25 September 2024 to 8 October 2024
Peebles, Scotland, UK
Europe/London timezone

Scientific Programme

Lecture Courses
 

- Cosmology and Dark Matter - Celine Boehm (Sydney U. & U. of Edinburgh)

 

- Higgs, Top & Beyond - John Ellis (King's College London & CERN)

 

- Prospects for the (HL-) LHC & Beyond - Sinead Farrington (U. of Edinburgh & RAL) 

 

- Flavour Physics & CP Violation - Tim Gershon (U. of Warwick)

 

- Neutrino Physics - Pilar Hernandez (IFIC, U. Valencia-CSIC)

 

- Field Theory & the EW Standard Model - Jonas Lindert (U. of Sussex)

 

- Practical Statistics - Louis Lyons (Imperial & U. of Oxford)

 

- Heavy-Ion Physics - Guilherme Milhano (IST-ULisboa & LIP)

 

- Machine Learning for HEP - Troels C. Petersen (Niels Bohr Institute, U. of Copenhagen)

 

- QCD - Gavin Salam (U. of Oxford)

 

- Special Lecture on Peter Higgs and his boson - Alan Walker (U. of Edinburgh)

 

 

In addition to the above, there will be a question and answer session given by the CERN Director General, Fabiola Gianotti, and a course on science communications and outreach.

 

Discussion Sessions

There will be parallel discussion sessions, lasting about 90 minutes, most afternoons during the School. Students remain in the same discussion group for the duration of the School. 

Discussion Leaders:

Luca Buonocore (CERN)

Helena Kolesova (Stavanger U.)

Suchita Kulkarni (U. of Graz)

Matthew Lim (U. of Sussex)

Mario Reig Lopez (U. of Oxford and Royal Holloway U.)

Chiara Signorile - Signorile (MPI)
 

Group Projects

The students in each discussion group will also participate in a collaborative project on an outreach theme. This will lead up to a presentation by a group representative in a dedicated session towards the end of the School. 

 

Poster Session

All students are encouraged to present and discuss their work at a poster session during the first week of the School.