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HIP Programme Director Aleksi Vuorinen to lead new Centre of Excellence in Research

October 31, 2025 October 31, 2025 HIP Publicity Highlights

(Photo Maarit Kytöharju) Professor Aleksi Vuorinen, Director of the Theory Programme at the Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), will lead one of Finland’s newly appointed Centres of Excellence in Research for the 2026–2033 period. The Research Council of Finland has selected 11 new Centres of Excellence (CoEs) that represent the highest level of scientific ambition...Continue reading→

HIP Annual Report 2024

April 29, 2025 April 29, 2025 HIP Publicity Highlights

The Annual Report 2024 has been published. Please see the online version Here.

The CMS Collaboration has been awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

April 7, 2025 April 7, 2025 HIP Publicity Highlights

(image: breakthroughprize.org) “Geneva, 7 April 2025. This weekend, the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN were honoured with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. The prize is awarded to the four collaborations, which unite thousands of researchers from more than 70 countries, and...Continue reading→

HIP NEWS, 17 November 2025

November 17, 2025 November 17, 2025 Tarja Heikkilä Weekly Newsflash

HIP NEWS, 17 November 2025 HIP SEMINAR Tuesday 18 November 2025 at 10:15 in A315 and using Zoom Xin Li (Helsinki) “Splitting of doubly and quadruply quantized vortices in holographic superfluids” Abstract: https://www.hip.fi/seminars/ COSMOLOGY SEMINAR Wednesday 19 November 2025 at 14.15 in A315 and using Zoom Taylor R. Gray (Chalmers University of...Continue reading→

HIP NEWS, 10 November 2025

November 10, 2025 November 10, 2025 Tarja Heikkilä Weekly Newsflash

HIP NEWS, 10 November 2025 HIP SEMINAR Tuesday 11 November 2025 at 10:15 in A315 and using Zoom Tapoja Jha (HIP, Helsinki) “Symmetries and blind spots in the dark” Abstract: https://www.hip.fi/seminars/ ASTROPHYSICS SEMINAR Friday 14 November 2025 at 10.15 in A315 and using Zoom Gabor Racz (University of Helsinki) TBA HIP...Continue reading→

HIP NEWS, 3 November 2025

November 3, 2025 November 3, 2025 Tarja Heikkilä Weekly Newsflash

HIP NEWS, 3 November 2025 HIP PROGRAMME DIRECTOR ALEKSI VUORINEN TO LEAD NEW FINNISH CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH The Research Council of Finland has selected 11 new Centres of Excellence (CoEs) that represent the highest level of scientific ambition and collaboration in the country. Vuorinen’s CoE, Centre of Excellence in Neutron-Star Physics, explores the...Continue reading→

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