HIP NEWS, 19 October 2020
SEMINARS
Tuesday 20 October 2020 at 10.15
Niko Jokela (Helsinki)
Holographic confinement confronts lattice Yang-Mills theory
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Nordic HET seminar
Tuesday 20 October at 16.15 via Zoom
Alex Maloney (McGill, NBI)
Gravity from Averaging CFTs
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COSMO SEMINAR
Wednesday 21 October 2020 at 14.15 via zoom
Marco Drewes (University of Louvain, CP3)
Sterile neutrinos as dark matter candidates
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Atmospheric Mathematics seminar
Friday 23 October 2020 at 15:15 PM Helsinki 14:15 PM Rome-Paris 08:15 AM Baltimore
Gregory Eyink (The Johns Hopkins University))
Fluid Turbulence, Thermal Noise and Spontaneous Stochasticity
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CERN Virtual Workshop: Mini-workshop on strings and vortons
Thursday 22 October 2020 at 17.00 – 19.00 Europe/Zurich
Each talk will consist of a 15′ presentation and 15′ for discussion. All presentations will be recorded and uploaded to https://www.youtube.com/c/VirtualAxionInstitute. The discussion sessions will not be recorded.
We strongly encourage everyone interested in this meeting to register so that we can gauge the expected size of the audience.
More details on https://indico.cern.ch/event/966669
1)Axion strings are superconducting
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02763
2) Electroweak axion string and superconductivity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02834
3) Irreducible cosmic production of relic vortons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04620
Please check out our INDICO page and feel free to sign up if you are interested.
Organizers:
Kai Schmitz (kai.schmitz [at] cern.ch )
Valerie Domcke (valerie.domcke [at] cern.ch)
Soft Skills for Boosting Employability Potential of Higher Education Graduates
Reboot Soft Skills Training Event
Tuesday 27 October 2020 at 12:00 – 16:10
The event will be organised virtually, in Finnish or English.
The event is free-of-charge to all unemployed and underemployed higher education graduates, career counsellors, employment training organisations and key actors in Human Resource Management and employment, policy makers and business stakeholders interested in the topic.
Programme: https://cutt.ly/event-programme
Kindly register by 21.10.2020 at https://forms.gle/fJ4t12nN6eoehjay9. NB. Places are limited.
Co-funded by the Erasmus+Programme of the European Union
Experiencing Finland – welcoming event
Tuesday 3 November 2020 at 16.30
The traditional University of Helsinki welcoming event for recently arrived international employees is held online.
This popular event is an opportunity to get some practical hints about forthcoming autumn and winter, Finnish people and Finland.
Please register at the latest on November 2.
Flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/s/fW1Ff
Business Finland – Partnership funding for companies and research organizations
Business Finland organized a competition where it challenged leading companies with international operations to resolve significant future challenges and increase their research, development and innovation investments in Finland. In the summer of 2020, three projects by four leading companies (Neste, Nokia, Metsä Group, Fortum) were selected as the winners.
Business Finland will now provide partnership funding for research, development and innovation projects related to the themes of these leading companies’ ecosystems.
- Study the roadmaps of the leading companies’ ecosystems.
- Discuss with the leading companies and Business Finland’s contact persons.
- Apply for funding by October 30, 2020.
More information: https://www.businessfinland.fi/en/whats-new/calls/2020/partnership-funding-for-companies-and-research-organizations/
(In Finnish) KUTSU “Oppimisen ja opetuksen avoimuutta rakennetaan yhteistyöllä” webinaariin 22.10.
International Open Access Week 19.-25.10.2020
Webinaari torstaina 22.10. klo 15:00-16:00
Lisätietoja Flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/s/uEtT8
More details on flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/s/XvDOX
(In Finnish) Utelias mieli -podcast
Mistä tieteenalasi kysymyksestä pitäisi puhua enemmän? Utelias mieli on yleistajuinen tiedepodcast kaikille maailmaan uteliaasti suhtautuville.
Kuuntele ja tilaa #UteliasMieli-podcast.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
The Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation
Donations and scholarships are available for application on a continuous basis.
http://www.jaes.fi/en/avustusten-haku/
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters: Mathematics Fund.
There are no fixed dates for applying to the Mathematics Fund. Applications should be sent to the chairman of the trustees, Olli Martio (olli.martio [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/
Magnus Ehrnrooth Foundation
Post doc scholarships
Persons who recently have obtained their PhD may apply for a postdoctoral scholarship. The purpose of a postdoctoral scholarship is to enable the grantee to further develop as a researcher. Applicants for a postdoctoral scholarship may also apply for support for research related costs and travel. A separate application for these purposes must be made.
Graduate student scholarships
The graduate student stipend can be awarded for a period of one year or a half year, preferably for the period 1.7. – 31.12. to a student who has been accepted by the university as a doctoral student. The stipend can be awarded conditionally to a student about to graduate.
https://www.magnusehrnroothinsaatio.fi/en/grants/
Erkki Paasikivi Foundation
The foundation promotes education and research in water technology, housing solutions and business economics.
Application period for the grants is 1.8.2020 – 23.10.2020.
https://erkkipaasikivensaatio.fi/en/
Riitta ja Jorma J. Takanen Foundation sr
Riitta ja Jorma J. Takanen Foundations purpose is to advance economic life, especially the industry of technology through know-howanddevelopmentin the area of Central and Northern Finland.
The applications must be admitted 1.9.-31.10.2020.
https://www.rjtsaatio.fi/391-2/
PoDoCo Fall 2020 Application Round
PoDoCo is a matchmaking program supporting long term competitiveness and strategic renewal of companies and employment of young doctors in the private sector.
PoDoCo Autumn 2020 Application Round 15.9. – 31.10.2020.
More details on https://www.podoco.fi/
(På svenska) Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland
SLS deltar i programmet Post Docs in Companies (PoDoCo) som förenar företag med forskare på doktorsnivå. Unga doktorer ges tillfälle att bidra med sin forskning till företag, och samtidigt få insikter i företagsvärlden och möjlighet att bli anställda.
Ansök om PoDoCo-poolens stipendier 15.9–31.10.2020.