History

BUSSTEPP 2022 is hosted by the Theoretical Physics Group at Imperial College London. The group was founded in 1956 by the 1979 Nobel Prize winner Abdus Salam who made seminal contributions to electroweak theory, supersymmetry and renormalization. Former members of the group include Sir Tom Kibble who was one of the codiscovers of the Higgs mechanism and pioneered the study of topological defects and the application of particle physics to cosmology.

BUSSTEPP (British Universities Summer School in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics) has been hosted at a multitude of venues over its 52-year lifetime (where known).