Congratulations to Paul Archer-Smith and Ben Keeshan who completed their PhDs in summer 2021. Paul's thesis was titled "Beauty from senselessness: Searching for signals of Beyond the Standard Model physics in a complex world" and he was supervised by Daniel. Ben's thesis was titled "Investigating Custodial Symmetry Violation in the Georgi-Machacek Model" and he was supervised by Heather.

The theory group will have three new PhD students and two new MSc students starting in Fall 2021. The three PhD students are Cem Ayber who will be working with Seyda, Yu-Ming Chen who will be working with Yue, and Fazlul Yasin who will be working with Heather and Daniel.

Theory PhD student Ben Keeshan will be spending two months at Osaka University (Japan) this summer under the Mitacs/JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Summer Program.  Ben will be launching a research collaboration on exotic extensions of the Standard Model Higg