental questions of physics. She conducts research with ultracold neutrons and is working to make exercise sessions at ETH Zurich even more exciting.

Our postdoc Oguzhan Kara received the SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his career at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). He will move to PSI in the first half of 2023, and work on the development of a high energy, single-frequency mid-infrared source for laser spectroscopy with exotic atoms during his two-year fellowship. We all wish him a successful career at PSI and look forward to seeing his results.

From August 12th to 14th, the Lyceum Alpinum in Zuoz opened its doors for the first EPT summer camp for Physics Teaching Assistants (TAs), organized by our group as part of the EPT Hub's educational training program.

The EPT Hub organised an open-air concert with Ukrainian singer Maryna Krut on the 21 June. The event served as a thank you to the TAs of the past semester and at the same time as an event to exchange experiences in the field of teaching.

"Nacht der Physik" was en event organised by the Department of Physics on the 17. June 2022 on Hönggerberg, where each research group at D-PHYS presented their research in hands-on experiments to the public.

The Swiss Research Magazine 'Horizons' features particle physics performed at PSI.

Miroslaw Marszałek successfully defended his PhD thesis on the 23 May 2022. He worked on the Laser cavity for the HyperMu project.

The "Engaging Physics Tutoring hub" participated at the Innovation in Learning & Teaching Fair 2022 held by ETH, showing its progress and achievements in rethinking physics tutoring in higher education.

Aldo Antognini, currently lecturer and senior scientist at both ETH Zurich and the Laboratory for Particle Physics at NUM/PSI was awarded the title of Adjunct Professor at ETH Zurich.

Our French collaborators and CNRS produced a nice video about our common n2EDM experiment and their activities in it. The collaboration is on track for commissioning of the apparatus with neutrons towards the end of 2022.