Chris Sachrajda is the University of Vienna's Schrodinger Professor for 2017 (following Wilczek, Drell,
Bjorken, Cabibbo, Leutwyler, Zinn-Justin and others).

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/stag/news/2017/03/1-southampton-scientist-n...

Tim Morris wins a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship for academic year 2017-18 for the project "Wilsonian renormalisation group in quantum gravity".

We welcome applications for 2017 Ernest Rutherford Fellowships - if you are interested in applying with us please send us references and a CV by the end of July 2017. We can only support one application. Internal shortlisting will take place beginning of August.

Congratulations to Prof. Moretti and Prof. Yao-Bei Liu, associated professor at Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang, PR China, for securing one year of funding from the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to support an academic visit of the latter to carry out research in the area of 'New Physics beyond the Standard Model' within the NExT Institute. The collaboration will start in September 2018. See here for more details.

The prestigious award comes from one of the oldest (founded 1477) and world-renowned (top 1% in the QS World University Rankings) Universities in recognition of Prof Moretti's work on Beyond the Standard Model physics in collaboration with the local High Energy Physics group.

He joins the ranks of illustrious predecessors, which includes in his own discipline (amongst others) the likes of: Roman Jackiw, Francis Halzen, John Ellis, Fabiola Gianotti and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek. Read the Uppsala University press release.

The great news has been reported on also by the School and University news lines.

Dr Rome Samanta wins Newton International Fellowship to work on the project
"Understanding the origin of ordinary and dark matter with models of neutrino masses and mixing"
with Prof. Pasquale Di Bari as host scientist

Is it Ockham's one of minimalism (`Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate') or Einstein's one of non-minimalism (`Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler')? When it comes to Supersymmetry, Prof Stefano Moretti has got a clear opinion on it, find out what he thinks in his new book: S. Khalil & Stefano Moretti, ``Supersymmetry Beyond Minimality: From Theory to Experiment'' (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group).

Prof Tim R Morris has been awarded funding in the newly created scientific visitor programme for a two-month visit to the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste.

Congratulations to Profs Stefano Moretti (SHEP) and Claire Shepherd (RAL PPD) as well as Dr Harri Waltari (from Helsinki) for securing funding from the Rutherford International Fellowship Programme (RIFP), sponsored by STFC and the European Commission under Horizon 2020, through the Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND scheme. This award will enable Harri to join SHEP and RAL-PPD for up to two years as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on the NExT project: ``Probing neutrino dynamics via sneutrino searches in the CMS experiment". The appointment will start in the Winter/Spring of this year and includes formal links with Helsinki.

Congratulations to Prof Stefano Moretti for securing a two-year exchange grant from Kogakuin University (Tokyo), enabling SHEP & NExT members to visit local scientists Dr Tetsuo Shindou and Dr Takashi Watanabe and vice versa. In fact, the collaboration is a three-prong one, also including Prof Cheng-Wei Chiang of National Taiwan University (Taipei). The research exchanges are to start immediately and will be centred around the theme ``New physics models with an extended Higgs sector and their phenomenology''. The research builds on the highly-publicised advances of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and its discovery of the Higgs boson, an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics, which many scientists believe to have companions in new physics scenarios.