HIP NEWS April 24th 2017
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COSMO-Seminar
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Wednesday 26 April 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Christian Byrnes (University of Sussex)
Searching for spectator fields during inflation.

Abstract: Even if the observed primordial perturbations were generated during inflation, it remains an open question whether these perturbations are due to the inflaton field, or a subdominant spectator field. A Bayesian model comparison between these two scenarios critically depends on the expected field value of the spectator field, and I will present recent work on calculating the vacuum expectation value of spectator fields using the stochastic formalism. The Planck non-Gaussianity constraints do not discriminate between these two classes of models, but probing fNL~1 is an important target.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Thursday 27 April 2017 at 10.15 in A315: Jens Andersen (Trondheim)
QCD in strong magnetic fields

Abstract: QCD in strong magnetic fields is relevant for compact stars, heavy-ion collisions, and the early universe. In this talk I will discuss our current understanding of the thermodynamics of QCD in a constant magnetic background. I will focus on magnetic catalysis at T=0 and inverse magnetic catalysis around the chiral transition in the context of low-energy models (Nambu-Jona-Lasinio and quark-meson models with and without the Polyakov loop) and lattice QCD

A PUBLIC LECTURE: THE SECRET QUANTUM LIFE OF BLACK HOLES
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Tuesday 2 May 2017 at 17.00 in room E204, Physicum
A public lecture by prof. Gia Dvali: “The Secret Quantum Life of Black Holes”
Organised by Department of Physics.
Further information: Oleg Lebedev, oleg.lebedev [at] helsinki.fi

THE ACADEMY’S APRIL 2017 CALL
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Applications for the Academy of Finland’s April 2017 call can be submitted as of Monday 3 April. The call closes on Wednesday 26 April at 16.15 local Finnish time.

Academy Programmes
Radiation Detectors for Health, Safety and Security (RADDESS), call for letters of intent
Health from Science (TERVA), call for letters of intent

More information in flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/SuomenAkatemia-Tutkimusasiat/Academy-of-Finland-April-Call

CERN SCHOOL OF COMPUTING 2017
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Applications are open for the 2017 CERN School of Computing (CSC 2017) which takes place on 27 Aug – 9 Sept 2017 in Madrid, Spain.

The School is organized in collaboration with Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). It will cover a wide range of topics, such as data storage and management technologies, fundamental concepts of physics computing, and many other areas including software engineering, computer architecture, computing security and networking.

All details, including the application form, can be found at https://indico.cern.ch/e/csc2017

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS WEDNESDAY 10 MAY.

The School is limited to 60 students. The total fee is EUR 1200 per student (financial support may be available for justified cases).

For all enquiries and correspondence related to the School, please email computing.school [at] cern.ch

HIP NEWS April 18th 2017
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ERC SEMINAR IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
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Wednesday 19 April 2017 at 9:30 – 14:00 in E204 in Physicum, Kumpula
People involved in the Center of Excellence in Atmospheric Sciences have received approximately 10% of all ERC grants nominated to Finland since 2008. Next year is the 10th anniversary of the first grants. To celebrate this we have organized a public seminar.
Program in flamma https://hy.etapahtuma.fi/Default.aspx?tabid=419&id=46110
http://www.atm.helsinki.fi/FCoE/

You can follow the event live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGiBbupnR6Y

CERN SCHOOL OF COMPUTING 2017
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Applications are open for the 2017 CERN School of Computing (CSC 2017) which takes place on 27 Aug – 9 Sept 2017 in Madrid, Spain.

The School is organized in collaboration with Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). It will cover a wide range of topics, such as data storage and management technologies, fundamental concepts of physics computing, and many other areas including software engineering, computer architecture, computing security and networking.

All details, including the application form, can be found at https://indico.cern.ch/e/csc2017

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS WEDNESDAY 10 MAY.

The School is limited to 60 students. The total fee is EUR 1200 per student (financial support may be available for justified cases).

For all enquiries and correspondence related to the School, please email computing.school [at] cern.ch

THE ACADEMY’S APRIL 2017 CALL
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Applications for the Academy of Finland’s April 2017 call can be submitted as of Monday 3 April. The call closes on Wednesday 26 April at 16.15 local Finnish time.

Academy Programmes
Radiation Detectors for Health, Safety and Security (RADDESS), call for letters of intent
Health from Science (TERVA), call for letters of intent

More information in flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/SuomenAkatemia-Tutkimusasiat/Academy-of-Finland-April-Call

CALL ANNOUNCEMENT, FACULTY OF SCIENCE: INTERNAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING 2017
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The Faculty of Science announces an internal infrastructure funding call for medium-sized research infrastructures (investment between 50 000 EUR – 200 000 EUR) within the Kumpula campus.
Flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/fi/HY362679

TIP YOUR HAT FOR SCIENCE!
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March For Science is organized around the world on 22 April to support importance of scientific knowledge in the society. We also join in Helsinki with our own March For Science – Tiedemarssi. Take your colleagues, friends and family with you and come to celebrate science!
We gather up at Kansalaistori around 11 am. The march will end at the Senate Square, where there are a few speaks on behalf of science as well as a hat tip for science. Take your hat with you (dr. hat, ylioppilaslakki, any hat)! After the march University of Helsinki opens its doors to everyone and organizes public lectures. Find also the interesting events in the museums.
Program and information tiedemarssi.fi

Event web page https://www.facebook.com/events/728814440621221/
Twitter https://twitter.com/ScienceMarchFI
Main event’s web site https://www.marchforscience.com/
Print an advertisement https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-mCqWLub97TNTBTQmdId1l4Z3c/view

HIP NEWS April 10th 2017
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CERN Roadshow in Finland
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Thanks to the volunteers and everyone who contributed and made the CERN Roadshow in Finland –event last week possible and successful!

COSMO-Seminar
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Wednesday 12 April 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Vivian Poulin (LAPTH Annecy)
Cosmological signatures of decaying Dark Matter

Abstract: Although the existence of Dark Matter (DM) is by now well-established thanks to a variety of observations on many different scales, its nature is still unknown and so are many of its most basics properties, such as its lifetime. Even if obvious arguments require that most of the DM is stable on timescales of (at least) the lifetime of the universe, nothing prevent a priori that a fraction of it could be in the form of unstable exotic particles that are free to decay at much shorter times. In the literature, numerous relics from the early universe have been proposed in many extensions of the standard model of particle physics, in some cases unstable to processes injecting electromagnetic (e.m.) forms of energy (e.g. ‘superWIMP’, R-parity breaking SUSY models, Sterile neutrinos, Primordial black holes …), but also non-e.m. ones (e.g. the Majoron scenario). In this talk, I would like to review how CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies can be used as powerful probes of the abundance of such electromagnetically and non-electromagnetically decaying exotic particles, depending on their lifetime. I will then emphasize the synergy with CMB spectral distortions and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis studies when e.m. channels are switched on, and illustrate how the 21cm signal, one of the main target of future experiments, could be used in order to improve (but not always !) over current sensitivity.

ERC SEMINAR IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
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Wednesday 19 April 2017 at 9:30 – 14:00 in E204 in Physicum, Kumpula
People involved in the Center of Excellence in Atmospheric Sciences have received approximately 10% of all ERC grants nominated to Finland since 2008. Next year is the 10th anniversary of the first grants. To celebrate this we have organized a public seminar.
Program in flamma https://hy.etapahtuma.fi/Default.aspx?tabid=419&id=46110
http://www.atm.helsinki.fi/FCoE/

CERN SCHOOL OF COMPUTING 2017
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Applications are open for the 2017 CERN School of Computing (CSC 2017) which takes place on 27 Aug – 9 Sept 2017 in Madrid, Spain.

The School is organized in collaboration with Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). It will cover a wide range of topics, such as data storage and management technologies, fundamental concepts of physics computing, and many other areas including software engineering, computer architecture, computing security and networking.

All details, including the application form, can be found at https://indico.cern.ch/e/csc2017

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS WEDNESDAY 10 MAY.

The School is limited to 60 students. The total fee is EUR 1200 per student (financial support may be available for justified cases).

For all enquiries and correspondence related to the School, please email computing.school[AT]cern.ch

DATA MANAGEMENT PLANNING WORKSHOPS IN APRIL
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The workshops will focus on the Academy of Finland, for example, searches the required study material for formulation of the management plan.
The Helsinki University Library will be organizing workshops which concentrate on the best practices of research data management and hands-on training of data management planning (DMP). The DMPs are drafted with DMPTuuli .

More information in flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/HY362230
Please also check the Research Data Management guide

The Academy’s April 2017 call
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Applications for the Academy of Finland’s April 2017 call can be submitted as of Monday 3 April. The call closes on Wednesday 26 April at 16.15 local Finnish time.

Academy Programmes
Radiation Detectors for Health, Safety and Security (RADDESS), call for letters of intent
Health from Science (TERVA), call for letters of intent

More information in flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/SuomenAkatemia-Tutkimusasiat/Academy-of-Finland-April-Call

HIP NEWS April 3rd 2017
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COSMO-Seminar
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Wednesday 4 April 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Jens Chluba (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Manchester)
What CMB spectral distortions can teach us about early-universe and particle physics.

Abstract: Since the measurements with COBE/FIRAS in the mid-90’s we know that the CMB spectrum is extremely close to a perfect blackbody. There are, however, a number of processes in the early Universe that should create spectral distortions at a level within reach of present day technology. I will give an overview of recent theoretical and experimental developments, explaining why future measurements of the CMB spectrum will open up an unexplored new window to early-universe and particle physics, with possible non-standard surprises and several guaranteed signals awaiting us. I will highlight the complementarity of the distortion signals and the CMB anisotropies, illustrating how future distortions measurements could shed new light on different inflation models. I will also briefly discuss some of the limitations caused by CMB foregrounds.

CERN Roadshow in Finland
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6 APR in 2017 @ Aalto Design Factory

CERN Roadshow in Finland is an all-day event on the 6th of April 2017, organised by Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) and CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The event brings CERN and HIP management, and experts of CERN procurement, knowledge transfer and human resources to Aalto University Design Factory in Otaniemi. The event is targeted to potential CERN business and R&D&I partners, career service professionals, and Finnish stakeholders for CERN relations and strategies.

Event will also be streamed online. For more information, visit the event website https://events.hip.fi/cernroadshowinfinland/

DATA MANAGEMENT PLANNING WORKSHOPS IN APRIL
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The workshops will focus on the Academy of Finland, for example, searches the required study material for formulation of the management plan.
The Helsinki University Library will be organizing workshops which concentrate on the best practices of research data management and hands-on training of data management planning (DMP). The DMPs are drafted with DMPTuuli .

More information in flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/HY362230
Please also check the Research Data Management guide

ERC SEMINAR
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Wednesday 19 April 2017 at 9:30 – 14:00 in E204 in Physicum, Kumpula
People involved in the Center of Excellence in Atmospheric Sciences have received approximately 10% of all ERC grants nominated to Finland since 2008. Next year is the 10th anniversary of the first grants. To celebrate this we have organized a public seminar.
Program in flamma https://hy.etapahtuma.fi/Default.aspx?tabid=419&id=46110

THE ACADEMY’S APRIL 2017 CALL
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Applications for the Academy of Finland’s April 2017 call can be submitted as of Monday 3 April. The call closes on Wednesday 26 April at 16.15 local Finnish time.

Academy Programmes
Radiation Detectors for Health, Safety and Security (RADDESS), call for letters of intent
Health from Science (TERVA), call for letters of intent

More information in flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/SuomenAkatemia-Tutkimusasiat/Academy-of-Finland-April-Call

CALL ANNOUNCEMENT, FACULTY OF SCIENCE: INTERNAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING 2017
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The Faculty of Science announces an internal infrastructure funding call for medium-sized research infrastructures (investment between 50 000 EUR – 200 000 EUR) within the Kumpula campus.
Each department of the Faculty of Science or the Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) will prioritize their applications by the deadline April 28, 2017, 16:00.
Flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/fi/HY362679