Nordita News 2001/4

NORDITA Fellowships 2002/2003

Nordita announces research fellowships for Nordic physicists in theoretical physics, including: astrophysics, biological physics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, and particle physics. Details of the fellowships are attached. An on-line application form may be found at http://www.nordita.dk/positions/. Please ensure that potential candidates in particular those at institutes outside the Nordic countries, receive this information. Deadline: 15 November 2001.

Director, Nordita, Copenhagen, Denmark
Nordita, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen, invites applications for the position of Director from 1 August 2002. Applications including a CV and list of publications should be mailed to: Professor Dan-Olof Riska, Chairman of the Board, Nordita, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. Deadline: 30 September 2001. A more detailed description of the position may be found at http://www.nordita.dk/positions/ .

Assistant Professor in Theoretical
Subatomic Physics, Nordita,Copenhagen

Nordita, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, expects to have an opening for an assistant professor starting in September 2002, or some other date to be agreed upon. The position is in subatomic physics, which includes nuclear, hadronic, particle and astroparticle physics. Those interested in the appointment should send a curriculum vitae, a (brief) statement of research interests, and a list of publications, and arrange for three recommendation letters to be sent before 15 October 2001 to: The Director, Nordita, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. Phone: +45-3532 5222, fax: +45-3538 9157, email: nordita@nordita.dk , www: www.nordita.dk. There is no restriction on the nationality of the applicant, and women are encouraged to apply. Those wishing to recommend suitable candidates are urged to contact the Director. Website: http://www.nordita.dk/positions/.

Nordic Projects and Corresponding Fellowships 2002
Nordita announces the availablity of funding for Nordic Projects and Corresponding Fellowships in 2002. The purpose and rules of these programmes, as well as application forms are given at http://www.nordita.dk/positions/. The deadline for application is October 1, 2001.

Board Meeting
Nordita's Board will meet on 1 and 2 November 2001 in Copenhagen.

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

R. Arlt and A. Brandenburg: Search for non-helical disc dynamos in simulations. 2001-14 AP.

M. Bertolini, P. Di Vecchia, M. Frau, A. Lerda, and R. Marotta: N=2 gauge theories on systems of fractional d3/d7 branes. 2001-15 HE.

J. Piilo, K.-A. Suominen, and K. Berg-Sørensen: Atomic collision dynamics in optical lattices. 2001-17 CM.

R. Ouyed and F. Sannino: The glueball sector of two-flavor color superconductivity. 2001-18 HE.

F. Sannino: Color superconductivity: Symmetries and effective langrangians. 2001-22 HE.

S. Moussa, S. Nasri, F. Sannino, and J. Schechter: Possible Z-width probe of a brane-world scenario for neutrino masses. 2001-23 HE.

D. Diakonov and V. Petrov: BF gravity: a bridge between Yang-Mills and string theory ? 2001-24 HE.

M. Bertolini and M. Trigiante: Regular BPS black holes: macroscopic and microscopic description of the generating solution. Nucl. Phys. B582 (2000) 393.

G. Kavoulakis and A. Mysyrowicz: Auger decay, spin-exchange, and their connection to Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons in Cu₂O. Phys. Rev. B61 (2000) 16619.

G.W. Carter and D. Diakonov: The nonperturbative color Meissner effect in a two-flavor color

Z. Li and J. Hertz: Odor recognition and segmentation by a model olfactory bulb and cortex. Network: Computation in Neural Systems 11 (2000) 83.

J. M. Cline and K. Kainulainen: A new source for electroweak baryogenesis in the MSSM. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (2000) 5519.

M. Joyce, K. Kainulainen, and T. Prokopec: Fermion propagator in a nontrivial background field.

K. Kainulainen: Sources for electroweak baryogenesis. Proceedings of the 3rd Int. Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe. COSMO 99, 383-389. Eds. U. Cotti et al. World Scientific 2000.

A. Kovner, J.G. Milhano, and H. Weigert: Relating different approaches to nonlinear QCD evolution at finite gluon density. Phys. Rev. D62 (2000) 114005.

S. Hannestad and R. J. Scherrer: Self-interacting warm dark matter. Phys. Rev. D62 (2000) 043522.

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.

E. Imeroni	Torino	Present - 30.07.02
E. Lozano	Spain	Present - 01.03.02
D. Sunhede		Present - 31.12.01

A. Hermann,CM	EPF Lausanne	1 week in sept.
T. Zee, HE	UC Santa Barbara	Middle September
H. Meyer, HE	Univ. Lausanne	9.09.01-22.09.01
C.-H. Lee, AP	KIAS	8 days December
S. Glashow, HE	Harvard/Boston Univ.	13.12.01-16.12.01