Since 2009 the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) is inviting applications from UK-based academic permanent staff to hold an IPPP Associateship for a year. Each Associateship has a value of £4000 per annum and is funded by Durham University, through the IPPP. The IPPP Associates for 2010-2011 are listed on http://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/Members/Associates.html The aim of […]
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Daniel Maitre will join the IPPP as lecturer, starting on October 1st 2010.
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The Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) is inviting applications from UK-based academic permanent staff to hold an IPPP Associateship from 1 October 2010. Each Associateship will have a value of £4000 per annum and is funded by Durham University, through the IPPP. The aim of this programme is to support particle physics phenomenology research
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IPPP has hired two new lecturers, Celine Boehm and Thorsten Feldmann who will join the IPPP on 1st January 2011.
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The physics paper with the highest percentage increase in citations in 2010 as determined by ScienceWatch.com is `Parton distributions for the LHC’ written by IPPP scientist Alan Martin together with his collaborators James Stirling, Robert Thorne and Graeme Watt. ScienceWatch tracked the citations in Essential Science IndicatorsSM from Thomson Reuters from the first bimonthly period
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Michael Pennington will be leaving the IPPP in June to take up the position of Associate Director for Theoretical and Computational Physics at the Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia, USA. Mike received his PhD in theoretical physics in 1971 from Westfield College, University of London. He joined Durham University in 1978, where he is currently
The Stirling Lecture for 2009 is to be given by Professor Brian Cox, of Manchester University. The lecture is entitled “CERN’s Big Bang Machine: The Large Hadron Collider” and will be given in the Applebey Lecture Theatre, Science Laboratories on Thursday 10th December at 5.15pm. Brian Cox is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research
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Together with Glasgow University, the IPPP co-sponsored a public talk by Professor Fabiola Gianotti at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 12 May 2008. The most powerful accelerator ever built, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will start operation at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, in Summer 2008. It will smash proton beams of unprecedented intensity and
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The IPPP Associates for 2009-2010 and their associated projects are listed below. Costas Andreopoulos (RAL) GENIE Universal Neutrino Monte Carlo Generator Alan Barr, Sinead Farrington, Claire Gwenlan (Oxford) Vector Boson Fusion and Monte Carlo understanding at Hadron Colliders Thomas Binoth (Edinburgh) Higher order amplitudes for LHC Monte-Carlo tools Mrinal Dasgupta and Jeff
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IPPP postdoctoral researcher Daniel Maitre was awarded the Centro Stefano Franscini Best Presentation by a Young Researcher Award at the 9th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections (Applications of Quantum Field Theory to Phenomenology) in Ascona, Switzerland last week. He received a framed certificate and 500SF. Daniel presented his work on W+3 jet production at the
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