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We congratulate Maura for officially receiving her PhD today! Her work was on the intersectional field of neutrino and astroparticle physics, with the title ‘Probing BSM Physics with CP-violation, Neutrinos and White Dwarfs’.

Congratulations to Alan Price who officially received his PhD! His thesis titled “Precision Simulations for Future Colliders” is attached to this news item here and the abstract can be read in the full text. We wish him all the best for his post-doctoral position in Siegen. Future particle colliders will usher in a new era

The IPPP and University of Durham has announced a job as assistant professor. Please see full details here. Deadline January 30.

We congratulate Dan, Michael and Valya for being selected for a PRD Editor’s Suggestion for their recent work on QCD instantons. They improve on previous calculations and discuss how QCD instantons can be searched for at hadron colliders. You can find their work here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02287.

In a recent blogpost United Nations Global Pulse reported on a collaboration with three PhD students in Durham’s physics department, the WHO, and the MIT-IBM Watson AI lab to model the impact of Covid-19 and health interventions in refugee camps. This collaboration has also been highlighted in a tweet. The students are funded by STFC

In a remote viva Marian Heil successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “High energy corrections to the production of Higgs-boson plus dijets in QCD”. Congratulations to him and all the best for his future plans in Germany! The abstract is shown here and the full thesis is here. With the expected increase in statistics provided

After 15 years as a member of the IPPP Ruth Gregory has accepted the position of Head of Department at Kings College London. The IPPP congratulates Ruth on her appointment and wishes her all the best in her new role, which she will take on in very challenging times! King’s College announcement

Our PhD student Giuseppe De Laurentis completed his PhD after defended it in a remote viva. Congratulations to him and all the best for his postdoc in Freiburg! His thesis title is “Numerical techniques for analytical high-multiplicity scattering amplitudes”. The abstract is shown here and the full thesis is here. Abstract: In this thesis we

We congratulate Valery Khoze, Misha Ryskin and Marek Taševský for completing a new review on ‘High energy soft QCD and Diffraction’ as part of Particle Data Group’s 2020 edition. You can find the review here http://pdg.lbl.gov/2020/reviews/contents_sports.html.

We congratulate Philip Waite for having received the departmental Alan Martin Doctoral prize. The prize is awarded to a postgraduate student for the best Ph.D. thesis in Physics in a given year. During his PhD, Phil has published on research projects related to precision calculations for collider processes, searches for new physics and the development