HIP NEWS January 29th 2018
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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 30 January 2018 at 10.15 in A315
Jarno Rantaharju (Swansea)
A lattice realization of Ideal Walking

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

CERN/ESRF SUMMER STUDENT POSITIONS IN 2018 — DL COMING!
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The last day to apply for the HIP summer jobs of 2018 at CERN (and ESRF) is 31.1.2018! There are 13 different tasks available. More information and application form can be found from www.hip.fi/summies .

HELSINKI DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
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There is a documentary movie about fusion called Let there be light at this year’s Helsinki DocPoint film festival. It tells about the ITER project under construction in Southern France and about two privately funded companies working on fusion, General Fusion and LPP Fusion. The length of the movie is 80 min.

https://docpointfestival.fi/en/tapahtumat/films/let-there-be-light-2/
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/226900574

Let there be light screenings:
Tue Jan 30, 2018 at 17:00 Kinopalatsi 7, 9,00 EUR Thu Feb 1, 2018 at 17:30 Andorra, 9,00 EUR Sat Feb 3, 2018 at 14:00 Elokuvasali (Korjaamo) 9,00 EUR

Discussion event in Finnish about fusion: Erätauko fuusioenergiasta You need to sign up in advance if you want to participate.
Thu Feb 1 2018 at 19-21 Dubrovnikissa (Eerikinkatu 11, Helsinki).
https://docpointfestival.fi/tapahtumat/tapahtumat/eratauko-fuusioenergiasta/

GRANTS FOR THREE-YEAR RESEARCH PROJECTS FOR FUNDING PERIOD 2019–2021
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The grants for three-year research projects are intended for promising researchers of the University of Helsinki. The funding is aimed to support future research leaders who are starting to conduct independent research and establishing a research group at the University of Helsinki.

The application period begins on Thursday, 25 January 2018, and the deadline for letters of intent is Thursday, 15 February 2018 at 3:00 pm.

Letters of intent are submitted online at www.helsinki.fi/aava.

Please read carefully the application instructions before filling in the application form!
More information in flamma https://flamma.helsinki.fi/en/HY371408

HIP NEWS January 22nd 2018
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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Tuesday 23 January 2018 at 10.15 in A315
Timo Kärkkäinen (Helsinki)
Neutrinos beyond the standard model

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

PHYSICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM ON 26.01.2018 AT 14.15 IN D101
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You are warmly invited to the first in a new series of departmental colloquia. Our first speaker will be our own Claus Montonen, who will speak about his work with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which recently won the Nobel Peace Prize. His talk, titled “The Road to a Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons”, will last 30 minutes and be followed by a cocktail reception. Welcome!

For more information visit: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/physics-colloquium/

HELSINKI DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
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There is a documentary movie about fusion called Let there be light at this year’s Helsinki DocPoint film festival. It tells about the ITER project under construction in Southern France and about two privately funded companies working on fusion, General Fusion and LPP Fusion. The length of the movie is 80 min.

https://docpointfestival.fi/en/tapahtumat/films/let-there-be-light-2/
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/226900574

Let there be light screenings:
Tue Jan 30, 2018 at 17:00 Kinopalatsi 7, 9,00 EUR Thu Feb 1, 2018 at 17:30 Andorra, 9,00 EUR Sat Feb 3, 2018 at 14:00 Elokuvasali (Korjaamo) 9,00 EUR

Discussion event in Finnish about fusion: Erätauko fuusioenergiasta You need to sign up in advance if you want to participate.
Thu Feb 1 2018 at 19-21 Dubrovnikissa (Eerikinkatu 11, Helsinki).
https://docpointfestival.fi/tapahtumat/tapahtumat/eratauko-fuusioenergiasta/

HIP NEWS January 15th 2018
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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / HIP JOINT COLLOQUIA / SEMINARS
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Thursday 18 January 2018 at 10.15 in A315
Aleksi Kurkela (CERN/Stavanger)
TBA

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

SUMMER STUDENTS POSITIONS IN 2018
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The HIP summer jobs of 2018 at CERN (and ESRF) have been published.
There are 13 different tasks available. More information and application form can be found from www.hip.fi/summies. The deadline for applications is 31.1.2018.

CERN also has its own Summer Student Programme, to which students can directly apply. More information can be found from www.cern.ch/summies .
The deadline for application for these positions is 28.1.2018.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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University of Helsinki Funds.
The application time for the year 2018 is 11.1. – 31.1.2018
More information https://www.helsinki.fi/en/grants#.Wjzu8SvHhk4.link

Emil Aaltosen säätiö.
The Emil Aaltonen Foundation offers grants as a rule to Finnish-speaking researchers only.

Säätiö myöntää apurahoja tieteelliseen tutkimustyöhön kaikille tieteenaloille ja jakaa apurahoja vuosittain yli 6 miljoonaa euroa, josta yli neljä miljoonaa euroa myönnetään henkilökohtaisina apurahoina tutkimustyön tekemiseen väitöskirjatyöntekijöille ja post doc –tutkijoille. Tämän lisäksi säätiö myöntää kolmivuotisia projektiapurahoja tutkimusryhmille. Emil Aaltosen Säätiö on ollut mukana säätiöiden ja rahastojen yhteisessä post doc –poolissa sen ensimmäisestä kolmivuotiskaudesta (2010) alkaen. Poolin kautta myönnetään apurahoja tohtorien ulkomaiseen työskentelyyn.
Hae apurahaa 15.1.-15.2.2018. https://emilaaltonen.fi/apurahat/hae-apurahaa/

HELSINKI DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
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There is a documentary movie about fusion called Let there be light at this year’s Helsinki DocPoint film festival. It tells about the ITER project under construction in Southern France and about two privately funded companies working on fusion, General Fusion and LPP Fusion. The length of the movie is 80 min.

https://docpointfestival.fi/en/tapahtumat/films/let-there-be-light-2/
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/226900574

Let there be light screenings:
Tue Jan 30, 2018 at 17:00 Kinopalatsi 7, 9,00 EUR Thu Feb 1, 2018 at 17:30 Andorra, 9,00 EUR Sat Feb 3, 2018 at 14:00 Elokuvasali (Korjaamo) 9,00 EUR

Discussion event in Finnish about fusion: Erätauko fuusioenergiasta You need to sign up in advance if you want to participate.
Thu Feb 1 2018 at 19-21 Dubrovnikissa (Eerikinkatu 11, Helsinki).
https://docpointfestival.fi/tapahtumat/tapahtumat/eratauko-fuusioenergiasta/

HIP NEWS January 8th 2018
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CMS DETECTOR AWARD 2017
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HIP postdoc Mirko Berretti has received the annual CMS detector award 2017 for his outstanding contribution to the CT-PPS system in CMS. Mirko is working at the HIP CMS programme.

The annual CMS Detector Awards are an acknowledgement to the CMS members that, over the last three years, have made or continue to make particularly significant contributions to the project and construction of CMS detectors or parts of them, or to the general implementation of the upgrade projects.

Congratulations to Mirko!

PHYSICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM ON 26.01.2018 AT 14.15 IN D101
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You are warmly invited to the first in a new series of departmental colloquia. Our first speaker will be our own Claus Montonen, who will speak about his work with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which recently won the Nobel Peace Prize. His talk, titled “The Road to a Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons”, will last 30 minutes and be followed by a cocktail reception. Welcome!

For more information visit: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/physics-colloquium/

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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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

(in Finnish) Emil Aaltosen säätiö.
Säätiö myöntää apurahoja tieteelliseen tutkimustyöhön kaikille tieteenaloille ja jakaa apurahoja vuosittain yli 6 miljoonaa euroa, josta yli neljä miljoonaa euroa myönnetään henkilökohtaisina apurahoina tutkimustyön tekemiseen väitöskirjatyöntekijöille ja post doc –tutkijoille. Tämän lisäksi säätiö myöntää kolmivuotisia projektiapurahoja tutkimusryhmille. Emil Aaltosen Säätiö on ollut mukana säätiöiden ja rahastojen yhteisessä post doc –poolissa sen ensimmäisestä kolmivuotiskaudesta (2010) alkaen. Poolin kautta myönnetään apurahoja tohtorien ulkomaiseen työskentelyyn.
Hae apurahaa 15.1.-15.2.2018. The Emil Aaltonen Foundation offers grants as a rule to Finnish-speaking researchers only.

Hae apurahaa

University of Helsinki Funds.
The application time for the year 2018 is 11.1. – 31.1.2018
More information https://www.helsinki.fi/en/grants#.Wjzu8SvHhk4.link