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Founding IPPP member, Professor Michael Pennington has been named as one of the Outstanding Referees of the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters for 2009. Initiated in 2008, the American Physical Society Outstanding Referee program expresses appreciation for the essential work that anonymous peer reviewers do for the APS journals including Physical Review D and […]

The IPPP has received a new ten-year grant from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to continue its world-class research into some of the Universe’s greatest secrets such as the mysteries surrounding antimatter and dark matter, the possibility of extra space-time dimensions and the existence of the elusive Higgs boson.  The IPPP is funded

The new IPPP Grid cluster is now available for use and has been in full operation since the beginning of January 2009.  The new cluster now provides 1 Million SpecInt2k – a factor of 12 increase on the old cluster.  This is a significant improvement in computational power to assist particle physics research through the

This year, the IPPP has instituted a new lecture series in honour of its Founding Director, Professor James Stirling FRS. We hope that this will become an annual fixture in the University calendar. The Stirling Lecture for 2008 is to be given jointly by Professor Brian Foster FRS, of Oxford University and the violinist Jack

For the second year, the IPPP is sponsoring a summer student from Harvard through The Minda de Gunzburg Centre for European Studies. Andrea Peterson will be spending two months at the IPPP learning about research in one of the University’s flagship research institutes. She will be working closely with the SHERPA team led by Dr

Professor John Ellis (CERN) gave this years Rochester lecture to a packed audience of undergraduates and academic staff.   The  lecture was entitled `Gauguin’s questions in particle physics: Where are we coming from? Where are we now? Where are we going?” Within particle physics and cosmology Gauguin’s questions may be interpreted as: What is the status