Nordita News 2005 / 1

 

Nordita Board

The new Danish suppleant at the Nordita Board, active from 01.02.05, is Professor Jens Ulrik Andersen, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Denmark, email: jua@phys.au.dk

 

Nordic projects and corresponding fellowships 2005
http://www.nordita.dk/positions/

The Nordita board decided at its meeting in November 2004 to support the following Nordic projects for 2005:
"Quasi Periodic Oscillations in Black Hole and Neutron Star Sources", organizer M. Abramowicz (new).
"Computational Neuroscience", organizer J. Hertz (new).
"Particle-Cosmology", organizer A. Mazumdar (new).
"Networks in Physics and Biology", organizer K. Sneppen (2nd year).
"Astrobiological Problems for Physicists", organizer A. Brandenburg (2nd year).
"Statistical Physics, Soft Matter and Biological Physics", organizer R. Metzler (2nd year).
"Manipulating Atomic Matter", organizer C. J. Pethick (2nd year).
"High Energy Astrophysics in the INTEGRAL Era", organizer J. Poutanen, (3rd year).
"String Theory", organizer P. Di Veccchia, (4th year).
"Strongly Correlated Electron Systems", organizer O. Syljuåsen, (4th year).

A corresponding fellowship was awarded to: M. Abramowicz, Göteborg (new), A. Hansen, NTNU, Trondheim (new), S. Höfner, Uppsala (new), Ø. Elgarøy, Oslo (2nd year), H. Fogedby, Aarhus (3rd year),
S. Hannestad, Odense (3rd year), and J. Poutanen, Oulu (3rd year).

 

New Nordita Fellows January-June 2005

(bio) Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg (Copenhagen) from 01.03.05. (2005/06)
(sa) Jesper M. Grimstrup (Copenhagen) from 01.01.05. (2005/06)

 

Long-term visitors at Nordita 2005
http://www.nordita.dk/contact/visitors.html

(bio) Pär Björklund (Stockholm) 01.01.05 - 31.05.05
(bio) Masako Kusano (Cambridge, UK) 01.01.05 - 30.06.06
(bio) Anna Anderson (KTH, Stockholm) 01.02.05 - 31.07.05 (VR-project, K.Sneppen)
(bio) Sebastian Bernhardsson (Umeå) 01.02.05 - 31.07.05 (VR-project, K.Sneppen)
(bio) Michael A. Lomholdt (Copenhagen) 14.02.05 - 14.02.06 (V. Kann Rasmussen stipendium)

The fields of physics are listed before the names:
(ap) astrophysics, (bio) biological physics, (cm) condensed matter physics, (sa) sub atomic physics.

 

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

25 - 28 April 2005, Uppsala, Sweden.
Nordic project: Conference on String-Cosmology.
www.nordita.dk/conference/cosmo2005/
Organizers: A. Mazumdar (anupamm@nordita.dk), P. Di Vecchia, N. Obers, et al.
Supported by: Nordita and NBI.



CPiP 2005    

23 - 27 May 2005, Helsinki, Finland.
Workshop on Computational Problems in Physics.
www.math.hut.fi/cpip2005/
Organizers: A.P. Jauho, A. Brandenburg, et al.
Email: cpip@math.hut.fi
Supported by: Nordforsk, Nordita and Finnish NGSMP.



Low-d    

13 - 15 June 2005, Nordita, Copenhagen.
First NordForsk Network Meeting on Low-Dimensional Physics.
www.nordita.dk/conference/lowdphys2005/
Organizers: S.F. Viefers (s.f.viefers@fys.uio.no), O. Syljuåsen.
Supported by: NordForsk and Nordita.


14 - 18 June 2005, Lund Sweden.
International Conference on Finite Fermionic Systems
- Nilsson Model 50 Years.
www.matfys.lth.se/Nilsson/
Organizer: Lund University.
Email: Nilsson2005@matfys.lth.se



Master Class    

31 July - 7 August 2005, Hillerød, Denmark.
Master Class in Physics.
www.nordita.dk/conference/MasterClass2005/
Organizer: A. Brandenburg (brandenb@nordita.dk)
Supported by: Nordita.


8 - 19 August 2005, Hillerød, Denmark.
6th Nordic Summer School in Nuclear Physics.
www.matfys.lth.se/sven.aberg/nuclear-school05.html
Organizers: S. Åberg (sven.aberg@matfys.lth.se), B. Mottelsen.
Supported by: NordForsk and Nordita adm.



21 - 27 August 2005, Krogerup, Denmark.
Workshop in biological physics:
Dynamics of Life - From Single Molecules to Networks.
www.nordita.dk/conference/life_2005/
Organizers: K. Sneppen, R. Metzler, J. Hertz.
Supported by: Nordita and NBI.

 

Nordita Preprints / Reprints
http://www.nordita.dk/preprints/
2005-001 Nonhelical turbulent dynamos: shocks and shear. A. Brandenburg, N.E.L. Haugen, A.J. Mee. In: The Magnetized Plasma in Galaxy Evolution, Eds. K.T. Chyzy, R.-J. Dettmar, K. Otmianowska-Mazur, M. Soida.
2005-002 Non-Gaussianity from Instant and Tachyonic Preheating. K. Enqvist, A. Jokinen, A. Mazumdar, T. Multamäki, A. Vaihkonen.
2005-003 Multiple Inflation, Cosmic String Networks and the String Landscape. C.P. Burgess, R. Easther, A. Mazumdar, D. F. Mota, T. Multamäki.
2005-004 The complete one-loop spin chain for N=2 Super Yang-Mills. P. Di Vecchia, A. Tanzini.
2005-005 Loitering universe models in light of the CMB. O. Elgaroy, D. Mota, T. Multamäki.
2005-006 Relativistic Bose gases at finite density. J.O. Andersen.
2005-007 Coupled Inflaton and Brane Gases. T. Biswas, R. Brandenberger, D.A. Easson, A. Mazumdar.
2005-008 Conformal Fluid Dynamics. P. Jarvis, J.W. van Holten.
2005-009 Diffusion Monte Carlo in Continuous Time. O.F. Syljuåsen.
2005-010 Dissociation in a polymerization model of homochirality. A. Brandenburg, A.C. Andersen, M. Nilsson.
2005-011 Spectrum and amplitudes of internal gravity waves excited by penetrative convection in solar-type stars. B. Dintrans, A. Brandenburg, A. Nordlund, R.F. Stein.
2005-012 Finite Size Corrections to Three-spin String Duals. L. Freyhult and C. Kristjansen.
2005-013 Chiral Symmetry Breaking and the Dirac Spectrum at Nonzero Chemical Potential. K. Splittorff, J.C. Osborn, J.J.M. Verbaarschot.
2005-014 Metric of the SU(N) caloron moduli space and its relation to instantons D. Diakonov and N. Gromov.
2005-015 The case for a distributed solar dynamo shaped by near-surface shear. A. Brandenburg.
2005-016 Static Properties of Positive Ions in Atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. P. Massignan, C. J. Pethick, H. Smith.
2005-017 Angular conductance resonances of quantum dots non-collinearly coupled to ferromagnetic leads. J. Fransson.
2005-018 Cosmological constraints on string scale and coupling arising from tachyonic instability. K. Enqvist, A. Jokinen, A. Mazumdar, T. Multamäki, A. Vaihkon.
2005-019 Dynamical simulation of nuclear "pasta": soft condensed matter in dense stars. G. Watanabe, H. Sonoda.
2005-020 Cosmological significance of one-loop effective gravity. D. Espriu, T. Multamäki, E. Vagenas.


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March 2005

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