Laws of Nature and Condensed Particle Matter Phenomenology @ LHC

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Conferences, visits and talks 2008:

Conferences and workshops:

• 20th Spåtind meeting on Particle Physics,
  3-7 January, Spåtind, Norway, (K. Huitu, K. Tuominen, talk by H. Paukkunen, talk by S. Rai)

• PDF4LHC Meeting,
  22-23 February, CERN, Geneve, (talk by H. Paukkunen)

• Annual Conference of the Finnish Physical Society,
  27-29 March, Turku, Finland, (K. J. Eskola, T. Honkavaara, talk by K. Huitu, talk by T. Kähärä, talk by H. Paukkunen)

• 3rd International Workshop on High-pT Physics at LHC,
  16-19 March, Tokaj, Hungary, (J. Auvinen, H. Paukkunen, talk by K. J. Eskola)

• Workshop on Hadron Electromagnetic Form Factors,
  11-17 May, ECT* Trento, Italy, (talk by P. Hoyer)

• Workshop on Hard Exclusive Reactions,
  9-13 June, ECT* Trento, Italy, (talk by P. Hoyer)

• PKU-RBC Workshop on Transverse Spin Physics,
  30 June - 4 July, Peking University, Beijing, China, (talk by . Hoyer)

• Hard Probes 2008,
  8-14 June, Illa da Toxa, Spain, (talk by T. Renk)

• TECHQM meeting,
  5-8 May, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA (T. Renk)

• Strong and ElectroWeak Matter,
  26-29 August, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (K.Kajantie, talk by A.Kurkela)

• XQCD 2008
  21-23 July, North Carolina State University, USA, (A. Kurkela)

• Lattice 2008,
  14-19 July, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, (talk by A. Hietanen, talk by A. Kurkela)

• Mini-workshop on hot and dense QCD,
  26-28 June, Oulu, Finland, (talk by K. Kajantie, talk by A. Kurkela, talk by K. Tuominen)

• TeV scale physics and dark matter,
  1 June - 31 July, Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden, (K. Huitu, talk by S.K. Rai)

• Nordic Workshop on LHC and Beyond, 12-14 June, Albanova, Stockholm, Sweden, (K. Huitu, talk by S.K. Rai)

• Workshop on the LHC and Related Physics RECAPP 25 September - 1 October, Allahabad, India (Talk by S.K. Rai)

• SUSY 08, 16-21 June, Seoul, Korea, (Talk by S.K. Rai, T. Honkavaara, T. Ruppell)

• ECT* Doctoral Training Programme 2008: Nuclear Matter under Extreme Conditions,
  16 June - 7 July, Trento, Italy, (J. Auvinen)

• Nuclear medium effects on the quark and gluon structure of hadrons,
  3-7 June, Trento, Italy, (talk by H. Paukkunen)

• Workshop on Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking,
  9-13 September, Odense, Denmark (M. Antola and M. Heikinheimo)

• Workshop of the European Network SIM (I3H),
  8-12 September, Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy, (talk by. K.J. Eskola)

• Physics at LHC
  29 September - 1 October, Split, Croatia, (talk by K. Huitu)

Other meetings:

• ECT* (Trento) board meetings,
  19. January and 9 June, Trento, Italy, (P.Hoyer)

• HadronPhysics I3 Mangagement Board meetings,
  10-12. January and 8-9. February, Frascati, Italy; 13 September, Paris, France, (P.Hoyer)

• RECFA-meeting,
  27-29 March, Lisboa, Portugal; 9-11 October, Athens, Greece, (K.Huitu)

• STAR Collaboration Meeting,
  28 January - 2 February, Bombay, India, (T. Renk)

• Lecture week of European graduate school HANUC ("Complex Systems of Hadrons and Nuclei"),
  3-7 March, Copenhagen, Denmark, (M. Antola, M. Heikinheimo, P. Hoyer)

• PSI Zuoz Summer School on New Ideas in Particle Physics,
  14-18 July, Zuoz, Switzerland, (M. Heikinheimo)

• Lecture week of European graduate school HANUC ("Complex systems of Hadrons and Nuclei"),
  25-29 August, University, Jyväskylä, Finland, (talk by P. Hoyer, talk by K. Tuominen, talk by T. Kähärä, talk by M. Heikinheimo)

Visits/visitors:

• 1.2. Kenneth Österberg (Helsinki) in Jyväskylä. Colloquium: "Looking Forward with TOTEM at the LHC".


• 15.1. K. Tuominen (Jyväskylä) in Helsinki. Seminar: "Technicolor -- a competitive mechanism for EWSB".


• 11.-22.2. Dirk Rischke (Frankfurt) in Jyväskylä, 17.2. in Helsinki.


• 12.-13.2. A. Tranberg (Oulu) in Jyväskylä. Seminar "Cold electroweak baryogenesis".


• 25.-27.2. A. Kurkela (Helsinki) in Jyväskylä. Seminar "Dimensional reduction near deconfinement transition of QCD".


• 14.4.-4.5. Stephane Peigne (Nantes) in Helsinki, 18.4. in Jyväskylä. Seminar: "Parton Collisional Energy Loss in a Quark Gluon Plasma".


• 27.4.-4.5. Stan Brodsky (SLAC and Durham) in Helsinki. Seminar "Hadron Phenomenology from AdS/QCD".
• 22.5.-24.5. T. Renk (Jyväskylä) in Prague University. Seminar "Lessons from single hadron and dihadron suppression".


• 27.5. P. Hoyer (Helsinki) in GSI, Darmstadt. Colloquium "Hadron Physics and QCD".
• 4.-6.6. M. Antola (Helsinki) in Jyväskylä.
• 13.-15.10. M. Antola (Helsinki) in Jyväskylä.
• 26.10.-5.11. M. Antola (Helsinki) and M. Heikinheimo (Jyväskylä) in Odense, Denmark.
• 20-22.10. S.K. Rai (Helsinki) at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India. Seminar 22.10. "Left-Right SUSY and its Exotics in Colliders".
• 17.-21.11- H. Paukkunen (Jyväskylä) at University of Santiago, Spain. Seminar "Some topics in global PDF fits".
• 24.-26.11. K. Tuominen in Helsinki. Seminar 25. 11. "Walking technicolor on the lattice".
• 4.12. T.Renk (Jyväskylä) in Frankfurt. Seminar "Medium-modified jets and their role for heavy-ion physics".
• 10.12. T.Renk (Jyväskylä) at the Technical University of Munich. Seminar "Medium-modified jets and their role for heavy-ion physics".
• 8.-11.12. P Hoyer (Helsinki) at SLAC. Seminar "Factorization at fixed Q^2(1-x)".
• 12.-19.12. P Hoyer (Helsinki) at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Seminar "Factorization at fixed Q^2(1-x)".
• 8.-10.12. K. Tuominen (Jyväskylä) in Oulu.