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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...
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