Course Summary

Below are the NExT PhD School modules confirmed so far for the 2015-16 academic year. More will become available in due course and will be posted here.

Core courses

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) part I (20 hours)[Daniel Litim, Sussex]  Fri 10:00-13:00, Sep 25 - Dec 11

Symmetries/Group Theory (SPP)  (18 hours) [Veronica Sanz, Sussex]  Tue 11:00-12:00, Fri 16:00-18:00, Sep 22- Dec 11

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) part II (20 hours) [Steve King, Soton] TBA

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) part III (20 hours) [Nick Evans, Soton] TBA

BSM/SUSY (20 hours)  [Stephan Huber, Sussex & Elena Accomando, Soton] TBA

Phenomenology (20 hours) [Stefano Moretti, Soton] 11:00-13:00, Mon 6 Jun; 10:00-12:00, Wed 8 & Fri 10 & Mon 13 & Fri 24 Jun; 09:00-11:00, Fri 1 Jul; plus a few more dates (TBA) in July  

Non-Core courses

Hadron Collider Physics (15 hours) [Nikolas Kauer, RHUL]  TBA

Introduction to Computational Tools in Particle Physics (15 hours)  [Alexander Belyaev, Soton] TBA

Neutrino Physics  and Particle Cosmology  (20 hours) [Pasquale Di Bari, Soton] TBA

Introduction to Lattice QCD (15 hours) [Andreas Juttner, Soton] TBA

Mini courses

Dark Matter and micrOMEGAs [Alexander Pukhov, Moscow, Russia] 10:00-12:00, Mon 29 Feb & Wed 2 Mar; 15:00-16:30, Thu 3 Mar

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and the Standard Model of Particle Physics (4 hours) [Noureddine Mohammedi, Tours, France] 10:00-12:00 Wed 4 & Thu 5 May

RAL Graduate Lectures:

Wednesday, 4 May 2016

• 14:00 → 15:00

Introduction to FFAQ accelerators

Speaker: Rob Edgecock (STFC - RAL)

• 15:00 → 16:00

Introduction to Calorimetry

Speaker: Dave Cockerill (STFC - RAL)

• 16:00 → 17:00

Introduction to data acquisition systems

Speaker: Monika Wielers (STFC - RAL)

Tuesday, 17 May 2016

• 14:00 → 15:00

Trigger

Speaker: Robin Middleton (STFC - RAL)

• 15:00 → 16:00

Higgs Measurements at the LHC

Speaker: Bill Murray (Warwick)

• 16:00 → 17:00

Particle Identification

Speaker: Monika Wielers (STFC - RAL)

Other modules will be announced in due course.

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Details/syllabuses of mini courses

These will be announced in due course.