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.
If you would like any further information, please contact Joan Simon.
Current visitors
- L'École normale supérieure, Paris
- L'École normale supérieure, Paris
- Hebei University
Yong Xiao has worked on covariant phase space methods in gravity and extended laws of thermodynamics and is willing to learn new ideas in holography and black hole physics in our local academic environment.
Upcoming visitors
- ShanghaiTech University
To engage with the Higgs Centre's vibrant research community and develop research collaborations, particularly with Dr. Donal O'Connell and Dr. Mao Zeng. My research focuses on scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills and Gravity, with exploring connections between scattering amplitudes and bound-state dynamics in gravitational systems.
To attend two schools, the Higgs School of Theoretical Physics at the Higgs Centre, followed by the China-India-UK School in Mathematical Physics at ICMS, Bayes Centre.
Overall, with this visit I aim to foster collaborations that could advance our understanding of fundamental interactions and open pathways to innovative research in the broader context of theoretical physics.
To collaborate with colleagues at the Higgs Centre on DESI, and work on large scale structure and cosmology more generally.
To collaborate with Patrick Pietzonka on the stochastic thermodynamics of clocks. We are investigating thermodynamic uncertainty relations for underdamped, non-Markovian dynamics. The purpose of the visit is to spend my sabbatical in Edinburgh to work with Patrick Pietzonka and to write joint articles. I also have a long-standing collaboration with Wilson Poon, an experimental physicist at the University of Edinburgh. I would like to initiate experimental tests of the predictions that Patrick Pietzonka and I will make.
Contacts
Visitor Coordinator
- Person
- Joan SIMON
- Email address
- J.Simon@ed.ac.uk
Apply
To propose a visitor, fill out the visitor application form.
If you are a visitor, you may find this information useful.
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