NORDITA   NEWS   1996 / 4                       August 1, 1996

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORSHIP IN OBSERVATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, NIELS BOHR INSTITUTE FOR ASTRONOMY, PHYSICS AND GEOPHYSICS
An associate professorship in observational astrophysics will become available as of March 1, 1997, at the Institute's Astronomical Observatory. Information about research plans, facilities and staff may be obtained from the Director, Professor Ole Hansen, Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen OE, Denmark, phone: +45-35 32 52 92, fax: +45-35 43 10 87, email: oleh@nbi.dk. Deadline: October 1st, 1996.

BOARD MEETINGS
Nordita's Board will meet on 23 August, 4 - 5 November 1996, and 27 - 28 January 1997 in Copenhagen.

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COURSES / CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS

THE SPONTANEOUS ORDER OF LIFE
In Search of the Laws of Self-Organization in Physical, Biological and Cognitive Systems.
Niels Bohr Institute, 26-31 August 1996.
This summer school will cover the following topics: Self-Organization and Adaptation in Biological Systems; The Technological and Commercial Perspectives of Applied Molecular Evolution; The Emergence of Spontaneously Ordered Behavior at the Edge of Chaos; Consciousness: ``Emergent Phenomena'' in a Complex System ? Or a Manifestation of Non-Computable Physical Processes Outside the Realm of Today's Physics ?; The Morphogenetic Field as the Source of Spatial Information. Confirmed speakers: S. Kauffman, B. Goodwin, A. Perelson, L. Smolin, R. Penrose, C. Langton, H. Meinhardt, E. Mosekilde, H.B. Nielsen. For further information, contact: Don Bennett preferably at e-mail address bennett@nbi.dk or at telefax nos: (+45) 31 42 10 16 or (+45) 33 14 11 23.

WEEK-END MEETING IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS
Trento, 5-6 October, 1996
Organized at the ECT* to celebrate Ben Mottelson's 70th birthday. Invited speakers: O. Bohigas, ``From chaotic dynamics of nuclei to Riemann Zeta-function''; W. Kohn, ``Density functional theory''; R. Moessbauer, ``The puzzling neutrinos''; A. Richter, ``A EUROBALL-Module at the S-DALINAC: A new look at elementary nuclear excitations modes''; D.O. Riska, ``The long way to the short range nuclear dynamics''; F. Venneri, ``Spallation-driven systems for nuclear waste destruction and clean energy production''. Organizers: D. Brink, I. Hamamoto, and R. Leonardi. For further information write to ectstar@ect.unitn.it or consult http://www.ect.unitn.it.

VISITORS AT NORDITA / NBI / CATS / TAC

The fields are listed after the names as: A (Astrophysics), C (Complex Systems & Chaos), N (Nuclear Physics), P (Particle Physics), and S (Condensed Matter Physics).
If you are interested in having any of these people visit your institute, please contact NORDITA.

LONG-TERM VISITORS AT NORDITA

A. Pruegel-Bennet, (Manchester), S, present - 28.8.96
P. Thejll, (Copenhagen), A, present - 31.8.96
F. Kusmartsev, (Landau), S, present - 30.9.96
E. Pallante, (Frascati), N, present - 30.9.96
M. Billo, (Italy), present - 1.11.96
P. Godzinsky, (UAB Barcelona), N, present - 31.12.96
P. Talavera, (Spain), N, present - 28.2.97
L. Magnea, (Torino), P, present - 1.8.97

PREPRINTS / REPRINTS

J. Bijnens and E. Pallante: Weak long distance contributions to the neutron and proton electric dipole moments. 96/29.

M. Beneke and V.M. Braun: Resummation of threshold corrections in QCD to power accuracy: the Drell-Yan cross section as a case study. 96/30.

E. Pallante: The mass of the scalar boson beyond the large-$N_{c}$ limit. 96/31.

I.I. Balitsky, V.M. Braun, Y. Koike, and K. Tanaka: The Q$^{2}$ evolution of chiral-odd nucleon parton distributions h$_{L}$(x) and e(x) in multicolor QCD. 96/32.

F.V. Kusmartsev: Enhancement of persistent current on multichannel ring. 96/33.

L. Jetsu, I. Pagano, D. Moss, M. Rodono, A.F. Lanza, and I. Tuominen: Period changes of AR Lacertae between 1900 and 1989. 96/34

J. Bijnens and U.-G. Meissner: Workshop on the standard model at low energies, ECT$^{*}$, Trento, Italy, April 29 - May 10, 1996. 96/35.

P. Thejll, C. Flynn, R. Williamson, and R. Saffer: Proper motions of the hot subdwarfs. The kinematic population membership of the sdB. 96/36.

M. Billo and A. D'Adda: A solvable twisted one-plaquette model. 96/37.

D.V. Khveshchenko: Diffusion thermopower at even denominator fractions. 96/38.

M.E.J. Newman and K. Sneppen: Avalanches, scaling and coherent noise. 96/39.

P. Ernstroem and L. Loennblad: Generating heavy quarkonia in a perturbative QCD cascade. 96/40.

H. Bruus, C.H. Lewenkopf, and E.R. Mucciolo: Parametric correlation of Coulomb blockade conductance peaks in chaotic quantum dots. 96/41.

J.-O. Andersson, T. Jonsson, and J. Mattsson: Monte Carlo studies of the dynamics of re-entrant Ising spin glasses. 96/42.

P. Fre, L. Girardello, I. Pesando, and M. Trigiante: Spontaneous N = 2 $\rightarrow$ N = 1 local supersymmetry breaking with surviving compact gauge groups. 96/43.

J. Bijnens: Chiral perturbation theory for Da$\Phi$ne physics. 96/45.

B. Kileng, P. Osland, and P.N. Pandita: The two photon decay mode of MSSM Higgs bosons at the large Hadron Collider. To appear in Proceedings of X'th International Workshop: High Energy Physics and Quantum Field Theory, Zvenigorod, Russia, September 20-26, 1995.

B. Kileng, P. Osland, and P.N. Pandita: Production and two-photon decay of MSSM Higgs Bosons. To appear in Proceedings of X'th International Workshop: High Energy Physics and Quantum Field Theory, Zvenigorod, Russia, September 20-26, 1995.

B. Kileng, P. Osland, and P.N. Pandita: Chiral-mixing effects for the two-photon decay mode of the MSSM Higgs at the LHC. Univ. of Bergen, Dept. of Physics, Scientific/Technical Report No. 1995-13, ISSN 0803-2696; Contributed paper International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Brussels, Belgium, July 27-August 2, 1995 and 17th International Symposium on Lepton-Photon Interactions, August 10-15, 1995, Beijing, China.

A. Krogh, I.S. Mian, and D. Haussler: A hidden Markov model that finds genes in E. coli DNA. Nucleic Acids Research 22 (1994) 4768-4778.

A. Krogh and G. Mitchison: Maximum entropy weighting of aligned sequences of proteins or DNA. Periodic sequence patterns in human exons. In Proc. of Third Int. Conf. on Intelligent Systems for molecular biology, ed. C. Rawlings et al. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, 1995, 215-221.

A. Krogh and J. Vedelsby: Neural network ensembles, cross validation and active learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7, ed. G. Tesauro, D.S. Touretzky, and T.K. Leen, MIT Press, Cambridge MA (1995) 231-238.

P. Baldi, S. Brunak, Y. Chauvin, J. Engelbrecht, and A. Krogh: Periodic sequence patterns in human exons. In Proc. of Third Int. Conf. on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, ed. C. Rawlings et al. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, 1995 30-38.

A.G. Shcherbakov, Z.A. Shcherbakova, I. Tuominen, and L. Jetsu: He I$\lambda}$10830 AA line as an indicator of solar chromospheric activity.

S. Franz and J. Hertz: Glassy transition and aging in a model without disorder. Phys. Rev. lett. 74 (1995) 2114- 2117.

J. Hertz: Computing with attractors. Handbook of brain theory and neural networks (M. Arbib, ed.) MIT Press (1995) 230-234.

J. Hertz: Sensory coding and information theory. Handbook of brain theory and neural networks (M. Arbib, ed.) MIT Press (1995) 864-867.

OVERVIEW OF FUTURE NORDITA and OTHER CONFERENCES