Prof. Peter Z. Skands,

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

	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:

• Student Projects and Resources
• Description of My Research
• Examples of Past Student Projects

• 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: Introduction to B Physics & Jets (PHS5020)
• PhD Students: Video Lectures 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