Course Summary

Below are the NExT PhD School modules confirmed so far for the 2020-21 academic year. 

More will become available in due course and will be posted here.

Note that, in order to cope with Covid-19 pandemic, Universities have issued regulations on how lectures should be delivered. 

These regulations can change with time, and every major change will be published on this webpage.

Lecturers will make individual decisions according to University regulations on what VC software to use for this purpose.

In all cases they will inform students beforehand as well as record and share all sessions. 

In the Autumn term,  all lecture content will be prerecorded, and each course will offer a one-hour interactive session per week. 

Please click here for the detailed list of topics, as well as the corresponding lecture material.

Core courses

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) part I (36 hours) [Daniel Litim, Sussex]  Thu 12:00-13:00, Oct 1 - Dec 10 (via Zoom) 

Symmetry in Particle Physics (SPP)  (36 hours) [Andrea Banfi, Sussex]  Thu 10:00-11:00, Oct 1 - Dec 10 (via Zoom)

Standard Model (SM) (16 hours) [James Drummond, Soton] The first part is via (past) Visimeet recordings while the second one is TBC

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) part II (15 hours) [Steve King, Soton]  Tue 10:00-11:00, Jan 26 - Feb 23 (via Teams)

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) part III (15 hours) [Jonathan Flynn, Soton] Tue 10:00-11:00, Mar 2 - Apr 20 (via Teams)

Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) (12 hours)  [Jonas Lindert, Sussex]  Wed 10:00-12:00, Jan 27 - Mar 3 (via Zoom)

SUSY (10 hours)  [Harri Waltari, Soton]  Wed 10:00-12:00, Mar 10 - 24 & Apr 21 - 28 (via Zoom)

Neutrino Physics and Particle Cosmology (30 hours) [Pasquale Di Bari, Soton]  Mon 14.00-16.00, Feb 1 - Mar 29 [*] (via Teams) 

[*] Lectures after Easter are placeholders in case there is a need to overflow.

Phenomenology (20 hours) [Stefano Moretti, Soton] Fri 9 Jul 12.00-13.00, Mon 12, Wed 14, Fri 16, Mon 19, Wed 21, Fri 23 & Fri 30 Jul 11.00-13.00, Tue 13 & Thu 15 Jul 15.00-16.00, Tue 20 Jul 14.00-15.00, Thu 22 Jul 14.00-16.00 (via Teams)

Non-Core courses

Introduction to HEP Tools (20 hours)  [Alexander Belyaev, Soton] , link to Google Calendar, 10:00-12:00, Jul 5 - Jul 9 (via Teams). Here is the link to teams to access videos.

RAL Advanced Graduate Lectures [schedule at https://indico.stfc.ac.uk/event/299/] 7-18 June 2021 (via Zoom)

Mini courses

Dark Matter Phenomenology in Space & Ground Experiments [Hiçyılmaz, Yaşar, Soton] TBC (TBC) 

Course suggestion/discussion/voting

Please follow this link to the forum devoted to course discussion/selection/voting. 

If you think that some new course would be useful for you, please let us know by adding your name, e-mail and the provisional subject of the course. 

All students/lecturers are very welcome to discuss/select/vote for the suggested course or add their own suggestion.

Details/syllabuses of mini courses

These will be announced in due course.

Using Visimeet/Visionable Software

Some lectures will be accessible using the software Visimeet/Visionable. 

If you don't have the software installed, you can register for free and download the software from https://janet.iocom.com/account/signup.php?refer=sepnet. 

In order to have access to the recordings, it is important that you download the package from the above URL.

To access the recording, go to the Recorder menu of Visimeet/Visionable (accessible with CTRL+R from the keyboard). You should be able to see all recordings. Since free licences give you access only to a limited number of streams, you can select your preferred stream when playing the recording, by clicking on the icon featuring the camera.