Visiting the Higgs Centre

The Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics has resources to support visitors from other institutions, for example, to collaborate with local Researchers or to give graduate lectures. Frequent visitors may be nominated as Higgs Centre Affiliates or Associates.

Our Visiting Researcher scheme is open to applications throughout the year. Submissions should take place at least two months before the prospective visit. We invite applications for visitors to come to the Higgs Centre for the purpose of fostering or continuing collaboration, and particularly encourage applications from PhD students and early career researchers. Funding for accommodation is available. We have limited funds for travel and subsistence, which we target towards early career researchers. For PhD and early career researchers, their visit is capped at £2k in total

Visits should be in conjunction with a local host, who should complete the visitor form, including a host statement detailing the potential benefit of the visit to the Higgs Centre and its members and to the visitor. If appropriate, an email address for a referee for the visitor may be included (e.g. a PhD supervisor or senior collaborator). The visitor scheme is a competitive one and final funding decisions will be taken by the Higgs Management Committee.

Application form

If you would like any further information, please contact Joan Simon.

Upcoming visitors

Oct122026-Jan102027

Roberto Dionisio

University of Pisa

Roberto's visit will mainly focus on a collaborative project with the Higgs Centre lattice group combining parallel tempering, out-of-equilibrium dynamics, and machine learning. Roberto brings expertise in parallel tempering which complements the experience of the local group. This follows up on Roberto's previous visit, which studied the scaling of parallel tempering vs out-of-equilibrium methods for the CP(N-1) theory; we are writing up this work now. The project will investigate extension to SU(3) gauge theory (relevant for QCD studies) and inclusion of machine learning methods; we aim to produce a second joint publication based on this visit. Jointly with a postdoc in the Higgs Centre (Elia Cellini), he has also applied for computational resources on the JUPITER cluster to support this research, with the expected allocation starting in October. As a more exploratory activity, Roberto will also work with the lattice group on the possible extension of the Grid software framework to include parallel tempering capabilities, which would support future Edinburgh-based lattice projects.

Collaboration with

Oct162026-Nov12026

Suddhasattwa Brahma

Indian Statistical Institute

I have multiple ongoing collaborations with Prof. Arjun Berera and am a second supervisor for his PhD student, Zizang Qiu. I have another ongoing collaboration with Prof. Alkistis Pourtsidou. This visit will further these collaborations and well as start potential new ones with other faculty members there. I also have a couple of PhD students at Edinburgh (Idrus and Xiancong), both of whom have successfully defended the thesis and are awaiting their degrees to start their postdocs.

Collaboration with

Arjun BERERA

Nov302026-Dec52026

David Albandea

David will give a seminar on 2nd December to the PPT group on his recent work. The goal is to further spend the week interacting and discussing with members of the lattice group. Recent work has been made by David to study strong isospin breaking effects in lattice QCD using techniques based on automatic differentiation. This is very relevant to the ongoing research of Antonin Portelli, Vera Guelpers, Nils HT, and Ryan Hill and their research could directly benefit from discussing these novel technique with David.

David has also worked on trivialising flow techniques with Luigi Del Debbio and this visit can further advance these studies, as well as develop new discussions and ideas with the similar research paths of Gurtej Kanwar, Nils HT, Elia Cellini, and Raj Mukherjee.

Collaboration with