Idea Collection Series
The idea for his video series, came about in order to have an activity that allowed us to show a more ‘human’ approach to theoretical physics and to demystify the field. It was also an opportunity to showcase the research interests (and personalities!) of the various members of our Higgs Centre, from PhD students to the recently established Higgs Chair. Furthermore, this series was aimed not only at the research community in Edinburgh, but also at colleagues, and collaborators across the globe, as well as the non-scientific public.
Rather than everyone recording themselves and their answers, we conducted interviews with all project contributors to be able to gather some spontaneous and conversational answers.
Introduction
The first chapter in this series aimed at introducing the breadth of experience, fields and areas of science under the auspices of the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, with contributions from colleagues within the School of Physics and Astronomy’s three Institutes (Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Institute for Condensed Matter and Complex Systems and the Institute for Astronomy), along with colleagues from the School of Mathematics.
Creativity
Collaboration
Being A Physicist
Global Challenges
We received incredible input from over 20 local researchers (PhD to Chair level), who were ready with answers in this interview-type format, which was used in order to also garner some rather sponatenous answers. We thank them all for their time and their enthusiasm.
Many people made this video series possible, not in the least our incredible editor, Paul Maguire, who managed to make sense of our ideas and Anna Lisa who did 16 of the interviews. See below for a list of everyone who was involved.
Directors
Ines Foidl
Nelson Lachini
Dylan Robson
Anna Lisa Varri
Interviewers
Luigi Del Debbio
Jean-Christophe Denis
Antonin Portelli
Dylan Robson
Anna Lisa Varri
Interviewees - in no particular order
Luigi Del Debbio
Anna Lisa Varri
Tyler Shendruk
Joan Simon
Tim Adamo
Weiguang Cui
Einan Gardi
Benjamin Giblin
Mike Petersen
Sadegh Khochfar
Avery Meiksin
Graeme Ackland
Franz Herzog
Davide Michieletto
Antonin Portelli
Daniele Sorini
Niamh Maher
Jasmin Allenspach
Vera Guelpers
Davide Marenduzzo
Max Hansen
Neil Turok
Contacts
Higgs Centre Administrator
- Person
- Ines FOIDL
- Email address
- hctp@ed.ac.uk
EDI Coordinator
- Person
- Anna Lisa VARRI
- Email address
- anna.varri@ed.ac.uk
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