IOP Groups
HEPP Group Awards
The HEPP Group awards three prizes:
The HEPP Group Prize is made to early career researcher for outstanding contributions to particle physics. The group prize changed in 2008 so that it is distinctive from the new Chadwick medal and prize created by the Institute and is now an “early career prize”. The winner was chosen by a jury comprising those members of the HEPP Group who are Fellows of the Institute.
The HEPP Group Science in Society Prize is made to early career researcher for outstanding contributions to outreach in particle physics. This prize is also for early career work in order to make it distinctive from the Institute’s Kelvin medal and prize. The winner will chosen by a jury comprising those members of the HEPP Group who are Members or Fellows of the Institute.
The HEPP Group Poster Prize will be awarded at the HEPP Group annual meeting, to the best contributed poster(s) displayed in the poster session.
The small print:
1. Members of the HEPP group committee are not eligible.
2. The work must have been carried out whilst funded by a UK/Ireland institution.
3. The consent of the nominee should be obtained.
4. No member may nominate more than one candidate for each prize.
2009 HEPP Group Prizes
The winners of the 2009 HEPP Group Prizes were announced at the AGM in Oxford.
The HEPP Group Prize was awarded to Peter Richardson.
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Peter Richardson is without doubt the leading researcher in computational particle physics of his generation worldwide. He is an expert in the Monte Carlo simulation of high energy particle physics events, and his codes are, or have been, used by experimenters involved in all of the major experiments at CERN, DESY and Fermilab. He has been responsible for a series of breakthroughs and improvements in the quality of the simulation, not only within the context of the Standard Model of particle physics, but, perhaps more importantly in the large numbers of new physics phenomena that are eagerly anticipated at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Richardson is the world expert at developing event generation of new physics models Ð R-parity violating supersymmetry, supersymmetry with full spin correlations, models with extra space time dimensions and mini black hole production. To this end, he is the driving force behind a new generator, HERWIG++, that embodies all of the recent improvements and new physics models. Richardson's pivotal contribution in both the theoretical development and the implementation of event generators is recognised internationally. The importance of his work in understanding and interpreting the forthcoming data from the LHC cannot be understated.
The HEPP Group Science in Society Prize was awarded to Alan Barr.
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Alan Barr is currently Lecturer in Physics at Oxford and STFC Advanced Fellow. He is a charismatic populariser of science who has wide exposure in the media. In the last three years alone he has given television interviews to Sky, ITV and Channel 4 News, print interviews to The Times, the Oxford Mail, the Oxford Times, the Coleraine Chronicle and the Ballymoney Times, and radio interviews to Fox FM, Jack FM, BBC Radio 5 live, World Radio Switzerland, and Radio New Zeeland. A documentary in which he presented LHC physics was broadcast by the National Geographic Channel in 162 countries to 230 million homes. He also broadcast articles and interviews about CERN through the Oxford University Science Blog, a YouTube video diary and a global top-100 downloaded podcast for iTunes-U. He organises the Oxford Particle Physics Masterclasses and was a member of the team at last year?s Royal Society Summer Exhibition. He also welcomed year-12 students to Oxford as part of an Aim Higher event, helped organise visits for two schools to CERN, and lectured at the Royal Astronomical Society. He is in great demand as a speaker at schools and has lectured in schools tirelessly for many years.
The HEPP Group Poster Prizes were awarded to Simon Owen (Sheffield) and Jenna Lane (Manchester).
Jenna Lane's poster (PDF, 10.6MB)
Simon Owen's poster (PDF, 1.17MB)
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