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Application for the next round of IPPP Associateships and Senior Experimental Fellowships is open. The deadline is 31st August 2018 2018-2019 Senior Experimental Fellows These are awarded to small teams led by senior UK experimentalists and involving more junior researchers (postdocs and students) to support participation of UK experimentalists in the IPPP Phenomenology Network. The […]

We are looking for a new colleague working on Monte Carlo event generators (HERWIG). The deadline is 2nd August, more information under:https://recruitment.durham.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_details_f…

The IPPP is taking part at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2018 – starting on Monday 2nd July – with a stand on neutrino physics. More information can be found at https://ghostsintheuniverse.org/ Additional information can also be found on the University website: https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=35159

Prof. Michael Spannowsky was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation for outstanding contributions to research and teaching. For a list of his scientific publications see http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/M.Spannowsky.1 Scientists and scholars from abroad, internationally renowned in their field, who completed their doctorates less than 18 years ago and who in

Our first award to the DIVA program goes to Prof. Seung Joon Lee, Korea University. Prof. Seung Joon Lee will be visiting for 4 weeks, including seminars at IPPP and Sussex during mid-June to mid-July 2018. Visit our DIVA program page for more information.

Professor Michael Pennington: 1946 – 2018 As Head of the Department of Physics from 1999 to 2003, Mike Pennington played a key role in developing the Department as it is today, through the establishment of the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics and the creation of two world leading Research Institutes: the Institute for Particle Physics

IPPP PhD students Tom Jubb and Philip Waite were exceeding all expectations during an internship at Kromek: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6385153652180553728

IPPP postdoc Gurpreet Singh Chahal won the CMS 2017 Achievement Award for “leadership in the Physics Data Monte Carlo Validation team, and for outstanding contributions to management of the production of Monte Carlo simulation events and, in particular, for dedication to the production of upgrade samples for preparation of the technical design reports of Phase-2

Fabiola Gianotti will present this years Stirling lecture “Physics at CERN: present and future” on 4th December at 2pm in CG 93 (Scarborough Lecture theatre, Chemistry).

Tim Gershon (Warwick), Ken Long (Imperial), Dan Watts (Edinburgh) have been awarded fellowships for 2017/18. More details on our Fellowship Page Fedor Bezrukov (Manchester), Antonella De Santo (Sussex), Christoph Englert (Glasgow), Cigdem Issever (Oxford), Jonas Rademacker (Bristol), Eram Rizvi (Queen Mary), Kostas Nikolopoulos (Birmingham), Donal O’Connell (Edinburgh) have been awarded associateships for 2017/18. More details