XII NExT PhD workshop

28 Jun 2022, 14:00 → 1 Jul 2022, 13:00 Europe/London

King's College London

The XII NExT PhD Workshop will take place from 28 June to 1 July 2022. 

This workshop, designed specifically for early career researchers, is a compulsory event for the cohort of NExT PhD students who started in September 2021.  

Other students can also come however, and we encourage you to do so! In allocating places on the Course priority shall be given to the STFC-sponsored students.  The Course shall be free of charge to STFC-sponsored and self-supporting students.  Consideration will be given by the STFC, in conjunction with local organisers, to offering any remaining places to students in receipt of other sponsorship.

The workshop comprises lectures by world experts in particle physics on the most recent ideas to search for new physics at colliders and beyond.

• Djuna Croon (Durham)* - Particle Physics and Cosmology
• Michel Tytgat (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) - Dark Matter
• Stefan Schacht (Manchester) - Flavour Physics
• Eleni Vryonidou (Manchester) - Standard Model Effective Field Theories

Students will have the opportunity to present their own work through lightning talks, posters and discussion sessions, where they will have the possibility to interact with the lecturers in a stimulating and supporting environment.

The workshop will also feature sessions on careers advice, employer engagement and research ethics.

Fees. Attendance is free of charge for NExT PhD students as well as STFC and self-funded ones from elsewhere in the UK, including accommodation, lunches and a conference dinner.  Others can apply to come, we will decide on whether we have room for them to participate closer to the time.

* We are very pleased to announce that Djuna is pregnant! and due to give birth end of August, so she might be in person, she might be online, or she might be replaced by another speaker.

Tuesday, 28 June

1 welcome and introduction

Speaker: Malcolm Fairbairn

2 Student Talk - Drew Backhouse - Dynamical Violation of the Null Energy Condition

3 Student Talk - Gonzalo Villa - Generalized Cosmic Gravitational Wave Background

4 Student Talk - Fernando Torre Gonzalez - Developing an amplitude level parton shower

5 Student Talk - Oliver Atkinson - Cornering the Two Higgs Doublet Model

15:10 coffee

6 Flavour 1

16:45 decompression break

7 Astroparticle 1

18:00 Welcome reception on the Strand Terrace

https://www.kingsvenues.com/Conferences-Meetings/Strand/The-Terrace

Wednesday, 29 June

8 Flavour 2

11:00 coffee

9 Astroparticle 2

12:20 lunch

10 Careers, public engagement, employer engagement room Strand S2-08

1330 Vicki Tipton (Graduate Careers advisor KCL)
Vicki will tell us about how to investigate and prepare for life outside academia.
1355 Maria Sueiro (Machine Learning Engineer at Levelise Ltd)
Maria will tell us about her transition from theoretical particle cosmology to Data Science in the energy sector.
1405 Bethan Cornell (Senior Private Secretary for the Minister of State for Higher and Further Education)
Bethan will tell us about her transition from theoretical physics atomic modelling of biological molecules to working with Government.
1415 Q&A

14:30 Coffee

11 Dark Matter 1 - room Strand S-2.08

15:50 decompression break

12 Dark Matter 2 - room Strand S-2.08

13 Student Talk - Giorgio Cerro - Particles in the hyperbolic space

14 Student Talk - Sarah Alanazi - Searching for CP odd Higgs boson in the inverted hierarchy parameter space

15 Student Talk - Manuel Morales Alvarado - The DGLAP-SMEFT interplay

16 Student Talk - Mauricio Ardiles Diaz - Machine learning for parameter exploration in BSM theories

17 Student Talk- Guillaume Rostagni - Axion HIggs Portal

Thursday, 30 June

18 SMEFT 1 - Strand building Old Anatomy Lecture Theatre K6.29

11:00 coffee

19 Research Ethics - Strand building Old Anatomy Lecture Theatre K6.29

12:20 Lunch

20 Astroparticle 3 - Strand building Old Anatomy Lecture Theatre K6.29

14:30 coffee

21 Flavour 3 - Strand building Old Anatomy Lecture Theatre K6.29

15:50 decompression break

22 SMEFT 2 - Strand Campus - Safra Lecture Theatre

23 Student Talks - Giacomo Marocco - TBC

24 Student Talks - Nikolaos Kouvatsos - Detectability of the gravitational wave background produced by magnetar flares

25 Student Talk - Nahzaan Riyaz - TBC

26 Student Talk - Ahmad Alachkar - Constraining Dark Matter with OJ287

20:00 Dinner at Ciao Bella in Bloomsbury

https://ciaobellarestaurant.co.uk/

Friday, 1 July

27 Dark Matter 3 - Strand building Old Anatomy Lecture Theatre S6.29

11:00 Coffee

28 SMEFT3 - Strand building Old Anatomy Lecture Theatre S6.29