HIP NEWS February 24th 2014

HIP NEWS February 24th 2014
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HIP Staff News
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The Staff representatives in the HIP Board of Directors
for the 4-year period starting April 1st are Kenneth
Österberg and as substitute member Hannu Kurki-Suonio.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 25 February 2014 at 10.15 in A315
Alessandro Amato (Swansea)
Transport coefficients of quark-gluon plasma

Tuesday 25 February 2014 at 14.15 in E206 Note time and place!
Dirk Rischke (Frankfurt)
Inhomogeneous phases in dense strongly interacting matter – a generic
phenomenon?

COSMO-Seminar
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Feb 26 (Wed), 14:15 in A315 (Cosmo Seminar)
Shuichiro Yokoyama (ICRR, Tokyo)
TBA

Swedish lunch in Kumpula
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Practise your Swedish by having lunch with your colleagues 26.2.at
11.30, at restaurant Practikum in Kumpula! More information:
campuscoordinator Eva Åberg, eva.aberg@helsinki.fi

University of Helsinki and Aalto University:
Experiencing Finland Event, March 13, 2014
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Newly arrived international staff and their family members are welcomed to the next Experiencing Finland event, taking place in Thursday 13 March 2014, at 17.00-19.30 at Töölö Towers.

For more details and registration please follow the link to Flamma:
https://flamma.helsinki.fi/portal/home/fh?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=view&contentId=HY311656

Ms Tiina Kosunen
Head of Development, International Affairs, University of Helsinki
tiina.kosunen@helsinki.fi

HIP ANNUAL REPORT
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The first version of the Annual Report 2013
is available at
www.helsinki.fi/~chelmine/annual13.
Please send corrections and missing material
to Christina.Helminen@helsinki.fi asap.

FINNISH OFFICE OPENING HOURS in February 2014:
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Mon-Fri, 17.- 21.2.2014, 8:30-12.
NORMAL opening hours 24.2.2014 onwards.
Mon, Tues, Thur, Fri: 8:30-12, 14-16.
CLOSED on Wednesdays.

Chancellor’s Travel Grants 2014
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Researchers and teachers at the University of Helsinki may apply for Chancellor?s Travel Grants to cover the costs of foreign travel for
academic purposes. The deadline for applications is Friday, February 28, 2014, at 3:45 p.m.

Applications are submitted online through an electronic application form, which can be found at: http://helsinki.fi/aava/kansleri/.

The call announcement and further instructions on applying for the grant are available at Flamma: https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/HY278530.

VISITORS
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A. Amato 24.2. – 26.2. (KR)
D. Rischke 25.2. (KK)
S. Yokoyama 24.2. – 7.3. (KE)

Posted in Weekly Newsflash.