BUSSTEPP@50

50th British Universities Summer School in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics

11th January - 5th February 2021, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Welcome to the 50th BUSSTEPP

BUSSTEPP (British Universities Summer School in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics) is a long-established summer school aimed at PhD students in theoretical particle physics who have completed a year of graduate studies. Having built a very strong international reputation for 50 years, it has been supported by STFC (previously PPARC) in order to provide a comprehensive and in-depth overview of research in elementary particle physics.

As a result of the Covid disruption, it will take place 11th of January- 5th of February 2021.

All the training activities, including lectures, tutorials and student talks will be hosted by the School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, but held online.

The registration is now closed

Registration is free. All registered participants will be able to attend the lectures. However, priority for the tutorials and student talks will be given to STFC- and self-funded UK-based students who started their studies in the academic year 2019/2020.

Organising Committee:

Matthew Buican, Ricardo Monteiro, Costis Papageorgakis, Rodolfo Russo

If you have any questions about the school, please contact the organising committee at bussteppat50@gmail.com.

The School programme includes:

Topics and Lecturers

Advanced Quantum Field Theory (4 hours): Zohar Komargodski (Stony Brook)
Amplitudes and Applications (4 hours): Yu-tin Huang (National Taiwan University)
Beyond The Standard Model (4 hours): Andrea Wulzer (CERN, EPFL and Padova)
Conformal Field Theory (4 hours): Agnese Bissi (Uppsala)
Cosmology (5 hours): Daniel Baumann (Amsterdam)
Holography (4 hours): Marco Meineri (CERN)
Lattice Field Theory (4 hours): Agostino Patella (Humboldt)
Phenomenology (4 hours): Maria Ubiali (Cambridge)
String Theory (4 hours): Iñaki García-Etxebarria (Durham)

Special Topic Lectures

Connections to Condensed Matter Physics: Steve Simon (Oxford)
Multi-Agent AI/machine learning: Edward Hughes (Google DeepMind)
Gravitational Waves: Justin Vines (Potsdam)
Communication and Outreach: Cristina Lazzeroni (Birmingham)
Careers Session: Tom Brown (Karlsruhe), Arnau Koemans Collado (Capula Investment Managment),
Adele Nasti (Rolls Royce), Costis Papageorgakis (QMUL)
Student Presentation Sessions