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Two 3-year PhD studentships at IPPP, Durham are available starting from October 2017. They will be supervised by Prof. Frank Krauss and Dr. Jeppe R. Andersen respectively. The funding for the studentships is associated with two EU Early Stage Researcher positions at the University of Durham. The deadline for applying is noon 01-Jun-2017. The studentships …

Applications are invited for two PhD studentships funded by MCnet. Deadline: June 1 Read More »

We have chosen 12 students for an IPPP summer studentship (out of 41 international applications) Stefan Spence Dorian Amaral Edward Nathan Roan Haggar Henry Truong Jack Birkin Ashley Kelly Dominic Stafford Tom Spencer Andrea HeiYin Kam Luke Miller Lucy Budge We also have one departmental studentship out of 20 applicants: Hoaxing Gong

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

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.

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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

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: …

IPPP Associateships, Senior Experimental Fellowships and Steering Committee 2016-2017 Read More »

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.

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