HIP NEWS, 26 February 2024
HIP SEMINAR
Thursday 29 February 2024 at 15:15 in D106 (note location and time!)
Sarah Williams (Cambridge)
“The Future Circular Collider as a Higgs/top/EW Factory: status and plans for FCC-ee”
Abstract: https://www.hip.fi/seminars/
HIP SEMINAR
Friday 8 March 2024 at 10.15 in A315
Michael Doser (Cern)
“Quantum Sensing for (low and high energy) particle physics”
Abstract: https://www.hip.fi/seminars/
COSMOLOGY SEMINAR
Wednesday 28 February 2024 at 14:15, in A315
Syksy Räsänen
“Primordial black holes and stochastic inflation”
Abstract: https://www.hip.fi/cosmoseminars/.
MATHEMATICAL-PHYSICS SEMINAR
Wednesday 6 March 2024 at 14:15 in C124
Esko Keski-Vakkuri (University of Helsinki)
“Majorization and applications to quantum information” (Abstract)
Abstract: https://www.helsinki.fi/assets/drupal/2024-02/abs-20240306.txt
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/mathematical-physics/seminars-and-workshops
Nobel Lecture at Physics Days 2024
Prof. Anne L’Huillier, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2023, will visit Helsinki to give a public lecture at Physics Days on Wednesday the 6th of March at 15:00. For streaming and other details, please see:
https://www.fyysikkoseura.fi/language/en/physics-nobelist-anne-lhuillier-visit/
The next Kumpula Physics Colloquium in the spring series will take place
on Friday the 8th of March at 14:15 in Exactum E204.
Our speaker is Pauliina Ilmonen, who is a professor (tenured associate professor) in Statistics and Mathematical Data Science at Aalto University School of Science. She is also the vice head (in charge of teaching) of the Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis. The title of her talk is “On extreme quantile regions”.
For more information, please visit: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/physics-colloquium/
Welcome!
DOCTORAL DEFENCE
Kimmo Kallonen, FM will defend the doctoral dissertation entitled “Quark and Gluon Jet Discrimination and Search for Supersymmetry with the CMS Experiment” in the Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, on 1 March 2024 at 13:00. The public examination will take place at the following address: Physicum, auditorium E204, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2.
Assistant Professor Sarah Williams, University of Cambridge, will serve as the opponent, and Henning Kirschenmann as the custos.
The dissertation will be published in the series HIP-Internal Report Series.
The dissertation is also available in electronic form in Helda http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-51-8426-9
Apply for membership in Young Academy Finland!
Dear Early Career Researcher! Do you wish to be part of a multidisciplinary community that aims to promote research and strengthen the status of science and scholarship in society? Are you interested in networking with researchers from different research fields, or augmenting the influence of the work of young academics in society?
Please, read the instructions below and send your application by 29 February 2024! We will choose about 10 applicants who will be interviewed on weeks 11 and 12. The list of new members will be public in the summer of 2024 and the membership period will begin in September 2024.
More details in https://nuortentiedeakatemia.fi/en/2024/02/07/apply-for-membership-in-young-academy-finland-3/
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
The Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation
The Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation accepts grant applications every day of the year. There are no separate application times.
https://jaes.fi/en/applying-for-donation-2/
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters: Mathematics Fund
There are no fixed dates for applying to the Mathematics Fund. There are no fixed dates for applying to the Mathematics Fund. Applications should be sent to the chairman of the trustees, Matti Lassas (matti.lassas [at] helsinki.fi ).
https://www.acadsci.fi/en/scholarships-and-prizes/scholarships/mathematics-fund.html
(In Finnish) Marjatta ja Eino Kollin Säätiö
Säätiön tehtävänä on tukea tieteellistä sekä soveltavaa tutkimusta ja kehitystyötä myöntämällä apurahoja hankkeiden toteuttajille. Säätiö tarjoaa mahdollisuuksia yksittäisille tutkijoille ja kehittäjille sekä tutkimus-/ kehittäjäryhmille. Haasteena on ruokkia nimenomaan sellaista kehitystä, jolla olisi elinympäristömme kannalta positiivista vaikutusta pitkällä tähtäimellä. Apurahojen hakuaika on jatkuva.
(På svenska) Svenska tekniska vetenskapsakademien i Finland (STV)
Stipendier till stöd för vetenskapen
Akademien utdelar stipendier för verksamhet vars syfte sammanfaller med Akademiens. Stipendier kan beviljas enskild sökande med avlagd akademisk slutexamen. Stipendier kan sökas kontinuerligt under året och beslut görs kvartalsvis.
https://www.stvif.fi/forskarstipendier/
EDUFI Fellowship
The EDUFI Fellowship is intended, particularly, for providing initial funding to carry out research for a doctoral thesis in Finland.
Applicant: a Finnish university department
Who: a doctoral student or a young researcher from outside Finland
Purpose: initial funding for completing a doctoral research project in Finland, completion of a double degree or a study visit on exceptionally compelling reasons
Application deadline: rolling deadline. You should apply for the grant five months before the start of the fellowship.
Duration of fellowship: 3–12 months, visits 3–6 months
https://www.oph.fi/en/development/edufi-fellowship
(På svenska) Waldemar von Frenckells stiftelse
Stiftelsens ändamål är att genom stipendier, belöningar och understöd åt enskilda finska medborgare eller i Finland verksamma samfund, föreningar och institutioner befordra vetenskaplig forskning samt belöna medborgerlig, fosterländsk och/eller kulturell gärning och att understöda socialt eller vetenskapligt inriktad verksamhet.
Ansökningar riktade till stiftelsen indelas i två huvudkategorier, “Vetenskapliga” och “Allmänna”, vilka behandlas av två skilda beredningsnämnder inom stiftelsen. Forskningsunderstöd beviljas enbart för postgradual forskning. Ansökningstiden utgår årligen den 15 mars.
Ansökningsblanketter, mm: Virve Valkama e-post: virve.valkama(at)nordea.com
http://www.foundationweb.net/frenckell/index.html
Sakari Alhopuro Foundation
Grants are awarded to research in medical science and related fields, environmental research as well as research that advances biodiversity and environmental protection. The research may be multidisciplinary.
The Foundation supports high-quality scientific research by awarding grants to postdoctoral researchers.
The application period for grants from the Sakari Alhopuro Foundation is 1–29 February 2024.
https://www.sakarialhopuronsaatio.fi/en/home.html
(In Finnish) Ellen ja Artturi Nyyssösen säätiö
Ellen ja Artturi Nyyssösen säätiö on olemassa Jyväskylän yliopistossa ja sen erillislaitoksissa työskentelevien tutkijoiden ja jatko-opiskelijoiden tukemista varten. Apurahojen myöntämisen lisäksi toimimme linkkinä tutkimusmaailman ja liike-elämän välillä järjestämällä erilaisia verkostoitumismahdollisuuksia tukemillemme tutkijoille omistamiemme toimitilojen vuokralaisten kanssa.
Vuoden 2024 apurahojen hakuaika on 1.-29.2.2024.
https://www.eans.fi/fi/67/hae-apurahaa
PoDoCo spring application round
PoDoCo helps Finnish companies to improve their competitiveness in the global markets and employ young PhD’s in the private sector.
PoDoCo spring application round is open from March 1 to April 15, 2024.