Nordita News 2002/3

Petter Minnhagen, Nordita's New Director

      We are delighted to announce that Petter Minnhagen, Professor of Physics at Umeå University, has been appointed Director for four years beginning August 1, 2002. Petter is no stranger to Nordita, having been a Nordita fellow from 1977-1980, a member of the Nordita Board 1996-2002, and chairman of the Board in 1998.

Petter was brought up in Lund, and he received his Ph. D. degree from Lund University in 1976. After postdoctoral positions at Nordita, Indiana University, and Lund University he became associate professor at Umeå University, where he was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics in 1986. He has been a member of numerous committees, both in Sweden and internationally, and he is at present a member of the Swedish Research Council and of the European Union of Physics Research Organisations, EUPRO.


Ralf Rapp, new assistant professor in subatomic physics

Nordita welcomes Ralf Rapp, who took up his position as assistant professor on 1 September 2002. Ralf got his PhD degree in 1996 from the University of Bonn, having done research at the Jülich Research Center and at the University of Illinois in Urbana. He then joined the Nuclear Theory Group at SUNY in Stony Brook, first as post-doctoral fellow and later as Research Scientist and Assistant Professor. His main research interests are in the areas of intermediate energy nuclear physics, relativistic heavy ion collisions and QCD at finite density.


Assistant Professor in Theortical Astrophysics
http://www.nordita.dk/positions/

Nordita expects to have an opening for an assistant professor starting in September 2003, or some other date to be agreed upon. The position is in theoretical astrophysics, which include astroparticle physics and cosmology. The successful applicant is expected to guide fellows at roughly the postdoctoral level, to interact with colleagues at Nordita and elsewhere in the Nordic countries, and to take an active part in the organization of meetings and courses. The position provides excellent opportunities to pursue original research and to have contact with a wide range of developments in theoretical physics. The initial appointment will be for three years, with a possibility of renewal up to a total of six years. Deadline: October 15, 2002.


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New Nordita Fellowships 2002 / 2003

We are pleased to announce that the following people have been awarded fellowships for the academic year 2002/2003:
Denmark: A. Andersen (ap),   J.O. Andersen (sa/cm),
L. Melwyn Jensen (cm),  T. Schrøder (bio/cm).
Finland: P. Keränen (sa/ap),   K. Tuominen (sa/ap).
Norway: A. Bakk (bio/cm),   Ø. Elgaroy (ap/sa).
Sweden: M. Christensson (ap/sa),   M. Granath (cm).

 

Nordita Fellowships 2003 / 2004
http://www.nordita.dk/positions/

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 above link. Please ensure that potential Nordic candidates in particular those at institutes outside the Nordic countries, receive this information.   Deadline: November 15, 2002.

 

Nordic Assistant Professor Positions
http://www.nordita.dk/positions/

NORDITA, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, expects to have an opening for one or two Nordic Assistant Professors starting in September 2003, or at some other date to be agreed upon. Preference will be given to applicants with research interest in astrophysics and subatomic physics. These positions are created for promising younger scientist from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, who wish to carry out research in theoretical physics. Applicants must be either citizens or permanent residents of one of the Nordic countries. Preference will be given to candidates no more than six years beyond their PhD degree.   The deadline for application is November 15, 2002.

 

Nordic Projects and Corresponding Fellowships 2003
http://www.nordita.dk/positions/

Nordita announces the availablity of funding for Nordic Projects and Corresponding Fellowships in 2003. The purpose and rules of these programmes, as well as application forms are given at above link.   The deadline for application is October 1, 2002.

 

 

Visitors at Nordita 2002
http://www.nordita.dk/contact/visitors.html

Graeme Sarson (Newcastle) 14.09.02 - 13.12.02 (ap)
Gustaf Sterner (Stockholm) 16.09.02 - 23.12.02 (bio)
Ulf Lindström (Uppsala) 23.09.02 - 30.09.02 (sa)
Wolfgang Dobler (Freiburg) 23.09.02 - 11.10.02 (ap)
Meliani Zakaria (Paris-Meudon) 14.10.02 - 25.10.02 (ap)
Mike Hamp (McMaster) 14.10.02 - 10.11.02 (ap)
John Brooke (Manchester) 28.10.02 - 04.11.02 (ap)

The fields are listed after the names: (ap) astrophysics, (bio) biological physics, (cm) condensed matter physics, (sa) sub atomic physics.
If you are interested in having any of these people visit your institute, please contact Nordita.

 

Nordita Preprints / Reprints
http://www.nordita.dk/preprints/
New preprints and reprints obtainable from Anna Maria Rey, email: rey@nordita.dk.

2002-25 HE Center vortices and k-strings.   L. Del Debbio and D. Diakonov.
2002-26 HE A supernova constraint on bulk majorons.   S. Hannestad, P. Keranen, and F. Sannino.
2002-27 AP Probing the dark side: Constraints on the dark energy equation of state from CMB, large scale structure and Type Ia supernovae.   S. Hannestad and E. Mortsell.
2002-28 AP Cosmological limit on the neutrino mass.   S. Hannestad.
2002-30 HE On the N=1 beta-function from the conifold.   E. Imeroni.
2002-31 HE Numerical study of duality and universality in a frozen superconductor.   T. Neuhaus, A. Rajantie and K. Rummukainen.
2002-32 CM Towards a strong coupling theory for the KPZ equation.   H. C. Fogedby.
2002-33 CM Power laws and stretched exponentials in a noisy finite-time-singularity model.   H. C. Fogedby and V. Poutkaradze.
2002-34 CM Percolation in three-dimensional random field Ising magnets.   M.J. Alava et al.
2002-35 HE Saturation and pion production in proton-nucleus collisions.   J.T. Lenaghan and K. Tuominen.
2002-36 AP The density profile of cluster-scale dark matter halos.   H. Dahle, S. Hannestad, and J. Sommer-Larsen.
2002-37 HE The handbag contribution to two-photon annihilation into meson pairs.   C. Vogt
2002-38 CM Embedding a native state into a random heteropolymer model: the dynamic approach   Z .Konkoli and J .Hertz.
2002-39 AP A new look at dynamo cycle amplitudes.   S. H. Saar and A. Brandenburg.
2002-40 AP Solar and stellar dynamos - latest developments.   A. Brandenburg and W. Dobler.
2002-41 AP The helicity issue in large scale dynamos.   A. Brandenburg.
2002-42 AP Photon-Axion mixing in an inhomogeneous universe.   M. Christensson, M. Fairbairn.
2002-44 CM Genetic network inference using joint weight distributions.   M. Wahde and J. Hertz.
2002-45 AP Weak gravitational lensing by a sample of X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies - II. Comparison with virial masses.   R. Irgens, P. B. Lilje, H. Dahle and S. J. Maddox.
2002-46 AP Weak gravitational lensing by a sample of X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies - III. Serendipitous weak lensing detections of dark and luminous mass concentrations.   H. Dahle, K. Pedersen, P. B. Lilje, S. J. Maddox, and N. Kaiser.
2002-47 AP Contributions to the theory of the Karlsruhe dynamo experiment.   K.-H. Rädler and A. Brandenburg.
2002-48 HE N=1 Matter From Fractional Branes.   R. Marotta, F. Nicodemi, R. Pettorino, F. Pezzella, and F. Sannino
2002-49 HE Partial deconfinement in color superconductivity.   F. Sannino, N. Marchal, W. Schaefer
2002-50 HE Polyakov loops versus hadronic states.   F. Sannino.
2002-51 HE A supernova constraint on bulk majorons.   S. Hannestad, P. Keranen and F. Sannino.
2002-52 HE Vector condensation at large chemical potential.   F. Sannino and W. Schaefer.
2002-53 HE Aspects of the quantum chromodynamics phase diagram.   F. Sannino.

 

Overview of Future Nordita Conferences and other Conferences

Title/Place/Date Contact person Phone/Fax/Email
ECT*-Nordita collaboration meeting:
"Physics of Stellar Collapse and Neutron Stars"
ECT*, Trento, Italy
29-31 October 2002
http://www.ect.it/ 		Chris Pethick
Nordita
Blegdamsvej 17
D-2100 Copenhagen
Denmark 		+45-353 25226.
+45-353 89157.
pethick@nordita.dk
Nordic Network Meeting on
"Fields, Strings and Branes"
Nordita, Copenhagen
28 - 30 November 2002
http://www.nordita.dk/meetings/ 		Paolo Di Vecchia
Nordita
Blegdamsvej 17
D-2100 Copenhagen
Denmark 		+45-353 25245.
+45-353 89157.
divecchia@nordita.dk

 

Items for Nordita News

If you have information about meetings, etc. that would be useful to include in Nordita News, please send it to Hanne Bergen, Nordita, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark or by email: bergen@nordita.dk.

 

September 2002