HIP NEWS May 29th 2017

HIP NEWS May 29th 2017
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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 30 May 2017 at 10.15 in A315
Tommaso Dorigo (Padova)
Controversial Phenomena in Collider Data and the Five Sigma Criterion in HEP

Abstract: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The p < 0.000029% criterion used in HEP and astro-HEP does not appear adequate to cover all experimental situations. The seminar will start with a short history of anomalies found in HEP data and their resolution, and then focus on the statistical problem of defining a proper discovery level for new phenomena and on the non-trivial issues it entails.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 30 May 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Oscar Henriksson (Boulder)
Holographic studies of ABJM theory at finite density

Abstract: TBA

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Wednesday 31 May 2017 at 10.15 in A315
Marco Panero (Torino)
Non-equilibrium theorems from statistical mechanics and their applications in lattice QCD

Abstract: In statistical mechanics, Jarzynski’s and Crooks’ theorems relate the free-energy difference between an initial and a final statistical ensemble (both at equilibrium), to the distribution of work done on the system, when, starting from a configuration of the initial ensemble, it is driven towards the final one, through a sequence of transformations out of equilibrium. In this talk, I will discuss how these theorems can be applied in numerical simulations of QCD and QCD-like theories on a lattice.

COSMO-seminar
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Wednesday 31 May 2017 at 14.15 in A315
David Marsh (King’s College London)
Searching for the QCD Axion with Gravitational Microlensing.

Abstract: The phase transition responsible for axion dark matter production can create large amplitude isocurvature perturbations which collapse into dense objects known as axion miniclusters. We use microlensing data from the Subaru Hyper Suprime Cam to place constraints on the minicluster scenario. While miniclusters must form, the fraction of DM in miniclusters, fMC, is not known from theory. If fMC is of order unity, then axion direct detection is severely limited. We compute the microlensing event rate for miniclusters treating them as spatially extended objects with an extended mass function. For the QCD axion we find the bound fMC<0.083(ma/100μeV)^0.12, which represents the first observational constraint on fMC. We also constraint axion-like particles. I will discuss the many approximations in the theoretical calculation. However, I will argue that the ongoing renaissance in microlensing observations will render these irrelevant, and allow constraint and disocovery prospects for all possibilities. If accurate theoretical predictions for fMC can be made, then microlensing can be used to exclude, or discover, the QCD axion. I will briefly describe efforts by simualtion groups to make this prediction.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Thursday 1 June 2017 at 10.15 in A315
Malak Khouchen (Brno)
Fundamental strings and D1 branes on deformed AdS3 x S3 background

Abstract: In this talk I describe results derived in two of my papers that were published in Phys. Review D and JHEP. In the first one we analyzed dynamics of fundamental string in deformed AdS3 x S3 space-time where we find giant magnon solutions for strings moving in this background which reproduces the celebrated Hofman-Maldacena dispersion relation in the limit when the deformation parameter goes to zero. In the second paper we analyzed D1-brane as a natural probe in the deformed AdS3 x S3 background with non-trivial Ramond-Ramond two form. We find static and time-dependent solutions of D1-brane equations of motion. We find that the behavior of these solutions crucially depends on the value of the deformation parameter and we discuss their relations to Anti-de Sitter D-branes found by K. Bachas.

TEKES NEW BUSINESS FROM RESEACH IDEAS FUNDING CALL 2/2017
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The funding is targeted to research organisations to commercialise their research results. For more information, see https://www.tekes.fi/en/funding/research_organisations/new-business-from-research-ideas/

The deadline for the call is 14 September 2017.

The deadline for the University of Helsinki internal support is 16 June 2017. For more information, see https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/TEKES/HY306815

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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Osk. Huttusen säätiön apurahat haettavissa 15.5.-15.6.2017. Apurahahakemus tehdään lomakkeelle, jonka saa säätiön kotisivulta www.oskhuttusensaatio.net https://flamma.helsinki.fi/fi/HY363943

The Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation. Applications are submitted using the electronic application system. http://jaes.fi/en/applying-for-donation/

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).

The Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation. Grant application period is 7.5.–31.5.2017. Sign in to the online application system during the application period and fill in the application form. http://wihurinrahasto.fi/?lang=en

HIP NEWS May 22nd 2017

HIP NEWS May 22nd 2017
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COSMO-seminar
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Wednesday 24 May 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Stefano Camera (University of Turin)
Synergistic cosmology across the spectrum.

Abstract: ‘Synergy’ means ‘the interaction of two or more agents to obtain a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects’. With this in mind, in this talk I shall present my current lines of research, all relying on developing novel combinations of astrophysical and cosmological observables to the aim of testing the foundations of the concordance cosmological model. Specifically, I shall discuss cosmological tests of gravity and inflation on the largest cosmic scales, indirect detection of particle dark matter signatures, and studies of dark energy and modified gravity models. All, with a view on the current and oncoming generation of cosmological experiments and large-scale surveys.

TEKES NEW BUSINESS FROM RESEACH IDEAS FUNDING CALL 2/2017
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The funding is targeted to research organisations to commercialise their research results. For more information, see https://www.tekes.fi/en/funding/research_organisations/new-business-from-research-ideas/

The deadline for the call is 14 September 2017.

The deadline for the University of Helsinki internal support is 16 June 2017. For more information, see https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/TEKES/HY306815

OPEN CALL: ERC Advanced Grant – ERC-2017-ADG
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ERC Advanced Grants allow exceptional established research leaders who has track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years, in order to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk projects that open new directions in their respective research fields or other domains.
Deadline for the call is 31 August 2017
Flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/tutkimusrahoitus-horisontti2020/research-funding-horizon2020-european-research-council-erc-funding

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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Osk. Huttusen säätiön apurahat haettavissa 15.5.-15.6.2017. Apurahahakemus tehdään lomakkeelle, jonka saa säätiön kotisivulta www.oskhuttusensaatio.net https://flamma.helsinki.fi/fi/HY363943

The Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation. Applications are submitted using the electronic application system. http://jaes.fi/en/applying-for-donation/

Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. Mathematics Fund. There are no fixed dates for applying to the Mathematics Fund. https://www.acadsci.fi/en/about-the-academy/funds-and-foundations/mathematics-fund.html

The Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation. Grant application period is 7.5.–31.5.2017. Sign in to the online application system during the application period and fill in the application form. http://wihurinrahasto.fi/?lang=en

HIP NEWS May 15th 2017

HIP NEWS May 15th 2017
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HIP ANNUAL REPORT
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The HIP annual report 2016 is now available on the HIP web pages http://www.hip.fifi/?page_id=1320

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 16 May 2017 at 10.15 in A315
Mauri Valtonen (Turku)
Post-Newtonian components of a gravitational wave

Abstract: The direct detection of a gravitational wave from GW150914 in September 2015 opens up a new window to the study of the universe. Even though the effects of gravitational waves in astronomical systems have been indirectly observed since 1974, this was the first confirmation of their existence. I will describe the history of the method leading to the detection, and the properties of the merging binary black hole system in GW150914. One of the key issues in the analysis of gravitational wave events is the theoretical treatment of the Post-Newtonian components of the wave. Until now the lowest order Newtonian component has been enough, but in the analysis of black hole mergers one has take into account higher orders. I will discuss the situation in the binary black hole system OJ287 and show that it is necessary to include tails (scattering of the waves from themselves) while the memories of past waves can be neglected. Truncating the series at the first post-Newtonian order (as is often done), leads to a serious error.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 16 May 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Alexander Rothkopf (Heidelberg)
Improved real-time dynamics of thermal fields from lattice simulations

Abstract: The determination of real-time information from lattice simulations at finite temperature is a central challenge in our quest to nonperturbatively connect first principles theory to experimental measurements. In the context of relativistic heavy-ion collisions the shear viscosity of the quark-gluon plasma is one pertinent example, which with standard simulation methods is exponentially hard to obtain. In this talk I will discuss the challenges of computing real-time quantities via the extraction of spectral functions from standard lattice simulations and introduce a recent proposal of how to possibly circumvent these. In it, thermal fields are simulated on a lattice in imaginary frequency space, which allows one to resolve correlation functions in between the conventional Matsubara frequencies. Results from a (0+1)d proof-of-principles simulation are presented, which show that an exponential improvement in the reconstruction of spectral features may be achieved (arXiv:1610.09531).

WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES
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RECFA (https://ecfa.web.cern.ch/) will visit Finland this week, 19-20 May, 2017. You are encouraged to attend the open session on Friday, 19 May, at the University of Helsinki Main Building, Small Hall, address Fabianinkatu 33, and follow the interesting presentations: https://indico.cern.ch/event/626143/timetable/#20170519.detailed.

TEKES NEW BUSINESS FROM RESEACH IDEAS FUNDING CALL 2/2017
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The funding is targeted to research organisations to commercialise their research results. For more information, see https://www.tekes.fi/en/funding/research_organisations/new-business-from-research-ideas/

The deadline for the call is 14 September 2017.

The deadline for the University of Helsinki internal support is 16 June 2017. For more information, see https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/TEKES/HY306815

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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Osk. Huttusen säätiön apurahat haettavissa 15.5.-15.6.2017. Apurahahakemus tehdään lomakkeelle, jonka saa säätiön kotisivulta www.oskhuttusensaatio.net tai asiamieheltä Timo Åvistilta, puh. 02941 22102. https://flamma.helsinki.fi/fi/HY363943

The Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation. Applications are submitted using the electronic application system. http://jaes.fi/en/applying-for-donation/

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).

The Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation. Grant application period is 7.5.–31.5.2017. Sign in to the online application system during the application period and fill in the application form. http://wihurinrahasto.fi/?lang=en

HIP NEWS May 8th 2017

HIP NEWS May 8th 2017
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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 9 May 2017 at 10.15 in A315
Jim Olsen (Princeton, CERN)
Exploring the Energy Frontier: LHC at 13 TeV

Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the world’s largest and highest energy particle accelerator, which began operation in 2009 at a center of mass energy of 7 trillion electronvolts. The first ‘physics run’ of the LHC extended from 2010-2012, culminating in the discovery of a new particle whose properties appear to match those of the Higgs boson. In the current run, which began in 2015, the LHC has resumed proton collisions at a new record energy of 13 trillion electronvolts, and with double the interaction rate achieved in the previous run. As with many scienfitic discoveries, observation of the Higgs boson raises more questions than it answers, including why its mass is so far below the Planck mass. The standard model of particle physics has no answer to this question, nor does it provide a ready candidate for Dark Matter, let alone any explanation at all for Dark Energy. Such questions are driving the intensified search for new particles and new phenomena beyond those described by the standard model, using the unprecedented data currently being collected at the LHC. In this talk, I will summarize the near-term and far-term goals of the project, and possible future paths beyond the LHC.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Thursday 11 May 2017 at 10.15 in A315
Arttu Pönni (Helsinki)
Holographic entanglement flows

Abstract: TBA

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Friday 12 May 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Phil Harris (CERN)
Understanding the minutiae of the standard model with Dark Matter

Abstract: Developments over the past year have demonstrated the power of the LHC to complement and, in some cases, extend direct detection and galactic searches for dark matter. We present a series of new searches for dark matter that represents the culmination of these developments. In addition to an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity to dark matter, we demonstrate that these searches have lead to some of the most precise measurements of electroweak boson production to date. Finally, we explore the future of dark matter searches and present a new class of searches using hadronically decaying bosons. Can we make a definitive path to dark matter discovery?

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
https://indico.cern.ch/event/574012/

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).

You are most welcome to pass this information on to potentially interested colleagues, inside or outside CERN.

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

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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Osk. Huttusen säätiön apurahat haettavissa 15.5.-15.6.2017. Apurahahakemus tehdään lomakkeelle, jonka saa säätiön kotisivulta www.oskhuttusensaatio.net tai asiamieheltä Timo Åvistilta, puh. 02941 22102. https://flamma.helsinki.fi/fi/HY363943

Jane ja Aatos Erkon säätiö http://www.jaes.fi/avustusten-haku/

Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia. Matematiikan rahasto. Matematiikan rahastolla ei ole kiinteitä hakuaikoja. Hakemukset lähetetään rahaston puheenjohtajalle Olli Martiolle (olli.martio [at] helsinki.fi). Lisätietoja Matematiikan rahastosta.

Jenny ja Antti Wihurin rahasto. Apurahojen hakuaika 7.5. – 31.5.2017. http://wihurinrahasto.fi/

Maj ja Tor Nesslingin Säätiö. Seuraava yleinen haku aukeaa elokuussa 2017. http://www.nessling.fi/

Koneen Säätiön vuosittainen apurahojen hakuaika alkaa 1.9. ja päättyy 15.9. klo 16 Suomen aikaa. http://www.koneensaatio.fi/

ORCID-IDENTIFIER AND TUHAT RESEARCH PORTAL – SYNCHRONIZE IT
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Create your own researcher identifier at orcid.org. Log in to Tuhat research portal: https://tuhat.helsinki.fi
If you already have an ORCID account, it´s recommended that you add your identifier to your TUHAT profile. Further instructions: http://libraryguides.helsinki.fi/tuhat/edit#fields_of_science_ORCID
Flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/HY364003

OPEN SCIENCE AND OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING
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#ThinkOpen – Innovate with open data and code articles.
Flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/directory/researchers

AID – AGORA FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY DEBATE
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Mon 8 May 2017 at 16-18
Democratising knowledge production: extra-academic collaboration in academic research
AID is a new forum for interdisciplinary encounters. It also serves as a forum for enhancing closer engagements between practicing scientists and philosophers of science. http://www.helsinki.fi/tint/aid.htm

HIP NEWS May 2nd 2017

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

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

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

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