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To be awarded to small teams led by senior UK experimentalists and involving more junior researchers to support participation of UK experimentalists in the IPPP Phenomenology Network. Duration 1 year, start date 1 January 2015.  Applications deadline 19 September 2014. http://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/senior-experimental-fellowships

Applications are invited from UK-based permanent academic staff in particle theory and experiment. Clsoing date 19 September 2014. Up to to 6 Associateships will be awarded in 2014-2015 starting October 2014. http://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/ippp-associateships

Plans for a new £10million landmark building to house IPPP and ICC took another step forward today with the signing of a major gift agreement. Sir Peter Ogden signed a £3.35million donation towards it. Pictured is Sir Peter Ogden (centre) handing over the agreement to Durham University Vice Chancellor Prof. Chris Higgins. L to R – Prof.

Senior Experimental Fellowships at IPPP 2013-2014 The Fellowships were awarded by the IPPP Steering Committee to three UK experimental teams representing ATLAS, CMS and LHCb. The Team Leaders are: Alan Barr (Oxford University) Oliver Buchmueller (Imperial) and Henning Flaecher (Bristol University) Ulrik Egede (Imperial)

Six new Associateships were awarded by the IPPP Steering Committee to individuals or small teams to support their research programme and particle physics phenomenology research in the UK. The new Associates are: Guennadi Borissov (Lancaster University) Craig Buttar and James Ferrando (Glasgow University) Francesca Di Lodovico (QMUL) Christoph Englert (Glasgow University) Keith Hamilton (UCL) Robert

Prof. Silvia Pascoli has been awarded the 2013 Occhialini Medal and Prize for her major contributions to the study of, and leadership in, the field of neutrino phenomenology.The Occhialini Medal was instituted in 2007 to honour the memory of the physicist Giuseppe Occhialini and is presented jointly by the Institute of Physics and the Società

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