HIP NEWS January 8th 2018
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CMS DETECTOR AWARD 2017
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HIP postdoc Mirko Berretti has received the annual CMS detector award 2017 for his outstanding contribution to the CT-PPS system in CMS. Mirko is working at the HIP CMS programme.

The annual CMS Detector Awards are an acknowledgement to the CMS members that, over the last three years, have made or continue to make particularly significant contributions to the project and construction of CMS detectors or parts of them, or to the general implementation of the upgrade projects.

Congratulations to Mirko!

PHYSICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM ON 26.01.2018 AT 14.15 IN D101
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You are warmly invited to the first in a new series of departmental colloquia. Our first speaker will be our own Claus Montonen, who will speak about his work with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which recently won the Nobel Peace Prize. His talk, titled “The Road to a Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons”, will last 30 minutes and be followed by a cocktail reception. Welcome!

For more information visit: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/physics-colloquium/

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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The Foundations’ Post Doc Pool´s Spring Call 2018.
The pool grant offers young scholars flexible funding from one source that covers all expenses of a research period abroad for at least one academic year. The grants are intended only for sending researchers abroad from Finland.
The Pool’s application round is open from 15.12.2017 until 15.1.2018.
http://www.postdocpooli.fi/?lang=en

(in Finnish) Emil Aaltosen säätiö.
Säätiö myöntää apurahoja tieteelliseen tutkimustyöhön kaikille tieteenaloille ja jakaa apurahoja vuosittain yli 6 miljoonaa euroa, josta yli neljä miljoonaa euroa myönnetään henkilökohtaisina apurahoina tutkimustyön tekemiseen väitöskirjatyöntekijöille ja post doc –tutkijoille. Tämän lisäksi säätiö myöntää kolmivuotisia projektiapurahoja tutkimusryhmille. Emil Aaltosen Säätiö on ollut mukana säätiöiden ja rahastojen yhteisessä post doc –poolissa sen ensimmäisestä kolmivuotiskaudesta (2010) alkaen. Poolin kautta myönnetään apurahoja tohtorien ulkomaiseen työskentelyyn.
Hae apurahaa 15.1.-15.2.2018. The Emil Aaltonen Foundation offers grants as a rule to Finnish-speaking researchers only.

Hae apurahaa

University of Helsinki Funds.
The application time for the year 2018 is 11.1. – 31.1.2018
More information https://www.helsinki.fi/en/grants#.Wjzu8SvHhk4.link

HIP NEWS December 18th 2017
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DOCTORAL DEFENCE
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Terhi Järvinen will defend the doctoral dissertation entitled “Precision measurements of Bs mesons in the CMS experiment at the LHC” in the Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, on 18 December 2017 at 10:00. The public examination will take place at the following address: Physicum,auditorio E204, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2 A.
Professori Ulrik Egede, Imperial College London, will serve as the opponent, and Professor Paula Eerola as the custos.
https://helsinginyliopisto.etapahtuma.fi/en-us/Kalenteri/English?id=50161

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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THE MAGNUS EHRNROOTH FOUNDATION AWARDS / 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. – 30.6. or 1.7. – 31.12. to a student who has been accepted by the university as a doctoral student.
More information https://www.magnusehrnroothinsaatio.fi/en/grants/#reserch_grant

THE FOUNDATIONS’ POST DOC POOL´S SPRING CALL 2018
The pool grant offers young scholars flexible funding from one source that covers all expenses of a research period abroad for at least one academic year. The grants are intended only for sending researchers abroad from Finland.
The Pool’s application round is open from 15.12.2017 until 15.1.2018.
http://www.postdocpooli.fi/?lang=en

HIP NEWS December 11th 2017
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COSMO-seminar
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Wednesday 13 December 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Matti Heikinheimo (Helsinki)
Thermalization and freeze-out in an isolated hidden sector.

More information on http://research.hip.fi/hwp/cosmology/?page_id=206

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Thursday 14 December 2017 at 10.15 in A315
Stephan Huber (Sussex)
Baryons and gravitational waves from the electroweak phase transition?

More information on http://www.hip.fifi/seminars/

DOCTORAL DEFENCE
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Terhi Järvinen will defend the doctoral dissertation entitled “Precision measurements of Bs mesons in the CMS experiment at the LHC” in the Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, on 18 December 2017 at 10:00. The public examination will take place at the following address: Physicum,auditorio E204, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2 A.
Professori Ulrik Egede, Imperial College London, will serve as the opponent, and Professor Paula Eerola as the custos.
https://helsinginyliopisto.etapahtuma.fi/en-us/Kalenteri/English?id=50161

SPÅTIND 2018 PARTICLE PHYSICS CONFERENCE, SKEIKAMPEN, NORWAY, 2-7.1.2018
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The registration for The “Spåtind” 2018 Conference is https://indico.cern.ch/event/666278/

The 25th Nordic Particle Physics Meeting (Spåtind 2018) will take place at the Thon Hotel in Skeikampen (Norway), from Monday, 2 January to Sunday, 7 January 2018. The program consists of lectures and overview presentations on some of the most topical subjects in particle physics and related fields.

Registration for the meeting will be closed on Friday 15 Dec 2017.

HIP NEWS December 4th 2017
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In the Independence Day honors roll of the President of the Republic
HIP director, professor Paula Eerola, dean of Faculty of Science (1.1.2018 -), receives Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland and Jouni Heino, laboratory engineer at HIP, receives Cross of Merit of the Order of the Lion of Finland.

Doctoral defence
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M.Sc (Tech) Juska Pekkanen will defend his doctoral thesis “Jet Particology & Search for New Massive Particles”, with the permission of the Aalto University School of Science, at a public examination held at the auditorium D101 of the Physicum building, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2, on Tuesday December 5th 2017, at 12 o’clock noon.
More information http://www.aalto.fi/fi/current/events/2017-11-15-012/

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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The Magnus Ehrnrooth foundation supports scientific research in mathematics, astronomy, physics, and chemistry including medical chemistry.
The grant applications are submitted electronically. The application period is 15.10. – 9.12.
https://apurahat.fi/maghaku/UserLogin.aspx?kieli=englanti

The Foundations’ Post Doc Pool´s Spring Call 2018
The pool grant offers young scholars flexible funding from one source that covers all expenses of a research period abroad for at least one academic year. The grants are intended only for sending researchers abroad from Finland.
The Pool’s application round is open from 15.12.2017 until 15.1.2018.
http://www.postdocpooli.fi/?lang=en

Staff training
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Finnish for international personnel, spring 2018
Sun suomi 3, Finnish for False Beginners
Let’s continue with Finnish 2 – Kuulostaa hyvältä!
More information in flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/HY370153

HIP NEWS November 27th 2017
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THREE-YEAR RESEARCH GRANTS 2018-2020
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The Rector has decided, on 23 November 2017, to award funding for 17 research projects for the years 2018 – 2020.
PhD David Weir has been awarded a three-year research grant (2018-2020). The grant is for “Gravitational wave cosmology for LISA.”

Congratulations David!

More details in flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/HY369774

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 28 November at 10.15 in A315
Antti Kupiainen (Helsinki)
Proof of the DOZZ Formula

More information on http://www.hip.fifi/seminars/

COSMO-seminar
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Wednesday 29 November 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Felix Kahlhoefer (DESY)
TBA

More information on http://research.hip.fi/hwp/cosmology/?page_id=206

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Thursday 30 November 2017 at 10.15 in A315
Xiaoyong Chu (Vienna)
Dark matter indirect signals with a long-lived mediator

More information on http://www.hip.fifi/seminars/

COSMO-seminar
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Thursday 30 November 2017 at 14:15 room A311
Nicola Tamanini (IPhT CEA-Saclay)
TBA

More information on http://research.hip.fi/hwp/cosmology/?page_id=206

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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The Magnus Ehrnrooth foundation supports scientific research in mathematics, astronomy, physics, and chemistry including medical chemistry.
The grant applications are submitted electronically. The application period is 15.10. – 30.11.
https://apurahat.fi/maghaku/UserLogin.aspx?kieli=englanti

The Foundations’ Post Doc Pool´s Spring Call 2018
The pool grant offers young scholars flexible funding from one source that covers all expenses of a research period abroad for at least one academic year. The grants are intended only for sending researchers abroad from Finland.
The Pool’s application round is open from 15.12.2017 until 15.1.2018.
http://www.postdocpooli.fi/?lang=en

HIP NEWS November 20th 2017
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OPEN POSITION – HIP DIRECTOR
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HIP is seeking A DIRECTOR for a fixed term of 5 years starting on 1 January 2018.
The current director Paula Eerola has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Helsinki.

The application deadline is 21 November 2017.

Full announcement on https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/director-helsinki-institute-of-physics

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Thursday 23 November at 10.15 in A315
Shao-Jiang Wang (Beijing)
The gravitational waves from the first-order phase transition with a dimension-six operator

More information on http://www.hip.fifi/seminars/ .

HELSINKI INNOVATION SERVICES (HIS): TEKES FUNDING CALL FOR PROJECTS WITH COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL
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Tekes funds projects by research organisations involving preparations for the commercialisation of an idea, such as innovation searches, the determination of customer value or other analyses, as well as projects involving applied research.

“New business from research ideas” funding is intended for research groups and researchers in research organisations, who want to build a new business based on their research and realise their idea by commercialising it.

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/higher-education-science-policy/new-knowledge-and-business-from-research-ideas

HIP NEWS November 13th 2017
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OPEN POSITION – HIP DIRECTOR
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HIP is seeking A DIRECTOR for a fixed term of 5 years starting on 1 January 2018.
The current director Paula Eerola has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Helsinki.

The application deadline is 21 November 2017.

Full announcement on https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/director-helsinki-institute-of-physics

COSMO-Seminar
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Wednesday 15 November 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Giuseppe Fanizza (Zurich University)
Non-linear CMB lensing and next generation experiments

More information on http://research.hip.fi/hwp/cosmology/?page_id=206

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Thursday 16 November at 10.15 in A315
Subhadeep Mondal (Helsinki)
The various aspects and future prospects of heavy neutrino search

More information on http://www.hip.fifi/seminars/ .

OPEN POSITION
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A postdoc position in relativistic heavy ion physics at Niels Bohr Institute. The position is for 2 years starting from 1 January 2018. One of the proposed work topics is development of the Fast Interaction Trigger (FIT) for the ALICE upgrade.
The application deadline is November 15, 2017.
The details can be found in http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=146006

ESIPAP: THE EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF INSTRUMENTATION IN PARTICLE & ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS 2018
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Registration deadline 15.11.2017.

The 2018 European School of Instrumentation In Particle & Astroparticle Physics (ESIPAP) is an ideal place for master or PhD students to learn and train in high-level instrumentation.
ESIPAP is organized in the form of two independent & complementary modules of 4 weeks each and the lectures are taught by some of the most renowned specialists. Hosted by ESI in Archamps, France close to Geneva, ESIPAP benefits from the proximity and the involvement of CERN where laboratory sessions take place.

The first module of ESIPAP will starts on 22 January 2018. Registrations for the 2018 school sessions (deadline 15.11.2017): http://www.esi-archamps.eu/Thematic-Schools/Discover-ESIPAP

HIP NEWS November 6th 2017
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OPEN POSITION – HIP DIRECTOR
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HIP is seeking A DIRECTOR for a fixed term of 5 years starting on 1 January 2018.
The current director Paula Eerola has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Helsinki.

The application deadline is 21 November 2017.

Full announcement on https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/director-helsinki-institute-of-physics

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 7 November 2017 at 10.30 (note 15min delay!) in A315
Emilia Kilpua and Minna Palmroth (Helsinki)
Experimental dialogue talk on space physics and space weather

More information on http://www.hip.fifi/seminars/ .

COSMO-Seminar
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Wednesday 8 November 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Klaus Dolag (MPA Munich)
The Magneticum Simulations

More information on http://research.hip.fi/hwp/cosmology/?page_id=206

OPEN POSITION
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A postdoc position in relativistic heavy ion physics at Niels Bohr Institute. The position is for 2 years starting from 1 January 2018. One of the proposed work topics is development of the Fast Interaction Trigger (FIT) for the ALICE upgrade.
The application deadline is November 15, 2017.
The details can be found in http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=146006

OPEN POSITION
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A Research Associate in the Particle Physics Group of the School of Physics, University of Bristol. The position is funded by the European Commission for a project to characterize conditioned nuclear waste. The post is funded for 2.5 years and is available from 1st of January 2018.
The application deadline is November 12, 2017.
The details can be found in http://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details.html?nPostingId=6711&nPostingTargetId=33748&id=Q50FK026203F3VBQBV7V77V83&LG=UK&mask=uobext

OPEN POSITION
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The Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics (ITA) at the University of Oslo invites applications for
a tenured faculty position in cosmology.
Link to further information and application portal:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/143358/associate-professorship-in-cosmology

ESIPAP: the European School of Instrumentation In Particle & Astroparticle Physics 2018
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Registration deadline 15.11.2017.

The 2018 European School of Instrumentation In Particle & Astroparticle Physics (ESIPAP) is an ideal place for master or PhD students to learn and train in high-level instrumentation.
ESIPAP is organized in the form of two independent & complementary modules of 4 weeks each and the lectures are taught by some of the most renowned specialists. Hosted by ESI in Archamps, France close to Geneva, ESIPAP benefits from the proximity and the involvement of CERN where laboratory sessions take place.

The first module of ESIPAP will starts on 22 January 2018. Registrations for the 2018 school sessions (deadline 15.11.2017): http://www.esi-archamps.eu/Thematic-Schools/Discover-ESIPAP

HIP NEWS October 30th 2017
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OPEN POSITION – HIP DIRECTOR
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HIP is seeking A DIRECTOR for a fixed term of 5 years starting on 1 January 2018.
The current director Paula Eerola has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Helsinki.

The application deadline is 21 November 2017.

Full announcement on https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/director-helsinki-institute-of-physics

FINLAND AT CERN 1-3 NOV 2017, CERN, GENEVA
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HIP and CERN invite you to join Finland at CERN –event on November 1–3 at IdeaSquare and at the Globe of Science and Innovation at CERN. Innovative Finnish companies will be present to showcase their expertise. There will also be time to mingle with other Finns and attendees, so join in to celebrate Finnish knowledge as well as our 100-year-old country.
Don’t forget to register for the event!
For full program and other information, see https://events.hip.fi/finlandatcern/

COSMO-SEMINAR
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Wednesday 1 November 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Tomo Takahashi (Saga University)
Bounds on low reheating temperature from ultracompact minihalos

More information on http://research.hip.fi/hwp/cosmology/?page_id=206

OPEN POSITION
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A postdoc position in relativistic heavy ion physics at Niels Bohr Institute. The position is for 2 years starting from 1 January 2018. One of the proposed work topics is development of the Fast Interaction Trigger (FIT) for the ALICE upgrade.
The application deadline is November 15, 2017.
The details can be found in http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=146006

OPEN POSITION
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A Research Associate in the Particle Physics Group of the School of Physics, University of Bristol. The position is funded by the European Commission for a project to characterize conditioned nuclear waste. The post is funded for 2.5 years and is available from 1st of January 2018.
The application deadline is November 12, 2017.
The details can be found in http://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details.html?nPostingId=6711&nPostingTargetId=33748&id=Q50FK026203F3VBQBV7V77V83&LG=UK&mask=uobext

ESIPAP: THE EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF INSTRUMENTATION IN PARTICLE & ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS 2018
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Registration deadline 15.11.2017.

The 2018 European School of Instrumentation In Particle & Astroparticle Physics (ESIPAP) is an ideal place for master or PhD students to learn and train in high-level instrumentation.
ESIPAP is organized in the form of two independent & complementary modules of 4 weeks each and the lectures are taught by some of the most renowned specialists. Hosted by ESI in Archamps, France close to Geneva, ESIPAP benefits from the proximity and the involvement of CERN where laboratory sessions take place.

The first module of ESIPAP will starts on 22 January 2018. Registrations for the 2018 school sessions (deadline 15.11.2017): http://www.esi-archamps.eu/Thematic-Schools/Discover-ESIPAP

HIP NEWS October 23rd 2017
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PAULA EEROLA APPOINTED DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF SCIENCE

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI
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The Director of HIP Paula Eerola has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Helsinki by the Board of the University in its meeting today. Paula will start in her new position on 1 January 2018.

Congratulations to Paula!

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 24 October 2017 at 10.15 in A315
Jonathan Kozaczuk (UMass Amherst)
Dark Photons from Nuclear Transitions

More information on http://www.hip.fifi/seminars/ .

COSMO-SEMINAR
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Wednesday 25 October 2017 at 14.15 in A315
José Vieira (University of Sussex)
Can power spectrum observations rule out slow-roll inflation?

More information on http://research.hip.fi/hwp/cosmology/?page_id=206

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Thursday 26 October 2017 at 10.15 in A315
Andrei Smilga (Nantes)
Ultraviolet behaviour of nonrenormalizable supersymmetric theories

More information on http://www.hip.fifi/seminars/ .

OPEN POSITION
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A postdoc position in relativistic heavy ion physics at Niels Bohr Institute. The position is for 2 years starting from 1 January 2018. One of the proposed work topics is development of the Fast Interaction Trigger (FIT) for the ALICE upgrade.
The application deadline is November 15, 2017.
The details can be found in http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=146006

OPEN SCIENCE KIOSK KUMPULA CAMPUS
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More information on http://libraryguides.helsinki.fi/oa-week2017

(IN FINNISH) APURAHOJA TOHTORIKOULUTETTAVILLE JA POSTDOC-TUTKIJOILLE
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Fulbright-stipendiohjelmat
Fulbright-stipendiohjelmat tutkijavierailuun Yhdysvaltoihin ovat nyt haussa lukuvuodelle 2018-2019. Haussa apurahoja väitöskirjatutkimukseen sekä tohtorintutkinnon jälkeiseen tutkimukseen.
Hakuaika tutkijaohjelmiin päättyy 11.12.2017 klo 10.00.
Lisätietoja http://www.fulbright.fi/fi/events/hakuaika-tutkijaohjelmiin-paattyy

TEKNOLOGIATEOLLISUUDEN 100-VUOTISSÄÄTIÖN PODOCO-OHJELMA
PoDoCo (Post Docs in Companies) ohjelman tavoitteena on edistää nuorten tohtorien siirtymistä elinkeinoelämän palvelukseen ja samalla parantaa Suomen elinkeinoelämän kykyä uudistua pitkäjänteisesti.
Hakuaika päättyy 3.11.2017
Lisätietoja http://techfinland100.fi/podoco-haku-15-9-3-11-2017/