Course Summary

Below are the NExT PhD School modules confirmed so far for the 2021-22 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. 

The lecture times indicated below correspond to interactive session. The remaining allocated hours correspond to pre-recorded lectures.

The link on each course gives access to the course learning material (access is restricted to NExT students only)

Core courses

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) part I (36 hours) [Daniel Litim, Sussex]  Wed 09:00-12:00, Sep 29 - Dec 8 (via Zoom) 

Symmetry in Particle Physics (SPP)  (36 hours) [Andrea Banfi, Sussex]  Thu 10:00-12:00, 17:00-18:00, Sep 30 - Dec 9 (via Zoom - Visionable)

Standard Model (SM) (16 hours) [James Drummond, Soton]  Fri 10:00-12:00 Jan 28 - Mar 4 (via Teams)

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) part II (15 hours) [Steve King, Soton] Tue 09:00-11:00 Jan 25 - Feb 22 (via Teams)

Quantum Field Theory (QFT) part III (15 hours) [Jonathan Flynn, Soton] Tue 09:00-11:00 Feb 22- Mar 29 (via Teams)

Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) (12 hours)  [Jonas Lindert, Sussex]  Fri 16:00 - 18:00 Jan 28 - Feb 25 (via Zoom)

SUSY (10 hours)  [Shaaban Khalil, Soton & Zewail City]  Thu 16:00 - 18:00 Mar 10 -Mar  31 & Apr 28  (via Zoom)

Neutrino Physics and Particle Cosmology (30 hours) [Pasquale Di Bari, Soton]  Tue 15:00-17:00, Feb 22 - Mar 29 & Apr 26 - Jun 14 (via Teams)

Phenomenology (20 hours) [Stefano Moretti, Soton] 10:00-12:00 & 14:00-16:00 Tue 12, Wed 13, Thu 14,  Mon 25 & Wed 27 July 

Non-Core courses

Introduction to lattice and quantum computations of QFT, and of EW physics (10 hours) [Bipasha Chakraborty, Soton] Mon-Fri 10:00-12:00 Jun 13 - 17 (via Zoom)

RAL Advanced graduate lectures, Mon-Fri afternoon Jun 13 - 17

Introduction to HEP Tools  (20 hours)  [Alexander Belyaev, Soton] 10:00-12:00 & 14:00-16:00 Jul 4 - 5 & Jul 15, 14:00-16:00 Jul 18 & Jul 20-22

Methods and Tools for Loop Calculations  (10 hours) [Joshua Davies, Sussex] Mon-Fri 10:00-12:00 Jul 18 - 22

Mini courses

Wilsonian Renormalisation (4 hours) [Jean Alexandre, KCL] Tue-Wed 10:00-12:00 May 17-18 (via Teams)

Particle Physics  & Cosmology using Atom interferometers (3 hours) [John Ellis, KCL] Mon-Wed 10:30-11:30 May 23 - 25 (via Zoom)

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. 

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.