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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