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 […]
Joey Reiness completes his PhD! Read More »
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
CP violation in the lepton sector underlying the matter-antimatter asymmetry? Read More »
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
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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
Mapping the landscape of artificial inelligence applications against COVID-19 Read More »
The Royal Society Biographical Memoir of James Stirling, the Founding Director of the IPPP, can be accessed here.
Memoir of James Stirling Read More »
After nearly five years at the helm of the IPPP Keith Ellis stepped down from his post as Director on the 31st of December 2019. All IPPP members would like to thank Keith for his tireless efforts leading the institute and raising its recognition nationally and internationally. Keith will continue to be one of IPPP’s
Over 150 Physicists gathered for the Annual Theory Meeting, Dec16-18. Speakers from Canada(1),France(1), Germany(2), India(1),UK(4) and USA(2) provided an overview of the current status of particle physics.
Annual Theory Meeting 2019 Read More »
The IPPP seeks to appoint a talented scientist to the role of Assistant Professor in Particle Physics Phenomenology. The application deadline is 13th December 2019. More information can be found under https://www.dur.ac.uk/jobs/recruitment/vacancies/phys20-1/
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IPPP PhD student Daniel King received the St.Cuthbert’s Society Postgraduate Prize for outstanding academic achievement.
Daniel King received the St.Cuthbert’s Society Postgraduate Prize Read More »
Jakub Scholtz (IPPP) and James Unwin (University of Illinois) address the question whether Planet 9 is a small black hole, a left over from the Big Bang, in their latest research article. For more details see: https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/news/item/?fbclid=IwAR0UK8HN8oL2W1xPqwMKG…
Is Planet 9 a black hole? Read More »
