HIP NEWS October 5th 2015
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HIP Staff News
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Professor Paula Eerola has been appointed
as the Director of HIP for the 5-year period
starting 1.1.2016.
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 6 October 2015 at 10.15 in A315
Jarno Rantaharju (Odense)
Lattice Four-Fermion Interactions for Beyond Standard Model Physics
Abstract: We present a study of a lattice model of chirally symmetric four-fermion interactions, the Nambu Jona-Lasinio model, with Wilson fermions. Four fermion operators are a necessary part of many models of beyond Standard Model physics. In particular we are interested in technicolor models, where effective four-fermion operators are used to generate the standard model fermion masses. In the ideal walking scenario, the same interaction is responsible for breaking the chiral symmetry in an otherwise conformal model. As a first step, we study the restoration and spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry in the lattice NJL model before adding a gauge interaction. We map the phase structure of the model and establish chiral symmetry breaking.
Seminar: The Brilliance of Science – the Role of Women in International Science
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Time: Tuesday 6 October, 2015 at 17:00 – 19:30 (note the changed start time)
Organizers:
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Embassy of Italy in Helsinki
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Place: Kumpula Campus, Exactum, Lars Ahlfors Auditorium
Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2 B, 1st floor, Helsinki
Program: http://www.acadsci.fi/tilaisuudet/brilliance.htm
TEDxCERN@University of Helsinki, Friday 9 October webcast at Kumpula
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The webcast is shown in Physicum E207 from 15 to 21. For more information on the event and the speakers, visit: tedxcern.web.cern.ch/speakers.
OPEN POSITIONS:
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A tenure-track faculty opening in Theoretical Particle-Astrophysics at the Department of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis, by Dec. 1st, 2015.
http://www.physics.wustl.edu/faculty_openings
Visitors
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A. Cabo 2.10. – 27.10. (AT)
J. Rantaharju 5.10. – 9.10. (KR)