HIP NEWS May 6th, 2002

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VACATIONS

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Please inform Susanna Niemi about your vacation by e-mail

at susanna.m.niemi@helsinki.fi.

SEMINARS

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Tuesday May 7th 10.15am in the Small Auditorium (E204)

A. Carey (University of Canberra, Australia)

Gerbes and string theory

THE PUBLIC DEFENCE OF

JUKKA KOKKONEN´S DOCTORAL THESIS

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The public examination of Jukka Kokkonen´s doctoral thesis

"A Silicon Detector for Neutrino Physics" takes place in Auditorium F1

in the department of Engineering Physics and Mathematics at Helsinki

University of Technology (Otakaari 3 A) on the 17th of May at 12 o´clock

noon.

The opponent is Professor Allan Clark, University of Geneva, Switzerland and

the custos is Professor Martti M. Salomaa, University of Technology.

TRAVELS

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D. Polyakov 15.04. - 14.05. Bures-sur-Yvette, France

E. Keski-Vakkuri 26.04. - 13.05. Los Angeles, USA

M. Sainio 02.06. - 05.06. Cern, Geneve

L. Salmi 23.05. - 29.05. Virginia, USA

M. Mackie 27.05. - 01.06. Williamsburg, USA

S. Lehti 01.06. - 11.06. Madison, Wisconsin/US

E. Terama 15.06. - 19.06. Lund, Sverige

E. Tuovinen 14.07. - 21.07. Arizona, USA

E. Gabrielli 24.07. - 31.07. Amsterdam, Netherlands

VISITORS

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S. Maniscalco 09.03. - 19.05. Italy (KAS)

P. Presnajder 18.03. - 18.05. Slovakia(MC)

A. Mazumdar 08.04. - 08.05. UK (KE)

A. Carey 27.04. - 11.05. Australia (EK-V)

J. Mickelsson 28.04 - 12.05. Sverige (EK-V)

D. Choudhury 08.05. - 16.06. India (KH)

P. Pandita 13.05. - 22.05. India (KH)

G. Giudice 21.05. - 24.05. CERN (KH)

L. Alvarez-Gaume 22.05. - 26.05. CERN (KH)

A. Parker 23.05. - 24.05. Cambridge (KH)

B. Mukhopadhyaya 27.05. - 24.07. (KH)

Please send the material (preferably in English) meant for

the newsletter to paivi.lehto@hip.fi.