In spring 2008 the start button for the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind will be pressed. The World’s most powerful particle smasher, aka The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will recreate the conditions in our Universe less than one billionth of a second after it began. ‘ Big Bang’, a touring exhibition describing […]
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On Monday February 11th, Durham City MP Roberta Blackman-Woods visited the IPPP. She is a member of Parliamentry Universities Innovation and Skills select committee looking into Science Budget Allocations. During her visit she met with Professor Glover and other members of the Department whose research is funded by the STFC. In addition she led a
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On Thursday 24th January, the ‘CERN art @ the Ogden’ exhibition opened to the public. In September 2007, the IPPP hosted a three day trip to CERN for seven A level art and physics students from Heworth Grange School Gateshead, six artists from EDAN and four postgraduate students from the IPPP. The exhibition showcases work
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Four new graduands were admitted to the ranks of PhD’s at the Winter Congregation on Friday 11th January swelling the number to 25 since our formation in 2000. Dr Gareth Brown (Finite Scattering Amplitudes in Field Theory), Dr Gareth Jones (Meson Distribution Amplitudes: Applications to Weak Radiative B Decays and B Transition Form Factors ),
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More than 200 physicists gathered in Durham for the Annual Theory Meeting to discuss the latest developments in theoretical particle physicists. The scientific programme covered the latest developments in string theory, the AdS-QCD gauge/string duality and the description of the quark-gluon plasma, confinement, new results from lattice gauge theory, neutrino physics and flavour physics, accompanied
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The new IPPP website is now live! The look and feel of the site is based on the Durham University pages to provide a consistent identity throughout the University sites. The benefits of the new site: – Improved style and look and feel – Improved navigation using the top tabs and the side menus –
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Professor Alan Martin, Emeritus Professor in Physics at Durham University, has been awarded the Institute of Physics / German Physical Society’s International Bilateral Max Born Medal and Prize for 2007. The Max Born Medal is a collaborative prize awarded by both the Institute of Physics and the German Physical Society and is among the annual
Professor Alan Martin awarded Max Born Medal and Prize for 2007. Read More »