PhD-level lectures

Below is some material related to PhD-level lectures I've given (if no material is given, click on the link to get to the official school page and programme):

Lectures on Jets and Parton Distribution Functions as part of the 2024 Oxford graduate lecture series on QCD that was delivered with Fabrizio Caola, Jack Helliwell and Peter Skands.
Guest lecture on Jets, as part of Claire Gwenlan's experimental particle physics PhD QCD course at the University of Oxford, February 2021.
Two lectures on Jet Reconstruction Theory at the PREFIT20: PRecision Effective FIeld Theory School, DESY, Hamburg, March 2020 (delivered remotely)

Lecture 1: basics of jet finding
Lecture 2: jet substructure

Guest lecture on Jets, as part of Claire Gwenlan's experimental particle physics PhD QCD course at the University of Oxford, February 2020.
Lecture on "QCD for LHC" at the 57th course of the International School of Subnuclear physics, In Search of the Unexpected, June 2019.
3 lectures on "QCD" at the Fourth Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics, September 2018, Quy Nhon, Vietnam.
- Lecture 1: Introduction, strong coupling, soft divergence, total cross sections
- Lecture 2: hadron colliders, PDFs and hard cross sections
- Lecture 3: partons showers, hadronisation, jets
5 lectures on "Jet Physics", at the Higgs Centre School of Theoretical Physics 2017. Tutorial material available on github.
Lectures on "Ingredients for accurate collider physics", at the PSI Summer School Exothiggs, August 2016, Zuoz, Switzerland:
- Lecture 1: factorisation, the strong coupling and parton distribution functions
- Lecture 2: hard cross sections, resummation, parton showers and jets
- Code for an illustrative, ultrasimplified, toy parton shower.
Lectures on "Basics of QCD" at the ICTP–SAIFR school on QCD and LHC physics, July 2015, Sao Paulo, Brazil:
- Lecture 1: the core ingredients
- Lecture 2: higher orders and divergences
- Lecture 3: PDFs and DGLAP
- Lecture 4: Jets
- Tutorial on WW resonances, including slides, code and event samples:
  - a 2 TeV Z' → WW resonance (1k events, 3.6MB),
  - a dijet sample with a 400 GeV pt cutoff (10k events, 45MB) and
  - mixed signal-background sample where you need to find the signal (100k events, 440MB).
Lectures on jets at the Center for Future High Energy Physics (IHEP) and Peking University Beijing, April 2014:
- lecture 1
- lecture 2
- jet substructure seminar
4 lectures on jets at the TASI 2013 school in Boulder, Colorado, June 2013.
2 lectures, as part of a series of 4 given together with Matteo Cacciari on jets during the Focus Week at the GGI Workshop on High energy QCD after the start of the LHC, Florence, Italy, September 2011.
2 lectures on jets at the 2011 IPMU-YITP School and Workshop on Monte Carlo Tools for LHC, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, September 2011.
3 CERN academic training lectures on jets, March 2011:
- Lecture 1: introduction, followed by an outline of some of the main sequential recombination jet algorithms
- Lecture 2: comparing theory and experiment (including illustration of cone-algorithm issues); the relation between a parton and a jet; jet shapes; and the example of top reconstruction
- Lecture 3: optimising the use of jets in a simple case (dijet reconstruction); and the study of fat jets, i.e. boosted hadronically-decaying massive objects.

4 introductory lectures on QCD, given at the 2010 Maria Laach autumn high-energy-physics school, Germany, September 2010. This is an abridged version of the Bautzen lectures given below.
- Lecture 1: Introduction (Lagrangian, perturbative and non-perturbative methods, beta-function, soft and collinear divergences)
- Lecture 2: The concepts of parton showers and jets
- Lecture 3: Parton Distribution Functions
- Lecture 4: QCD as it's relevant at the LHC

Jet Physics at the Cargèse: Physics at TeV colliders school, July 2010.

Jet Physics at the Aspects of perturbative Quantum chromodynamics Bielefeld-Paris-Helsinki school, Orsay, France, March 2010.

4 introductory lectures on QCD, for experimental PhD students, given at the 2009 European School of High Energy Physics, in Bautzen, Germany, June 2009:
- Lecture 1: Basics (Lagrangian, perturbative and non-perturbative methods, beta-function, soft and collinear divergences).
- Lecture 2: Parton Distribution Functions.
- Lecture 3: A brief overview of fixed order calculations, parton showers.
- Lecture 4: Merging fixed-order and parton-shower calculations; jets.

Two lectures on jets at the 2008 CTEQ-MCnet Summer School on QCD Phenomenology and Monte Carlo Event Generators, Debrecen, Hungary, August 2008.
These lectures provide an introduction to sequential recombination and cone-type jet algorithms, including concrete illustrations of the differences between various cone algorithms. They also discuss questions related to infrared and collinear safety, and look at issues and difficulties that arise when trying determine which jet definitions are "best".
Transparencies and some simple exercises for a course on the theory of jets at the École de de Gif 2007.

Two seminars in a series accompanying the course by Gabriele Veneziano on perturbative QCD at the Collège de France (Paris, France, 2005)
- Parton distribution functions (22 March 2005)
- The high-energy limit of QCD (5 April 2005)

Phenomenology (Course given at BUSSTEPP 2004, Plymouth, UK, August 2004, and BUSSTEPP 2005, Ambleside, UK, August 2005)
The course consists of 4 lectures:
- Lecture 1: quick recall of the standard model and an introduction to indirect bounds on the Higgs mass
- Lecture 2: the search for the Higgs boson
- Lecture 3: introduction to QCD and to soft radiation
- Lecture 4: QCD for processes with incoming protons
- Lecture 4 (from 2004): QCD jets and principles of "all-order" calculations