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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/).

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.

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).

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

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