HIP NEWS May 2nd 2017
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A PUBLIC LECTURE: THE SECRET QUANTUM LIFE OF BLACK HOLES
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Tuesday 2 May 2017 at 17.00 in room E204, Physicum
A public lecture by prof. Gia Dvali: “The Secret Quantum Life of Black Holes”
Organised by Department of Physics.
Further information: Oleg Lebedev, oleg.lebedev [at] helsinki.fi

COSMO-Seminar
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Wednesday 3 May 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Silvia Galli (IAP Paris)
Reviewing tensions between Planck and other data.

In 2015, the Planck collaboration published results on cosmological parameters based on the Planck second data release. The Planck preferred best fit model is consistent but somewhat different from the one obtained using the WMAP satellite data, and presents interesting mild tensions with a few astrophysical datasets (e.g. direct measurements of H0), while being in very good agreement with others (e.g. the latest BAO measurements from BOSS). It has been advocated that some of these differences might be driven by inconsistent results of the Planck measurements at small scales. In this talk, I will review some of the aforementioned differences and tensions and present our recent work to assess the internal consistency of the Planck data. I will then discuss the features in the Planck power spectra that lead to shifts in cosmological parameters, arguing that these are consistent with statistical fluctuations.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Thursday 4 May 2017 at 10.15 in A315: Hannu Paukkunen (Jyväskylä)
Nuclear PDFs today

Abstract: I will review the present status of global determination of nuclear PDFs, Parton Distribution Functions. A special emphasis will be given to the recent Eskola-Paakkinen-Paukkunen-Salgado (EPPS16) analysis, which is the first one to include constraints from the LHC proton-lead collisions.

WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES / UPCOMING EVENTS
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Helsinki JetMET workshop: physics at 100 fb-1, 10-12 May 2017, University of Helsinki, Kumpula campus, Finland
http://www.hip.fifi/jetmet100

CERN SCHOOL OF COMPUTING 2017
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Applications are open for the 2017 CERN School of Computing (CSC 2017) which takes place on 27 Aug – 9 Sept 2017 in Madrid, Spain.

The School is organized in collaboration with Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). It will cover a wide range of topics, such as data storage and management technologies, fundamental concepts of physics computing, and many other areas including software engineering, computer architecture, computing security and networking.

All details, including the application form, can be found at https://indico.cern.ch/e/csc2017

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS WEDNESDAY 10 MAY.

The School is limited to 60 students. The total fee is EUR 1200 per student (financial support may be available for justified cases).

For all enquiries and correspondence related to the School, please email computing.school [at] cern.ch

HIP NEWS April 24th 2017
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COSMO-Seminar
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Wednesday 26 April 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Christian Byrnes (University of Sussex)
Searching for spectator fields during inflation.

Abstract: Even if the observed primordial perturbations were generated during inflation, it remains an open question whether these perturbations are due to the inflaton field, or a subdominant spectator field. A Bayesian model comparison between these two scenarios critically depends on the expected field value of the spectator field, and I will present recent work on calculating the vacuum expectation value of spectator fields using the stochastic formalism. The Planck non-Gaussianity constraints do not discriminate between these two classes of models, but probing fNL~1 is an important target.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Thursday 27 April 2017 at 10.15 in A315: Jens Andersen (Trondheim)
QCD in strong magnetic fields

Abstract: QCD in strong magnetic fields is relevant for compact stars, heavy-ion collisions, and the early universe. In this talk I will discuss our current understanding of the thermodynamics of QCD in a constant magnetic background. I will focus on magnetic catalysis at T=0 and inverse magnetic catalysis around the chiral transition in the context of low-energy models (Nambu-Jona-Lasinio and quark-meson models with and without the Polyakov loop) and lattice QCD

A PUBLIC LECTURE: THE SECRET QUANTUM LIFE OF BLACK HOLES
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Tuesday 2 May 2017 at 17.00 in room E204, Physicum
A public lecture by prof. Gia Dvali: “The Secret Quantum Life of Black Holes”
Organised by Department of Physics.
Further information: Oleg Lebedev, oleg.lebedev [at] helsinki.fi

THE ACADEMY’S APRIL 2017 CALL
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Applications for the Academy of Finland’s April 2017 call can be submitted as of Monday 3 April. The call closes on Wednesday 26 April at 16.15 local Finnish time.

Academy Programmes
Radiation Detectors for Health, Safety and Security (RADDESS), call for letters of intent
Health from Science (TERVA), call for letters of intent

More information in flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/SuomenAkatemia-Tutkimusasiat/Academy-of-Finland-April-Call

CERN SCHOOL OF COMPUTING 2017
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Applications are open for the 2017 CERN School of Computing (CSC 2017) which takes place on 27 Aug – 9 Sept 2017 in Madrid, Spain.

The School is organized in collaboration with Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). It will cover a wide range of topics, such as data storage and management technologies, fundamental concepts of physics computing, and many other areas including software engineering, computer architecture, computing security and networking.

All details, including the application form, can be found at https://indico.cern.ch/e/csc2017

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS WEDNESDAY 10 MAY.

The School is limited to 60 students. The total fee is EUR 1200 per student (financial support may be available for justified cases).

For all enquiries and correspondence related to the School, please email computing.school [at] cern.ch

HIP NEWS April 18th 2017
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ERC SEMINAR IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
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Wednesday 19 April 2017 at 9:30 – 14:00 in E204 in Physicum, Kumpula
People involved in the Center of Excellence in Atmospheric Sciences have received approximately 10% of all ERC grants nominated to Finland since 2008. Next year is the 10th anniversary of the first grants. To celebrate this we have organized a public seminar.
Program in flamma https://hy.etapahtuma.fi/Default.aspx?tabid=419&id=46110
http://www.atm.helsinki.fi/FCoE/

You can follow the event live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGiBbupnR6Y

CERN SCHOOL OF COMPUTING 2017
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Applications are open for the 2017 CERN School of Computing (CSC 2017) which takes place on 27 Aug – 9 Sept 2017 in Madrid, Spain.

The School is organized in collaboration with Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). It will cover a wide range of topics, such as data storage and management technologies, fundamental concepts of physics computing, and many other areas including software engineering, computer architecture, computing security and networking.

All details, including the application form, can be found at https://indico.cern.ch/e/csc2017

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS WEDNESDAY 10 MAY.

The School is limited to 60 students. The total fee is EUR 1200 per student (financial support may be available for justified cases).

For all enquiries and correspondence related to the School, please email computing.school [at] cern.ch

THE ACADEMY’S APRIL 2017 CALL
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Applications for the Academy of Finland’s April 2017 call can be submitted as of Monday 3 April. The call closes on Wednesday 26 April at 16.15 local Finnish time.

Academy Programmes
Radiation Detectors for Health, Safety and Security (RADDESS), call for letters of intent
Health from Science (TERVA), call for letters of intent

More information in flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/SuomenAkatemia-Tutkimusasiat/Academy-of-Finland-April-Call

CALL ANNOUNCEMENT, FACULTY OF SCIENCE: INTERNAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING 2017
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The Faculty of Science announces an internal infrastructure funding call for medium-sized research infrastructures (investment between 50 000 EUR – 200 000 EUR) within the Kumpula campus.
Flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/fi/HY362679

TIP YOUR HAT FOR SCIENCE!
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March For Science is organized around the world on 22 April to support importance of scientific knowledge in the society. We also join in Helsinki with our own March For Science – Tiedemarssi. Take your colleagues, friends and family with you and come to celebrate science!
We gather up at Kansalaistori around 11 am. The march will end at the Senate Square, where there are a few speaks on behalf of science as well as a hat tip for science. Take your hat with you (dr. hat, ylioppilaslakki, any hat)! After the march University of Helsinki opens its doors to everyone and organizes public lectures. Find also the interesting events in the museums.
Program and information tiedemarssi.fi

Event web page https://www.facebook.com/events/728814440621221/
Twitter https://twitter.com/ScienceMarchFI
Main event’s web site https://www.marchforscience.com/
Print an advertisement https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-mCqWLub97TNTBTQmdId1l4Z3c/view

HIP NEWS April 10th 2017
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CERN Roadshow in Finland
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Thanks to the volunteers and everyone who contributed and made the CERN Roadshow in Finland –event last week possible and successful!

COSMO-Seminar
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Wednesday 12 April 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Vivian Poulin (LAPTH Annecy)
Cosmological signatures of decaying Dark Matter

Abstract: Although the existence of Dark Matter (DM) is by now well-established thanks to a variety of observations on many different scales, its nature is still unknown and so are many of its most basics properties, such as its lifetime. Even if obvious arguments require that most of the DM is stable on timescales of (at least) the lifetime of the universe, nothing prevent a priori that a fraction of it could be in the form of unstable exotic particles that are free to decay at much shorter times. In the literature, numerous relics from the early universe have been proposed in many extensions of the standard model of particle physics, in some cases unstable to processes injecting electromagnetic (e.m.) forms of energy (e.g. ‘superWIMP’, R-parity breaking SUSY models, Sterile neutrinos, Primordial black holes …), but also non-e.m. ones (e.g. the Majoron scenario). In this talk, I would like to review how CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies can be used as powerful probes of the abundance of such electromagnetically and non-electromagnetically decaying exotic particles, depending on their lifetime. I will then emphasize the synergy with CMB spectral distortions and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis studies when e.m. channels are switched on, and illustrate how the 21cm signal, one of the main target of future experiments, could be used in order to improve (but not always !) over current sensitivity.

ERC SEMINAR IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
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Wednesday 19 April 2017 at 9:30 – 14:00 in E204 in Physicum, Kumpula
People involved in the Center of Excellence in Atmospheric Sciences have received approximately 10% of all ERC grants nominated to Finland since 2008. Next year is the 10th anniversary of the first grants. To celebrate this we have organized a public seminar.
Program in flamma https://hy.etapahtuma.fi/Default.aspx?tabid=419&id=46110
http://www.atm.helsinki.fi/FCoE/

CERN SCHOOL OF COMPUTING 2017
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Applications are open for the 2017 CERN School of Computing (CSC 2017) which takes place on 27 Aug – 9 Sept 2017 in Madrid, Spain.

The School is organized in collaboration with Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). It will cover a wide range of topics, such as data storage and management technologies, fundamental concepts of physics computing, and many other areas including software engineering, computer architecture, computing security and networking.

All details, including the application form, can be found at https://indico.cern.ch/e/csc2017

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS WEDNESDAY 10 MAY.

The School is limited to 60 students. The total fee is EUR 1200 per student (financial support may be available for justified cases).

For all enquiries and correspondence related to the School, please email computing.school[AT]cern.ch

DATA MANAGEMENT PLANNING WORKSHOPS IN APRIL
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The workshops will focus on the Academy of Finland, for example, searches the required study material for formulation of the management plan.
The Helsinki University Library will be organizing workshops which concentrate on the best practices of research data management and hands-on training of data management planning (DMP). The DMPs are drafted with DMPTuuli .

More information in flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/HY362230
Please also check the Research Data Management guide

The Academy’s April 2017 call
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Applications for the Academy of Finland’s April 2017 call can be submitted as of Monday 3 April. The call closes on Wednesday 26 April at 16.15 local Finnish time.

Academy Programmes
Radiation Detectors for Health, Safety and Security (RADDESS), call for letters of intent
Health from Science (TERVA), call for letters of intent

More information in flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/SuomenAkatemia-Tutkimusasiat/Academy-of-Finland-April-Call

HIP NEWS April 3rd 2017
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COSMO-Seminar
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Wednesday 4 April 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Jens Chluba (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Manchester)
What CMB spectral distortions can teach us about early-universe and particle physics.

Abstract: Since the measurements with COBE/FIRAS in the mid-90’s we know that the CMB spectrum is extremely close to a perfect blackbody. There are, however, a number of processes in the early Universe that should create spectral distortions at a level within reach of present day technology. I will give an overview of recent theoretical and experimental developments, explaining why future measurements of the CMB spectrum will open up an unexplored new window to early-universe and particle physics, with possible non-standard surprises and several guaranteed signals awaiting us. I will highlight the complementarity of the distortion signals and the CMB anisotropies, illustrating how future distortions measurements could shed new light on different inflation models. I will also briefly discuss some of the limitations caused by CMB foregrounds.

CERN Roadshow in Finland
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6 APR in 2017 @ Aalto Design Factory

CERN Roadshow in Finland is an all-day event on the 6th of April 2017, organised by Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The event brings CERN and HIP management, and experts of CERN procurement, knowledge transfer and human resources to Aalto University Design Factory in Otaniemi. The event is targeted to potential CERN business and R&D&I partners, career service professionals, and Finnish stakeholders for CERN relations and strategies.

Event will also be streamed online. For more information, visit the event website https://events.hip.fi/cernroadshowinfinland/

DATA MANAGEMENT PLANNING WORKSHOPS IN APRIL
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The workshops will focus on the Academy of Finland, for example, searches the required study material for formulation of the management plan.
The Helsinki University Library will be organizing workshops which concentrate on the best practices of research data management and hands-on training of data management planning (DMP). The DMPs are drafted with DMPTuuli .

More information in flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/HY362230
Please also check the Research Data Management guide

ERC SEMINAR
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Wednesday 19 April 2017 at 9:30 – 14:00 in E204 in Physicum, Kumpula
People involved in the Center of Excellence in Atmospheric Sciences have received approximately 10% of all ERC grants nominated to Finland since 2008. Next year is the 10th anniversary of the first grants. To celebrate this we have organized a public seminar.
Program in flamma https://hy.etapahtuma.fi/Default.aspx?tabid=419&id=46110

THE ACADEMY’S APRIL 2017 CALL
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Applications for the Academy of Finland’s April 2017 call can be submitted as of Monday 3 April. The call closes on Wednesday 26 April at 16.15 local Finnish time.

Academy Programmes
Radiation Detectors for Health, Safety and Security (RADDESS), call for letters of intent
Health from Science (TERVA), call for letters of intent

More information in flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/SuomenAkatemia-Tutkimusasiat/Academy-of-Finland-April-Call

CALL ANNOUNCEMENT, FACULTY OF SCIENCE: INTERNAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING 2017
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The Faculty of Science announces an internal infrastructure funding call for medium-sized research infrastructures (investment between 50 000 EUR – 200 000 EUR) within the Kumpula campus.
Each department of the Faculty of Science or the Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) will prioritize their applications by the deadline April 28, 2017, 16:00.
Flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/fi/HY362679

LEHDISTÖTIEDOTE

CERNin tutkijoilta vauhtia Länsimetron viivästyksiin – metrolla Otaniemeen jo 6.4.

Klikkaa linkkiä ja lue laitoksen aprillipila 2017.

HIP NEWS March 27th 2017
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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 28 March 2017 at 10.15 in A315
Brandon DiNunno (Austin)
Relaxation of non-local probes in AdS/CFT

Abstract: I will discuss the late-time evolution of non-local observables in an expanding, boost-invariant strongly coupled plasma via Holography. Focusing on first and second order dissipative Bjorken hydrodynamics, we compute the late-time behavior of two-point functions, Wilson loops and entanglement entropies analytically. We find universal formulae for the relaxation of such probes in conformal field theories with a gravity dual in the limit of infinite coupling. We then generalize our findings to finite coupling by studying Gauss-Bonnet gravity as well as alpha’ corrections.

COSMO-Seminar
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Wednesday 29 March 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Thomas Tram (ICG, Portsmouth)
Structure formation under the spell of General Relativity.

Abstract: Upcoming large scale structure surveys will map the structure of the Universe on very large scales where General Relativistic effects become important. In order to take full advantage of upcoming Large Scale Structure datasets, we must be able to make accurate theoretical predictions for all observational scales. This is well known on small scales where the precision of Newtonian N-body codes is constantly being pushed, but it is equally true at large scales. In this talk I will first present numerical and analytic computations of the matter bispectrum generated from Gaussian initial conditions at second order in perturbation theory, and I will then discuss a set of recently discovered methods for including GR effects and radiation in Newtonian N-body simulations.

CHECK OUT THE VIDEO CLIPS ON HIP YOUTUBE CHANNEL
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There are new video clips out on HIP Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZXaM_Ny_1jVKWt7re-IHcg

Feel free to share, like and click them. Special thanks to the volunteers appearing on the video and to everyone who has contributed.

Visitors
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J. Chuba 4.4. – 7.4. (FM)
P. Dendooven 7.2. – 7.4.
B. DiNunno 26.3. – 1.4. (NJ, E K-V)
T. Tram 27.3. – 30.3. (FM)

HIP NEWS March 20th 2017
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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 21 March 2017 at 10.15 in A315
Blagoje Oblak (ETH, Zürich)
BMS Particles in Three Dimensions

Abstract: In this talk I will sketch the relation between unitary representations of the BMS3 (Bondi-Metzner-Sachs) group and three-dimensional, asymptotically flat gravity. After defining BMS in 3D, I will argue that its unitary representations are classified by orbits of CFT (conformal field theory) stress tensors under conformal transformations. This will provide a natural relation between BMS particles and 3D quantum gravity. I will also show how one can compute BMS characters, which coincide with gravitational one-loop partition functions in thermal 3D flat space.

RESEARCHGUIDES: OPEN ACCESS POP UP
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More information Helsinki University Library http://libraryguides.helsinki.fi/oa/eng
Flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/HY362671

PHYSICS DAYS
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Physics Days 2017 – Fysiikan päivät 2017 will be held at the Aalto University Töölö Campus in Helsinki, March 22-24, 2017.
The event is jointly organized by the Finnish Physical Society and Aalto University.
More information in http://fp2017.physics.aalto.fi/

NEW BILATERAL FUNDING PROGRAM FOR SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION BETWEEN FRANCE AND FINLAND
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the Institut Français in Helsinki, the Embassy of France in Finland and the French Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research have partnered with the Finnish Society for Science and Letters and the Finnish Academy for Science and Letters in Finland to launch a new seed funding program to initiate and strengthen bilateral cooperation in science, innovation and higher education in fields of excellence.
Application deadline: March, 31st 2017

More information and applications here: http://www.france.fi/uncategorized/events/science-and-universities/new-bilateral-funding-program-for-scientific-cooperation-between-france-and-finland/?lang=en

EXPERIENCING FINLAND EVENT
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Aalto University and University of Helsinki invite the newly arrived international staff and their family members to the next Experiencing Finland event. The event is an opportunity to get some practical hints about forthcoming spring and summer, Finnish people and Finland.
More information: https://flamma.helsinki.fi/fi/HY362037

VIDEO CLIPS – HIP AND CERN ROADSHOW IN FINLAND
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There are new video clips out on HIP Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZXaM_Ny_1jVKWt7re-IHcg

Feel free to share, like and click them. Special thanks to the volunteers appearing on the video and to everyone who has contributed.

Visitors
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P. Dendooven 7.2. – 7.4.
B. Oblak 20.3. – 24.3. (NJ)
T. Tram 27.3. – 30.3. (FM)
Y. Zhu 21.3. – 25.3. (AV)

HIP NEWS March 13th 2017
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ACADEMY PROFESSOR MARKKU KULMALA NEW ACADEMICIAN OF SCIENCE
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Academy professor Markku Kulmala has been awarded the honorary title of Academician of Science. Among his numerous achievements and duties professor Kulmala leads the CLOUD project at HIP.

HIP congratulates professor Kulmala and two other new Academicians: Academy professor Eva-Mari Aro and professor emeritus Ilkka Niiniluoto.

http://www.aka.fi/en/about-us/media/press-releases/2017/title-of-academician-of-science-granted-to-eva-mari-aro-markku-kulmala-and-ilkka-niiniluoto/

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 14 March 2017 at 10.15 in A315
Najmul Haque (Giessen)
Resummed QCD thermodynamics at finite temperature and chemical potential

Abstract: The thermodynamics of QCD at finite temperature and density is of great interest for the heavy ion collision experiments. In this talk I will discuss about the various thermodynamic quantities calculated within Hard thermal Loop approximation at finite temperature and finite chemical potential. I will also discuss about the possible extensions of the current results to make it more reliable in heavy-ion collision experiments.

COSMO-Seminar
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Wednesday 15 March 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Jose Beltrán (CPT Marseille)
Dusty inflation in Born-Infeldized gravity.

Abstract: In order to regularize the energy of point-like charged particles, Born and Infeld introduced a modification of the Maxwell Lagrangian that naturally imposes an upper bound on electromagnetic fields. Similar ideas can be applied to gravity to resolve the GR singularities. I will discuss a class of theories based on this scheme and present a scenario where inflation can be supported by a dust component within the context of these theories.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Thursday 16 March 2017 at 10.15 in A315
Risto Paatelainen (Jyväskylä)
Towards higher order accuracy in LCPT

Abstract: Hamiltonian perturbation theory in the light cone form (LCPT) has become a standard tool in understanding hadronic scattering processes within a first principles QCD approach. The calculational inconvenience of LCPT compared to standard covariant perturbation theory is balanced by several features that make its physical interpretation more transparent. Due to the more complicated mathematical structure resulting from the breaking of explicit rotational symmetry, LCPT has never been the formulation of choice for higher order loop calculations. More recently, however, calculations of small-x dilute-dense scattering processes in the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) picture have been approaching the NLO level, for example in the small-x evolution equation and inclusive deep inelastic scattering cross sections. In this talk I will discuss our latest work (T. Lappi, R. Paatelainen arXiv:1611.00497), in which we formulate the LCPT rules in helicity space, independently of the spinor representation. This presents a major technological improvement for loop calculations by replacing the Dirac algebra by simple helicity sums. I also demonstrate how to apply this framework to other LCPT calculations.

New bilateral funding program for scientific cooperation between France and Finland
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the Institut Français in Helsinki, the Embassy of France in Finland and the French Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research have partnered with the Finnish Society for Science and Letters and the Finnish Academy for Science and Letters in Finland to launch a new seed funding program to initiate and strengthen bilateral cooperation in science, innovation and higher education in fields of excellence.
Application deadline: March, 31st 2017

More information and applications here: http://www.france.fi/uncategorized/events/science-and-universities/new-bilateral-funding-program-for-scientific-cooperation-between-france-and-finland/?lang=en

Experiencing Finland Event
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Aalto University and University of Helsinki invite the newly arrived international staff and their family members to the next Experiencing Finland event. The event is an opportunity to get some practical hints about forthcoming spring and summer, Finnish people and Finland.
More information: https://flamma.helsinki.fi/fi/HY362037

Visitors
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J. Beltran 14.3. – 16.3. (FM)
P. Dendooven 7.2. – 7.4.
N. Haquel 13.3. – 15.3. (AV)
B. Oblak 19.3. – 26.3. (NJ)
R. Paatelainen 15.3. – 17.3. (AV)
T. Tram 27.3. – 30.3. (FM)
Y. Zhu 21.3. – 25.3. (AV)

HIP NEWS March 6th 2017
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COSMO-Seminar
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Wednesday 8 March 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Tommi Tenkanen (Queen Mary U. London)
The many faces of the inflaton field.

Abstract: The minimal requirements for every inflationary model are that the inflaton field gives a long enough period of exponential expansion and subsequently reheats the universe, so that thermal equilibrium is attained prior to the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. But could the inflaton be responsible for something else as well, namely the generation of dark matter or the electroweak phase transition? As a representative model example, we study these aspects in a scenario where the inflaton is a real singlet scalar. Requiring the model to describe inflation successfully, be compatible with the LHC data, and yield a) the correct dark matter abundance or b) a strong first order electroweak phase transition, we identify the regions of the parameter space where the model is viable.

New bilateral funding program for scientific cooperation between France and Finland
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the Institut Français in Helsinki, the Embassy of France in Finland and the French Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research have partnered with the Finnish Society for Science and Letters and the Finnish Academy for Science and Letters in Finland to launch a new seed funding program to initiate and strengthen bilateral cooperation in science, innovation and higher education in fields of excellence.

Application deadline: March, 31st 2017

More information and applications here: http://www.france.fi/uncategorized/events/science-and-universities/new-bilateral-funding-program-for-scientific-cooperation-between-france-and-finland/?lang=en

Researchers / Research funding / Tekes
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New knowledge and business from research ideas – call for research funding applications 1/2017

Through the “New knowledge and business from research ideas” application process, Tekes funds projects in which a project team is preparing to commercialise a research idea. Tekes funding will constitute 70% of the eligible costs.

Application period: Thu 15.12.2016 – Thu 09.03.2017

Online services https://www.tekes.fi/en/online-services/

More information https://www.tekes.fi/en/whats-going-on/application-schedules-2017/new-knowledge-and-business-from-research-ideas–call-for-research-funding-applications-12017/

The Maikki Friberg equality award: Suggest a candidate
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The Maikki Friberg Award is granted annually for notable work towards the promotion of equality at the University of Helsinki. All members of the University community may suggest a candidate. Communities and units may also propose themselves for the award.

Submit your suggestions by 10th March 2017.

Instructions can be found in flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/HY360853

Experiencing Finland Event
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Aalto University and University of Helsinki invite the newly arrived international staff and their family members to the next Experiencing Finland event. The event is an opportunity to get some practical hints about forthcoming spring and summer, Finnish people and Finland.
More information: https://flamma.helsinki.fi/fi/HY362037

Visitors
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P. Dendooven 7.2. – 7.4.
N. Haquel 12.3. – 14.3. (AV)
B. Oblak 19.3. – 26.3. (NJ)
T. Tenkanen 3.3. – 10.3. (FM).
T. Tram 27.3. – 30.3. (FM)
Y. Zhu 21.3. – 25.3. (AV)