BUSSTEPP 2022

Welcome to BUSSTEPP 2022

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.

After the long Covid disruption, we are pleased to confirm that BUSSTEPP22 will be back in person from August 28th to September 9th 2022.

All the training activities, including lectures, tutorials and student talks will be hosted within the Physics Department at Imperial College London at its South Kensington Campus.

Organising Committee:

Andrew Tolley (Director), Claudia de Rham, Jerome Gauntlett, Arttu Rajantie, Daniel Waldram, Toby Wiseman

If you have any questions about the school, please contact the local organising committee at busstepp2022@gmail.com .

The School programme includes:

Topics and Lecturers

• Advanced Quantum Field Theory (5 hours):
  Zohar Komargodski (Stony Brook)

• Beyond The Standard Model (4 hours):
  Michael Trott (Niels Bohr Institute)

• Cosmology (4 hours):
  Daniel Baumann (Amsterdam)

• AdS/CFT (4 hours):
  Marika Taylor (Southampton)

• Modern QFT for Real-World Gravity (4 hours):

Michèle Levi (Oxford)

• Phenomenology (4 hours):
  Maria Ubiali (Cambridge)

• String Theory (4 hours):
  David Skinner (Cambridge)

• Lattice Field Theory (4 hours):
  Simon Catterall (Syracuse)

Special Topic Lectures

• Amplitudes: 3 things everyone should know: Tim Adamo (Edinburgh)

• New physics in neutrino experiments: Mark Scott (Imperial College)

• Understanding Participation: a focus on supporting equity and inclusion in physics: Julie Moote (UCL)

• Communication and Outreach: Christophe Galfard

• Careers Session: Jonathan Halliwell (Imperial), Andrew Matas (Batelle), Dominik Miketa (Exscientia), Andreas Mantziris (Warsaw), Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez (Imperial)

• Student Presentation Sessions: See here.