Nordita News 2005 / 2

 

 

New Director at Nordita
We are delighted to welcome Professor Paul Hoyer, University of Helsinki, who took up his position as Director of Nordita on the 1st September. Paul Hoyer was also director of Nordita from October 1994 to September 2002.

The future organization and location of Nordita will be considered by the Nordic Ministers of Education and Research (MR-U) at their meeting on 26 October.

 

The Nordita Board
The next Nordita board meeting will take place in Copenhagen
on Tuesday, 8 November 2005.

 

Nordita Fellows 2005 / 2006
www.nordita.dk/people/
We are pleased to announce that the following people have been awarded fellowships for the academic year 2005/2006:
Denmark: J. Ferkinghoff-Borg (bio) from 01.03.05,   J. M. Grimstrup (sa) from 01.01.05,  
K. Guldbæk Schmidt (ap).
Finland: A. Jokinen (ap/sa).       Iceland:   K. Kristjansson (sa).
Sweden: T. Ambjörnsson (bio),   L. Freyhult (sa),   A. Isacsson (cm),   T. Karlsson (ap),  
T. Månsson (sa).   M. Olsson (sa/ap) from 01.10.05.
Present Nordic Lecturers:   Charlotte F. Kristjansen (sa),   Olav Syljuåsen (cm).

 

Long-term Visitors at Nordita 2005
www.nordita.dk/people/
(ap) Kirsi Lehto (Turku)         until 30.06.06.
(ap) Harry J. Lehto (Turku)         until 30.06.06.
(sa) Matthias Staudacher (Potsdam)         until 30.04.06.
(sa) Gordon Baym (Urbana) 19.11.05 - 28.11.05       
Paid from other sources:
(bio) Michael A. Lomholt (Copenhagen)         until 14.02.06,   Villum Kann Rasmussen Foundation.
(ap) Gentaro Watanabe (Tokyo)         until 11.04.07,   The Japan Society for the
  Promotion of Science.
(sa) Marta Orselli (Perugia) 01.10.05 - 20.09.07,   EU-Network.

Abbreviations: (ap) astrophysics, (bio) biological physics, (cm) condensed matter physics, (sa) subatomic physics.

 

 

Nordita meetings and other meetings in the Nordic countries
www.nordita.dk/meetings/

27 - 28 October 2005, Helsinki, Finland.
The 20th Nordic String Meeting
www.hip.fi/~hki_strings/
Organizers: E. Keski-Vakkuri, C. Montonen, N. Jokela.
Supported by: Helsinki Institute of Physics and Nordita Nordic Project.


   
11 - 12 November 2005 (preliminary), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Symposium on General Relativity and Cosmology,
a tribute to Igor Novikov's life-time dedication and contribution to physics,
astrophysics and cosmology.
Organizers: P. Naselsky (naselsky@nbi.dk), P. Rex Christensen (perrex@nbi.dk)
and C.J. Pethick (pethick@nordita.dk).
Supported by: NBI, the Niels Bohr Foundation and Nordita.


   
17 - 19 November 2005, Oslo, Norway.
2nd NordForsk Network Meeting on Low-dimensional physics.
http://www.fys.uio.no/~susanne/NordForsk/oslomeeting/
Organizier: S.F. Viefers (s.f.viefers@fys.uio.no)
Supported by: NordForsk.


   
20 - 21 November 2005, Oslo, Norway.
Astrobiology: Life in extreme conditions.
http://www.nordita.dk/conference/AstroBio2005B/
Organizer: A. Brandenburg (brandenb@nordita.dk) and Ø. Elgaroy (oelgaroy@astro.uio.no)
Supported by: Astrobiology Nordic Project.


   
14 - 17 December 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Cosmology 2005: a reality check.
www.astro.ku.dk/dark/workshops/dark05/
Organizers: P.H. Damgaard (phdamg@nbi.dk), A. Mazumdar (anupamm@nordita.dk),
K. Pedersen (kp@astro.ku.dk), J. Hjorth (jens@astro.ku.dk).
Supported by: NordForsk, NBI and Nordita Nordic Project.


   
Date: 2 - 13 January 2006, Sirkka (Lapland), Finland.
Nordic Winter School on Astrobiology.
www.nordita.dk/conference/AstroBioSchool/
Organizers: A. Brandenburg (brandenb@nordita.dk), et al.
Supported by: NordForsk and Nordita Nordic Project.



 

Proceedings of the Nordic Project on Quasi Periodic Oscillations
http://www.nordita.dk/~marek/proceedings/

In 2005, the Astronomische Nachrichten will publish proceedings of the "Nordita Workdays on QPOs", Nordita, February 27 - March 2, 2005, organizers: M. Abramowicz, A. Brandenburg, J. Poutanen.

 

Proceedings of the Nordic Project Meetings on Astrobiology
www.nordita.dk/~brandenb/astrobiology/proceedings/

The international Journal of Astrobiology (Cambridge University Press) has just published a special edition with the proceedings of the Nordic Project Meetings on Astrobiology. Anja C. Andersen and Axel Brandenburg acted as Guest Editors.

The contributions include papers by: Peter Ditlevsen (A climatic thermostat making Earth habitable). Minik Rosing (Thermodynamics of life on the global scale). Anja C. Andersen & Henning Haack (Carbonaceous chondrites: tracers of prebiotic evolution). Richard Lathe (Tidal chain reaction and the origin of replicating biopolymers). Kirsi Lehto & Alexey Karetnikov (Relicts and models of the RNA world). Søren Toxvaerd (Origin of homochirality in biological systems). Patrick G.H. Sandars (Chirality in the RNA world and beyond). Jonathan A.D. Wattis & Peter V. Coveney (Chiral polymerisation and the RNA world). Tuomas Multamäki & Axel Brandenburg (Spatial dynamics of homochiralization). Martin Nilsson Jacobi et al. (Modeling the dynamics of a minimal protocell container). Natalia B. Gontareva (Photochemical stability of biomolecules). Eira Kanervo et al. (Characterization of growth and photosynthesis of Synechocystis).

 

Astrobiology seminar series in Copenhagen
www.nordita.dk/~brandenb/astrobiology/seminar/

With the arrival of Harry and Kirsi Lehto, as well as Karen Guldbæk Schmidt, Nordita has reached the critical mass for an astrobiology seminar series for people in the Copenhagen area and other visitors. The schedule is posted on above link.
People interested in being on the mailing list should sign up on
http://lists.nordita.dk/mailman/listinfo/ab-announce
The seminar series will be continued throughout the spring. Suggestions for speakers are welcome.

 

 

Nordita Preprints / Reprints
www.nordita.dk/preprints/

2005-024 Stellar dynamo driven wind braking instead of disc coupling. B. von Rekowski, A. Brandenburg.
2005-029 Stochastic approach to DNA breathing dynamics. S.K. Banik, T. Ambjörnsson, R. Metzler.
2005-031 Quasi-thermal universe: From cosmology to colliders. R. Allahverdi, A. Mazumdar.
2005-032 Lattice simulations of QCD with \mu_B\neq0 versus phase quenched QCD. K. Splittorff.
2005-033 Nanodiamond dust and the far-ultraviolet quasar break. L. Binette, G.C. Magris, Y. Krongold, C. Morisset, S. Haro-Corzo, J.A. de Diego, H. Mutschke, A.C. Andersen.
2005-034 Spatial dynamics of homochiralization. T. Multamäki, A. Brandenburg, Int. J. Astrobiol. 4 (2005) 73-78.
2005-035 Uni-directional polymerization leading to homochirality in the RNA world. M. Nilsson, A. Brandenburg, A.C. Andersen, S. Höfner.
2005-036 Strong mean field dynamos require supercritical helicity fluxes. A. Brandenburg, K. Subramanian, Astron.Nachr. 326 (2005) 400-408.
2005-038 Carbonaceous Chondrites: Tracers of the prebiotic chemical evolution of the Solar System. A.C. Andersen, H. Haack.
2005-039 Resonant Fermi gases with a large effective range. A. Schwenk, C. J. Pethick.
2005-040 Breathing mode of rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates. G. Watanabe.
2005-041 Multi-flavor bosonic Hubbard models in the first excited Bloch band of an optical lattice. A. Isacsson, S. M. Girvin.
2005-043 Cosmological expansion and the uniqueness of gravitational action. T. Multamäki, I. Vilja.
2005-044 Fluctuations and Energy Shifts in the Bethe Ansatz. N. Beisert, L. Freyhult, Phys.Lett. B622 (2005) 343-348.
2005-045 Phase fluctuations in low-dimensional Gross-Neveu models. J. O. Andersen.
2005-046 Cosmic ray confinement in the diffusion approximation. A.P. Snodin, A. Brandenburg, A.J. Mee, A. Shukurov.
2005-047 Angular conductance resonances of quantum dots strongly coupled to noncollinearly oriented ferromagnetic leads. J. Fransson, Phys. Rev. B 72, 045415 (2005).
2005-048 Non-equilibrium theory for quantum dot with arbitrary on-site correlation strength coupled to leads. J. Fransson, Phys. Rev. B 72, 075314 (2005).
2005-049 Signatures of band-like tunnelling in granular nanowires. J. Fransson, J. -F. Lin, L. Rotkina, J. P. Bird, P. A. Bennett.
2005-051 Do vortices in inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates move with the local fluid velocity? H. M. Nilsen, G. Baym, C. J. Pethick.
2005-052 Effect of the radiative background flux in convection. A. Brandenburg, K. L. Chan, A. Nordlund, R. F. Stein, Astron. Nachr. 326 (2005) 681-692.
2005-054 A New Method for Determining F_\pi on the Lattice. P.H. Damgaard, U. M. Heller, K. Splittorff, B. Svetitsky.
2005-055 Summary Talk on Quark-Hadron Duality. P. Hoyer.
2005-056 Soft Rescattering in DIS: Effects of Helicity Flip. P. Hoyer, M. Järvinen.
2005-057 Magnetic helicity density and its flux in weakly inhomogeneous turbulence. K. Subramanian, A. Brandenburg.




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