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, Parks Road, Oxford, UK

  My Networks & Collaborations:

Spokesperson for the PYTHIA Collaboration 2021 - 2023
Deputy Spokesperson 2023 -
Leading the VINCIA Project
Science Project Leader for LHC@home-Test4Theory

  Student Projects

  My Teaching

 3rd Year / Honours / Masters / PhD:

  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, these tales are little more than colourful myths; but to the inquisitive mind, the universe appears still so 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."
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