Prof. Peter Z. Skands,

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:

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

• Year 3, S1: PHS3201 Classical Field Theory
• Year 3, S2: PHS3302 Relativity and Particle Physics
  (2023 Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching)
• Year 5, S1:PHS5020 Master class on QFT with Hadrons & Jets
• Graduate 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
• NNLO Matching
• 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