NORDITA   NEWS   2000 / 2                                 April 1, 2000

NORDITA has an opening for an assistant professor in theoretical condensed matter physics starting on or about January 2001. Preference will be given to candidates with a promising research record who are no more than six years beyond their PhD degree.

Those interested in the appointment should send a curriculum vitae, a (brief) statement of research interests, a list of publications and arrange for three recommendation letters to be sent before June 15, 2000 to:
The Director, NORDITA, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
Phone: +45-353 25222.   Fax: +45-353 89157. Email: nordita@nordita.dk

The full text of the advertisement is to be found at www.nordita.dk/Adm/Position/aprof00.html.

People wishing to suggest possible candidates are encouraged to contact the director.

NORDITA has an opening for a Computer Manager from June 1, 2000.

The computer manager is responsible for maintaining and developing NORDITA's computer installation (Sun and Linux) and network. Another importanttask is to assist the scientific and administrative staff in computing matters. Experience with other platforms is an advantage.

The NORDITA computer system is closely linked to that of the Niels Bohr Institute for Astrophysics, Geophysics and Physics (NBIfAFG), and there is close collaboration between computer specialists at the two institutes. NORDITA and the NBIfAFG form a stimulating environment of advanced research in physics.

The successful applicant will be appointed for two years, with a possibility of extension. The salary depends on academic and computing experience.

Applications, including a CV and references, should be mailed before 15 May 2000 to:
The Director, NORDITA, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
Email: nordita@nordita.dk

After his Ph. D. studies at Caltech on chiral perturbation theory and the weak interaction in 1985, Hans Bijnens was a postdoc at DESY 1985-1987, an assistant at Munich University 1987-1989, and a CERN fellow 1990-92. In the following years he held a position as assistant professor at Nordita and since March 1997 he has been at the University of Lund, Department of Theoretical Physics 2 as a Forskartjänst.
His main present areas of research are:
i) Chiral Perturbation Theory: a low-energy effective theory of the strong interactions and one of the few model independent tools available in hadronic physics.
ii) CP-violation and standard model parameters: quark masses, mixing angles and the CP-violating mechanisms in and beyond the standard model. This involves general studies of the kaon and B-meson system.
iii) Strong interaction effects in low-energy precision experiments used for the study of the weak interaction and physics beyond the standard model physics.
iv) Connections between chiral perturbation theory, perturbative QCD and various phenomenological strong interaction models.

Tomas Bohr's interests will be presented in the next number of NORDITA News.

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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN STRING THEORY
NORDITA, Copenhagen, 4 - 6 May, 2000.

This meeting is being arranged by Norditas Nordic Network on Nordic string theory. It is especially addressed to Nordic graduate students and researchers in the field. A detailed program will be available at the end of April.
Organizer: P. Di Vecchia.
Deadline: 18 April 2000.
Website: http:// www.nordita.dk/Adm/Meetings/STRINGworkshop00.html.

5^th NORDIC SUMMER SCHOOL IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS
Hillerød, Denmark, 14-25 August 2000.

The following topics will be covered:
Nuclear Structure - Basic Ideas, P. Bonche (Saclay);
The Standard Model - Basic Ideas, P. Hoyer (Copenhagen);
Physics with Large Gamma-ray Arrays, M. Riley (Tallahassee);
Physics with Radioactive Beams, B. Jonson (Gothenburg);
Finite Quantal Many-Body Systems, B. Mottelson, (Copenhagen);
Hadrons in Nuclei, J. Wambach (Darmstadt);
Ultra-relativistic Collisions, J. Stachel (Heidelberg);
Nuclear Astrophysics, F.-K. Thieleman (Basel);
Accelerator Driven Reactors, H. Nifenecker, (Grenoble).

The school is aimed at graduate students in experimental and theoretical physics. The main emphasis is on nuclear physics, but we also welcome students from other areas of physics who would like to learn about modern nuclear physics. The school is open for students from all parts of the world, but with a priority on Nordic and Baltic students. Living and travelling expenses will be covered for Nordic and Baltic students, while other students will be charged a participation fee of DKK 2000, which includes lodging and food.

The deadline for applications is April 15, 2000.
Please register using our electronic registration form at http://www.pixe.lth.se/nordic/applicform.asp.
Applicants will be notified of acceptance by mid-May, 2000. For more information about the school and the speakers, check out the school home page at http://www.pixe.lth.se/nordic/hillerod.aps

School organizers:   S. Åberg, Lund, and B. Mottelson, NORDITA.
The School is sponsored by NorFA and NORDITA.

WORKSHOP ON GENETIC INTELLIGENCE OF BACTERIOPHAGES
NORDITA, Copenhagen, 24-26 August 2000.

The topic of the meeting is genetic switches and decision circuits in phages. It will take place at NORDITA.
The meeting is interdisciplinary with physics, and people from both physics and biology will attend. We expect about 15 speakers, and an overall attendance of about 30-40 participants. The talks will start early Thursday 24 August, and end late afternoon on Saturday 26 August.
Organizing committee:
S. Adhya (NCI, Bethesda), Stanley Brown (Copenhagen Univ.),
J. Hertz (NORDITA), hertz@nordita.dk, and K. Sneppen (NORDITA), sneppen@nordita.dk.

Speakers:
S. Adhya (NCI, Bethesda); A. Arkin*; A. Campbell (Stanford); D. Court (NCI, Fre-derick); R. Dari (Paris); B. Egan (Adeleide); M. Gottesman (Columbia, NY); S. Leibler (Princeton); J.W. Little (Arizona); M. Ptashne* (New York). (*To be confirmed).

Conference secretary: Ellen Pedersen, NORDITA, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark,
Email: pedersen@nordita.dk,
Tel: +45-353 25289, and Fax: +45 353 89157.
Deadline: July 1, 2000.
Website: www.nordita.dk /Adm /Meetings/GIPworkshop.html.

PROBLEMS OF THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT AND VACUUM ENERGY
Copenhagen, 24-26 August 2000.

A conference on this subject will be held in Copenhagen on The conference, organized and financed by NORDITA and TAC, is aimed at covering the following topics:
1. Observational and theoretical arguments in favor of a non-vanishing cosmological constant.
2. Phenomenology of an accelerating universe.
3. The issue of huge vacuum energy in quantum physics.

Local organization committee:
Prof. Alexandre Dolgov (Ferrara), Prof. Axel Brandenburg (NORDITA) and assistant professors Kimmo Kainulainen, Rachid Ouyed and Steen Hannestad (NORDITA).

NORDITA MEETING ON LOW-DIMENSIONAL PHYSICS IN SOLIDS AND TRAPPED ATOMS
August 31 - September 2, 2000.

The aim of this meeting is to gather physicists working in the general area of low-dimensional physics and atomic Bose condensates, with talks on various subjects, like the quantum Hall effect, high Tc superconductivity, Bose condensation and integrable models. During the last couple of years there has been quite some interest in two-dimensional aspects of Bose condensation, and there turn out to be close similarities between the physics of these systems and the quantum Hall effect and quantum dots. We thus believe that it will be very fruitful to bring these two communities together.

Further information and registration forms can be found at http://www.nordita.dk/~susanne/conf/.
Organizers: Susanne Viefers (susanne@ nordita.dk), Alan Luther (luther@nordita.dk ), Hans Hansson (hansson@physto.se).
Conference secretary: Ellen Pedersen (pedersen@nordita.dk ).

The fields are listed after the names: AP, astrophysics; C, Complex Systems & Chaos; NP, nuclear physics; HE, high energy physics; CM, condensed matter physics.

If you are interested in having any of these people visit your institute, please contact NORDITA.

R. A. Chongtay, (Mexico)    present 30.06.00
P. Dommersnes, (Trondheim)    present 30.06.00
G. Kavoulakis, (Illinois)    present 30.06.00
Z. Konkoli, (Göteborg)    present 31.08.00
R. Marotta, (Italy)    present 31.08.00
N. Obers, (CERN)    present 31.08.00
H. Weigert, (Cambridge UK)    present 31.08.00
D. Golosov, (Chicago)    present 30.09.00
W. Bietenholz, (Jülich)    present - 31.09.00
M. Bertolini, (Italy)    present 31.10.01
M. Hörnquist, (Linköping)    present 31.12.01 
M. Stone (Illinois)    Sept. Dec. 00 

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

P. Di Vecchia and A. Liccardo: D branes in string theory, I.     99/77.
R. Marotta and F. Pezella: Two-loop Phi⁴-diagrams from string theory.     99/78.
K.B. Arnvig , S. Pedersen, and K. Sneppen: Thermodynamics of heat shock response.     99/82.
P. Di Vecchia and A. Liccardo: D branes in string theories, II.     99/84.
D. Diakonov and V. Petrov: Yang-Mills theory in three dimensions as quantum gravity theory.     99/85.
H. Heiselberg and M. Hjorth-Jensen. Phase transitions in neutron stars and maximum masses.     99/86.
H. Heiselberg and R. Mattiello: Anisotropic J/Psi suppression in nuclear collisions.     99/87.
H. Heiselberg: Electrical conduction in the early universe.     99/88.
S. Boettcher and M. Paczuski: D_c=4 is the upper critical dimension for the Bak-Sneppen model.     99/89.
M. Paczuski, K. E. Bassler, and A. Corral: Self-organized networks of competing Boolean agents.     99/90.
P.W. Anderson and D.V. Khveshchenko: Fermi edge singularities in X-ray response of strongly correlated fermions.     2000/2.
M. Bertolini and M. Trigiante: Regular BPS black holes: macroscopic and microscopic description of the generating solution.     2000/3.
K. Johnsen: Spin-dynamic field coupling in strongly THz driven semiconductors: local inversion symmetry breaking.     2000/4.
P. Pennanen and C. Michael: String breaking in zero-temperature lattice QCD.     2000/5.
G.W. Carter and D. Diakonov: The nonperturbative color Meissner effect in a two-flavor color superconductor.     2000/7.
Z. Li and J. Hertz: Odor recognition and segmentation by a model olfactory bulb and cortex.     2000/9.
R. Marotta and F. Pezella: String-generated quartic scalar interactions.     2000/16.
S. Hannestad and R.J. Scherrer: Self-interacting warm dark matter.     2000/17.
S. Viefers, T.H. Hansson, and S.M. Reimann: Bose condensates at high angular momenta.     2000/18.
A. Bakk, J.S. Høye, A. Hansen, K. Sneppen, and M.H. Jensen: Pathways in two-state protein folding.     2000/19.
R. Donangelo, A. Hansen, K. Sneppen, S.R. Souza: Modelling an imperfect market.     2000/21.
A. Brandenburg, W. Dobler, A. Shukurov, and B. von Rekowski: Pressure-driven outflow from a dynamo active disc.     2000/22.
A. Brandenburg: Dynamo-generated turbulence and outflows from accretion discs.     2000/23.
A. Brandenburg: The dynamo effect in stars.     2000/24.
A. Brandenburg: Magnetohydrodynamics of accretion discs.     2000/25.
W. Dobler, A. Brandenburg, and A. Shukurov: Pressure-driven outflow and magneto-centrifugal wind from a dynamo active disc.     2000/26.
A. Brandenburg and S.H. Saar: Dynamo mechanisms.     2000/27.
M. S. Miesch, A. Brandenburg, and E.G. Zweibel: Nonlocal transport of passive scalars in turbulent penetrative convection.     2000/28.