Jessica Turner of the IPPP, Durham University, was interviewed by Medium Magazine about being an inspirational woman in STEM. Find her thoughts on this topic here.
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Martin Bauer and Stephen Jones have written a piece in theconversation.com reflecting on the road from theoretical idea to discovery of the Higgs Boson, and some of the yet unanswered questions in Particle Physics.
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Martin Bauer has written a piece for The Institute of Art and Ideas on the recent measurement of the mass of the W boson by CDF at the Tevatron. Their very precise determination puts its mass slightly higher than the world average, and in tension with the expectation from the much celebrated Standard Model of
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Asli Abdullahi passed her viva on 21 March, after a good discussion about neutrino physics with examiners Prof. Joachim Kopp and Dr. Djuna Croon. Dr. Abdullahi wrote an excellent thesis on aspects of neutrino physics, heavy neutral leptons, and low-energy anomalies. Now a postdoc at Fermilab, a bright future in particle physics awaits her.
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Parisa’s PhD project is at the intersection of IPPP and IDAS, Durham’s Institute for Data Science, centred around advanced data analysis methods in the search for New Physics effects at the Large Hadron Collider and machine learning for the fast evaluation of complex integrals from electroweak quantum corrections. Oscar has worked on improving our understanding
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The IPPP mourns the sudden loss of Graham Ross. Graham was an exceptional scientist of international renown and a kingpin of theoretical physics in the UK. He was well known for his outstanding intellect and brilliant ideas, and was a beacon to many in the community. Those of us lucky enough to have interacted with
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We congratulate Andrew Blance for defending his PhD thesis. For his PhD, Andrew developed novel (quantum) machine learning methods to search for new physics in LHC data. Thus, his work is based on cross disciplinary research between the IPPP and the Institute for Data Science (https://www.dur.ac.uk/idas/).
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Congratulation to Joseph Aylett-Bullock who has completed his PhD after a remote defence. His thesis, titled “Colliding Worlds: Modern methods for amplitude computations and responding to crisis situations”, was based on his cross disciplinary research within the Institute for Data Science (https://www.dur.ac.uk/idas/) and the IPPP.
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This is a great success for the particle physics community (https://news.fnal.gov/2021/04/first-results-from-fermilabs-muon-g-2-expe…)! The IPPP is very proud that Alan Martin has contributed to establishing the Standard Model prediction for g-2 that evidences a deviation from the experimentally observed value (https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3149).
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Our PhD student James Whitehead has completed his PhD after defended it in a remote viva. Congratulations to him! His thesis title is “The Production of Pairs of Isolated Photons at Higher Orders in QCD”. The abstract is shown here and the full thesis is attached to this post here. Abstract: In this thesis, we
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