HIP NEWS December 4th 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

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