NORDITA is the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics. Our purpose is to carry out research and strengthen the Nordic collaboration within the basic areas of theoretical physics. The main research areas at Nordita are:
- Astrophysics and Astrobiology
- Condensed Matter, Statistical and Biological Physics
- High Energy and Nuclear Physics
The institute is run jointly by Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Stockholm University and is located on the premises of AlbaNova University Center in Stockholm.
SCIENCE NEWS
Awards
Aleksandr Zheltukin, visiting professor at Nordita (Stockholm), is one of the recipients of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology for 2009. The prize was awarded Dmitrij Volkov and his collaborators at the KIPT in Kharkov for "the discovery and development of principles of supersymmetry and supergravity and their application to the construction of a unified theory of fundamental interactions of elementary particles".
The essay "At the Frontier of Knowledge" by Sabine Hossenfelder, assistant professor at Nordita (Stockholm), is awarded a shared second prize in the The Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) annual Essay Contest on the question "What is Ultimately Possible in Physics?".