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NORDITA NEWS

Current: Issue 4, 2009

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IN BRIEF

Nordita Fellowships 2010-2012

The application to these positions is now closed.

Nordita Scientific Programs 2011-2012

The invitation to propose new Nordita programs is now closed.

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:

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

Publications

A figure taken from the article Quantum fluctuations in the mazer (J. Phys. B 42, 2009, 044015) by Nordita fellow Jonas Larson was chosen to be the cover of the 2009 Highlight brochure for Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and optical Physics. (For the interested; the figure shows the time evolution of an atomic wavepacket bunching against a quantized cavity field.)

Grants

Nordita condensed matter physicists Jani-Petri Martikainen and Jonas Larson have been awarded a grant (projektbidrag) by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). The grant is for 4 years and covers the expenses for one PhD student. Information about the position can be found at http://www.fysik.su.se/om/tjanster/. At the moment Jani and Jonas are going through applications, but the deadline is 15th of March so better hurry up if you have not applied yet.

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?".

OPEN POSITIONS

TENURED PROFESSORSHIP in Condensed Matter Physics
Announcement (PDF file)
Application deadline: 17 May 2010

RECENT PREPRINTS

{AP} [2010-010] Prediction of solar activity cycles by assimilating sunspot data into a dynamo model by Irina N. Kitiashvili, Alexander G. Kosovichev
In Solar and Stellar Variability: Impact on Earth and Planets, IAU Symp., Vol. 264, p. 202-209

{CM} [2010-009] Negative mobility and sorting of colloidal particles by Ralf Eichhorn, Jan Regtmeier, Dario Anselmetti, Peter Reimann
Soft Matter, 2010, DOI: 10.1039/b918716m (invited "Highlight" contribution)

{HE} [2010-002] Signatures from an extra-dimensional seesaw model by Mattias Blennow, Henrik Melbéus, Tommy Ohlsson, He Zhang

[See list of all Nordita preprints]

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

6 April — 28 May 2010
Turbulent boundary layers and Turbulent Combustion
Registration deadline: 31 May 2010

31 May — 9 July 2010
Integrability in String and Gauge Theories; AdS/CFT Duality and its Applications

19 July — 27 August 2010
Quantum solids, liquids, and gases
Registration deadline: 1 April 2010

[See list of all programs]

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