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From the
head of department
Many of you have
possibly noticed the recent debate on the Akademiaavtalen both in På Høyden and
in national press otherwise. Unfortunately, different issues are being mixed
together: UiB's integrity is being questioned with respect to receiving
research funding from businesses – this is not understandable from both the
national and the international policies regarding research funding. Secondly,
it is being questioned whether it is justifiable for UiB to continue research
within petroleum as this potentially extends the oil era – the arguments are
then linked to the climate debate and the aim of maximum two degrees global
warming within 2050. Sustainability is then considered only with respect to
climate, while energy security and economics are not considered to be
important. There is no question that the world needs more energy and the
MN-faculty has for many years worked in order to strengthen energy research
outside petroleum and is ready to increase its efforts. Then the politicians,
who have committed Norway to the two degrees target, should also become more
visible with more funding on other energy resources. IFT is not the
department which has benefited most from the Akademiaavtalen, but we are very
satisfied with the projects this scheme has financed and appreciate Statoil's
contribution in a time where basic funding is constantly under pressure. Have a good one, News and general
information
IFT open seminar
All are welcome to the open seminar where Prof. Dr. Johan Rafelski, LULI/Ecole Polytechnique Paris/CERN and Department of Physics, University of Arizona will be giving a lecture: Friday, December 13 at 14:15, Auditorium B. Coffee, tea and cakes from 14:00 NB: Registration of absence from
the department
We would like to again
remind that ALL employees with more than 20% position will ALWAYS register
their 1-day or longer leaves from the department. The department's registration of absence form SHALL be used – and it is does not take a long time to fill
out. This applies to all absences such as holidays, work related travels, sick
leave and home office. If possible, a contact phone number shall be given for
all absences which are not related to holiday or sick leaves. Cellular phones
are preferred, alternatively the hotel number, the number of the visited
institution or similar can be given. This helps the department to contact you
or to pass on the message from others trying to contact you regarding
important and urgent issues. This also means that it is important to give the
destination so that time-zone differences can be taken into account. Christmas
closed canteen
The canteen will be
closed as of December 14 before Christmas holidays. Deadline
for submitting variable vouches
The department has
received a message from the Salary Office stating that the deadline for
submitting variable vouches for this year is on December 11, 2013. This means
that the department must receive these latest within December 9, 2013. Variable
vouchers are travel claims, fees, hourly wage etc. The last possibility for
writing checks is on Thursday, December 19. Announcement
of funds - Peder
Sather Center for Advanced Study
As of January 1, 2014 it
is going to be possible to apply for research funds from SPIRE workshop
All are welcome to the
UIB-SPIRE workshop: December 9 - 13, room
546 Constitution Anniversary 2014 at the University of Bergen
New edition of FunderFinder
December edition of FunderFinder can now be downloaded – obligatory reading for all
scientific employees! PhD
Disputations
Master
Stig Holme Lie will
be examined for the MSc degree in reservoir physics on the following thesis:
Monday December 9 at 10:15 in room 366, Department of Physics and Technology. Thesis
supervisors are Martin Fernø, IFT and Arne Graue, IFT ______________________________________________________________________ Kine Johnsen will
be examined for the MSc degree in nuclear physics on the following thesis:
Thursday December 12 at 11:15 in room 366, Department of Physics and Technology. Thesis
supervisors are Dieter Rörich, IFT and Odd Harald Odland, Haukeland University Hospital ______________________________________________________________________ Muktikanta Sahoo
will be examined for the MSc degree in multiphase systems on the following
thesis:
Thursday
December 12 at 13:15 in room 368, Department of Physics and
Technology. Thesis supervisor is Alex C. Hoffmann, IFT Bachelor
h-bar
On Tuesdays, every even
numbered week, pub-lectures are held at H-bar. More info on H-bar's facebook page. H-bar is run by the
Scientific Committee and is primarily for students – employees are also
welcome! IFT in the media
Publications registered in ISI Web of Science
o ATLAS
Collaboration: Buanes T, Burgess T, Eigen G, Johansen LG, Kastanas A, Leibig
W, Lipniacka A, Mohn B, Rosendahl PL, Sandaker H, Sjursen TB, Stugu B, Tonyan
A, Ugland M et al.: Measurement of the
top quark charge in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS Issue: 11
Article Number: 031 DOI:
10.1007/JHEP11(2013)031 o BaBar
Collaboration: Eigen G, Stugu B, Sun L et al.: Lees, J. P.; Poireau, V.;
Tisserand, V.; et al.: Measurement of an excess of (B)over-bar
-> D-(*) tau(-)(v)over-bar(tau) decays and implications for charged Higgs
bosons PHYSICAL REVIEW D Volume:
88 Issue: 7 Article Number: 072012 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.072012 o BaBar
Collaboration: Eigen G, Stugu B, Sun L et al.: Lees, J. P.; Poireau, V.;
Tisserand, V.; et al.: Measurement of the mass of the D-0 meson PHYSICAL REVIEW D Volume: 88
Issue: 7 Article Number:
071104 DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.88.071104 ATLAS
Collaboration: Buanes T, Burgess T, Eigen G, Johansen LG, Kastanas A, Leibig
W, Lipniacka A, Mohn B, Rosendahl PL, Sandaker H, Sjursen TB, Stugu B, Tonyan
A, Ugland M et al.: Search for direct third-generation squark
pair production in final states with missing transverse momentum and two
b-jets in root s=8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector JOURNAL OF
HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS Issue: 10 Article Number: 189 DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2013)189 o BaBar
Collaboration: Eigen G, Stugu B, Sun L et al.: Lees, J. P.; Poireau, V.;
Tisserand, V.; et al.: Measurement of the e(+)e(-) ->
p(p)over-bar cross section in the energy range from 3.0 to 6.5 GeV
PHYSICAL REVIEW D Volume: 88 Issue: 7 Article Number: 072009 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.072009 o ATLAS
Collaboration: Buanes T, Burgess T, Eigen G, Johansen LG, Kastanas A, Leibig
W, Lipniacka A, Mohn B, Rosendahl PL, Sandaker H, Sjursen TB, Stugu B, Tonyan
A, Ugland M et al.: Search for new phenomena in final states
with large jet multiplicities and missing transverse momentum at root s=8 TeV
proton-proton collisions using the ATLAS experiment JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS Issue: 10 Article Number: 130 DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2013)130 o ALICE
Collaboration: Altinpinar S, Djuvsland O, Fehlker D, Haaland O, Huang M,
Kanaki K, Langoy R, Lien J, Liu L, Loenne PI, Nystrand J, Roed K, Rohrich D,
Skjerdal K, Ullaland K, Øvrebekk G, Wagner B, Yang B et al.: J/psi
Elliptic Flow in Pb-Pb Collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV PHYSICAL REVIEW
LETTERS Volume: 111 Issue: 16 Article Number: 162301 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.162301 o ATLAS
Collaboration: Buanes T, Burgess T, Eigen G, Johansen LG, Kastanas A, Leibig
W, Lipniacka A, Mohn B, Rosendahl PL, Sandaker H, Sjursen TB, Stugu B, Tonyan
A, Ugland M et al.: Measurement of the Azimuthal Angle
Dependence of Inclusive Jet Yields in Pb plus Pb Collisions at root
s(NN)=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS Detector PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Volume: 111 Issue: 15 Article Number: 152301 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.152301 |
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