Christopher Miller

I spent my time at the IPPP working on an outreach project which intends to explain to the interested public what the IPPP actually does, namely particle physics phenomenology comparing data produced by SHERPA simulation to experimental results. The ultimate aim is to inform the public of the "LHC story" - in summary how a detector works, how we think we know what we know and ultimately hope to find, the Higgs Boson...
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Alexander Taylor

My studentship involved running various particle collision simulations using the SHERPA event generator, and comparing them to each other and to real data using RIVET ('Robust Independent Validation of Experiment and Theory')...
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Jennifer Thompson

I worked at the IPPP for four weeks in July. I updated a website used in the second year physics course on Computational Physics. This course focused on modelling physical problems with computer programs written in Python. Through this task I learned UNIX line commands and LaTex for equation editing. The task was to make the website more user-friendly and to improve the sections that were not completed the previous summer. An example of the way the computational techniques were used in this couse is cluster growth. The image shown below is of a cluster formed by the DLA method of cluster growth, which models the formation of snowflakes...

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