HIP NEWS May 16th 2016
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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 17 May 2016 at 10.15 in A315
Mads Frandsen (Odense)
Electroweak symmetry breaking, dark matter and the diphoton excess
Abstract: I will discuss some interpretations of the putative LHC diphoton excess at 750 GeV in the light of models of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking and models of dark matter.
COSMO-seminar
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Wednesday 18 May 2016 at 14.15 in room E205 (!)
Stefano Foffa (University of Geneva)
Binary parameters measurement from coalescence event(s) in LIGO
Abstract: After a brief introduction about gravitational waves (GW), binary systems and data analysis, I will discuss the informations that can be extracted from the study of a GW signal produced during a coalescence. I will take as a case study the recently announced GW detection at LIGO, and discuss what can be expected from other coalescence events and/or when other detectors will join the network.
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Thursday 19 May 2016 at 10.15 in A315
Tobias Zingg (HIP)
How I learned to stop worrying and love fractional spin: A systematic approach to holographic anyonization
Abstract: Anyons are a special type of particle in 2+1 dimensions that can have fractional spin quantum number and have garnered substantial interest theoretically as well as experimentally. However, they have a highly non-trivial configuration space of multiparticle states, compared to bosons or fermions, which often impedes a direct approach via quantum statistics, even in the most simple cases.
Holography provides a way to evade some of these issues. Within this framework, I will formulate a general method to obtain an effective physical description of strongly correlated anyonic systems via an alternative quantization of asymptotic electromagnetic degrees of freedom in a gravitational dual, and demonstrate how this prescription can be employed to compute the equation of state and various transport coefficients.
Finnish for international personnel, summer 2016
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The summer 2016 course programme is available at helsinki.fi/finnishcourses
https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/notifications/finnishsummer2016
Upcoming Events: Nuclear Science and Technology Symposium – NST2016
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The Finnish Nuclear Society (FNS) organizes the Nuclear Science and
Technology Symposium – NST2016 on November 2-3, 2016 in Helsinki. The
symposium gathers together research, industry and authority
representatives from Finland and abroad for scientific talks and
industry presentations. The FNS 50-year anniversary dinner and lectures
for the general public are held in connection with the symposium. For
details see the webpage http://www.ats-fns.fi/en/nst2016.
Visitors
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B.S. DiNunno 1.6. – 3.7. (NJ)
S. Foffa 17.5. – 19.5.(FM)
M. Frandsen 16.5. – 19.5. (KT)
M. Hindmarsh 29.4. – 12.6. (KR)
M. Karciauskas 16.5. – 20.5. (OL)
A. Lopez 29.4. – 13.6. (MH, KR)
J. Pedraza 1.6. – 7.6. (NJ)
M. Raidal 20.5. (KT)
T. Takahashi 15.5. – 20.5. (KE)