HIP NEWS, 9 June 2025
HIP SEMINAR
Tuesday 10 June 2025 at 10:15 in A315 and using Zoom
Reijo Keskitalo (Berkeley)
“Next ten years of CMB observations from the Chilean high desert”
Abstract: https://www.hip.fi/seminars/
HIP SEMINAR
Thursday 12 June 2025 at 10:15 in A315 and using Zoom
Marcel Niedermeier (Aalto)
“Re-interpreting tensor networks: quantum-inspired algorithms for hard problems in quantum physics and beyond”
Abstract: https://www.hip.fi/seminars/
COSMOLOGY SEMINAR
Wednesday 9 June 2025 at 14:15 in A315 and using Zoom
Melize Ferrus, (Onsite)
“Ringdown and the Wonders Held Within”
Abstract: https://www.hip.fi/cosmoseminars/
COSMOLOGY SEMINAR
Wednesday 11 June 2025 at 14:15 in A315 and using Zoom
Diego Cruces (Beijing, Inst. Theor. Phys.), (Onsite)
“Small noise expansion in stochastic inflation”
Abstract: https://www.hip.fi/cosmoseminars/
Special summer Materials/Bio Physics seminar
Monday 23 June at 14.15, Physicum (D112)
Prof. Chris Greening (Monash University)
“Microbial oxidation of atmospheric trace gases: from enzymes to ecosystems”
Professor Chris Greening hosts a diverse team seeking to understand the interactions between microbes and climate change. A graduate of the University of Oxford (BSc/MSc, Biochemistry, 2010) and University of Otago (PhD, Microbiology, 2014, he has been a group leader at Monash University since 2016. Among his distinctions, he has received multiple fellowships, published over 130 publications mostly in top journals, and was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Life Scientist of the Year in 2023. A highly collaborative researcher, he has partnered with over 100 laboratories worldwide, as well as large-scale intervention programs and diverse industrial organisations. Also an empowering and inclusive leader, he has mentored multiple researchers to independence.
Abstract of the talk: The atmosphere provides most of the oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen that we depend on, but until now has been thought to lack sufficient energy to sustain life. Here I will demonstrate that diverse microbes live by harvesting the small amounts of hydrogen and carbon monoxide from air using high-affinity enzymes. Through research focused on the model bacterium Mycobacterium smegmatis, I will explain the physiological role, genetic regulation, and structural basis of this process. This depends on hydrogenases and carbon monoxide dehydrogenases with structural features that confer high affinity and oxygen insensitivity. These enzymes rely on the newly discovered but widely distributed process of long-range quinone transport to transfer electrons to the respiratory chain. Finally, I will reveal that numerous ecosystems are partially or primarily powered by atmospheric energy sources, and show the enzymes involved can be harnessed in biotechnology to produce electricity and ATP from air. These insights were gained through integrating multiple biophysical techniques, including cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography, protein film electrochemistry, EPR and FTIR spectroscopy, and molecular dynamics simulations. These findings redefine the minimal requirements for life and have broad climate, medical, and astrobiological implications.
Climate science and the energy transformation: challenges and opportunities (Professor David Brayshaw, University of Reading)
Tuesday 24 June 2025 at15:00-16:00, DYNAMICUM Aqua 1A13c
Energy systems around the world are undergoing rapid and far-reaching change. From the electrification of transport and heating, through to the growing dependence on renewables and increasing weather-exposure of infrastructure, there is an urgent need for high-quality weather and climate information across all time scales to support the energy transition. While much progress has been made over the last 10-15 years, there remain many areas of “disconnect” between energy- and climate- science that need to be addressed to enable deeper exchanges of ideas, data and know-how. This presentation will outline some of the questions, challenges and opportunities involved.
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
The Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation
The Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation accepts grant applications every day of the year. There are no separate application times.
https://jaes.fi/en/applying-for-donation-2/
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters: Mathematics Fund
There are no fixed dates for applying to the Mathematics Fund. There are no fixed dates for applying to the Mathematics Fund. Applications should be sent to the chairman of the trustees, Tuomo Kuusi (tuomo.kuusi [at] helsinki.fi).
https://www.acadsci.fi/en/scholarships-and-prizes/scholarships/mathematics-fund.html
(In Finnish) Marjatta ja Eino Kollin Säätiö
Säätiön tehtävänä on tukea tieteellistä sekä soveltavaa tutkimusta ja kehitystyötä myöntämällä apurahoja hankkeiden toteuttajille. Säätiö tarjoaa mahdollisuuksia yksittäisille tutkijoille ja kehittäjille sekä tutkimus-/ kehittäjäryhmille. Haasteena on ruokkia nimenomaan sellaista kehitystä, jolla olisi elinympäristömme kannalta positiivista vaikutusta pitkällä tähtäimellä. Apurahojen hakuaika on jatkuva.
(På svenska) Svenska tekniska vetenskapsakademien i Finland (STV)
Akademien utdelar stipendier för verksamhet vars syfte sammanfaller med Akademiens. Stipendier kan beviljas enskild sökande med avlagd akademisk slutexamen. Stipendier kan sökas kontinuerligt under året och beslut görs kvartalsvis.
- Stipendier till stöd för vetenskapen
- Stipendier i första hand för kortare forskningsvistelser
https://www.stvif.fi/forskarstipendier/
EDUFI Fellowship
The EDUFI Fellowship is intended, particularly, for providing initial funding to carry out research for a doctoral thesis in Finland.
Applicant: a Finnish university department
Who: a doctoral student or a young researcher from outside Finland
Purpose: initial funding for completing a doctoral research project in Finland, completion of a double degree or a study visit on exceptionally compelling reasons
Application deadline: rolling deadline. You should apply for the grant five months before the start of the fellowship.
Duration of fellowship: 3–12 months, visits 3–6 months
https://www.oph.fi/en/development/edufi-fellowship
(In Finnish) Osk. Huttusen säätiö
Osk. Huttusen säätiö, jonka tarkoituksena on suomalaisen kulttuurin tukeminen, julistaa haettavaksi apurahoja tohtorin tutkintoon johtavien tieteellisten jatko-opintojen ja tutkimustyön suorittamiseksi ulkomaisissa yliopistoissa. Tuki kohdistuu kaikille tieteenaloille.
- Apurahat tohtoriopintoihin
- Post doc –apurahat
Hakuaika on 15.5. -15.6.
http://www.oskhuttusensaatio.net/ilmoitus.html