News from Nordita - KAW Grant to Study Bottlenecks for Particle Growth in...
The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has granted 33 MSEK to Bernhard Mehlig of Gothenburg University, Sweden, to understand "Bottlenecks for Particle Growth in Turbulent Aerosols". Axel Brandenburg...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - KAW Grant Awarded for Dark Matter Studies using XENON 1T
The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has granted 28.5 MSEK for the "Discovering Dark Matter Particles in the Laboratory", an experimental project with Jan Conrad of Stockholm University leading the...
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News from Nordita - Norwegian Research Council Grant Awarded Jointly to...
For the first time in its history, the Norwegian Research Council has accepted applications from scientists working at research institutes funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers, including Nordita,...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Axel Brandenburg Elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of...
At its general meeting on April 9, 2014, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences elected Nordita Professor Axel Brandenburg as Foreign Member of the Academy's class for astronomy and space science. This...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - John Wettlaufer to return to Nordita on 10 year VR Grant
John Wettlaufer of Yale University (USA) is a familiar figure at Nordita. During the fall of 2008, he spent his sabbatical at Nordita; see Nordita Newsletter 2008/3, funded in part by the Wenner Gren...
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News from Nordita - Katherine Freese New Nordita Director from September 2014
Professor Katherine Freese of the University of Michigan has begun a three year term as Director of Nordita starting September 1, 2014. Professor Freese is an internationally recognized researcher...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - From String Theory to Strange Metals
High temperature superconductors are badly understood theoretically, yet this understanding might allow us one day to create superconducting materials that save energy by avoiding resistive losses in...
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News from Nordita - Solar Physics Research at Nordita
The latest of our videos about research and researchers at Nordita portrays our astrophysics group. Learn about the students' and postdocs' daily research life and hear Prof Axel Brandenburg explain...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - New Arrivals to Nordita
Postdoctoral Fellows Nordita Fellow Lars Mattsson Astrophysics Lars received his PhD in 2009 from Uppsala University, under the supervision of Susanne Höfner, and later (in 2010) he joined the Dark...
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News from Nordita - Karl-Heinz Rädler Awarded the Schwarzschild Medal 2013
During their meeting on November 19th, members of the Astrophysics Group celebrated the award of this years Schwarzschild Medal to Karl-Heinz Rädler from the Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics in...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Nordita on Facebook and Twitter
We know that physics is awesome, but not everybody does, and so we're now on facebook and twitter to spread word about it. With our presence on these social media platforms, we want to bring our...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Symmetry - a Short Film
Apostolos Vasileiadis, an aspiring young movie-maker, produced the below short film situated at Nordita. It tells the story of a student's quest for truth in science. We hear that a sequel is planned...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - "Physics in Kungsträdgården 2013" Outreach Event
"Physics in Kungsträdgården" is a local biannual outreach project which this year it took place on 7 September. On that Saturday the central Stockholm park Kungsträdgården was filled with students and...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Physics World at 25
To mark the 25th anniversary of its existence, the science journal Physics World has dedicated a special issue (No. 10, October 2013) to a look back to some of the highlights in physics in the past...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Openings at Nordita
Nordita Fellowships 2014 Appointments are for two years starting 1 September, 2014 or some other date to be agreed upon. The fellowships are intended for scientists who have a recent PhD, completed...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Nordita Visiting PhD Student Fellowships 2014
The visiting PhD student program at Nordita is open for applications for visits during 2014. The program offers selected students the opportunity to spend time at Nordita and take advantage of the...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Proposals for New Nordita Scientific Programs
Nordita invites the international scientific community to submit proposals for Nordita programs for year 2015 and early 2016. A Nordita Scientific Program is an extended workshop where scientists come...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Licentiate Thesis Defense of Associate Nordita PhD Student
Left to right: Jonas Larson (supervisor, Stockholm U.), Fernanda Pinheiro (licentiate), Magnus Johansson (opponent, Linköping U.) and Jani-Petri Martikainen (supervisor, U. of Helsinki); absent are...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Recent Departures of Nordita Staff
Assistant Professor Stephen Powell left Nordita in October to take up a tenured faculty position at the University of Nottingham, UK. Nordita Fellow Dmitri Bykov left at the end of September for a...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - New Arrivals to Nordita
Assistant Professors Tomi Koivisto Nordita Assistant Professor in Theoretical Astro-Particle Physics or Cosmology Tomi took up his Assistant Professorship at Nordita in October 2013. His field of...
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News from Nordita - KAW Grant Awarded to Group led by Alexander Balatsky
Our congratulations go to Nordita Professor Alexander Balatsky and his collaborators at KTH Royal Insitute of Technology, Uppsala University, and Chalmers University of Technology, who have been...
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News from Nordita - ERC Advanced Grant to Konstantin Zarembo
Nordita Professor Konstantin Zarembo has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to fund a five-year research project on Integrable Systems in Gauge and String Theory (with the acronym INTEGRAL) starting...
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News from Nordita - Nordita à la Carte
Each year, Nordita recruits new post-docs and assistant professors from all over the world; see our staff list for names and their fields of interest. They are keen to become more familiar with the...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - New Nordita Board
The presidents of Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology have appointed a new Nordita Board for a three-year period starting July 1, 2013. The board members are: Chairman...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Nordita Dissertations
PhD Dissertation of Jörn Warnecke On 31 May 2013, Jörn Warnecke, the last of four PhD students supported by the ERC AstroDyn project, successfully defended his dissertation on "Combining Models of...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Recent Departures of Nordita Staff
Master chefs Oksana and Juha prepare the Midsummer BBQ. In June, two postdoctoral fellows who have been with us since 2011 left Nordita, both working in condensed matter physics. Oksana Manyuhina takes...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Long-Term Visitors at Nordita
Visiting postdoc Daniele Marmiroli Subatomic Physics Daniele received his Ph.D. in 2012 from University of Parma, Italy. His thesis work mainly focused on Wilson loops in the context of the AdS/CFT...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Sabbatical Visit of Shashikumar M. Chitre
Nordita had the pleasure of hosting Professor Shashikumar M. Chitre, University of Mumbai, India, for the full month of June. During his stay, he worked on aspects of helioseismology, trying to infer...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Chris Pethick Elected Honorary Member of the AAAS
Nordita/NBIA Professor Chris Pethick is one of two Foreign Honorary Members elected to the Physics section of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences this year, citing his leadership and numerous...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Ebru Devlen Receives Turkish Astronomy Award
We are proud to report that Ebru Devlen, who is currently spending a 1-year sabbatical at Nordita (see our last newsletter), received the Nüzhet Gökdoğan Astronomy Science Prize of Istanbul University...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Turbulent Self-Assembly of a Magnetic Spot
In the Nordita Newsletter of October 2011, we reported on the numerical detection of what is now referred to as negative effective magnetic pressure instability (NEMPI). This work has led to a number...
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News from Nordita - Nordita's Workshop for Science Writers, Astrophysics and...
Organizers George Musser (left) and Sabine Hossenfelder (right), together with workshop speaker and public lecturer Robert Nemiroff. From May 27-29, George Musser from Scientific American and Sabine...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Nordita in Collaboration with Finnish Center of Excellence
The Academy of Finland has selected the Centres of Excellence in Research (CoE) for the 2014-2019 CoE programme. As reported elsewhere, the new CoE programme will consist of 14 units, involving...
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News from Nordita - The Origin of Galactic Magnetic Fields: Oliver Gressel
This issue's feature article reported on recent progress on understanding the solar cycle with help of computer simulations of hot plasma and magnetic fields. Computer simulations like this are good...
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News from Nordita - Uncertainty About Future Funding of Nordita
The Nordic funding of Nordita and several other Nordic research institutes has come under renewed pressure at the Nordic Council of Ministers (NMR). At a meeting earlier this year the Committee of...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Gerry Brown, Former Nordita Professor, Has Died
We are sad to report the death of Gerald E. (Gerry) Brown, who was Professor at Nordita for two periods, 1960-1964 and 1968-1985. With his enthusiasm, gregariousness, deep insights and broad interests,...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Joint Uppsala University/Nordita Lectureship in...
Applications are invited for a tenured Senior Lecturer position in Theoretical High-Energy Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University. During the first five years of the...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Traces of Fundamental Cosmology in the Media
The 2013/2 issue of Finnish popular science magazine "Tähdet ja avaruus" ("Stars and Space") has an article (in Finnish) on Quantum Gravity, as seen through the eyes of Sabine Hossenfelder, assistant...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Nordita Supports GalileoMobile Project
GalileoMobile is an itinerant non-profit educational project that aims to bring astronomy to everyone, especially children and young people in places that have had little access or no contact at all...
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News from Nordita - Nordita in Videos: The 5 Minutes Challenge
Don't have time to read our 42-pages information brochure? We've put ourselves up to the task to summarize the most important facts about Nordita in 5 Minutes. That wasn't easy. But today we're happy...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Nordita Enters New Cooperation Agreements
Nordita has entered into cooperation agreements with the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, the Aalto Science Institute (AScI) in Espoo, Finland, and the South...
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News from Nordita - Nordita à la Carte
Each year, Nordita recruits new post-docs and assistant professors from all over the world; see our staff list for names and their fields of interest. They are keen to become more familiar with the...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Recent Departures From Nordita
Koen Kemel, Fabio Del Sordo, and Simon Candelaresi, the three PhD students who started back in February 2009 (see Nordita Newsletter 2009, issue 1) and who defended their PhD theses last fall (see the...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Michael Liberman to Visit Nordita During 2013
Professor Michael Liberman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University will be making regular visits to the astrophysics group at Nordita for research collaboration during 2013 and...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Matthias Rheinhardt Returns to Nordita
After spending a year and a half at the University of Helsinki, Visiting Professor Matthias Rheinhardt returned to Nordita in February. One of his main research projects is the fully nonlinear...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - New Staff Members at Nordita Since the New Year
New Postdocs Cecilia Rorai Astrophysics and Condensed Matter Physics Cecilia received her PhD in January 2012 from the University of Maryland and the University of Trieste, for work on "Vortex...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Five New Nordita Fellows to Arrive in Fall 2013
Five new Nordita Fellowships have been awarded to Jonathan Edge - Institut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden - condensed matter physics Sven Bjarke Gudnason - Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University,...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Open PhD Positions at Nordita
Nordita will host three new PhD positions: in Statistical Physics (deadline for applications is May 31) in Mathematical Physics (deadline May 2). in Theoretical High-Energy Physics (deadline May 1) The...
View ArticleNews from Nordita - Yasser Roudi Receives Norwegian Award for Young Researchers
Yasser Roudi with Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters praeses Professor Kristian FossheimPhoto: Per Osland On 8 March, the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters announced that...
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News from Nordita - ERC Advanced Grant to Nordita
Nordita Professor Alexander Balatsky has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to fund a five-year research project on Dirac Materials starting in April 2013. The ERC Advanced Grant funding scheme...
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