HIP NEWS February 29th 2016

HIP NEWS February 29th 2016
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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 1 March 2016 at 10.15 in A315
K. Kajantie (HIP)
Physics of gravitational radiation

Abstract: The LIGO Laser Interferometer signal GW150914 was the first ever direct observation of gravitational radiation. This talk will review how you get gravitational radiation and black holes from general relativity and discuss the magnitudes of relevant physical parameters.

COSMO-seminar
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Wednesday 2 March 2016 at 14:15 in A315
Venus Keus (Helsinki)
Dark Matter in multi-inert doublet models

Abstract: Dark Matter (DM), arising from an Inert Higgs Doublet, may either be light, below the W mass, or heavy, above about 525 GeV. While the light region may soon be excluded, the heavy region is known to be very difficult to probe with either Direct Detection (DD) experiments or the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In this talk I will discuss that adding a second Inert Higgs Doublet helps to make the heavy DM region accessible to both DD and the LHC, by either increasing its couplings to the observed Higgs boson, or lowering its mass to 360 GeV < $m_{DM}$, or both.

The application period closes: THREE-YEAR RESEARCH GRANTS CALL ANNOUNCEMENT, FUNDING PERIOD 2017 – 2019
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The deadline for letters of intent is Wednesday, 2 March at 3:45 pm.
Letters of intent are submitted online at www.helsinki.fi/aava.
Application instructions are available on intranet Flamma, at https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/HY278533

Monday 7 March at 12: Women in Science at HY: Kumpula Women’s Network
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Professor Hanna Vehkamäki, Dept. of Physics, and Doctoral Student Paola Elefante, Dept. of Maths & Statistics, invite everybody to join them for an informal lunch & a discussion on Monday March 7th at 12, meeting in the Dynamicum lobby.
For more information about women in science at HY blogs.helsinki.fi/kumpulawomen/

HIP Annual Report 2015
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Parts of the annual report are now available in
www.helsinki.fi/~chelmine/annual15
Please go and check the information for your part, in particular the publications. Thank you.

The Helsinki Workshop on Quantum Gravity
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A workshop on quantum gravity will be held in the Physics department
the 1st to 3rd of June 2016. The idea of the workshop is to introduce
the subject of quantum gravity in Finland. In particular to the
interested student.
Homepage: www.hip.fi/qg_helsinki
Deadline for registration: 15th of May 2016
Further information: miklos.langvik[AT]helsinki.fi
The organizing committee
(Esko Keski-Vakkuri, Antti Kupiainen, Miklos Långvik, Kari
Rummukainen, Aleksi Vuorinen)

Visitors
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P. Dendooven 24.2. – 31.3.
C. Hoyos 6.3. – 9.3. (AV)
S. Kawai 15.2. – 19.3. (FM)
D. Rodriguez 6.3. – 9.3. (AV)

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