Ben Allanach

I'm a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge. To find out the kind of research I do, watch my TEDx talk (movie). These days, I work mostly on collider searches for new physics with other members of the Cambridge Supersymmetry Working Group, especially at the Large Hadron Collider.

Research

• Beyond the Standard Model phenomenology, especially supersymmetry. I am interested in supersymmetry breaking, LHC signals of new physics, interpreting data and calculating the supersymmetric spectrum. I retain an interest in neutrino masses and mixings.
• Publications | citations | any papers citing mine in the last week?
• SOFTSUSY: a program for calculating supersymmetric spectra.
• Conferences/schools this year:
  • Aspen workshop on "Reaching New Summits: The LHC at Full Strength", USA
  • Rencontres de Moriond 2017, electroweak session, Italy
  • From Strings to the LHC IV, India
• For prospective PhD students
• Advice and ground rules for (only my) PhD students
• I am currently PI on our STFC consolidated grant (1/10/14-30/9/17). You should quote "This work has been partially supported by STFC consolidated grant ST/L000385/1" in the acknowledgements of any publication if you are in our HEP group, or you are a long-term visitor (it pays for our computers, computer officer time and secretarial time).
• The new STFC HEP consolidated grant (1/10/17-30/9/20) is for £1.7m and is ST/P000681/1.

Recent Public Engagement

• Aug 2017: twitter takeover for Cambridge maths faculty
• 10 Aug 2017: snuck some LHC physics into Cambridge News "Stylish Fellas" column
• 21 Jul 2017: Interview on The Slump podcast about quantum teleportation
• 16 May 2017: Tales from Outer Space Pint of Science talk, Maypole, Cambridge
• 24 Mar 2017: Guardian blog: update from the Moriond conference
• Jan-June 2017: Collaborating on Guerilla Science's Intergalactic Travel Bureau Show
• 6 Feb 2017: talk on LHC physics at National Physical Laboratory
• 18 Nov 2016: talk on dark matter at Aim Conference, London for GCSE students
• 7 Nov 2016: talk on LHC at Westminster School
• 24 Oct 2016: Smashing Particles! talk at Norwich Science Festival
• 26 Jul 2016: talk on many worlds interpretation at Cambridge Arts Picturehouse before screening of Midnight Special
• 22 Jul 2016: debate at The Secret Garden Party festival with David Tong and Guerilla Science.
• 23 Jun 2016: talk at Ashlyn's School for years 7,8,9,10 and 12 science students
• 18 Jun 2016: talked at Also Festival about the LHC, gravitational waves, the big bang and dark matter. The Joy of Theoretical Physics Audiobook
• 17 Mar 2016: Guardian blog on diphoton news from the Rencontres de Moriond conference
• 16 Dec 2015: wrote a Guardian blog on CERN's end of year round-up and a video interview for Plus magazine
• 18 Nov 2015: The LHC: Solving the Mysteries of the Universe talk in London for New Scientist Live
• Jun 2015: Talk for year 12 school students: movie/article in Plus magazine
• Mar 2015: Cambridge Science Festival talk The Large Hadron Collider and the dark matter mystery
• Mar 2015: interviewed for New Scientist lead article on LHC Run II
• Dec 2014: Quantum Diaries guest blog on Open Access charges
• Oct 2014: blog on our SUSY interpretation of CMS lljjMET events

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