NNPDF Collaboration Meeting: Morimondo 2025

I had a wonderful time at the yearly NNPDF Collaboration meeting, held in the beautiful abbey of Morimondo. It was a stimulating few days discussing recent progress and future plans within the NNPDF framework, ranging from the implementation of new datasets from ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb, to higher-order theoretical calculations and the development of novel machine learning techniques to keep unraveling the fascinating inner world of proton structure.

Special thanks to our invited speakers for their great and inspiring talks: Tilman Plehn (on accurate and uncertainty-aware ML for LHC physics), Robert Schöfbeck (on unbinned measurements for optimal parameter inference), and Eram Rizvi (on precision PDFs at ATLAS for electroweak and EFT analyses). Their lively contributions brought many new ideas to the discussion, and as usual the challenge will be to decide which ones to pursue.

We also welcomed many new colleagues to the NNPDF community, in particular our two new PhD candidates at Nikhef and VU Amsterdam, Jelle Koorn and Kamil Laurent. Welcome to the team, and looking forward to lots of great QCD and ML science together. The study of QCD and proton structure remains utterly fascinating, and the best may be yet to come.