NORDITA NEWS   1998 / 2                           April 1, 1998



Board Meetings
Nordita's Board will meet on the following dates: 5 and 6 June 1998 in Reykjavik and 4 December 1998 in Copenhagen.


Associate Professorship in Condensed Matter Theory
University of Aarhus

The institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Denmark invites applications for a position as associate professor in condensed matter theory. The position is open from October 1, 1998. For further information, please see the enclosed advertisement.


Associate Professorship in Experimental Particle Physics
University of Copenhagen

A position as associate professor (lektor) in experimental particle physics at the Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics (NBIfAFG) will be open from December 1, 1998. Deadline for applications is June 15, 1998, at noon. This announce-ment is an extract of the full legal announce-ment. The latter must be followed and can be found on the Institute homepage: http://www.nbi.dk/NBIfAFG/ or obtained from the Institute Director, Professor Ole Hansen, Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark (E-mail: oleh@nbi.dk).


Professorship in Experimental Atomic Physics
University of Copenhagen

A tenured professorship in experimental atomic physics will become available at the Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics by October 1, 1998.
Deadline for applications is May 20, 1998, at 12:00 noon. This announcement is an extract of the full legal announcement. The latter must be followed and can be found on the Institute homepage: http: //www.nbi.dk/NBIfAFG/ or obtained from the Institute Director, Professor Ole Hansen, Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark (E-mail: oleh@nbi.dk).


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W O R K S H O P S

This list only includes new items. For a more complete list of conferences etc., please see the calender on the last page.

Hot Non-Perturbative Particle Physics
24 -25 April 1998, Copenhagen.
First Nordic Project Meeting and third NorFA Network Meeting.
The aim of this informal workshop is to discuss the physics of the Standard Model of strong and electroweak interactions and its extensions at high temperatures and energy densities, including applications to cosmology. The subjects include (but are not limited to) equilibrium thermodynamics of QCD and electroweak theories, effective theories of the Standard Model and its extensions at finite temperature, baryon number violation, magnetic fields and topological defects in the early Universe, and numerical simulations of equilibrium thermodynamics and real-time processes.
The workshop is organized by the Nordic project Hot Non-Perturbative Particle Physics, and the NorFA project ``Standard Model in Extreme Environments".

Cosmic Chemical Evolution
21 - 23 May 1998, Nordita, Copenhagen.
To celebrate Bernard Pagel on his retirement from Nordita there will be a symposium on the many facets of the problem of the abundances of elements in the cosmos. The meeting will begin on the morning of May 21, and finish around lunch time on May 23. Among the expected participants are: M.G. Edmunds, G. Gilmore, B. Gustafson, Michael Fall, David Lambert, D. Lynden-Bell, M. Pettini, E. Skillman, J. Sommer-Larsen, and Y. Yoshii.
For more details, contact Anne Lumholdt at Nordita (lumholdt@nordita.dk). Organizing committee: Bengt Gustafsson (Uppsala), Anne Lumholdt (Nordita Secretary), Chris Pethick (Nordita), Jesper Sommer-Larsen (TAC), and Mattias Wahde (Nordita).

Classical and Semi-Classical Techniques at High Temperature and in Heavy Ion Collisions
17 - 19 June 1998, NORDITA, Copenhagen.
A small workshop will be arranged in connection with the visits of K. Eskola, E. Iancu, L. McLerran, R. Pisarski, D. Rischke, V. Ruuskanen and E. Shuryak. The following topics will be discussed: the eikonal methods used in hard thermal loops, small-x physics and nuclear shadowing, semi-classical lattice simulations of dynamical QCD fields, initial conditions in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions. For more information, see: http://www.nordita.dk/~hh/ws98.html.

Instantons and Monopoles in the QCD Vacuum
22 - 27 June 1998, NORDITA, Copenhagen.
Organizer: Dmitri Diakonov (NORDITA).
The idea of the workshop is to bring together people who are actively working on the microscopic mechanism of colour confinement, to share their achievements, experience, prejudices and, most important, difficult problems. The accent will be on long talks with subsequent intensive discussions.
More than 30 experts from the USA, Japan, West and East Europe and from the Nordic countries have made commitments to participate. The workshop will incorporate participants of the Nordic Project ``Semiclassical Methods in Quantum Field Theory'' and of the INTAS project ``Study of Instantons, Monopoles and Strings in Field Theory''. It will be funded partly from these projects, and partly from the NORDITA conference budget. For more details contact the organizer, D. Diakonov (Nordita) diakonov@nordita.dk.

Physics of Molecular Biology, Summer School
19 - 28 August 1998, Krogerup Højskole, Humleb�, Denmark.
The aim of the school is to introduce graduate students and post-docs into recent advances in physics of proteins, including their interaction and control with DNA, genetic networks, ratchets, molecular motors, RNA and evolution. For further details, please see the enclosed poster.

NORDITA - LANDAU SYMPOSIUM
24 - 29 August 1998, Copenhagen, Denmark.
In response to the observation that this year marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of Lev Landau, we are pleased to announce a Nordita-Landau Symposium to be held August 24 - 29 in Copenhagen.
The symposium will cover a wide spectrum of problems of current interest in theoretical physics: Strings, Branes, Integrable Systems, Quantum Chaos, Dynamical System Theory, Chaos, Disordered Systems, Soft Condensed Matter, and Statistical Physics. Invited participants include: E. Abrahams, A. A. Abrikosov, P. W. Anderson, A. Andreev, Yu.A. Bychkov, S. Chakravarty, P. Cvitanovic, B. Derrida, V. Dotsenko, I. Dzyaloshinskii, M. Feigenbaum, D. Fisher, I.A. Fomin, L. Gorkov, M. Green, D. Gross, Yu. Kagan, E.A. Kuznetsov, A. I. Larkin, R. Laughlin, V.V. Lebedev, V.P. Mineev, S. Nechaev, N. Nekrasov, D. Nelson, Yu.N. Ovchinnikov, A. Polyakov, I. Procaccia, Ya. Pugai, V. Rubakov, A. Starobinskii, P. Wiegman, V. E. Zakharov, A. Zamolodchikov, Y.-C. Zhang. Organizers: H. Fogedby, A. Luther, J. Hertz, L. Brink, D. Gross, I. Khalatnikov and V. Mineev.
For further information and on-line registration please, consult the website: http://www.nordita.dk/ (NORDITA Symposium Program).

Nordic Graduate Physics Program
7 - 18 September 1998, NORDITA, NBI, TAC, Copenhagen.
A two-week program for graduate students in the Nordic and Baltic region. Its aim is to present a broad range of physics research in the Copenhagen area, and to form personal contacts between students and the local faculty. For further details, please see the enclosed poster.

Strong and Electroweak Matter 1998
2 - 5 December 1998, Copenhagen, Denmark.
The aim of the conference is to discuss the physics of the Standard Model (and beyond) at finite temperatures and densities, with applications in cosmology, astrophysics and laboratory experiments. The invited speakers include: P. Arnold (Virginia), R. Brandenberger (Brown), J. Cline (McGill), U. Heinz (Regensburg), E. Iancu (Saclay), F. Karsch (Bielefeld), C. Korthals-Altes (Marseille), G. Moore (McGill), R. Pisarski (Brookhaven), M. Quiros (Madrid), K. Rajagopal (MIT), M. Shaposhnikov (Cern), A. Smilga (Moscow), F. Wilczek (Princeton)[*], L. Yaffe (Seattle). [* = not yet confirmed].
If you are interested in participating in the meeting and/or receiving information about it, fill in the notification of interest form on the conference www-page: http://www.nordita.dk/~sewm/.


Visitors at NORDITA / NBI / CATS / TAC

A. Khodzhamirian, (Wurzburg),    3 months in 1998     Nordita
H. Fogedby, (Århus), S,          Several visits 1998  Nordita
A. Hansen, (Trondheim), S,       Several visits 1998  Nordita
M. Ninomiya, (Yukawa), P,        Present - 11.04.98   NBI
H. Nyborg, (Aarhus), C,          Present - 26.04.98   CATS
I. Pesando, (Torino), P,         Present - 30.04.98   NBI
J. Peisa, (Liverpool),           Present - 31.05.98   Nordita
B. Jensen,                       Present - 31.07.98   Nordita
M. Elhajal, (Grenoble), N,       Present - 15.08.98   NBI
J. Kockelkoren, (Holland), C,    14.04 - 23.04.98     CATS
M. Laine,                        14.04 - 26.04.98     Nordita
A. Semikhatov, (Lebedev), P,     14.04 - 26.04.98     NBI
K. Kajantie,                     18.04 - 23.04.98     Nordita
I. Artemova, (Moscow), A ,       20.04 - 05.05.98     TAC
M. Karjalainen,                  20.04 - 26.04.98     Nordita
A. Rajantie,                     20.04 - 26.04.98     Nordita
T. Blum,                         21.04 - 26.04.98     Nordita
U. Heller, (Tallahassee), P,     21.04 - 26.04.98     NBI
P. Traat, (Tartu),               26.04 - 24.05.98     Nordita
V. Petrov, (St. Petersburg),     6 weeks May - June   Nordita
S. Jaimungal, (Vancouver), P,    01.05 - 15.06.98     NBI
L. Paniak, ( Vancouver), P,      01.05 - 15.06.98     NBI
G. Semenoff, (Vancouver), P,     01.05 - 15.06.98     NBI
A. Dhar, (India), P,             03.05 - 15.05.98     NBI
C. Tsallis, (Rio de Jainero), C, 18.05 - 05.06.98     CATS
L. McLerran, (Minnesota),        26.05 - 28.06 and 03.08 - 04.09.98,  Nordita
M. Henneaux, (Bruxelles), P,     03.06 - 05.06.98,    NBI
B. Huberman, (Xero),             01.07 - 10.07.98,    Nordita
H. Nyborg, (Aarhus), C,          01.07 - 22.07.98,    CATS
M. Schmidt, (Heidelberg),        1 month fall,        Nordita

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


Long-term Visitors at NORDITA

G. Kavoulakis, (Illinois) present - 01.09.98
F. Ravndal, (Oslo) present - end May
A. Smilga, (St. Petersburg) July - September 98
S. Peigne, (France), P present - 31.12.98


Preprints / Reprints

New reprints and preprints obtainable from Jette Nielsen, e-mail: nielsen@nordita.dk.

V.M. Braun: Light-Cone Sum Rules. 98/1.

M. Asplund, B. Gustafsson, N. Kameswara Rao, and D.L. Lambert: Abundance Similarities between the R CrB Star V854 Cen and the Born-again Sakurais Object. 98/2.

J. Paaske and D.V. Khveshchenko: Intrinsic Temperature Dependences of Transport Coefficients within the Hot-Spot Model for Normal State YBCO. 98/3.

H. Heiselberg and M. Hjorth-Jensen: Phase Transitions in Rotating Neutron Stars. 98/4.

J. Bijnens, P. Gosdzinsky, and P. Talavera: Chiral Corrections to Vector Meson Decay Constants. 98/5.

P. Ball, V.M. Braun, Y. Koike, and K. Tanaka: Higher Twist Distribution Amplitudes of Vector Mesons in QCD: Formalism and Twist Three Distributions. 98/6.

H. Heiselberg: Freeze-out from HBT and Coulomb Effects. 98/7.

H. Heiselberg: Kaons in Nuclear Matter. 98/8.

H. Heiselberg and M. Hjorth-Jensen: Phase Transitions in Neutron Stars. 98/9.

H.W. Barz, J.P. Bondorf, J.J. Gaardhøje, and H. Heiselberg: Freeze-out Time in Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions from Coulomb Effects in Transverse Pion Spectra. 98/12.

R. Grzywacz, R. B�aud, C. Borcea, A. Emsallem, M. Glogowski, H. Grawe, D. Guillemaud-Mueller, M. Hjorth-Jensen, M. Houry, M. Lewitowicz, A.C. Mueller, A. Nowak, A. Plochocki, M. Pftzner, K. Rykaczewski, M.G. Saint-Laurent, J.E. Sauvestre, M. Schaefer, O. Sorlin, J. Szerypo, W. Trinder, S. Viteritti, J. Winfield: New Island of s-isomers in Neutron-rich Nuclei around the Z=28 and N=40 Shell Closures. 98/13.

D. Diakonov: Chiral Quark-Soliton Model. 98/14.

J. Hjorth, J. Oukbir, and E. van Kampen: The Mass-temperature Relation for Clusters of Galaxies. 98/15.

Papers Presented at the Nordic Symposium in Theoretical High Energy Astrophysics, Copenhagen, September 14-16, 1997:

X-ray Temperatures of Lensing Clusters by J. Hjorth, J. Oukbir, and E. van Kampen. 98/16.

SIXA - Silicon X-ray Array by O. Vilhu, J. Huovelin, T. Tikkanen, P . Hakala, P. Muhli, V. K���nen, H. Sipil� I. Taylor, J. Pohjonen, H. P�vik� J. Toivanen, R. Sunyaev, A. Kuznetsov, and A. Abrosimov. 98/16.

Can a Relativistic Iron K Line Be Resolved in Cyg X-1 with SIXA ? by P. Muhli and O. Vilhu. 98/16.

Two-phase Spectrum of the Black Hole Candidate 1E1740.7-2942 by J. Nevalainen, O. Vilhu, J. Poutanen, M. Gilfanov, and M. Vargas. 98/16.

J. Maunuksela, M. Myllys, J. Timonen, T. Ala-Nissila, M. Kuittu, M.J. Alava, and N. Provatas: Reply to the Comment of Makse and Amaral. 98/17.

H.W. Barz, J.P. Bondorf, J.J. Gaardhøje, and H. Heiselberg: Coulomb Effects on Particle Spectra in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions. 98/18.

K. B�gaard Lauritsen, P. Frjdh, and M. Howard: Surface Critical Behavior in Systems with Absorbing States. 98/21.

A.D. Jackson, G.M. Kavoulakis, and C.J. Pethick: Solitary Waves in Clouds of Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms. 98/22.


Overview of Future Nordita and other Conferences

Title / Place / Date Contact Person Fax / Email / www
Graduate Course on the
Physics of Random Systems,
Modern Statistical Physics,
Univ. of Oslo.
Periods: I. 9-27.2.1998,
II. 13-17.4.1998
III. 14-20.6.1998.
I. Lauvstad
Physics Dept.
Univ. of Oslo
+47-22 85 51 01 (fax)
inger.lauvstad@fys.uio.no
Cosmic Chemical Evolution.
Nordita, Copenhagen.
21-23 May 1998.
Anne Lumholdt
Nordita
+45 35 38 91 57 (fax)
lumholdt@nordita.dk
12th Nordic Symposium on
Computer Simulation.
Jyväskylä, Finland.
June 10-14, 1998.
T. Ala-Nissila
Jyväskylä
Tapio.Ala-Nissila@helsinki.fi
www.physics.helsinki.fi/~ala
/nscs12.htm
Classical and Semiclassical
Techniques at High Temperature
and in Heavy Ion Collisions.
Nordita, Copenhagen.
17-19 June 1998.
H. Heiselberg
Nordita
(+45) 35 38 91 57 (fax)
hh@nordita.dk
www.nordita.dk/~hh/ws98.html
Instantons and Monopoles
in the QCD Vacuum.
Nordita, Copenhagen.
June 22-27 1998.
D. Diakonov
Nordita
(+45) 35 38 91 57 (fax)
diakonov@nordita.dk
www.nordita.dk/meetings/
QCDmeet98.html
Nordita Master Class in Physics.
Nordita, Copenhagen.
25 July - 1 August 1998.
S. Åberg
LTH, Lund
(+46) 46 2224416 (fax)
sven.aberg@matfys.lth.se
www.nordita.dk/conference/
MasterClass2002/MasterClass98.html
9th Nordic Meeting on
Nuclear Physics.
Jyväskylä, Finland.
4-8 August 1998.
Matias Aunola
Sci.Secretary
Dept. of Physics
Univ. of Jyväskylä
+358 14 602 351 (fax)
Mimaau@jyu.fi
www.phys.jyu.fi/~aunola/conf.html
Nordic Research Course:
Duality in String and Field Theory.
Nordita, Copenhagen.
4-14 August 1998.
Anna Maria Rey
Nordita
(+45) 35 38 91 57 (fax)
rey@nordita.dk
The Annual Nordic-Trieste
Astrophysical Workshop (TAN-TA).
Trieste, Italy.
9 August - 8 September 1998.
M. Abramowicz
Chalmers, Goteborg.
Marek@tfa.fy.chalmers.se
Summer School in Physics
of Microbiological Systems.
Humlebaek, Denmark.
19-28 August 1998
K. Sneppen
Nordita
(+45) 35 38 91 57 (fax)
sneppen@nordita.dk
www.nordita.dk/~sneppen/
post/index.html
Nordita - Landau Symposium.
Copenhagen.
24-29 August 1998.
E. Pedersen
Nordita
(+45) 35 38 91 57 (fax)
pedersen@nordita.dk
Nordic Graduate Physics Program.
Nordita/NBI/TAC, Copenhagen.
7-18 September 1998
Anna Maria Rey
Nordita
(+45) 35 38 91 57 (fax)
rey@nordita.dk
Strong and Electroweak Matter 98.
Nordita/NBI, Copenhagen.
2-5 December 1998.
K. Rummukainen
Nordita
(+45) 35 38 91 57 (fax)
rummukai@nbi.dk
www.nordita.dk/~sewm/