Particle Physics Community
Finance
Getting Started
- To access SBS, please contact Stephen Haywood
- Info on Getting started – needs to be updated (8/9/19) – see “Access to Oracle” in the Introduction of the 3rd Jamboree
- Quest Password Management for Oracle password and Instructions (need VPN or access via Remote Desktop)
Financial Information
- See slides from 3rd Jamboree (10 Sep 2018):
- Introduction – Introduction, Financial Processes, Access to Oracle
- Demonstration – Obtaining financial info, Task structures, Oracle Time and Labour
- FAQs
- STFC Capital: presentation, info sheet
- Problems, questions etc, contact Stephen Haywood
Procurement - iProcurement
- Official Guide
- Short PPD Guide – provided by Tim Durkin; see Tim’s talk from 2nd Jamboree
- STFC Guidance
- Thresholds and corresponding actions (3 quotes extended to £50k)
- Exemptions from tendering
- Bill Paying – raising a requisition – provided by Ian Tomalin
- Capital – see “Financial Information”
- Problems, questions etc, contact Tim Durkin
Claims - for non-STFC staff
- Claims
PPD Project Office
The PPD Project Office deliver expertise to the UK particle physics community.
The PPD Project Office provides management and delivery expertise to the wider UK particle physics community with the goals of reducing risk and cost, and increasing stakeholder confidence in project delivery, whilst maintaining engagement with the community as a whole.
The Project Office team provides:
- Qualified and experienced project managers and support team to directly manage projects following a standardised method and lifecycle we are devising
- Management processes as services for any project managers/principal investigators for tracking, controlling, reporting and decision-making; ensuring standardization, high quality, efficiency and economy of scale
- Planning assistance to projects prior to funding applications. Assuring projects and implementing learning from past projects, acting as a `corporate’ project knowledge base
- Training and education, either pointing individuals in the right direction for appropriate `generic’ project-focused training, providing advice or our own training for the peculiarities associated with particle physics/collaborative projects
We follow closely and promote the approach and qualifications/training framework of the UK Association for Project Management. We are developing our own bespoke project delivery framework/method alongside a project lifecycle/maturity model which will encourage a phased approach to projects, useful when applying for funding and reducing overall project risk. The office is special in its ability to understand and manage the enormous and often nebulous collaborative nature of these projects combined with their extreme technical and scientific nature.
We are actively managing the LBNF/DUNE portfolio of UK contributions to the US experiment which for particle physics includes the DUNE APA, DAQ and Software and Computing Projects; we also manage the UK contributions to the CMS, ATLAS and LHCb upgrades located at CERN as well as HyperK in Japan. We are assisting with preparations for the future LlHARA medical initiative and are strongly supporting the XLZD dark matter experiment.
Our total portfolio of projects in the construction phase is about £150m. We are happy to work with any partners on existing projects, or even better help in setting up new initiatives, projects or programmes.
RAL HEP Summer School
Past School Materials
The STFC High Energy Physics (HEP) Summer School provides first-year graduate students with the basics of particle physics early on in their research studies. The school is held each year during the first two weeks of September, delivering a programme of lectures, seminars and tutorials with leading researchers from the STFC Particle Physics department.
The school complements the coursework which they have in their home institutions. It covers topics such as the standard model, relativistic quantum field theory, the techniques of Feynman amplitudes and a full discussion of electro-weak theory and phenomenology. An intensive graduate school ensures that all are well prepared to take advantage of the more advanced summer schools, such as the CERN schools and various advanced studies institutes.
A stimulating environment is created in which students meet all their peers. This produces a strong sense of community which sets the stage for lifelong friendships and research collaborations.
