HIP NEWS November 7th 2016
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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Friday 11 November 2016 at 13.00-15.20 in D101
Helsinki Institute of Physics 20 years

Talks by Vattulainen, Eskola, Oinonen, Heikkurinen, Haeggström, Björkroth on their experiences with HIP. A reception follows.

COSMO-seminar
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Wednesday 9 November 2016 at 14.15 in A315
Olga Cucciati (INAF-OABO Bologna)
TBA

TEDxCERN 4th Edition – Ripples of curiosity – TODAY
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Webcast of the 4th TEDxCERN event which took place on Saturday will be shown today 7.11. at 14-19 in E205. More information on http://tedxcern.web.cern.ch/.

Helsinki Higgs Forum, 14-16 December 2016, Physicum, Kumpula campus
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The aim of the Forum is to bring together Higgs physics experts representing its different facets: phenomenology, cosmology and experiment, and create a productive atmosphere for exchange of ideas across the fields.
The Forum is also expected to engage local students and staff providing them with the state of the art in Higgs physics. The format of the meeting assumes plenary talks only as well as a young scientist forum.

Registration is open.
Further information and registration at: http://www.hip.fifi/hhf

The organizing committee
Oleg Lebedev, Katri Huitu, Paula Eerola, Kari Enqvist.

Open position
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The Department of Physics invites applications for a professor or assistant/associate professor.
The deadline for applications is 30 November, 2016.
The details can be found in https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/professor-assistant-professor-experimental-particle-physics

Staff training for International Staff – Fall 2016
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Training: Finnish Working Culture
Time: Wednesday 16 November 2016, 9:00-16:00
Sign up via Staff Training Calendar Henkka

Visitors
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O. Cucciati 7.11. – 11.11. (FM)
P. Dendooven 7.11. – 9.12.
S. Nesseris 14.11. – 17.11. (FM)
K. Langeable 7.11. – 11.11. (KT)
G. Rigopoulos 10.11. – 11.11. (KE)

HIP NEWS October 31st 2016
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HIP STAFF and FRIENDS
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HIP is celebrating 20 years of
operation on 11 November in
Auditorium D101 in Physicum, Kumpula.
Please find the invitation and the
link for the registration in

http://www.hip.fifi/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/HIP20years-invitation.pdf

Everybody is welcome. There is registration just to provide information of the number of people joining the event.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 1 November 2016 at 10.15 in A315
Tapio Ala-Nissilä (Aalto)
The physics of this year’s Nobel prize in physics – a personal point of view

Abstract: The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016 was awarded to David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane, and J. Michael Kosterlitz “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”. In this talk I will briefly describe the historical development and the key findings of the Nobelists from the topological excitations of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition to the novel topological phases of matter unraveled by Thouless and Haldane.

COSMO-seminar
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Wednesday 2 November 2016 at 14.15 in A315
Marco Bruni (ICG Portsmouth)
TBA

Helsinki Higgs Forum, 14-16 December 2016, Physicum, Kumpula campus
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The aim of the Forum is to bring together Higgs physics experts representing its different facets: phenomenology, cosmology and experiment, and create a productive atmosphere for exchange of ideas across the fields.
The Forum is also expected to engage local students and staff providing them with the state of the art in Higgs physics. The format of the meeting assumes plenary talks only as well as a young scientist forum.

Registration is open.
Further information and registration at: http://www.hip.fifi/hhf

The organizing committee
Oleg Lebedev, Katri Huitu, Paula Eerola, Kari Enqvist.

Open position
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The Department of Physics invites applications for a professor or assistant/associate professor.
The deadline for applications is 30 November, 2016.
The details can be found in https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/professor-assistant-professor-experimental-particle-physics

Research & Innovation: EU Prize for Women Innovators 2017
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For the 4th the EC wants to highlight the outstanding achievements of women innovators who have (co-) founded a successful company and brought an innovation to market and benefitted from Research and Innovation funding from the public or private sector. New in this edition, young innovators (>35y) at the start of their careers can win the new prize for the Rising Innovator 2017!

The call deadline is 3 November 2016.

More information can be found here http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/wip-01-2017.html

Flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/fi/Tutkimusasiat/eu-prize-for-women-innovators-2017

Visitors
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M. Bruni 31.10. – 3.11. (FM)

HIP NEWS October 24th 2016
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HIP STAFF and FRIENDS
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HIP is celebrating 20 years of
operation on 11 November in
Auditorium D101 in Physicum, Kumpula.
Please find the invitation and the
link for the registration in

http://www.hip.fifi/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/HIP20years-invitation.pdf

Everybody is welcome. There is registration just to provide information of the number of people joining the event.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 25 October 2016 at 10.15 in A315
Luca Visinelli (Stockholm)
Axion cosmology

Abstract: TBA

Helsinki Higgs Forum, 14-16 December 2016, Physicum, Kumpula campus
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The aim of the Forum is to bring together Higgs physics experts representing its different facets: phenomenology, cosmology and experiment, and create a productive atmosphere for exchange of ideas across the fields.
The Forum is also expected to engage local students and staff providing them with the state of the art in Higgs physics. The format of the meeting assumes plenary talks only as well as a young scientist forum.

Registration is open.
Further information and registration at: http://www.hip.fifi/hhf

The organizing committee
Oleg Lebedev, Katri Huitu, Paula Eerola, Kari Enqvist.

Open position
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The Department of Physics invites applications for a professor or assistant/associate professor.
The deadline for applications is 30 November, 2016.
The details can be found in https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/professor-assistant-professor-experimental-particle-physics

Visitors
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M. Bruni 31.10. – 3.11. (FM)

HIP NEWS October 17th 2016
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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 18 October 2016 at 10.15 in A315
Carlos Hoyos (Oviedo)
Towards a simpler description of holographic nuclear matter

Abstract: Baryonic matter is notoriously difficult to deal with in the large-N limit, as baryons become operators of very large dimension with N fields in the fundamental representation. This issue is also present in gauge/gravity duals as baryons are described by very heavy localized objects. There are however alternative large-N extrapolations of QCD where small baryonic operators exist and can be treated on an equal footing to mesons. We explore the possibility of turning on a finite density of “light” baryons in a theory with a hadronic mass gap using a gauge/gravity construction based on the D3/D7 intersection

COSMO-seminar
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Wednesday 19 October 2016 at 14:15 in A315
Lavinia Heisenberg (ETH Zurich)
TBA

Helsinki Higgs Forum, 14-16 December 2016, Physicum, Kumpula campus
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The aim of the Forum is to bring together Higgs physics experts representing its different facets: phenomenology, cosmology and experiment, and create a productive atmosphere for exchange of ideas across the fields.
The Forum is also expected to engage local students and staff providing them with the state of the art in Higgs physics. The format of the meeting assumes plenary talks only as well as a young scientist forum.

Registration is open.
Further information and registration at: http://www.hip.fifi/hhf

The organizing committee
Oleg Lebedev, Katri Huitu, Paula Eerola, Kari Enqvist.

Events for International Staff “Experiencing Finland event” on Thursday, October 27, 2016
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Newly arrived international staff and their family members are welcome to the next Experiencing Finland event. https://flamma.helsinki.fi/fi/HY357769

Funding opportunities
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The Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation.
Donations and scholarships are available for application on a continuous basis.
http://www.jaes.fi/en/avustusten-haku/

The Runar Bäckström Foundation
The aim of the Runar Bäckström foundation is to encourage and support inventions that are beneficial to Finnish businesses and thereby strengthen their global competitiveness.
Application deadline is 9.12.2016.
http://www.runarbackstrominsaatio.fi/en/

Visitors
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L. Heisenberg 18.10. – 19.10. (FM)
C. Hoyos 17.10. – 21.10. (AV)
D. Rodriquez 17.10. – 21.10. (AV,NJ)
T. Tenkanen 17.10. – 20.10. (KT)
V. Vaskonen 17.10. – 19.10. (KT)

HIP NEWS October 10th 2016
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Funding opportunities
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The Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation.
Donations and scholarships are available for application on a continuous basis.
http://www.jaes.fi/en/avustusten-haku/

The Runar Bäckström Foundation
The aim of the Runar Bäckström foundation is to encourage and support inventions that are beneficial to Finnish businesses and thereby strengthen their global competitiveness
Application deadline is 9.12.2016.
http://www.runarbackstrominsaatio.fi/en/

Flamma: Staff training support for teaching and research staff
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https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/ources-human-resources-development-and-training-staff-training-support-for-teaching-and-research-staff-how-to-sell-your-ideas-as-a-researcher-an-intensive-seminar-to-help-you-be-more-convincing

Visitors
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C. Hoyos 17.10. – 21.10. (AV)
D. Rodriquez 17.10. – 21.10. (AV,NJ)

HIP NEWS October 3rd 2016
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COSMO-seminar
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Wednesday 5 October 2016 at 14.15 in A315
Fedor Bezrukov (Manchester)
TBA

Flamma: Staff training support for teaching and research staff
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Training will give you some useful tools for how to convince people orally, funding committees and your colleagues etc. You will have new ideas of how to build trust quickly with new contacts inside and outside Academia.
Registration available in Staff Training Calendar Henkka.
www.helsinki.fi/trainingcalendar or in Finnish www.helsinki.fi/henkilostokoulutuskalenteri
https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/ources-human-resources-development-and-training-staff-training-support-for-teaching-and-research-staff-how-to-sell-your-ideas-as-a-researcher-an-intensive-seminar-to-help-you-be-more-convincing

Visitors
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F. Bezrukov 30.9. – 5.10. (FM)
C. Hoyos 17.10. – 21.10. (AV)
D. Rodriquez 17.10. – 21.10. (AV,NJ)

HIP NEWS September 26th 2016
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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 27 September 2016 at 10.15 in A315
Christian Ecker (TU Wien)
Exploring nonlocal observables in shock wave collisions

Abstract: We study the time evolution of 2-point functions and entanglement entropy in holographic shock wave collisions which are frequently used as toy models for heavy ion collisions. We discriminate between three classes of initial conditions corresponding to wide, intermediate and narrow shocks and show that they exhibit different phenomenology with respect to the nonlocal observables that we determine. Surprisingly, we found that 2-point functions can be sensitive to the inside of the black hole apparent horizon on the gravity side, while we did not find such cases for the entanglement entropy. This talk is based on arXiv:hep-th/1609.03676.

COSMO-seminar
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Wednesday 28 September 2016 at 14.15 in A315
Matteo Viel (OATS Trieste)
Cosmology with the Intergalactic Medium

Abstract: I will review the role of intergalactic matter between galaxies as a cosmological observable to address fundamental physical questions: nature of dark matter, masses of neutrinos and the cosmic cycle of baryons.

Finnish for international personnel, autumn 2016
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The AUTUMN 2016 course programme is available at helsinki.fi/finnishcourses
Registration form https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/notifications/finnish-autumn16

Please check also http://www.helsinki.fi/trainingcalendar

Visitors
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F. Bezrukov 30.9. – 5.10. (FM)
M. Viel 26.9. – 29.9.2016 (FM)

HIP NEWS September 19th 2016
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Open positions / Post-doctoral positions at the Faculty of Science now open for applications; DL October 3rd, 2016
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The Faculty of Science is searching for up to ten post-doctoral fellows for 2+1 year contracts. The call for these positions is now open, deadline for the applications is October 3rd, 2016. Decisions on the positions will be made by January, 2017. The employment starts at the latest on October 1st, 2017, but this can be negotiated to be earlier.

More information can be found from the University’s recruitment portal, see https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/postdoctoral-positions-in-kumpula-science-campus

Due date: Monday, October 3, 2016

Announcement: Väisälä Foundation’s scholarships, deadline 26th September 2016
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Väisälä Foundation’s scholarships in natural sciences can be applied from 19th August to 26th September 2016.
Applications shall be made by electronic means only. For detailed instructions, see http://www.acadsci.fi/apurahat-ja-palkinnot/haettavat-apurahat/vaisalan-rahasto.html (in Finnish)

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 20 September 2016 at 10.15 in A315
Tyler Gorda (Helsinki)
Global properties of rotating neutron stars with QCD equations of state

Abstract: This talk will discuss a numerical study of global properties of rotating neutron stars using the allowed band of QCD equations of state derived by Kurkela et al. (2014). This band is constrained by chiral effective theory at low densities and perturbative QCD at high densities, and is thus, in essence, a controlled constraint from first-principles physics. Previously, this band of equations of state was used to investigate non-rotating neutron stars only; now these results are extended to any rotation frequency below the mass-shedding limit. Mass-radius curves, allowed mass-frequency regions, radius-frequency curves for a typical 1.4-solar-mass star, and the values of the moment of inertia of the double pulsar PSR J0737-3039A are computed. I also present limits on observational data coming from these constraints, and identify values of observationally relevant parameters that would further constrain the allowed region for the QCD equation of state.

Finnish for international personnel, autumn 2016
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The AUTUMN 2016 course programme is available at helsinki.fi/finnishcourses
Registration form https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/notifications/finnish-autumn16

Please check also http://www.helsinki.fi/trainingcalendar

Visitors
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F. Bezrukov 30.9. – 5.10. (FM)
M. Viel 26.9. – 29.9.2016 (FM)

HIP NEWS September 12th 2016
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Open positions / Post-doctoral positions at the Faculty of Science now open for applications; DL October 3rd, 2016
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The Faculty of Science is searching for up to ten post-doctoral fellows for 2+1 year contracts. The call for these positions is now open, deadline for the applications is October 3rd, 2016. Decisions on the positions will be made by January, 2017. The employment starts at the latest on October 1st, 2017, but this can be negotiated to be earlier.

More information can be found from the University’s recruitment portal,
see https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/postdoctoral-positions-in-kumpula-science-campus

Due date: Monday, October 3, 2016

Announcement: Väisälä Foundation’s scholarships, deadline 26th September 2016
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Väisälä Foundation’s scholarships in natural sciences can be applied from 19th August to 26th September 2016.
How to apply: Applications shall be made by electronic means only scholarship applications online. The web service can access the call opens. For detailed instructions can be found on the site. http://www.acadsci.fi/en/scholarships-and-prizes/scholarships.html

COSMO -seminar
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Wednesday 14 September 2016 at 14:15 in A315
Alexey Golovnev (St. Petersburg State University)
Conformal and disformal relations in extended models of gravity

Abstract: Conformal and disformal relations between metrics are very important for modern scalar-tensor models. As a somewhat non-trivial example, the so-called mimetic gravity can be understood from the viewpoint of (non)invariance under disformal transformations. On the other hand, recently the concept of those relations was generalised to curvature-dependent (instead of scalar-dependent) transformations in disguise of C- and D-models. The latter might be nicely related to non-local gravity models. In my talk, I will review some of these topics.

COSMO –seminar
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Thursday 15 September 2016 at 14:15 in room A311 (note the unusual date and place!)
Henrik Nersisyan (ITP Heidelberg)
Non-local cosmology

Abstract: I will give a basic introduction to non-local modifications of General Relativity with special emphasis on the cosmological consequences of the mostly discussed $R\Box^{-2}R$ Maggiore, Mancarella (MM) model. The pathologies associated with non-local tensorial extensions will be also presented.

Events for International Staff – Fall 2016
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Sign up via e-lomake: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/71668/lomake.html

Finnish for international personnel, autumn 2016
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The AUTUMN 2016 course programme is available at helsinki.fi/finnishcourses
Registration form https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/notifications/finnish-autumn16

Please check also http://www.helsinki.fi/trainingcalendar

Visitors
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A. Golovnev 12.9. – 16.9. (KE, FM)
T. Koivisto 12.9. – 16.9. (KR)
H. Nersisyan 10.9. – 17.9. (FM)

HIP NEWS September 5th 2016
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Announcement: Väisälä Foundation’s scholarships, deadline 26th September 2016
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Väisälä Foundation’s scholarships in natural sciences can be applied from 19th August to 26th September 2016.
How to apply: Applications shall be made by electronic means only scholarship applications online. The web service can access the call opens. For detailed instructions can be found on the site.
http://www.acadsci.fi/en/scholarships-and-prizes/scholarships.html

Finnish for international personnel, autumn 2016
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The AUTUMN 2016 course programme is available at helsinki.fi/finnishcourses
Please check also http://www.helsinki.fi/trainingcalendar

Visitors
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M. Hindmarsh 22.8. – 5.9. (KR)