The IPPP will offer again this summer the possibility of working on a project in theoretical particle physics for about three weeks in Summer 2017. The deadline for the application is 27th March 2017. Interested students should contact alexander.lenz@durham.ac.uk. More information can be found here
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The IPPP receives Euro 591k from the EU to support MCnet activities for four years. The IPPP will support student and postdoc training as a node of the MCnet Marie Curie ITN.
University of Durham signs EU-contract for 4 years of MCnet Read More »
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Research paper by IPPP authors on the Higgs boson production at the next generation of hadron colliders is selected as a Physical Review Editors Suggestion. The paper is featured on the Physical Review D homepage: http://journals.aps.org/prd
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IPPP is inviting applications for a new round of IPPP Associateships: Associateships have now been awarded – Find out more here Open for members of permanent academic staff UK PP Duration 1 year, start date October 2016. Application closing date: 31st August 2016 More information avalible here New round of Senior Experimental Fellowships at IPPP:
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The 2016 Stirling Lecture was held on Monday 5th December at 17:15 in the Appleby Lecture Theatre (W103). The lecture titled “Smashing Physics: Latest news from the energy frontier” will be given by Professor Jonathan Butterworth, Professor of Physics at University College London. Professor Jonathan Butterworth is not only a physics professor at University College
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80 physicists gathered in Manchester in April to discuss the future of the LHCb experiment at the meeting ‘Theatre of Dreams: Beyond the LHCb PhaseUpgrade’,http://www.hep.manchester.ac.uk/theatre-of-dreams/index.html exploring the longer term future of the experiment so that the flavour physics potential of the LHC can be fully exploited. See Cern Courier and LHCb for more information.
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Out of 30 international applicants Shaun Bailey, Patrick Bolton, Josh Borrow, Arnaud Lorin, Myles Mitchel, Elliot Reid and Andrew Spiers were chosen to work with IPPP staff on research projects related to current activities in the particle physics community. Summer Projects
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Fabrizio Caola is one of this year’s two winners of the Guido Altarelli prize. The Altarelli prize honours the memory of the late Guido Altarelli, a pioneer of the unravelling of the strong interaction and the structure of hadrons, an outstanding communicator of particle physics, and a mentor and strong supporter of Junior Scientists. It
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On 15th December, IPPP hosted an event at the Royal Society in London to mark the 50th anniversary of the discovery of atmospheric neutrinos. The experimental collaboration from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (India), Osaka City University (Japan) and Durham University (UK) reported the discovery of the first atmospheric neutrinos in the Kolar Gold Fields
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