The 2026 STFC HEP Summer School

6 Sept 2026, 09:00 → 18 Sept 2026, 17:00 Europe/London

Location: Durham Grey College and IPPP

Grey College, South Road, Durham DH1 3LT,

General ArrivalInformation.pdf Water dispenser.pdf

Travel Claims UKRI NEE Student Summer School Claim Form and Guidance.docx

Week 1 Tutorials PreSchoolProblems2021.pdf

Sunday 6 September

14:00 → 17:30 Arrival

17:30 → 18:30 Reception Drinks

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

Monday 7 September

09:00 → 09:10 Introduction

Speakers: William Barter (University of Edinburgh), Yanyan Gao (University of Edinburgh)

STFC HEP Summer School 2025.pdf

09:10 → 10:50 QFT

09:10 QFT (I)

09:50 Short break

10:00 QFT (2)

10:50 → 11:20 Coffee/Tea Break

11:20 → 12:10 QED/QCD

11:20 QED/QCD (1)

12:10 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 15:00 Self or Group Study

15:00 → 16:00 Tutorial: Tutorial (Preschool problems)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:20 QFT

16:30 QFT (3)

17:30 → 18:20 QED/QCD

17:30 QED/QCD (2)

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

Tuesday 8 September

09:00 → 10:50 QED/QCD

09:00 QED/QCD (3)

09:50 Short break

10:00 QED/QCD. (4)

10:50 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 12:10 QFT

11:20 QFT (4)

12:10 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 15:30 Self or Group Study

15:30 → 17:00 Tutorial

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 → 18:30 QFT

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

19:30 → 20:30 Poster Session: Poster Session (Group 1)

Wednesday 9 September

09:00 → 10:00 QFT

10:00 → 10:50 QED/QCD

10:50 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 12:10 QED/QCD

11:20 QED/QCD (6)

12:10 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 15:30 Self or Group Study

15:30 → 17:00 Tutorial

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 → 18:20 Seminar on Outreach/EDI

Speaker: kate shaw (University of Sussex)

STFC SUMMER SCHOOL O&EDI.pdf

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

Thursday 10 September

09:00 → 10:50 QED/QCD

09:00 QED/QCD (7)

09:50 Short break

10:00 QED/QCD (8)

10:50 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 12:10 QFT

11:20 QFT (8)

12:10 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 15:00 Self or Group Study

15:00 → 15:40 QCD (extra)

15:45 → 17:00 Tutorial

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 → 18:20 DM and Cosmology

17:30 SM (1)

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

19:45 → 20:45 Poster Session: Poster Session (Group 2)

Friday 11 September

09:00 → 09:50 DM and Cosmology (1)

10:00 → 10:50 DM and Cosmology (2)

10:50 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 12:10 QFT (10)

12:10 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 15:30 Self or Group Study

15:30 → 16:30 Tutorial

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 17:50 DM and Cosmology (3)

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

Monday 14 September

09:00 → 09:50 Collider Phenomenology (1)

10:00 → 10:50 Collider Phenomenology (2)

10:50 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 12:10 Collider Phenomenology (3)

12:10 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 15:30 Self or Group Study

15:30 → 17:00 Tutorial

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 → 18:20 SM (1)

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

19:45 → 20:45 Poster Session: Poster Session (Group 3)

Tuesday 15 September

09:00 → 09:50 SM(2)

10:00 → 10:50 SM(3)

10:50 → 11:20 Coffee Break

11:20 → 12:10 Neutrino (1)

12:10 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 15:30 Self or Group Study

13:00 Collider Phenomenology (2)

15:30 → 16:30 Tutorial

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 17:50 SM(4)

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

Wednesday 16 September

09:00 → 10:40 Neutrino (2+3)

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 → 12:00 Collider Phenomenology (4)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 15:30 Self or Group Study

15:30 → 17:00 Tutorial

17:00 → 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 → 18:30 Neutrino

18:30 → 19:30 Dinner

19:45 → 20:45 Poster Session: Poster Session (Group 4)

Thursday 17 September

10:50 → 11:20 Coffee break and School PHOTO

12:10 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 15:00 Self or Group Study

15:00 → 16:00 Tutorial

16:10 → 17:10 Career discussion session

This event will be run largely as a Q&A session, chaired by Prof Sudan Paramesvaran (Bristol)

5 panel members:

• Dr Julia Allen (Edinburgh, Energy Systems Modeller at Green Cat Hydrogen Ltd., previously ATLAS)
• Prof. Victoria Martin (Edinburgh, ATLAS)
• Dr Greig Cowan (Edinburgh, AI & Data Science Innovation, Natwest, previously LHCb)
• Dr Phillip Litchfield (Glasgow, neutrinos)
• Dr Clarence Wret (Imperial College London, neutrinos)

17:10 → 17:30 Coffee break

19:00 → 22:00 School Banquet

Friday 18 September

10:00 → 10:50 Neutrino

10:50 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 12:10 Dark Matter and Cosmology

11:20 DM and Cosmology (3)

12:10 → 13:00 Lunch