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The Royal Society Biographical Memoir of James Stirling, the Founding Director of the IPPP, can be accessed here.

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.

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/

IPPP PhD student Daniel King received the St.Cuthbert’s Society Postgraduate Prize for outstanding academic achievement.

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…

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