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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.

Current visitors

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Enzo Orlandini
  • University of Padua
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics

This is one of Enzo Orlandini's regular visits as Associate, and will serve to support the long-standingcollaboration between researchers at Higgs Centre, specifically this time on projects on liquid crystalline shells and polymer topology.

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Christopher Thomas
  • University of Cambridge

Thomas's visit to the Higgs Centre will enhance existing collaborations and encourage new research projects. Thomas is a collaborator of M Hansen in the HadSpec collaboration. This visit will accelerate the completion of their work on three-particle scattering in the rho-pi channel, a major undertaking that requires an intensive period of regular interaction to progress. In addition, Thomas has overlapping interests with Del Debbio and Portelli concerning supercomputing in the UK, in particular DiRAC resources. This could lead to fruitful discussions on how to improve resource utilisation.

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Yong Xiao
  • 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.

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Chou Chien-Yu
  • Sokendai

The primary purpose of my visit to the University of Edinburgh is to advance my research in quantum cosmology under the mentorship of Professor Neil Turok, a leading expert in the field. My goal is to apply Monte Carlo simulations and the generalized Lefschetz thimble method to address the sign problem in quantum cosmology models, particularly in understanding quantum fluctuations in the early universe. The visit will provide me with the opportunity to refine my computational techniques, collaborate on theoretical developments, and contribute to the growing body of work in quantum cosmology.

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Upcoming visitors

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Enzo Orlandini
  • University of Padua
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics

This is one of Enzo Orlandini's regular visits as Associate, and will serve to support the long-standingcollaboration between researchers at Higgs Centre, specifically this time on projects on liquid crystalline shells and polymer topology.

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Felix Erben
  • CERN Theory Department

As a former employee of the University of Edinburgh and current Affiliate with the Higgs Centre, I have still close ties to the University of Edinburgh and many of my recent and envisioned publications, as well as future computing proposals, are in collaboration with Higgs-Centre members. This visit would be essential to set up the strategies for two of the new Dirac allocations, envisioned to be awarded soon and to start in April 25. I also plan to work on paper manuscripts with local researchers that should be posted as preprint in the first half of 2025

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Iain Stewart
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Iain has been developing for many years effective field theories for QCD. He has significant overlap of interests with academic staff in the Higgs Centre, including Einan Gardi and Franz Herzog.

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Contacts

Joan SIMON

Visitor Coordinator

Person
Joan SIMON
Email address
J.Simon@ed.ac.uk

Apply

To propose a visitor, fill out the visitor application form.

Application form

Visitor proposal information

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