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Durham Vice-Chancellor Professor Stuart Corbridge formally announced the renaming of the IPPP seminar room as the “Stirling Room” to celebrate the life and work of Prof. James Stirling CBE FRS, who was the founding director of the IPPP from 2000-2008. The picture shows the Vice Chancellor unveiling the picture of James which is now displayed […]

Professor Keith Ellis was awarded the Paul Dirac Medal and Prize for his seminal work in Quantum Chromodynamics.

IPPP post-doc Aleksei Rusov was awarded the prize for the best international PhD thesis from his Alma Mater, the University of Siegen in Germany. Aleksei works since October 2018 in Durham and he is an expert on Light-cone sum rules, a method to describe non-perturbative effects in decays of hadron containing a heavy quark.

The IPPP was hosting the International Particle Physics Masterclass on Thursday 28th of March 2019 with close to 100 Y12/Y13 pupils from the regional schools. The students used real data from the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN to look for signatures of the W boson. At the end of the

Dr. Andreas Kronfeld is visiting the IPPP within the DIVA program. During his stay he will also visit Glasgow University and Southampton University and he will give one of the keynote talks at the IPPP/Warwick Flavour workshop in April. More information about our visitor: Andreas Kronfeld is a theoretical physicist at Fermilab (Scientist II). He

The purpose of this program is to enrich the program of phenomenological research at UK Universities by providing funds for visiting academics from outside the United Kingdom. The DIVA program has a deadline of 14 March 2019. More information can be found at: https://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/diva

IPPP invites applications from UK-based permanent academic staff for IPPP Associateships. Associateships are awarded to individuals or small teams, and are funded by the IPPP. Associateships are awarded bi-annually. The application deadline is either 1st of March or 1st of September. The main objectives of the Associateship Programme are: * provide support for small workshop(s)

Former IPPP PhD student Matthew Kirk was awarded the Springer Prize for his thesis with the title Charming new physics in beautiful processes. Matthew is now a post-doc at La Sapienza in Rome.

Joseph Bullock, one of the students from our 2017 cohort of the CDT for Data Intensive Science, worked as an AI Research Fellow with UN Global Pulse, New York for his secondment to non-academic partners. More info can be found at https://ddis.physics.dur.ac.uk/joe-bullock-ai-fellow-at-un-global-pulse/

The IPPP welcomed 170 scientists and members from the funding agency STFC for the 2018 edition of the Annual Theory Meeting. See https://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/annual-theory-meetings for the agenda and for the long history of this event.