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 …
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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 …
Our PhD student Joey Reiness completed his PhD and defended it in a remote viva this week. Congratulations to him! His thesis is titled Pieces of the Higgsaw and its abstract is below. The full thesis is also attached, here. ABSTRACT: The discovery of a 125 GeV scalar boson at the Large Hadron Collider in …
Following a recent measurement of the T2K Collaboration, in a Nature News and Views article Silvia Pascoli and Jessica Turner have discussed the question whether CP violation in the lepton sector can be a key ingredient to the matter-antimatter asymmetry in our Universe:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9?utm_source=feedburner… For the T2K report see https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2177-0
Some of the ressources of the IPPP Computer Cluster are donated to the GridPP support for simulating the dynamics of COVID-19 proteins through the distributed computing project Folding@Home. Since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, the support for Folding@Home has passed 1.5ExaFlops; the GridPP contribution will be significant. Links:https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/15/coronavirus-what-were-doing-and-how…https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/246309
One of our Durham Data intense science CDT PhD students Joe Bullock co-authored an overview of recent studies using ML/AI to tackle many aspects of the COVID-19 crisis at different scales. The review can be found here
