HIP NEWS December 18th 2017
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DOCTORAL DEFENCE
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Terhi Järvinen will defend the doctoral dissertation entitled “Precision measurements of Bs mesons in the CMS experiment at the LHC” in the Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, on 18 December 2017 at 10:00. The public examination will take place at the following address: Physicum,auditorio E204, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2 A.
Professori Ulrik Egede, Imperial College London, will serve as the opponent, and Professor Paula Eerola as the custos.
https://helsinginyliopisto.etapahtuma.fi/en-us/Kalenteri/English?id=50161

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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THE MAGNUS EHRNROOTH FOUNDATION AWARDS / GRADUATE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
The graduate student stipend can be awarded for a period of one year or a half year, preferably for the period 1.7. – 30.6. or 1.7. – 31.12. to a student who has been accepted by the university as a doctoral student.
More information https://www.magnusehrnroothinsaatio.fi/en/grants/#reserch_grant

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 December 11th 2017
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COSMO-seminar
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Wednesday 13 December 2017 at 14.15 in A315
Matti Heikinheimo (Helsinki)
Thermalization and freeze-out in an isolated hidden sector.

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

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Thursday 14 December 2017 at 10.15 in A315
Stephan Huber (Sussex)
Baryons and gravitational waves from the electroweak phase transition?

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

DOCTORAL DEFENCE
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Terhi Järvinen will defend the doctoral dissertation entitled “Precision measurements of Bs mesons in the CMS experiment at the LHC” in the Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, on 18 December 2017 at 10:00. The public examination will take place at the following address: Physicum,auditorio E204, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2 A.
Professori Ulrik Egede, Imperial College London, will serve as the opponent, and Professor Paula Eerola as the custos.
https://helsinginyliopisto.etapahtuma.fi/en-us/Kalenteri/English?id=50161

SPÅTIND 2018 PARTICLE PHYSICS CONFERENCE, SKEIKAMPEN, NORWAY, 2-7.1.2018
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The registration for The “Spåtind” 2018 Conference is https://indico.cern.ch/event/666278/

The 25th Nordic Particle Physics Meeting (Spåtind 2018) will take place at the Thon Hotel in Skeikampen (Norway), from Monday, 2 January to Sunday, 7 January 2018. The program consists of lectures and overview presentations on some of the most topical subjects in particle physics and related fields.

Registration for the meeting will be closed on Friday 15 Dec 2017.

HIP NEWS December 4th 2017
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In the Independence Day honors roll of the President of the Republic
HIP director, professor Paula Eerola, dean of Faculty of Science (1.1.2018 -), receives Knight, First Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland and Jouni Heino, laboratory engineer at HIP, receives Cross of Merit of the Order of the Lion of Finland.

Doctoral defence
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M.Sc (Tech) Juska Pekkanen will defend his doctoral thesis “Jet Particology & Search for New Massive Particles”, with the permission of the Aalto University School of Science, at a public examination held at the auditorium D101 of the Physicum building, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2, on Tuesday December 5th 2017, at 12 o’clock noon.
More information http://www.aalto.fi/fi/current/events/2017-11-15-012/

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. – 9.12.
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

Staff training
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Finnish for international personnel, spring 2018
Sun suomi 3, Finnish for False Beginners
Let’s continue with Finnish 2 – Kuulostaa hyvältä!
More information in flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/HY370153