NORDITA   NEWS   1999/4                               August 1999

Information about NORDITA Fellowships for Nordic scientists for the academic year 2000-2001 is attached. Complete on-line application forms and letters of recommendation should arrive at NORDITA no later than November 15, 1999. See 

http://www.nordita.dk/Adm/Position/ 

Please ensure that potential candidates, in particular those at institutes outside the Nordic countries, receive this information. 

Nordic Projects and Corresponding Fellowships 2000

NORDITA announces the availability of funding for Nordic projects and corresponding fellowships in 2000. The purpose and rules, as well as application forms for these schemes, are given at 

http://www.nordita.dk/Adm/Position/ 

The deadline for application is October 1, 1999, with a decision by the NORDITA Board expected in November, 1999. 

New Assistant Professor in Theoretical Astrophysics

On September 1, Dr. Rachid Ouyed will take up his position as assistant professor in theoretical astrophysics at  NORDITA. 

Dr. Ouyed has strong research interests in magnetohydrodynamics and the theory of jet phenomena, as well as in other areas of astrophysics. 

Denmark:
J. Vitting Andersen 
K. Berg-Sørensen (on leave) 
G. Bruun (from 01.10.1999) 
T. Hannah 
T. Tauris (from 01.02.2000). 

Finland:
P. Pennanen 

Island:
K. Johnsen 
Ö. Rögnvaldsson 

Norway:
Ø. Elgarøy (from 01.01.2000) 
O. Syljuåsen 
S. Viefers (on leave) 

Sweden:
P. Eden 
A. Westerberg 

Board Meeting

NORDITA's Board will meet on November 3, 1999 in Copenhagen. 

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Meetings/Workshops

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Advances in Statistical Physics

Wednesday, September 22, 1999 
10 am-5 pm 

NORDITA, Niels Bohr Institute, Auditorium A. 

A symposium held in honor of Hans C. Fogedby on the occasion of his 60th birthday. 

Invited Speakers: 

Joachim Krug (Essen); Peter Young (Santa Cruz); Yi-Cheng Zhang (Fribourg); Per Bak (Copen-hagen); Predrag Cvitanovic´ (Evanston and Copenhagen); Jesper Lykke Jacobsen (Paris); Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen (London); Erik Schwartz Sørensen (Toulouse). 

Everyone interested is invited to participate in the symposium. Registration is required. The symposium is organized as a satellite meeting of the NORDITA Workshop on Nonequilibrium Physics, to take place on September 23-25, 1999 (see http://www.ifa.au.dk/~fogedby/ NW/workshop.html). For further information and registration, please contact the Symposium Secretary: 

Helle Hjorting 
Department of Chemistry 
Technical University of Denmark, Building 206, DK-2800 Lyngby 
Tel: +45 45252463 
Fax: +45 45934808 
E-mail: helle@kemi.dtu.dk 

Organizers: John Hertz (NORDITA) and Ole G. Mouritsen (Technical University of Denmark). 

NORDITA, 23-25 September 1999 

Nonequilibrium phenomena are ubiquitous and constitute an important branch of modern physics. The aim of this workshop, which addresses both researchers and students, is to assemble many of the contributors to this field, both to report on current progress and to outline directions for the future. 

Topics include: 

Turbulence 

Growing interfaces 

Driven lattice gases 

Reaction-diffusion processes 

Mathematical models for biological evolution 

Participants include: 

E. Aurell, E. Baake, J.P. Bouchaud, R. Bundschuk, 
M. den Nijs, B. Derrida, 
B. Drossel, W. E, 
G. Falkovich, D. Fisher, 
E. Frey, T. Hwa, J. Krug, 
V. L'vov, S. Manrubia, 
M. Mezard^*, L. Peliti^*, 
I. Procaccia, H. Spohn, 
V. Yakhot. 

^*Not confirmed. 

Organizing Committee: 

Chair: H. Fogedby, Aarhus (NORDITA) 
M. Lässig, Cologne 
J. Hertz, NORDITA 
K. Sneppen, NORDITA 
P. Muratore, NBI 
M. Jensen, NBI 

http://www.ifa.au.dk/~fogedby/

NW/workshop.html 

Conference Secretary: 

Ellen Pedersen 
NORDITA, 
Blegdamsvej 17 
DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø 

E-mail: pedersen@nordita.dk 
Fax: +45 35 38 91 57 
Tel: + 45 35 32 52 89 

Neutrino Processes and Correlations in Dense Matter

NORDITA, 27-28 September 1999 

In connection with a visit by NORDITA's Adjunct, Professor Wolfram Weise from the Technical University of Munich, a workshop on the problem of interactions between neutrinos and dense matter in astrophysical contexts and relevant related nuclear physics issues is planned. 

Topics to be addressed include: What is needed for astrophysical applications? What is the present status of calculations of rates of neutrino processes? What is known about tensor correlations in nuclear matter and nuclei? What is the composition of dense matter? Directions for future work. 

Participants will include: 

Bengt Friman (Darmstadt) 
Vijay Pandharipande (Urbana) 
Madappa Prakash (Stony Brook) 
Georg Raffelt (Munich) 
Sanjay Reddy (Seattle) 
Ray Sawyer (Santa Barbara) 

Organizers: 

Wolfram Weise (Munich) 
C.J. Pethick (NORDITA) 

For further details, please consult Chris Pethick 

(pethick@nordita.dk) 

http://www.nordita.dk/Adm/Meetings/

workshop0999.html 

Graduate Student School on Ion Traps, Atom Traps and Optical Tweezers

Stockholm, Sweden, 2-5 November 1999 

(for students from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic Countries) 

The aim of this school is to bring together experienced scientists with younger ones, and to create an open, creative and effective learning atmosphere that will inspire new contacts as well as scientific developments. The scientific program will consist of a mixture of lengthy presentations by the invited speakers and shorter presentations, mainly given by student representatives of the participating laboratories. 

A detailed program, based on the final list of participants, will be set up in the early autumn. 

Invited Speakers: 

K.-O. Greulich, Jena (optical tweezers); 
C. Monroe, Boulder (ion traps); 
W. Phillips, Gaithersburg (atom traps); 
C. Salomon, Paris (atom traps); G. Werth^*, Mainz (ion traps). 

^*To be confirmed. 

Application deadline: September 20, 1999 

Application form may be obtained from: 

http://msiw37.msi.se/~smile/AutumnSchool /Welcome.html 

The number of participating students is limited to approximately 30. 

Methods Meet: Physics and Topical Issues of Society

NORDITA, 4-5 November 1999 

Human activities are increasingly influencing local and global environments. Our societies are facing difficult choices in regulating activities which affect, e.g., climate (global warming), natural resources (energy use, fishing quotas), and pollution levels. The structure of social interactions (in communications and finance, for example) is likewise growing more complex. 

Optimal responses to such challenges should be guided by evaluations of competent scientists. Physicists are trained to understand interrelations between complex phenomena, and they increasingly apply their skills in multidisciplinary research of direct relevance to society. 

NORDITA is organizing this workshop to promote the discussion of these issues. The program includes: 

The broader significance of fundamental physics in the world today
B. Gustafsson, Uppsala University 

Career choices of physics graduates
R. Czujko, American Institute of Physics 

Climate
H. Svensmark, Danish Space Research Institute 

Natural resources
K. Magnusson, University of Iceland 

P.G. Hjorth, Technical University of Denmark 

Interactions of research driven by curiosity and purpose

S. Svanberg, Lund Institute of Technology 

There will be discussions on topics such as: 

Promoting the awareness of graduate students of challenging problems in other areas (through invited lectures, summer schools, etc.) 

The opportunities for interdisciplinary research in areas of direct relevance to society (positions, research grants, etc.) 

The views of applied research institutes and industry. 

Contacts between scientists and regulatory agencies. 

The program and registration form can be found at 

www.nordita.dk/Adm/Conf/hoyer/ 

MethodsMeet.html

Graduate students are encouraged to apply. 

For further information, please contact 

Paul Hoyer: hoyer@nordita.dk or 

Ellen Pedersen: pedersen@nordita.dk 

Mini-school on Stochastic Finance

NORDITA, 2-4 December 1999 

As part of our non-equilibrium statistical physics initiative at NORDITA, we are arranging a mini-school on Stochastic Finance in December 1999. The format of the school will be a series of lectures dealing with the nature of economic systems as seen from a physics perspective. We will invite lecturers to cover the latest developments in game theory, in fluctuation analysis and Black-Scholes theory for risk minimization, and in various ways of viewing self-organization in economic systems. The school will span three days and is preliminarily scheduled for 2-4 December. For further information, please contact: 

Kim Sneppen: sneppen@nordita.dk 

Spåtind 2000: The 16th Nordic Meeting on Particle Physics

Spåtind, Norway, 4-10 January 2000 

The traditional biennial Nordic Meeting on Particle Physics, the 16th in the series, will again be arranged in Spåtind, 100 km northwest of Oslo. 

Gerald Eigen (Bergen) 
Experimental results on CP violation

Per-Olof Hulth (Stockholm) 
Dark matter with AMANDA

Andrew Liddle (Imperial College) Cosmological parameters

Jukka Maalampi (Helsinki) 
Neutrinos and beyond-the-standard-model physics

Poul Olesen (Copenhagen) 
AdSyCFT ideas: Can one solve QCD?

Lárus Thorlacius (Princeton University and Reykjavik) 
Physics of branes

Bryan Webber (Cambridge University) 
Limits of perturbative QCD

Kenneth Österberg (CERN and Helsinki) 
Recent LEP results

In addition, there will be talks on new results on QCD matter from the CERN SPS and Brookhaven RHIC. 

The deadline for registration is November 15, 1999, but the organisers welcome early registration. 

The conference is sponsored by Finska Vetenskaps-
Societeten and Finska Vetenskaps-akademin. 

Organizing Committee: 

Chair: Keijo Kajantie (Helsinki) 
Secretary: Janne Ignatius (Helsinki) 
Paula Eerola (Lund) 
Kari J. Eskola (Jyväskylä) 
Katri Huitu (HIP, Helsinki) 
Kimmo Kainlainen (NORDITA) 
Claus Montonen (HIP, Helsinki) 
Jorma Tuominiemi (HIP, Helsinki) 

Contact information: 
Online: http://www.physics.helsinki.fi/~spaatind/
spaatind2000.html. 

E-mail: spaatind@pcu.helsinki.fi