Nordita News 2002/1
NORDITA Computing Manager
The Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA) invites
applications for the position of computing manager. NORDITA is a Nordic
research institute with about 30 resident scientists and 100 visitors
each year. The successful candidate is expected to have working
experience as a computing manager in a scientific environment. The
manager will interact with and guide the users (including
administrative personnel), maintain the existing Linux environment
comprising a server, a Linux cluster as well as desktop and laptop
computers. The computing manager is expected to oversee the planning
and purchasing of new equipment, and to work in close coordination
with the system administration at the neighboring Niels Bohr
Institute.
The position is expected to be filled by 1 September 2002.
The deadline for applications is 1 May 2002.
Home page: http://www.nordita.dk/positions/
Board Meeting
Nordita's Board will meet on 22 March 2002 in Copenhagen.
Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology
Inaugural Meeting of a Nordita Nordic Project
The Nordita Nordic Project on Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology
will hold its inaugural meeting 1-2 March 2002 at Nordita.
The meeting aims to bring together about 30 students and senior people.
A few well known external speakers will be invited so that the younger
members of the project will have an opportunity to interact with key
people in the field. Contact person: Steen Hannestad
(steen@nordita.dk).
Home page: http://www.nordita.dk/~steen/nordic/nordic.html.
Nordic Project on String Theory
9 - 11 May 2002, Karlstad, Sweden.
In the framework of the Nordic project financed by Nordita there
will be a three day Nordic meeting (the 15th) in Karlstad
from 9-11 May, 2002. Nordic researchers and PhD students that are
interested are invited to participate. For information contact
Stephen Hwang in Karlstad, email: stephen.hwang@kau.se
or Anna Maria Rey at Nordita, email: rey@nordita.dk
NORDITA - Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
Tel: Main number +45-353 25500. / Fax: +45-353 89157.
For individual extensions dial: +45-353+five-digit ext. number
Email: nordita@nordita.dk / Homepage: http://www.nordita.dk
Nordita Master Class in Physics
19 - 27 July 2002, Den Nordiske Lejrskole, Hillerød,
Denmark
A one-week school of physics will be organised in Hillerød
(~35 km North of Copenhagen) for students from the Nordic and Baltic
countries. The school aims at introducing frontier areas of physics
research by top scientists at a level understandable for undergraduate
students, and also to stimulate further studies.
The following four series of lectures, each of five hours,
will be given (topics are tentative):
From General Relativity to the Cosmic Microwave Background,
Prof. Kandaswamy Subramanian (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy
and Astrophysics, Pune); Polymer Networks, Gelation, Percolation, etc.,
Prof. Annette Zippelius (Universität Göttingen); Strings, Branes and
Black Holes,
Prof. Larus Thorlacius (University of Iceland); Quantized vortices,
Prof. Carlo Barenghi (University of Newcastle).
Who may apply? Undergraduate students who study in a Nordic or a Baltic
country. You must have a background of about three years of university
studies in physics/mathematics, or corresponding studies at a technical
university, but you should not be a graduate student.
We encourage female students to apply.
How to apply? Applications are submitted through the online
application form (through the home page of the Master Class),
including a list of finished courses in physics and mathematics
with your marks for each course.
Ask a teacher at your university to write a short recommendation letter
for your participation at the school.
Please note that when you submit your application, your teacher will
receive an email asking for a recommendation letter on your behalf.
The letter should be sent to the school via the online form available
on the home page of the Master Class.
Deadline for application: May 1, 2002.
How much does it cost?
The selected students (about 50) will participate free of charge.
This includes travelling to and from Hillerød (cheapest tickets),
housing and food in Hillerød. The Master Class is organized by
Axel Brandenburg (director) and Håkon Dahle (scientific secretary)
in collaboration with a Nordic contact group.
Anna Maria Rey is the secretary of the school.
Home page: http://www.nordita.dk/conference/MasterClass2002/.
NorFA-Nordita Summer School on
"Cosmology and the High-Redshift Universe"
5 - 15 August 2002, Abisko, Sweden
A summer school on "Cosmology and the High-Redshift Universe"
will be arranged in August 2002 in Abisko, Sweden for
students from the Nordic and Baltic countries.
The school aims at introducing beginning Ph.D. students
to a broad range of topics in current cosmological research.
The goal of the school is to give the students the necessary
theoretical background and understanding of the current observational
capabilities to be able to participate actively in research in these
fields.
In addition to the lectures, a significant fraction of time will be
reserved for active student participation in small project groups
supervised by the lecturers, and for presentations of student work.
The deadline for application is April 15, 2002.
Contact persons: Steen Hannestad(steen@nordita.dk) and
Haakon Dahle (dahle@nordita.dk).
Home page: http://www.nordita.dk/conferences/Abisko2002.
Beaming and Jets in Gamma Ray Bursts
The First Niels Bohr Summer Institute:
12 - 30 August 2002, Copenhagen
The program consists of a two week period dedicated to active work,
in the spirit of the workshops at the Institute for Theoretical Physics
in Santa Barbara and the Newton Institute in Cambridge, followed by
a topical conference the last week. The goal is to offer a unique
combination of opportunities for critical review of recent,
major progress in issues of beaming and jets in gamma ray bursts (GRBs)
for active work and collaboration between the program participants, and
for education of graduate students and postdoctoral research scientists.
The ultimate goal is, hopefully, to answer the main questions that are
at the heart of the debate within the communities working on GRBs and
jets, namely, why they exist and what their nature is.
Organizers: R. Ouyed and J. Hjorth.
Registration deadline: 1 June 2002.
Home page: www.nordita.dk/conference/NBSI/.
Dynamics of Biological Systems:
From Molecules to Networks Workshop in Biophysics
10 - 17 August 2002, Krogerup Højskole, Denmark.
Speakers include: Uri Alon, (Weizmann Inst.),
David Bensimon, (ENS, Paris),
Michael Brenowitz, (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York),
Mike Elowitz, (Rockefeller U.),
Erwin Frey, (TU München),
Iain Hagen*, (Manchester),
Marcello Magnasco, (Rockefeller U.),
Christoph Schmidt, (Amsterdam),
Michelle D. Wang, (Cornell U.),
Toshio Yanagida, (Osaka U.)
(* = to be confirmed).
The workshop is sponsored by:
Nordita, the Optical Tweezers Group & the Complexity lab at the
Niels Bohr Institute, and the Danish Graduate Schools of Biophysics
and of Nonlinear Science.
Organizing committee:
Kirstine Berg-Sørensen (NBI),
Henrik Flyvbjerg (Risø),
John Hertz (Nordita),
Mogens Høgh Jensen (NBI),
Lene Oddershede (NBI),
Kim Sneppen (NTNU, Trondheim).
Whom to contact: Ellen Pedersen,
Nordita, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø,
Denmark, tel: +45-353 25289, fax: +45-353 89157,
email: pedersen@nordita.dk.
The deadline for registration is 1 June 2002.
Home page: http://www.nordita.dk/conference/Biophysics2002/.
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Visitors at Nordita 2002
http://www.nordita.dk/contact/visitors.html
| Guy Moore, SA | (Seattle) |
03.03.02 - 10.03.02 | |
| Alex Khodjamirian, SA | (Karlsruhe) |
18.03.02 - 22.03.02 | |
The fields are listed after the names: AP: astrophysics;
CM: Condensed Matter physics, SA: Sub Atomic physics.
If you are interested in having any of these people visit
your institute, please contact NORDITA.
New Long-term Visitors
http://www.nordita.dk/contact/visitors.html
| Gordon Baym* | (Urbana) |
01.02.02 - 15.04.02 | |
| Theodoros Garagounis | (Sussex) |
14.01.02 - 13.04.02 | |
| Mette Machholm** | (Denmark) |
01.01.02 - 31.12.04 | |
| Pauline Ruffiot | (Grenoble) |
15.03.02 - 15.07.02 | |
| Daniel Sunhede | (Luleå) |
01.02.02 - 30.06.02 | |
*Gordon Baym is Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign and an Adjunct Professor at Nordita.
His interests are in dense matter, heavy-ion interactions
and the physics of atomic quantum gases.
**Mette Machholm has been awarded a fellowship from the Carlsberg
Foundation to work with the group at Nordita and the Ørsted
Laboratory carrying out research on quantum atomic gases.
She received her Ph. D. from the University of Copenhagen in 1997,
and has worked on the physics of cold atoms and femtosecond chemistry.
Before returning to Denmark, her most recent position was that of
a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Singapore.
PREPRINTS / REPRINTS:
http://www.nordita.dk/preprints/
New preprints and reprints obtainable from
Anna Maria Rey, email: rey@nordita.dk.
2002-01 AP. S. Hannestad:
Oscillation effects on neutrino decoupling in the early universe.
2002-02 AP. M. Hindmarsh, M. Christensson, A. Brandenburg:
MHD inverse cascade in the early universe.
2002-03 SA. K. Kainulainen, T. Prokopec, M. G. Schmidt, S.
Weinstock:
Some aspects of collisional sources for electroweak baryogenesis.
2002-04 AP. H. Heiselberg:
Neutron star masses, radii and equation of state.
2002-06 CM. J. Hertz:
Neurons, networks and cognition: an introduction to neural modeling.
2002-07 CM. J. Hertz, B. Richmond, K. Nilsen:
Anomalous response variability in a balanced cortical network.
2002-08 CM. K. A. Eriksen, P. Hedegaard, and H. Bruus:
Single-particle path integral for composite fermions and
the renormalization of the effective mass.
Overview of Future Nordita Conferences and other Conferences
|
Title/Place/Date |
Contact person |
Phone/fax/email/www |
Network Meeting:
Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
Nordita, Copenhagen
7-8 June 2002
|
O. Syljuåsen
Nordita
Blegdamsvej 17
D-2100 Copenhagen
Denmark
|
+45-353 25265.
+45-353 89157.
sylju@nordita.dk |
Nordita Master Class in Physics
Hillerød, Denmark
19-27 July 2002.
|
Anna Maria Rey
Nordita
Blegdamsvej 17
D-2100 Copenhagen
Denmark
|
+45-353 25247.
+45-353 89157.
rey@nordita.dk |
Summer School on: "Cosmology
and the High-Redshift Universe"
Abisko, Sweden
5-15 August 2002.
|
S. Hannestad
Nordita
Blegdamsvej 17
D-2100 Copenhagen
Denmark
|
+45-353 25338.
+45-353 89157.
steen@nordita.dk |
School and Workshop: Dynamics of
Biological Molecules and Networks
Krogerup, Humlebæk, Denmark
10-17 August 2002
|
Ellen Pedersen
Nordita
Blegdamsvej 17
D-2100 Copenhagen
Denmark
|
+45-353 25289.
+45-353 89157.
pedersen@nordita.dk |
Summer Institute: Beaming and
Jetz in Gamma Ray Bursts
The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
12-30 August 2002
|
Anne Lumholdt
Nordita
Blegdamsvej 17
D-2100 Copenhagen
Denmark
|
+45-353 25366.
+45-353 89157.
lumholdt@nordita.dk |
February/March 2002