HIP NEWS April 22nd 2014

HIP NEWS April 22nd 2014
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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 22 April 2014 at 10.15 in A315
Risto Paatelainen (Jyväskylä)
Modeling the space-time evolution of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

Abstract: Understanding the different stages of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions is essential in extracting the properties of the quark-gluon plasma. In this seminar talk I will review our perturbative QCD based model for the initial production of matter which is combined with a hydrodynamical framework for the subsequent space-time evolution. Finally, I will compare the results from the model with experimental data from RHIC and LHC based on which we can constrain the shear viscosity of the QCD matter.

Thursday 24 April 2014 at 10.15 in A315
Andreas Schmitt (Wien)
Sound modes and two-stream instability in a relativistic superfluid

Abstract: Relativistic superfluids are most likely present in the interior of compact stars, in nuclear matter and/or quark matter. I will discuss a field-theoretical approach to superfluidity and how it is connected to the usual two-fluid picture developed by Landau for superfluid helium. I will then show some applications of this approach, most notably the two sound modes for all temperatures and the so-called two-stream instability that is known from plasma physics and that may be relevant for compact star phenomenology.

Training for international staff
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CERN FINNISH OFFICE OPENING HOURS after Easter 2014:
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Tuesday 22.4.2014 office CLOSED.
Wednesday 23.4.2014 office OPEN, 8:30-12, 14-16.

NORMAL opening hours 24.4.2014 onwards.
Mon, Tues, Thur, Fri: 8:30-12, 14-16.
CLOSED on Wednesdays.

Are you looking for funding for your research?
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Research Funding Services of the University of Helsinki are providing UH
academic and research staff, research administrators and PhD students with

free access to a comprehensive international research funding database:
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Kumpula
13.5. at 14-16
Physicum, room D210
max 17 participants

For further information of the training please contact
Helena Meriluoto, tel. 191 24004.

Best regards,
Javier Caldentey, PhD, Docent
Senior Advisor
Research Funding Services
http://www.helsinki.fi/university/

Visitors
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P. Dendooven 12.5. – 14.5. (PE, JÄ)
M. Hindmarsh 22.4. – 15.6. (KR)
N. Hopkins 28.4. – 23.5. (KR)
D. Mulryne 16.4. – 16.5. (SN)
R. Paatelainen 21.4. – 22.4. (AV)
A. Schmitt 23.4. – 26.4. (AV)

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