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From the oration by Professor Nigel Glover: “As a layman I would now say, I think we have it.” So said Professor Rolf Heuer, Director-General of the European Centre for Nuclear Research and Visiting Professor at Durham University, as he concluded an update on the search for the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider […]

Professor Nigel Glover elected as Fellow of Royal Society

The Stirling lecture this year will be given by Professor Frank Close, a renown particle physicist and author. His talk will be “The Infinity Puzzle – from Higgs to the LHC”– a public lecture on quantum field theory, the Higgs boson and the LHC. What is the Higgs boson, why is it named after Higgs,

Applications are invited for posts at the postdoctoral level to start in October 2013. These are two-year Postdoctoral Research Associate positions funded by the STFC and by Durham University. The successful applicants will have excellent research records in any area of particle physics phenomenology. They will be able to work independently and with other members

2012-13 Associateships were awarded to individuals or small teams to support their research programme and particle physics phenomenology research in the UK.

The Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology is inviting applications from UK-based academic permanent staff to hold an IPPP Associateship 1 October 2012. Each Associateship will have a value of £4000 per annum and it is for one year, though it can be extended for the second year following a normal application procedure. The Associateships are

Our new lecturers are Jeppe Andersen, Claude Duhr, Alexander Lenz and Benjamin Pecjak.

After completing his BBC documentary about Fermat’s Last Theorem (the most notorious problem in the history of mathematics), Simon Singh wrote a No.1 bestselling book on the same subject. Why is the story of Fermat’s Last Theorem so compelling? And how do you turn complex mathematics into a compelling story. As well as showing clips

The search for the Research Associate positions (2012-2014) is now live. The closing date is December 7.

2011-12 Associateships were awarded to individuals or small teams to support their research programme and particle physics phenomenology research in the UK.