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Presentations from the shortlisted candidates for the three Lecturer/Reader positions will be held on Wednesday 9th of February in the Lindisfarne Centre at St Aidans College between 9 am and 4pm.

This years YETI school, YETI ’11, is the ninth in this series and it is titled “The Standard Model at the Energy Frontier”.  Lectures on hot topics in LHC physics and practical hands-on sessions form the programme of this school.

The Stirling Lecture for 2010 is to be given by Graham Farmelo. The lecture is entitled “Paul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty and will be given in Calman Learning Centre 202, Science Laboratories on Thursday 9th December at 5.15pm. Graham Farmelo is a Bye Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. He edited the best-selling

The Stirling Lecture for 2010 is to be given by Graham Farmelo. The lecture is entitled “Paul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty” and will be given in Calman Learning Centre 202, Science Laboratories on Thursday 9th December at 5.15pm. Graham Farmelo is a Bye Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. He edited the best-selling

Ref 0512: Applications are invited for two posts at lecturer or up to reader level, tenable within the Department of Physics, in association with the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP). The successful applicants will have expertise in particle physics phenomenology. Preference will be given to candidates working in the areas of Beyond the Standard

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

Daniel Maitre will join the IPPP as lecturer, starting on October 1st 2010.

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

IPPP has hired two new lecturers, Celine Boehm and Thorsten Feldmann who will join the IPPP on 1st January 2011.

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