For the second year, the IPPP is sponsoring a summer student from Harvard through The Minda de Gunzburg Centre for European Studies. Andrea Peterson will be spending two months at the IPPP learning about research in one of the University’s flagship research institutes. She will be working closely with the SHERPA team led by Dr …
Professor John Ellis (CERN) gave this years Rochester lecture to a packed audience of undergraduates and academic staff. The lecture was entitled `Gauguin’s questions in particle physics: Where are we coming from? Where are we now? Where are we going?” Within particle physics and cosmology Gauguin’s questions may be interpreted as: What is the status …
A little over five years ago, the Prime Minister inaugurated the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics at Durham University. The Ogden Centre hosts two world leading research groups, the Institute for Computational Cosmology and the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology. The work of these groups lies right at the cutting edge of basic physics research, …
Phenogrid is a virtual organization on the LHC Computing Grid (LCG), providing support for UK particle theorists and phenomenologists who would like to use LCG’s computing resources in the UK. One year ago, Phenogrid became fully operational for production use. Since then its 30 users have submitted nearly four hundred thousand jobs and used 1.4 …
We are very pleased to welcome Professor Stan Brodsky to the IPPP for a six month sojourn from the Theoretical Physics group at SLAC. Brodsky’s research areas span many areas of high-energy and nuclear theoretical physics, especially the quark-gluon structure of hadrons and novel effects in quantum chromodynamics; fundamental problems in atomic, nuclear, and high …
In spring 2008 the start button for the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind will be pressed. The World’s most powerful particle smasher, aka The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will recreate the conditions in our Universe less than one billionth of a second after it began. ‘ Big Bang’, a touring exhibition describing …
On Monday February 11th, Durham City MP Roberta Blackman-Woods visited the IPPP. She is a member of Parliamentry Universities Innovation and Skills select committee looking into Science Budget Allocations. During her visit she met with Professor Glover and other members of the Department whose research is funded by the STFC. In addition she led a …
On Thursday 24th January, the ‘CERN art @ the Ogden’ exhibition opened to the public. In September 2007, the IPPP hosted a three day trip to CERN for seven A level art and physics students from Heworth Grange School Gateshead, six artists from EDAN and four postgraduate students from the IPPP. The exhibition showcases work …
Four new graduands were admitted to the ranks of PhD’s at the Winter Congregation on Friday 11th January swelling the number to 25 since our formation in 2000. Dr Gareth Brown (Finite Scattering Amplitudes in Field Theory), Dr Gareth Jones (Meson Distribution Amplitudes: Applications to Weak Radiative B Decays and B Transition Form Factors ), …
More than 200 physicists gathered in Durham for the Annual Theory Meeting to discuss the latest developments in theoretical particle physicists. The scientific programme covered the latest developments in string theory, the AdS-QCD gauge/string duality and the description of the quark-gluon plasma, confinement, new results from lattice gauge theory, neutrino physics and flavour physics, accompanied …
