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
To collaborate with colleagues at the Higgs Centre on DESI, and work on large scale structure and cosmology more generally.
- 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
- Swarthmore College
To collaborate with Davide Marenduzzo on a theoretical study of lamellipodia,
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.
Dr Alessandro Trani (NBI, Copenhagen) will visit Anna Lisa Varri to work on collaborative projects and to participate in a small, informal meeting on stellar dynamics ("Chaotic rendez-vous II'').
- Tjarda BOEKHOLT
- Barry GINAT
- Douglas HEGGIE
- Jorge PENARRUBIA
- Mike PETERSEN
- Simon PORTEGIES ZWART
- Max RUFFET
- Anna Lisa VARRI
- Boston University
The purpose of this visit is to initiate future collaboration studying thermalization and signatures of chaotic dynamics in strongly-coupled quantum field theories
- University of Adelaide
Discussions on lattice field theory with other members of the lattice group in PPT. Jordan will also be giving a seminar here.
- Università degli Studi di FIRENZE
To visit and collaborate with the nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (NESM) group
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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