1. The Particle Physics Group 2006: Christmas Meeting Summary and Outlook

2. Slide2/9 People New lecturer - Christian New professor - Fred New PPARC fellow - Pilko New (honorary) professor – Keith New professor and lecturer – Steve and Cinzia Plus many new postdocs and students Group now 92 strong (and growing) Space is getting tight!

3. Slide3/9 Running Experiments Running well and producing great physics Strong Manchester involvement

4. Slide4/9 Major contribution to the SCT – successfully completed Major and growing contribution to the trigger Increasing rôle in physics studies

5. Slide5/9 New Experiments CALICE – big increase SuperNEMO – bigger increase FP420 – biggest increase Detector R and D (including ATLAS upgrade) Guarantees for a busy future

6. Slide6/9 Theory Leading group for QCD phenomenology. Lots of useful calculation and results linked to experiments Increasing BSM activity - building links with astronomy/cosmology. New lecturer appointment soon

7. Slide7/9 eScience+Computing Running 1000 node Tier 2 centre Leading NorthGrid Leading Grid Security group GridPP3 grant submitted Strong local computing infrastructure

8. Slide8/9 Accelerators Build up of varied activities for ILC LCABD-2 grant submitted Working with FP420 – mixture of detector physics and accelerator science New FFAG project – a real accelerator on our doorstep New lecturer to be appointed soon

9. Slide9/9 Outlook 2006 was busy 2007 will be very busy Have a good break over Christmas (You’ll need it)