Peter Skands - Monash University

Prof. Peter Z. Skands,

School of Physics and Astronomy
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

(2023 - 2024):
Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford, UK

My Networks & Collaborations:

	Spokesperson for the PYTHIA Collaboration 2021 - 2023 Deputy Spokesperson 2023 - 2024
	Leading the VINCIA Project

Science Project Leader for LHC@home-Test4Theory

Student Projects

My Teaching

3rd Year / Honours / Masters / PhD:

Year 3, S1: Classical Field Theory (PHS3201)
Year 3, S2: Relativity and Particle Physics (PHS3302)
2023 Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching
Year 5, S1: Master class on QFT with Hadrons & Jets (PHS5020)
PhD Students: Video Lectures on Non-Perturbative Aspects of Event Simulation - and on QCD and Event Generators

My Research:

Particle-Physics Theory and Phenomenology

Physics at Colliders (LHC, FCC, CEPC)
Resonance Production and Decays
Quantum Chromodynamics
Electromagnetic & Weak Corrections
Multi-Parton Interactions & Underlying Event (MPI, UE)
Hadronization (Lund Strings)
Hadron Decays

Computer Physics and Monte Carlo Event Generators

Event Generators: PYTHIA and VINCIA
Parton-Shower Algorithms
Models of Hadronization, Multi-Parton Interactions, Colour Reconnections, Strangeness Enhancement, ...
Event-Generator Validation: MCPlots
Citizen Science: LHC@home/Test4Theory
Markov-Chain and Monte-Carlo Algorithms
Optimization, Uncertainties, Tuning

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Once, the cosmos was ruled by the wills and vanities of gods, and magic seemed to move the heavenly spheres. To the rational and sane of enlightened societies, a fairytale; but to the inquisitive mind, the universe appears still enigmatic and full of the mysteries that breathed life and beauty into our earliest imaginations. And despite the limits of our Earthly minds, we still seek to grasp the nature of that which brought us forth.