HIP NEWS November 27th 2017
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THREE-YEAR RESEARCH GRANTS 2018-2020
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The Rector has decided, on 23 November 2017, to award funding for 17 research projects for the years 2018 – 2020.
PhD David Weir has been awarded a three-year research grant (2018-2020). The grant is for “Gravitational wave cosmology for LISA.”

Congratulations David!

More details in flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/HY369774

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 28 November at 10.15 in A315
Antti Kupiainen (Helsinki)
Proof of the DOZZ Formula

More information on http://www.hip.fifi/seminars/

COSMO-seminar
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Wednesday 29 November 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Felix Kahlhoefer (DESY)
TBA

More information on http://research.hip.fi/hwp/cosmology/?page_id=206

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Thursday 30 November 2017 at 10.15 in A315
Xiaoyong Chu (Vienna)
Dark matter indirect signals with a long-lived mediator

More information on http://www.hip.fifi/seminars/

COSMO-seminar
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Thursday 30 November 2017 at 14:15 room A311
Nicola Tamanini (IPhT CEA-Saclay)
TBA

More information on http://research.hip.fi/hwp/cosmology/?page_id=206

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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The Magnus Ehrnrooth foundation supports scientific research in mathematics, astronomy, physics, and chemistry including medical chemistry.
The grant applications are submitted electronically. The application period is 15.10. – 30.11.
https://apurahat.fi/maghaku/UserLogin.aspx?kieli=englanti

The Foundations’ Post Doc Pool´s Spring Call 2018
The pool grant offers young scholars flexible funding from one source that covers all expenses of a research period abroad for at least one academic year. The grants are intended only for sending researchers abroad from Finland.
The Pool’s application round is open from 15.12.2017 until 15.1.2018.
http://www.postdocpooli.fi/?lang=en

HIP NEWS November 20th 2017
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OPEN POSITION – HIP DIRECTOR
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HIP is seeking A DIRECTOR for a fixed term of 5 years starting on 1 January 2018.
The current director Paula Eerola has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Helsinki.

The application deadline is 21 November 2017.

Full announcement on https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/director-helsinki-institute-of-physics

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Thursday 23 November at 10.15 in A315
Shao-Jiang Wang (Beijing)
The gravitational waves from the first-order phase transition with a dimension-six operator

More information on http://www.hip.fifi/seminars/ .

HELSINKI INNOVATION SERVICES (HIS): TEKES FUNDING CALL FOR PROJECTS WITH COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL
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Tekes funds projects by research organisations involving preparations for the commercialisation of an idea, such as innovation searches, the determination of customer value or other analyses, as well as projects involving applied research.

“New business from research ideas” funding is intended for research groups and researchers in research organisations, who want to build a new business based on their research and realise their idea by commercialising it.

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/higher-education-science-policy/new-knowledge-and-business-from-research-ideas

HIP NEWS November 13th 2017
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OPEN POSITION – HIP DIRECTOR
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HIP is seeking A DIRECTOR for a fixed term of 5 years starting on 1 January 2018.
The current director Paula Eerola has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Helsinki.

The application deadline is 21 November 2017.

Full announcement on https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/director-helsinki-institute-of-physics

COSMO-Seminar
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Wednesday 15 November 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Giuseppe Fanizza (Zurich University)
Non-linear CMB lensing and next generation experiments

More information on http://research.hip.fi/hwp/cosmology/?page_id=206

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Thursday 16 November at 10.15 in A315
Subhadeep Mondal (Helsinki)
The various aspects and future prospects of heavy neutrino search

More information on http://www.hip.fifi/seminars/ .

OPEN POSITION
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A postdoc position in relativistic heavy ion physics at Niels Bohr Institute. The position is for 2 years starting from 1 January 2018. One of the proposed work topics is development of the Fast Interaction Trigger (FIT) for the ALICE upgrade.
The application deadline is November 15, 2017.
The details can be found in http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=146006

ESIPAP: THE EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF INSTRUMENTATION IN PARTICLE & ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS 2018
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Registration deadline 15.11.2017.

The 2018 European School of Instrumentation In Particle & Astroparticle Physics (ESIPAP) is an ideal place for master or PhD students to learn and train in high-level instrumentation.
ESIPAP is organized in the form of two independent & complementary modules of 4 weeks each and the lectures are taught by some of the most renowned specialists. Hosted by ESI in Archamps, France close to Geneva, ESIPAP benefits from the proximity and the involvement of CERN where laboratory sessions take place.

The first module of ESIPAP will starts on 22 January 2018. Registrations for the 2018 school sessions (deadline 15.11.2017): http://www.esi-archamps.eu/Thematic-Schools/Discover-ESIPAP

HIP NEWS November 6th 2017
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OPEN POSITION – HIP DIRECTOR
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HIP is seeking A DIRECTOR for a fixed term of 5 years starting on 1 January 2018.
The current director Paula Eerola has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Helsinki.

The application deadline is 21 November 2017.

Full announcement on https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/director-helsinki-institute-of-physics

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 7 November 2017 at 10.30 (note 15min delay!) in A315
Emilia Kilpua and Minna Palmroth (Helsinki)
Experimental dialogue talk on space physics and space weather

More information on http://www.hip.fifi/seminars/ .

COSMO-Seminar
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Wednesday 8 November 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Klaus Dolag (MPA Munich)
The Magneticum Simulations

More information on http://research.hip.fi/hwp/cosmology/?page_id=206

OPEN POSITION
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A postdoc position in relativistic heavy ion physics at Niels Bohr Institute. The position is for 2 years starting from 1 January 2018. One of the proposed work topics is development of the Fast Interaction Trigger (FIT) for the ALICE upgrade.
The application deadline is November 15, 2017.
The details can be found in http://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=146006

OPEN POSITION
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A Research Associate in the Particle Physics Group of the School of Physics, University of Bristol. The position is funded by the European Commission for a project to characterize conditioned nuclear waste. The post is funded for 2.5 years and is available from 1st of January 2018.
The application deadline is November 12, 2017.
The details can be found in http://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details.html?nPostingId=6711&nPostingTargetId=33748&id=Q50FK026203F3VBQBV7V77V83&LG=UK&mask=uobext

OPEN POSITION
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The Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics (ITA) at the University of Oslo invites applications for
a tenured faculty position in cosmology.
Link to further information and application portal:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/143358/associate-professorship-in-cosmology

ESIPAP: the European School of Instrumentation In Particle & Astroparticle Physics 2018
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Registration deadline 15.11.2017.

The 2018 European School of Instrumentation In Particle & Astroparticle Physics (ESIPAP) is an ideal place for master or PhD students to learn and train in high-level instrumentation.
ESIPAP is organized in the form of two independent & complementary modules of 4 weeks each and the lectures are taught by some of the most renowned specialists. Hosted by ESI in Archamps, France close to Geneva, ESIPAP benefits from the proximity and the involvement of CERN where laboratory sessions take place.

The first module of ESIPAP will starts on 22 January 2018. Registrations for the 2018 school sessions (deadline 15.11.2017): http://www.esi-archamps.eu/Thematic-Schools/Discover-ESIPAP