Dr Amit Chakraborty from the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (Mumbai, India) wins a two-year post-doctoral Newton International Fellowship from The Royal Society (London, UK) for the project `Study of the CP-violating MSSM at the 13 and 14 TeV runs of the LHC' to join SHEP and NExT with Prof. Stefano Moretti as host scientist.
Mr Sebastian Rosado Navarro from the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (BUAP) (Puebla, Mexico) will be visiting the NExT Institute over a twelve month period during the academic years 2016/17 and 2017/18 to work with Prof Moretti on `Non-Minimal Higgs Models'.
Successful bids, led by Drs Accomando and Di Bari, to GRADnet/SEPnet and the Education, Training and Careers Committee of STFC have secured funding in order to run the VII NExT PhD Workshop, to be held in Abingdon on 26-29 June 2017 and open to all UK students in both theory and experiment with an emphasis on gender balance. This year edition will feature a formal connection with the Scottish University Physics Alliance (SUPA), as Dr David J Miller (Glasgow) is part of the Orgainising Committee. Further information is found on the on the NExT webpages.
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).