The IPPP welcomes new members
We are pleased to welcome 4 new graduate students and 10 PDRAs for the new academic year, which was celebrated with a group photo and the IPPP start of year party.
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2023 Summer Conference Season at the IPPP
The 2023 conference season is busy at the IPPP. We are host to the international conferences and schools listed below in just the period April to September. These conference bring national and international experts to Durham to disseminate new research results. Exotic Hadron Spectroscopy 2023 MCnet Summer School 2023 Workshop on the modeling of photon-induced …
Henry Truong completes his PhD
Congratulations to Henry Truong on completing his thesis titled “Machine learning high multiplicity matrix elements for electron-positron and hadron-hadron colliders“! The abstract of his thesis was: The LHC is a large-scale particle collider experiment collecting vastquantities of experimental data to study the fundamental particles, and forces, ofnature. Theoretical predictions made with the SM can be …
Jessica Turner interviewed in Medium Magazine
Jessica Turner of the IPPP, Durham University, was interviewed by Medium Magazine about being an inspirational woman in STEM. Find her thoughts on this topic here.
Ten years after the discovery of the Higgs Boson
Martin Bauer and Stephen Jones have written a piece in theconversation.com reflecting on the road from theoretical idea to discovery of the Higgs Boson, and some of the yet unanswered questions in Particle Physics.
Martin Bauer on ‘The W Boson threat to the standard model’
Martin Bauer has written a piece for The Institute of Art and Ideas on the recent measurement of the mass of the W boson by CDF at the Tevatron. Their very precise determination puts its mass slightly higher than the world average, and in tension with the expectation from the much celebrated Standard Model of …
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Congratulations Dr. Asli Abdullahi!
Asli Abdullahi passed her viva on 21 March, after a good discussion about neutrino physics with examiners Prof. Joachim Kopp and Dr. Djuna Croon. Dr. Abdullahi wrote an excellent thesis on aspects of neutrino physics, heavy neutral leptons, and low-energy anomalies. Now a postdoc at Fermilab, a bright future in particle physics awaits her.
We congratulate Parisa Gregg and Oscar Ochoa for defending their PhD theses
Parisa’s PhD project is at the intersection of IPPP and IDAS, Durham’s Institute for Data Science, centred around advanced data analysis methods in the search for New Physics effects at the Large Hadron Collider and machine learning for the fast evaluation of complex integrals from electroweak quantum corrections. Oscar has worked on improving our understanding …
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The IPPP mourns the loss of Graham Ross
The IPPP mourns the sudden loss of Graham Ross. Graham was an exceptional scientist of international renown and a kingpin of theoretical physics in the UK. He was well known for his outstanding intellect and brilliant ideas, and was a beacon to many in the community. Those of us lucky enough to have interacted with …
Andrew Blance defends PhD thesis
We congratulate Andrew Blance for defending his PhD thesis. For his PhD, Andrew developed novel (quantum) machine learning methods to search for new physics in LHC data. Thus, his work is based on cross disciplinary research between the IPPP and the Institute for Data Science (https://www.dur.ac.uk/idas/).
