HIP NEWS September 7th 2015 =========================== DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS ———————————————————————————————— Tuesday 8 September 2015 at 10.15 in A315 Robert Fleischer (Nikhef, Amsterdam) In Pursuit of New Physics with B Decays: Theoretical Status and Prospects Abstract: The exploration of B-meson decays has reached an unprecedented level of sophistication, with a...Continue reading→

HIP NEWS August 31st 2015 ======================= MINI-SCHOOL ON VACUUM ARCING —————————————————- September 1, 2015 a one day mini-school will be organized to introduce the basics of computational methods applicable for simulation of onset of vacuum arcing. Location: Physicum, room E207 Time: 1.9.2015 from 9:00 to 15:00 09:00 Basics of Molecular Dynamics simulations (Prof. Kai Nordlund,...Continue reading→

HIP NEWS August 24th 2015 ======================= COSMO-Seminar —————————- Wednesday 26 August 2015 at 14.15 in A315 Tommi Markkanen (Imperial College London) Spacetime curvature and the Higgs stability before and after inflation Abstract: The best fit values for the SM parameters imply that the potential for the Higgs boson developes a Planck-scale vacuum with negative energy,...Continue reading→