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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

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

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

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

Applications are invited for up to four posts as lecturer, 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 including one or more of the following areas; beyond the standard model physics, electroweak and Higgs physics, flavour physics,

Applications are invited for the post of Professor of Particle Physics Phenomenology, tenable within the Department of Physics, in association with the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP). The successful applicant will have expertise in particle physics phenomenology including one or more of the following areas; beyond the standard model physics, electroweak and Higgs physics,

Michael Pennington, Professor of Physics and Dean for Educational Outreach, has been appointed Chair of the Program Advisory Committee (PAC) of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in Virginia, USA, till 2011 by the Lab Director, Hugh Montgomery. Mike has served as a member of the PAC since 2005. JLab pursues experimental research in

The Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) is inviting applications from UK-based academics to hold an IPPP Associateship from 1 October 2009. 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 in the

At the Institute of Physics, High Energy Particle Physics Group annual meeting in Oxford last week, Peter Richardson was awarded the Institute of Physics, High Energy Particle Physics Group Prize for 2009. Dr Richardson is an expert in the Monte Carlo simulation of high energy particle physics events, and his codes are, or have been,